and he has NO idea how to do anything other than nellie-ball, so your wish, though well-intentioned, is an impossible dream. he is nothing but a poor man’s mike dantoni. his players actually become much better when they leaave his idiotic system, and others (like maguette) become much worse when they enter said system. he is a disgrace to evolved thinking.

“Since we don’t have a quick team, and we don’t have a big team, we need to adjust how we play. Nelson’s small ball lineup works when you have a quick, strong guard core that forces turnovers. We do not have that so it is time to scratch that game plan.”

Gosh I hope Nellie reads this! Someone telling him how his own system works.

I wonder if anyone else is sick of hearing someone with a new idea on how to run this team every day. I’m willing to bet none of us has ever played in the NBA, and very few if any have ever coached at any level. Even if there secretly are geniuses among us, we don’t get to see the players in practice, don’t get to sit by the on the bench, don’t get to talk to them every day. Yet every other poster fancies himself a greater basketball mind than Nelson and his assistant coaches.

As the mom in Juno said, “I think we both ought to stick to what we know.”

I have no problem with legitimate, intelligent discussion. Even if it’s just casual fans collectively taking shots in the dark. But posts like this are exactly the opposite…

ronny and beans can’t play the whole game. wright and randolph don’t count as “bigs”. kurz can play some a suppose but he is terrible.

and bd was terrific with the hornets—long before nellie had him. and as for jackson, he was quite good with indy, but his head was screwed up. ANY team would have been a fresh injection.
and actually, nellie has placed to much importance on jackson’s role. nellie hurts the team by playing him too many minutes—he is a VERY overrated offensive player who often damages the team by ball-hogging and 3-point clanking. much of this was hidden when bd was on the team, but w/o bd—wow!

and hes going to tell you that small ball works with the right players and appropriate mismatches…

BUTT SECKS OUT!

I’m not a fan of small ball anymore then anyone else, but when you look at our roster, our “bigs” = wright, randolph, kurz, turiaf, and beans. Turiaf and beans can’t play well together because they both are prone for foul trouble. Wright has also shown tendencies to get into foul trouble, as well as the same softness harrington had when it comes to crashing the boards. Kurz has actually shown some good things at our 4 spot, the kid can shoot lights out, but he can’t bang on the boards or against bigger men either. Randolph…enough said randolph is far too raw to be put in games for any consistent period of time.

The most we can hope for is that when the 09 draft comes around that the warriors either get a servicable big man in a trade or draft, or that wright develops into a true 4, which i doubt he will. Right now wright is the best we got at the 4, and thats not saying alot for playing “big”. Our roster needs to be revamped in order to effectively kill small ball style of play.

We can’t do much to improve our roster because of the bloated Maggette and Crawford contracts. Our roster is going to remain unchanged for the next year or two, save for our lottery pick next year (cross your fingers for Ricky Rubio or that big dude from Oklahoma)…

I hate to say it, but the smallish lineup is our only chance to stay in games…

and the whole problem is that the very idea (let alone practice) of nellie-ball is terribly flawed. he is just a poor man’s mike dantoni, and even dantoni couldn’t make it to the finals.
nellie’s foolish (and perhaps homoerotic) fascination with drafting and trading for the tallest, skinniest guys he can find—and YES, HE HAS THE ULTIMATE SAY IN THESE THINGS, NOT SOME FRONT OFFICE HACK WHO DOESN’T MAKE HALF OF WHAT NELLIE MAKES—cannot have a chance in hell of providing even a remote likeness to those phoenix teams, much less do better.

We have no point guard, no post player, and no defense. What are we supposed to do?

and i’m quite sure that he will draft the following type of player:
7’3’’, 160lb, who grabs an eye-popping 3.2 rebounds per 40 minutes, and who thinks he’s a 3-pt shooter (although his 21% from the arc says otherwise).

now THAT’S nellie’s kind of guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!