Golden State Septic Tank

Nellie does play guys like Belinelli, Morrow, Randolph, BWright(if he ever comes back), Willimas and Kurz. If Jackson, Andris, Crawford and Maggs miss a game here and there, I don’t think it spells Nellie purposely losing. I think it spells veteran relief. This “tanking” is being made from a mole hill to a mountain. Why, I don’t know. Resting a guy every once in a blue moon doesn’t bother me. Maybe our younger guys will gain some extra experience while our veterans will rest their bodies. The Dubs have been playing 7 guys for a long time. This year is a wash, better that we rest for tomorrow all while gaining more experience and NBA ready bench players then win an extra 6 games because we played the hell out of our starters while potentially hurting or running them down for next season. I mean the Dubs get the 9-14 pick every year. Do I think they are tanking on purpose, no, but it would be nice to get the next Amare, D Wade, Durrant, D. Howard, Derron Williams or CP3 with a 1-5 pick.

  No, just makes him more right. You don’t bench vets that you want to keep or get value in a trade for.

You seem to be taking a pretty hard stand against the move of occasionally benching the vets to play the young guys. I can understand your point from a season ticket holder’s point of view, because it sends a bad message after you dropped your hard earned cash on tickets. Also because Jamal is a pretty entertaining guy to watch.

But…

Here is the other side of things. You seem to assume that Crawford is by far a better player than Marco and Morrow. I’m not so sure and here is why.

When you look at the per minute stats Marco and Crawford are very similar players. Marco shoots a better percentage but Crawford gets to the line more. Crawford has a slight edge on assists and the turnovers are about the same, but Marco gets nearly twice as many steals and plays better defense overall. IMO Marco’s improved defense might actually give him a bit of an edge.

I know what yo are going to say “Those are per minute stats! you can’t actually assume that Marco will perform that well if given more minutes”. Well without getting into the “Millsap Doctrine” I will concede that point. And that is exactly the reason that we should play him more. If he is performing equal to Crawford, and Crawford may or may not be opting out in the offseason, wouldn’t it be nice to know whether or not Marco can keep playing at this level if given more minutes.

It does make more sense than trying to let everyone play in the same game. As long as they keep the effort up I don’t really mind it.

Crawful as my cousin calls him is a good player. Not really good or great or whatever, but he’s filler for the time being. 50-50 on him staying next year, but its the NBA, he’ll probably be traded for Wally Szczerbiak or something.

I listened to Nellie on KNBR yesterday and he never said the starters would sit once a game every game. He said that he had planed to sit a player time to time for rest and Barbierri and Tolbert asked who. He mentioned SJax, Crawford, maybe Andris. He also alluded to the fact BWright is still in an arm sling. Not good news for ole Brandon. Nelson planed to use Belinelli and Morrow more often and rest some vets. I don’t believe that’s “tanking”. I believe its called molding the current roster into a more complete team. Team, meaning next year. The Dubs are done for ‘08-’09. It makes sense to me that starters would sit time to time, albeit it sucks big time, to once again see the Dubs in the situation they are often in. That’s looking in from the outside, circa 1994-2007 and ‘07-’08.