i’d go

pg monta
sg mags
sf jax
pf al/turiaf/wright any of the three depending on situatioin and matchup
c beans

jax cant play pf he gets raped.

jackson cant play power forward, no matter how “small” of a lineup we’re trying to play.

Option #3 is what Nelson has said will be his lineup. It also makes the most sense. every player on that lineup is playing their natural position, except for Monta but he played PG in high school and will prove everyone wrong wit his PG play this year

azubuike starts

Ellis / Maggette / Jackson / Turiaf / Biedrins

That’s one of the better defensive/rebounding teams we can put on the floor. Ellis at SG is a defensive nightmare. Jackson at PF is a rebounding nightmare. Harrington anywhere in the starting lineup hurts both our rebounding and defense.

Ellis, Maggette, and Jackson are still a fierce and diverse offensive trio, and would be more than enough to carry the offense.

Adding in Harrington or Azubuike into the starting lineup would just limit the touches for our better offensive players. Harrington and Azubuike would be better to carry the offense off the bench.

Seriously these posts the last few days on several threads have all these people down on their hands and knees praying for the second coming of Kelenna Azuibuike. There is absolutely NO JUSTIFICATION for him to start for us. Period. He played a nice little role for us the last 2 seasons, but he hasn’t done a damn thing yet to deserve to start over Maggs, Jackson, or Harrignton. His time will come this year since he is clearly one of our veteran role players coming off the bench, but the 6 games he played for us last season while stack jack was out didn’t make me think, "Wow, this guy here is a real starter

/rant off. I like number 3, but I would rather go with option 5 as our starting lineup. Between Jack, Ellis, and Magg, we should have plenty of scoring in our starting 5. Othere then Kelenna, we don’t have any real proven scorers coming off the bench and I think Harrington will give us a spark. What we really need is rebounding and defensive precense in the post to help out Bean’s and Turiaf can do that.

i was saying which lineup would you want on most nights. i am not saying this is our starting five all the time because nelson will always be doin mismathing some nights. but for all azubuike haters i believe he had 2 30 point games in the 6 games he played in and played well when he had solid minutes and and was not injured. and why wouldnt stephen be able to play pf next to biedrins….he did it when we beat the mavericks. and he also did shut down the mvp in dirk so your argument isnt justified. when we play good rebounding teams like utah we will play with lineup 3 or 5.

#3.

I really think people always think the worst of Harrington on this board. He came out blazing in the beginning of the season before he was forced into a three point specialist role. If Nelson allows him to play his game instead of specializing, I think that could be just as effective as stretching the defense.

Its going to be either 5 or 3… but it comes down to the fact that the Warriors biggest need is defense and rebounding and it is clear that Turiaf fills that need better than Harrington or than having Jackson/Maggette at the 4.