Player Evaluations / Rotation (playing GM and Coach)

Monta Ellis - Its crazy, for the first time as a fan im expecting a warrior to end the game with 30-5-5 and take over with a few dazzling plays. He's shown so much with his defensive effort and tenacity, his new found ability to post up guards, ever-improving 3pt shot, and showing more emotion throughout the game. Its even translated into his post game when i used to be embarrassed for him to talk to commentators or other random interviewers. Over the last month he has proven he is not a liability as an undersized 2 on either end of the floor and would venture to say after his domination of bRoy that only a select few 2 guards would really be able to exploit his size as a 2. Namely Kobe, joe Johnson, or Vince. Unless were playing one of those guys the game plan should be him playing 45 minutes a game exclusively at the 2.

AB / Ronny - These guys were sorely missed and it showed immediately with Ronny shutting down Amare and slowing KG. Beans will come full circle in the next 2-3 weeks dominating the boards and stacking double-doubles once again. Having these guys split time at center and very sporadically playing them together will shore up our defense. Between the 2, 48 minutes at the center give about 30 to beans and ronny 20-25 playing some at the PF.

Corey Maggette - at 9 mil with bukie out, he cant afford to come of the bench which seemed to be his role at the beginning of the season. His energy and professionalism is something to be admired only because of all the whining i see from pro athletes that make millions to play a game when things dont go right (tmac). He goes out there and does what he’s told and happy to be there. (Al Harrington) That being said he was the biggest black hole in the NBA but has turned a real corner. His shot selection in improving, hes staying healthy. he needs to be playing 35-40 minutes a game spending SOME of the that time at the PF only to exploit matchups and accommodate foul trouble from our bigs. This guys has graduated from the constant criticism and deserves some kudos fellas. 

Watson / Curry - Every time I pray for this d-leaguer to get traded cut or hurt he comes out and str8 balls! he gets steals, rebounds, and 50/50 balls with a rare determinism. he's getting paid 1 mil with a cap of somewhere close to 60 mil, hes a keeper and on a night like last night against Boston, argues he should be starting. Coming back to earth, Curry is our future and his defense is not to shabby, especially for a rookie. his minutes seem to be about right. Nellie has him starting, playing 30 minutes, but would like to see more of him in clutch situations. Watson needs backup minutes at the point and SG which won’t be much, but should be around 15-20 minutes delegated to him.

Randolph / Radmon - 40 minutes a night to Randolph, period. He has to be allowed room to grow (even trough mistakes). Im not proclaiming him as the next KG or even Lamar, but if he indeed reaches that level and we gave him up b4 he got a real chance it would be devastating to this franchise. It already happened with Webber and i would question my fanhood if randolph turned into a star somewhere else. He needs to spend 85% of his minutes the PF. His blocks and dunks are inspiring. His 18 footer needs work but shows potential. He only needs to be shooting them once hes gotten a few bunnies or blocks (case in point, last night.) Got nothing but praise for Radmon, he’s come in, done what hes been told. his defense and rebounding has been surprising but gets sloppy seconds in terms of minutes unless we have a specific need to stretch the floor due to randolph’s poor shooting or foul trouble that night. 10 mintues a night.

Morrow - i saved morrow for last and only have roughly 13 minutes left out of a 240 give per night. he deserves those and must get them at the 2/3 but he is really SG. Right now he is a one trick pony in the truest sense and im going to be harder on him that most people out there. Until last night, over the past few weeks he proved how useless he is when he not hitting his outside shot. Ill say this, I believe he top 5 of the pure shooters in the NBA and has made be fully get over marco whom i had way too much stock in and i over hyped. He's a slightly above average rebounder for a SG but when you trot him out there at the PF and somewhat at the SF he becomes mediocre or below average at even that. Does anyone else's feel uncomfortable watching him dribble that ball? Founded or unfounded i need a starting 1,2, or 3 to be able to handle to the point where a defenders eyes don’t light up when he’s bringing the ball up. Maybe he grows into a starter but right now he’s not and should only play more that 15 minutes if he caught fire.

Overall, i think this season has found its path the rest of the season. randolph having 8 blocks the other night and 18/9 last night in 24 minutes says he's ready. I don’t think wright should be a part of our future. if we keep him, then let watson walk and trade rad for a backup PG. when bukie comes back he going to slide someone right out the rotation, most likely watson. if we can dump wright for say a draft pick to offset the pick we gave to NJ we should, even a later pick. (im only down on Wright b/c he has less potential and too redundant to randy (as ronny would call him)) Nellie, please continue to to start Monta, Curry, Magg, Randy, and Goose. Please play them together at starter minutes and give morrow some of the randolph/marco treatment. it will help his game and our future. Lemme preface this by saying i dont wish undue harm or career ending injuries on nobody, nor do i wish their livelihood to be affected, that being said, the basketball gods (or management deciding) to give Mmoore season ending injuries was my xmas present early. Thank you.