I want names!

Sorry to see the loss by a single point. Was hoping this morning when I woke up and checked nba.com to see a W for you guys…

I’ll go and read up a bit on your squad soon, so I can actually talk about the game with you guys :)

Our team has always had an issue it seems with the 3rd quarter…. I dont know whether they just go to sleep after the half or just ease off, but they then always have to come back hard in the4th. Entertaining to watch…possibly….stupidly unnessesary pressure …. most definitely.

Curry it seems (so far) looks the real deal and I am very glad to see that clearly he has the skills to be the PG, allowing Ellis to concentrate on the shooting.

I would have liked to have seen Morrow a little more at times in as well at the 3 and please for the love of god…can we get rid of Jackson… or bench him! Looking at the Cavs two loses, he would probably ass…sorry I mean add some firepower for them concentrating purely on shooting…as his mind is clearly not on the game here..and he is so full of his own BS!!!

Overall… it seems a little better than last year, but to be fair…The Rockets are a team we should have beaten considering they were on a very strange travel schedule, off a loss, without two key star players and on our home court on opening night… I believe its a poor loss, but there are sparks of hope for the rest of the year…

Providing we get rid of Jackson and soon, before he affects the whole moral of the team…

Since we always lose our first game (fourth year in a row) this was a typical opening night. Stephen Curry continued to impress, Morrow is a great weapon to have, and as annoying as it is to see Jax hog the ball whenever he gets a touch, Ellis actually seems to hurt the team more. Monta’s points usually look good at the end of the game, but he’s a complementary player forced into a starring role, and his skills are not up to the task.

When Monta has a matchup advantage, he can go to town. But when he tries to do his thing against a team that’s wise to him, he runs into trouble way too often, and his lack of an outside shot means that you can clog the interior against him. Starting him and Curry is a bad idea IMO—Curry has not shot well yet and you end up with only Jax being dangerous from the outside.

Kelenna is underutilized. Like I said last night, I would actually start Curry and Kelenna at guard most nights, and pair up Monta and Morrow (granted, Ellis has to work on setting up Morrow for that to be effective). I’d rather see a more balanced rotation where everyone is fresh and we can run hard rather than giving Monta heavy minutes (he played 38 minutes last night and was -12 in that time, worst on the team) when he’s still such an incomplete player. This is not as much a knock on Monta (he is fabulous under the right circumstances) as a recognition of his limits.

To be quite honest, this night was defined by a lot of rookie mistakes by Steven Curry, like passing directly to Shane battier, trying to make too difficult passes, missing bad shots, and lastly, going for the layup at the end of the game. But still, I’m excited to have him, and he’ll only get better with time.

And honestly, we really blew the momentum we had going into half time. After that Randolph 3, I knew it would take a bad 3rd quarter in order to lose that lead, and it sure did. It’s not as if we were in a scoring drought, per se, but the rockets were simply on fire, and there wasn’t much we were doing to prevent that.

Don’t have much more thoughts than that, kind of a worthless and short comment compared to those above, but I figured I’d throw it in anyway.

by the fans, but can you actually blame them? They are hurt and the guy doesn’t want to be here! Honestly, he should be worried if he’s not getting booed or any kind of reactions from the fans.

Can we please, please, do something with Maggette?

But does nothing about. He doesn’t tell him to do anything different, he doesnt take him out of the game, he simply sits there and does NOTHING!

Just two thoughts:

• Jackson and Maggette are way too selfish for them to ever be a big part of a great Warriors team
• What ever happened to the pick and roll to Biedrins?

Jackson did have some really nice feeds in the first half. I don’t know what happened after that, whether he just got pissed at the fans, or stopped feeling it, or what. But, it wasn’t just Jack that lost the feel, the entire team lost the flow in the second half. A lot of that is probably attributable to Jack, Monta, and Mags. I’m not dissing on Monta though,-i’m not sure he can play any differently yet, it’s not really his game – but Mags and Jack certainly know how to distribute if they want.

but as long as Curry plays it will be reason enough for me to waste 2 hours of my life for 82 days.

If you dont expect too much of this team (i.e. playoffs, 80-2, championship, mvp for monta, all star for all of our starters) one would be able to withstand the pain.

Of course that doesnt change the fact that the team we’re following is horrible, but hey people watched Flava of Love, this couldnt be that bad.

But correct me if Im wrong. When Curry got the rebound from Morrow 3pt miss. He should call a timeout rather than putting it back to the basket. Before Jackson make an inbound pass that take him like 3sec before make that pass to Morrow. Can he just call a timeout and talk it over. At least they know Rockets are guarding Morrow and talk it over again what offense they should do. 6.6 seconds to the NBA is a lot of time, I saw Lebron making a 0.8 sec three points or even Roy do it. Or even AR made a 3pt shot on the end of the 3rd quarter. Last time I check they still have 2 timeouts left. Oh well it is only the 1st game of the season, I hope they learn from their mistake.

He drafted himself on his fantasy team. That’s the only explanation I have on why he kept shooting the ball last night.

last night for the full 48 were Curry and Morrow. Sad that Morrow only played so many minutes with Maggs wasting the game trying to find a jump shot he doesn’t have. Jackson was TERRIBLE on defense. Most of the warriors didn’t even bother to close out on the three pointers even when they had the opportunity. It’s really sad that Maggs, Nellie and Jax lost the game last night.

He had no clock awareness on that last shot, forcing up a shot with 4.4 seconds left.
He could have faked, and taken a couple dribbles to try to improve his shot since they needed 3 to tie it – a put back was not an option.
I think this is thet type of thing Nellie sees in him, so Nellie will continue to limit his minutes early to allow for slow development.
If Morrow comes out playing a lot of minutes and jacking up shots, he will never be anything more than a shooter and he has so much more potential than that.

