It was a great Raiders win.

go BIG with a lineup of Hunter, Moore and Randolph? They would have run us off the floor a lot earlier than they did. This loss is on Monta – again. He dominated the ball again and the offense never had any flow. It was “set me a screen so I can drive to the basket” – Allen Iverson shit with another 9 TO’s.
In fact when Jim asked “have you ever seen anyone work this hard to score?” – I thought, yeah AI 30 points on 30 shots.
Now I know we are short handed any not many guys made shots but AR was in the game for 9 minutes in the first half (coming off of his great game) and he didn’t touch the ball on offense. It’s hard to get into the game when you don’t touch the ball and that goes for every player on the team.

“I’m a kings fan but have multiple Warriors on my fantasy team, and so watch them all of the time. I will say that I have NEVER (I’m 43) seen a more selfish player than Monta Ellis.”

That’s hilarous considering that the Kings have Kevin Martin. Martin doesn’t even come close to what Ellis averages over 20 points per game, 5 assists, and 4 rebounds. Has Martin ever contributed like that in the NBA? Nope.

Ellis’s turnovers happen for a few reason sometimes he gets too ahead of himself before he drives, some are unforced like the traveling violations, and others are clearly when he gets fouled, but no call comes.

It’s also hard to get assists when Ellis does make the pass and finds a shooter like Curry, Morrow, and Radmanovich who end up missing the wide open shot.

Curry is also another player that handles the ball for the Warriors. The problem is that Curry doesn’t run the offense nearly as effectively as Ellis because Curry can’t finish at the rim like Ellis can.

At the end of the year Ellis will not be leading the league in turnovers, Steve Nash will be. I wonder how you would complain about Nash if he is the one leading the league in turnovers.

The only ones impeding the progress of Randolph, Curry, and Morrow is themselves. Morrow is one dimensonal who needs to work on his ballhandling skills, Curry has to do a better job of valuing the ball and making smarter passes. Too many times this year Curry has just given teams layups by throwing careless passes, and Randolph is just too inconsistent he needs to find the ability to hit that mid range jumper and then take it to the rim and be more in control.

Right now the Warrriors are at a serious disadvantage because of injuries. If the Warriors had a healthy team Ellis doesn’t play 48 minutes nearly every game. He plays 35-38, which will help him keep those turnovers down and fresh in games.

Thanks for the comment even though it was only good for a laugh.

He goes one-on-three constantly, routinely passing up open men at 16 feet. He handles the ball constantly, even when it is apparent that it is not conducive to team ball. Every one is standing around doing nothing because Monta holds the ball for an average of about 16 seconds per shot clock. He is the Corey Maggette of point guards. It is incredible that they are on the same team. Two black holes orbiting each other in every game. One of the reasons you see a young AR jacking up idiotic shots is because nobody ever passes him the ball when he works to get position, rather, Monta clears out and goes one-on-three 80% of the time.

This comment should be filed under – realistic objective analysis of Monta Ellis’ game

Thank you for that – as a Warrior fan I root for the Kings when they are good b/c lord knows my Warriors never will be!

I think we can all agree that Monta is definately not a PG and should not be handling the ball as much as he does. I think we need to let Curry handle the ball WAY more than he does now and that would help Monta free himself up on screens and actually running an offense play instead of let Monta create his own shot every time. That is not how you win in the NBA. Monta needs to understand that its not all about him scoring all the time. If the defense doesnt respect anybody else on the floor they will key in on him and shut him down night after night in crunch time wich is what has happened the last few games. Also Curry has to step up as the true PG on the team and to start taking more control of the game and offense wich I think will happen in the 2nd half of the season once he feels more comfortable with a leadership role and Monta trust him more….

As far as the young talent goes AR is hit or miss every night. You never know what your gonna get from him or if his head will be in the game. A.Morrow is a scoring machine and needs to get more shots no doubt about it! I have no idea what the Warriors coaches are doing not running more plays for him to get open shots! One of the most frustrating things about the Warriors right now. But once again I think it all goes back to Curry has to step up as the PG on the team so we can actually try running a true NBA offensive play ever once in a while…

The dude his selfish because he knows no one can do anything else! If he decided to defer to others we would be blown out every night. If we had all our players who can help him out he wouldn’t be doing this.

Could it be because that Nash has much more talented playes around him as in Jason Richardson and Amare Stoudemire. Who does Monta have? Oh and at least Monta plays defense something that Nash has no concept of.

Not having anyone skilled inside to run the pick and roll with as well as the lack of other players that can actually shoot. The other team can just converge on him with 3 guys since they dont have to worry about anyone else and they dont have to worry about being called for a foul.

Ellis is definitely slightly to blame, but with a roster this depleted I put it far more on the lack of players that don’t have butter fingers on the team (Andris) to pass to inside.

was a combination of Dirk and McGrady.

I did myself a very good Bruschetta

Dude: family show!