If Ammo plays better the others, he will become a starter.

Curry is a better defender I think (steals for sure), plus I think that Morrow and Sjax playing together doesn’t work – Morrow needs the ball fed to him and Sjax doesn’t do that much.

I guess our 2nd team for starts is cj/morrow/buike/turiaf, perhaps law in there too as we go small.

it was like randy foye playing pg for the wolves before teflair.

we need a natural pg who has that feel for it.

curry has that. without one our offense is just a big high scoring mess.

During the preseason from what i saw Monta played his best and hardest when Curry was on the floor. I think Nellie is doing this to bring out the best in Monta to push him to the next level.
Before preseason Monta was saying everyone needs to take responsibility and he cant take over but now he saying this team is going to be as good as he can push them as a captain. He’s starting to feel pressure on the court and i bet Nellie is banking on it making us better.
Morrow will get his 20-30 minutes a game you cant keep a hot hand like that off the court you just can’t.

I wouldn’t be the least bit suprised to see Morrow with more minutes than Curry or Monta by the end of the game.

I’m hoping that AR is healthy for wed so he can start at the 4.

They play in Portland the night before, and they’re missing some key players. Nellie is probably hoping that a starting lineup of Curry, Monta, Jack, Maggs, and Goose will run the rockets out of the game. He wants to put the pressure on Houston to match our offesnive output. We’ll see how that works out.

and Magg’s starting in his place @ the 4, they just needed someone reliable coming off the bench

Morrow and Curry will play similar minutes. To argue that Morrow is much more experienced than Curry is ludicrous. Curry was starring in far bigger games than Morrow in college.

Plus, Ellis is a 2, so Ellis and Morrow starting together just doesnt’ make sense. Curry is our most true point guard. period. He needs to play so that our best weapons can get open looks, Morrow included.

It’s not who starts the game but who finishes.

These three guys will get minutes based upon who’s got the hot hand. The big difference is that Curry THINKS like a point guard wheras Ellis and Morrow …have other strengths. I would not worry about these guys too much except for defensive matchups. Now that Nelson is implementing his zone defenses, the deficiencies of Morrow and Ellis will be minimized to a degree.

NEVER do that. You don’t know what mind game he’s playing. Is he telling it straight? Protecting a player? Sending out an erroneous message to the next opponent? Pulling the media guy’s chain? HELPING the media guy write a column?

I always take what Nelson says as ‘intended for entertainment purposes only.’

Curry might start for one game depending how he does.
Didn’t DeMarcus Nelson start for us as well, how long did that last?
I don’t like Morrow in the line-up, but off the bench for fire power yes.
Would like Azubuike instead.
PG:Monta/Curry
SG: Jack/Morrow
SF:Azubuike/Mags
PF:Randolph/Mags/Moore
C: Beans/Turiaf

bring Morrow off the bench for depth and instant offense.

if he can play pg we will play either buike/jack or morrow/jack at the swing positions. but the Don doesn’t seem to believe Monta can play extended PG minutes. This means moving monta off ball thus losing a starting spot for buike or morrow.

To me its not that important. They will see time and whoever is playing well will finish the game. The lineup will rotate for a while as we don’t have a cast in place starting 5.

but bottom line we need some kind of PG in there. Monta is not a true PG. Curry technically isn’t either but he’s working the court like he is one and thats what we need. We need to get the ball moving better.

This problem is just going to back the fact that we have so many guards each with something to offer. But I don’t doubt that morrow will probably end up with more minutes.

Which is not a knock against him – I love Morrow, he might be my favorite player. BUT, I think that he thrives in the gunner role, which suits him off of the bench. I think he matches up better against second units (for now). I also think that he doesn’t need to be in the game at the beginning to be hot – he’s proved that plenty. I think that his energy off the bench is something that you need to keep, and that he fits in well with the second unit. I have no qualms playing him with some of the starters during the game, but let the boy shoot off the bench.
I think that Curry is not always the answer as a starter, I actually like Buike in that role, but wouldn’t be opposed to starting Curry, Ellis, Buike, AR and Beans. Curry is the most favorable distributor we have, and I think he makes Ellis, AR and Beans better.

monta/curry
Buike/morrow
Jack/maggs

Turiaf/beans/Moore rotation at 4/5 hopefully we can avoid maggs at the 4 but you know it’s coming.

Hmmm is it just me or has Monta been taking a lot of bad shots? 1st game he scored 26 points 10-20 from the field, but a lot of missed shots have been bad ones. Second game he just kept taking 5 feet jump shots and missed most of them. Anyways, I think the guy that has been most consistent is Stephen Curry. His stats aren’t that impressive, but he’s a rookie and he looks good out there. So for the starting lineup, I wouldn’t take him out because he seems to be a better PG than Monta is. I’m fine with the starting lineup as it is, it’s just the 1-2 guard combo of Curry and Ellis is a bit too small. I know this sounds crazy because Ellis is better than Curry at scoring and is way more paid but if I had to choose a starting lineup that moved Curry or Ellis to the bench, it’d be:

PG – Curry
SG – Jackson
SF – Azubuike
PF – Randolph
C – Biedrins

PG/SG – Ellis
SG – Morrow
SF – Maggette
PF/C – Turiaf.

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