He played terribly last night considering his hoops IQ. I thought he played selfishly which is the worst thing possible unless your name is LeBron or Kobe.
I think he forced that Randolph turnover that led to the Randolph block by holding his hands out an demanding the ball from a young player.
Randolph thinks he is doing something wrong because everyone tells him his handles arent as good as he thinks, so he is forced into a mental error=bad pass.
Based on Jack’s comments to the media, I would sit his ass down until the right trade comes along.
He will never do what the TEAM need on the floor. Period.

He was composed, which is the most important thing in a rookie.
He is going to make mistakes, but he will not make mistake because he is out of control, he just wont make the proper decision sometimes, and you can learn from that.
I am finally seeing what nellie sees in him, and I will gladly take him over 1 year of Amare

Agreed with most of your points, particularly about Beans and Turiaf. They got eaten alive this game.

I think Jackson was fine, but was a little out of rhythmn because 1) the ball was in his hands far less than last year and 2) he was banished to guard Battier, which wasted him on defense. He stated in the post-game conference that he wants to be guarding the best player every night, which meant Ariza in this game. I think we would have won this game if Nellie had started him on Ariza, and Monta on Battier.

And I disagree completely about Houston. This is a proud and very competitive team. I fully expect them to contend for the playoffs in the greatly weakened bottom of the ladder.

tough loss. the rockets looked like the sort of team we should have been able to take. they don’t have the great low post scorer to punish our lack of depth at the bigs, they don’t have a ton of firepower, so if we were lighting it up, they’d have been left in the dust, but the thing is, they aren’t a bad team. they aren’t a good team either, but the way they rebound and defend and play smart basketball, it’s easy to see how they would take advantage of key warrior miscues. those mistakes will happen, we’re a young team, and savvy teams like houston will take advantage.

important to note: wages of wins really likes this scrappy rockets team. that’s one source that refuses to write off a well coached team that defends and rebounds. i think it’d be a bad idea for the rest of the NBA to overlook them. we should have beaten them, but they aren’t a junk team, even without t-mac and yao.

Curry and Monta impressed on defense. Last year the dribble penetration against us was the weakest part of our team. Looks much better already…

Monta has to become proficient at driving the middle and kicking out for a three. Baron was so good at that, I forget that it is something that needs practice, going full steam ahead while retaining enough control to throw behind your body accurately. But until he does that a few times a game, and dishes to Curry, Morrow and Kelana, other teams won’t respect it, will see on film that he never dishes for three, and will be able to collapse the middle on Monta.

Maggette has to take those shots. Houston wasn’t allowing his drive and was allowing him (and a few others) lots of space to take that shot. He has to take it, if he’s on the floor and is played that way. If we had a few more stops and didn’t allow their defense to get set as often, it wouldn’t have stood out as much. It’s really on Nelson to adjust the personnel when the offense is bogged down because the other team is too comfortable in their defensive sets. We did the same thing to Landry and to Battier a bit, daring them to take out of rhythm 18 footers.

Maggette played hard on defense though, played hard for rebounds, ran the floor and was in the position he’s supposed to be in. The problem is that he’s such a lousy passer that you don’t really want him to start second guessing his shot, you play him, you accept that you put him on a wing and won’t get much ball movement once he receives the ball.

Missed free throws hurt us, after several years of seeing the team improve bit by bit at the line, the number of bricks in this first game were a bad omen.

It was great to see that Randoplh’s energy was still effective in changing the game. As he gets healthier again, we’ll have a legitimate piece to play. The bad pass turnover/steal was partly Jackson’s fault. But Randoplh has to recognize that veterans do that as a tactic to get defenders to notice them, when Jackson or Eliis calls for a ball often there is a split second opportunity to go the other way as the defense leans in the ball caleer’s direction.

Turiaf, Randolph, Biedrins, Morrow, Azubuike did a decent job of contesting shots. The Rockets’ drives and put-backs were sufficiently difficult. They weren’t as good at knowing how to defend Scola’s post moves (and Anderson to an extent).

After one game it is even more obvious that the Warriors are a bad half-court team and a good chaotic team. Having Curry with the ball will make transition even more effective. The Warriors are going to have to figure ways to get better in half court sets (Curry pick and roll), but even more so are going to have to figure out how to change momentum when the offense bogs down.

In those last couple of minutes when the effort was frantic, Curry shot better, his balance was perfect. He looked just like the Davidson double-teamed Curry.
 

You knew, I knew, and more importantly, the Rockets knew it was going to Morrow. Why not run the Morrow at the top of the key play to draw the defense, then kick it to last year’s #4 3 ponit shooter at his favorite spot, in the corner instead? It was a very transparent plain vanilla play.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/2009/10/29/just-like-yesterday-warriors-107-rockets-108/

  Yeah, If you don’t play him in a game like last night when would you ever play him? Nellie for some reason likes to destroy useful assets, he’s done this with lots of players.

Warriors blow game away and hand it to other team.

Missed free throws
poor shot selection
selfish playing by maggette and Jackson
Monta missing easy lay-ups
Scola hits shot after shot
Ariza hits shot after shot
Rockets 3 point shooting was en fuego!

The Warriors lose so many close games that it is obvious that youth don’t know how to ko for the kill when the killin’ is to be had!

All i know is that if we have any chance of making the playoffs, we have to win these close games at home. Also Curry has to have the ball at all times especially in these early games so he can get use to the NBA game.