… and that’s ultimately why I am a Warriors fan, but man, Maggette can’t be caught walking at such crucial times like that… and Randolph needs more minutes. He’s the Point Forward Nellie’s system thrives on, I don’t understand…

AR NEEDS MORE MINUTES.

People are chastising Monta for his lack of passing ability, and Nellie for playing a 2PG lineup. I know that this number doesn’t make complete sense, But with Monta and Curry sharing PG duties, they are averaging 9.4APG, or third in the league. Stats obviously don’t work like that, but lets face it – our starting PG is Stephen Ellis.

that the Warriors demonstrated ball movement, unselfishness, looking for each other, setting each other up. There wasn’t quite the hot potato passing found in the Bucks game, but somehow, the Nellie system has clicked in their minds, and it’s entertaining to see. Morrow and Curry seemed to have gained some newfound confidence. So did Randolph, after a Raja Bell pep talk. The overall on court chemistry was sizzling.

Quick gripes I can remember: Monta not hitting his midrange jumpers. Morrow can’t dribble. Randolph still looks lost on defense once or twice and making basic mistakes. Radman losing his shooting touch, though he might just be tired and not used to the pace. Maggette can’t be our game closer in the long run. But he’ll have to do for now, since it seems Monta doesn’t want to.

Bring on the Celtics tomorrow. And oh yeah. Here’s a message for you, Jack.

About as good as we could have expected. Worth noting that the Cavs were playing without their starting four and five… there’s no way we outrebound them in this game if Shaq and/or Varejao plays. And more generally, they were pretty clearly in cruise control, hoping to save energy before flying to and playing in DC tomorrow. All that said, still a quite worthy effort by the Dubs under horribly difficult circumstances, and a nice demonstration of how little we’ll miss Jack on offense and the boards.

With all due respect to Hash, our best player tonight was pretty clearly Stephen Curry. He only had seven assists to Monta’s eight, but with reasonable luck would’ve had a dozen… he also shot well, unlike Monta, and wasn’t nearly as bad defensively as he’s been. Great stuff from him. Monta worked hard out there and did okay overall, but he really isn’t the ‘07-’08 Monta right now, and it’s not just that his shooting’s off… it seems like things aren’t coming as easily to him as they used to. Morrow did his usual thing and showed some nice chemistry with Curry. Fun stuff.

Maggette was a little slopper than he’s been in recent weeks, especially towards the end of the game. Still had an effective game overall, and nice to see him passing a bit, even if he’s not very good at it. Radmanovic… oy, Nellie’s gonna overplay him like crazy when we’re healthy and it’s gonna make me tear my hair out, but he did fine for a dude who just showed up yesterday. And while I still really, really hate Mikki’s game (twenty-seven minutes, three boards, zero blocks, very few even token attempts to challenge shots), if he keeps showing the soft hands he’s shown the last two games, he won’t be an outright disaster.

Randolph… huh. Randolph had a kinda bad game, but a strange bad game. His bad play earlier in the year was predicated on poor decision-making… that wasn’t a problem tonight, but poor execution was. Put another way, where before he was doing the wrong things, tonight he did the right things wrong. I’d rather see him have that problem, as it seems more easily corrected… more consistent playing time would probably help. (Not sure if I totally buy that Raja totally changed his game on a dime, but I do like the idea of Raja being on the bench… I sorta doubt he will be post-surgery.)

Really pretty good stuff all around… everyone clearly had marching orders not get in foul trouble, so it’s not a night where you can get worked up about some defensive lapses. The funny thing was that it was one of Nellie’s better coaching nights of the year, simply because circumstances forced him to play a normal-sized lineup that was far more effective. I hope he noticed that… I really doubt he did.

A team this shorthanded is gonna be completely gassed going back-to-back. If we’re competitive in Boston, it will be an achievement.

It would be great if we could set all this drama stuff aside and focus in games, as you said a victorious loss no doubt. So let’s just hope that the celtics game is played in a similar way and we can start enjoying fastbreaks!

AR is kinda looking slow these days…almost dumb on the floor. For a supposed heir to the Odoms and KGs in the league, all he does is jump, try to hang, and hope for a basket. He needs more moves like Jim said…or master the moves he has and keep it consistent.

He also needs to learn to use the board & angles when shooting.

This kept sticking in my mind watching the game last night, as Raja Bell was continually the first guy off the bench at timeouts, talking up Randolph and Curry, and generally doing what veteran leaders are supposed to do. All for a team he has never played for and with kids he probably has never even met just because he truly loves and respects the game of basketball. That is the epitome of class, and after skeezy, punkass Jackson, it is truly refreshing to see. Too bad he is having surgery but you can’t really fault him given the time in his career and the fact that he needs a contract next year. Anyway, all the best Raja, maybe we’ll see you in a Dubs uniform next season.

The other thing that flashed in my mind is that Mike Brown is not a very good coach and the Cavs will be lucky to make it the ECF this year. Their entire offense is Lebron. Granted, that’s a pretty good offense in and of itself, but as the poster above said, why not run him off the ball occasionally? It could be devastating. I recognize that the Cavs were sort of cruising last night (although they looked to be playing hard in the second half, and down the stretch) but I just don’t think they have the weapons to deal with the better teams.

Finally, Corey Maggette and Monta deserve props. This is their team now, and our only hope for a reasonably constructive season is that these two friends decide to put everyone on their backs. The last two games have been a very good start. Maggette in particular is playing a more complete game than I have ever seen from him.

It’s funny how Moore flies under the radar always…

I’m not going to blame the loss on him but he did mess up a couple of crucial plays that put the nail in the coffin last night. Late in the 4th quarter when Maggette’s pass was deflected and the ball went into the air, had AR been on the floor he would have rose up and grabbed it. Moore didn’t even have a reaction to the play and it caused a crucial turnover. Also, he didn’t rotate on Lebron which allowed Lebron to throw up an alley-oop late in the game that fired up the Cavs momentum. All I could think was THIS GUY SUCKS

I really enjoyed our first game post Jack. The ball was moving around, all the young guys were getting minutes and we seemed to be efficient in shot selection. Once we get a healthy roster, we will be fine. Oh also, Monta is shooting the ball way too much. 9-23. 23 shots? really? Way too many jumpers, needs to drive and kick more. IMO if he was to get traded it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.

this was a very interesting and fun game to watch. for starters to see the opening handshakes and see the body language and looks on the warriors faces. they looked like a weighed down and dejected group. game starts and they hit their first 5 shots and you could see a weight be lifted and almost like it sank in that the jackson drama was gone and they could just play. and what an effort they put in given the circumstances. another big plus was that it was great to see Randolph for the first time not look like he was in obvious pain due to the shoulder injury that he has had since the end of pre-season. you could see the frustration with him even though the effort has been there. they have had to limit his minutes because of the injury and the foul trouble. now that he is looking healthier, they will be able to start extending him more. and once Beidrins gets back they can extended him even more and get him back to starting like the initial plan was before the injury.