"That's about the only good thing I've done this year," Nelson said, "and I hope that will continue for (next season). Morale has been good. ... After a tough loss, we come together and have a pretty good practice, and everybody gets along."
A few minutes later, Monta Ellis finished shooting and came to the sideline. He must have left his happy face on the floor. In a tense 2 1/2 minutes, he contradicted pretty much everything Nelson and the Warriors had said about him over the last two weeks. The comments might have been the best defense Ellis has ever played.
-- Gwen Knapp drops some great humor in They can't even get their stories straight [SFGate]
And TNT thinks they know drama?
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another columnist making hay out of apparent discrepancies to fill a column and maybe stoke the flames of discontent that are natural on any team with GSW’s obvious problems …
To be fair, the Warriors have said that Ellis tended to a family matter in the latter part of his seven-game absence.
Even she admits he didn’t contradict everything the club stated …
shaddy? shoddy? shiddy? take your pick, but reads like a buzzard circling the carcass to me
by hardcore on Mar 10, 2009 3:51 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Scene from Gwen's office
[Editor walks in]
Editor: Gwen, what’s this about the Warriors and Monta Ellis? I can’t believe you haven’t been on that yet! Everybody else is reporting it! We’re going to be the laughing stock of bay area sports reporting if we don’t get in on the scoop! Do your job!
"No no Nene!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5DxNl4EB0
by Dubs fan in Boston on Mar 11, 2009 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sweet!
wait, actually, not sweet…. this team makes me dizzy too.
at least there’s one team in the bay area whose management seems to have their head on (kinda) straight: the giants. gooo baseball!!
by Run Dubz on Mar 10, 2009 4:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Crediblity
In the next column, I expect to read that The Joker and Nellie are on the outs and the Joker is right. Piling on is the order of the day. And it really doesn’t matter if the vehicle used to attack Nelson has any crediblity. Where did Monta The Moped Man get his? Where did Crawford’s agent get his? When did it become the order of the day that a coach shouldn’t put a good face on bad situations? In Nellie’s defense, the team does look like it has decent morale and it does gather itself from heart-breaking losses to play a good game another night. The problem with the team isn’t Nelson or morale. Seems both were fine the last two years. The problem is the team’s star left and it doesn’t have another one yet. And so the team can play very hard until crunch time but there’s really not a go-to guy there to pull the game out. But you can’t write that every day and you can’t write “we don’t like Nelson because Rowell resigned him and not Mullin” every day either. So, I guess that leaves us with what we get—drama—but my feeling is that most of this drama is “made” rather than “found.”
by Marques8 on Mar 10, 2009 5:22 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
come on
The drama IS made. This team has been making drama for the last 15 years. Nelson is the drama KING. He has made drama wherever he goes while alienating players and losing talent…all while never winning it all. He is a joke…although an amusing one. I am just as much a Warrior fan as all of you, painfully watching every game. But I have to say, that most of you are the most pathetic apologists for Nelson out there. He’s hard to defend, but you all found a way. It’s almost as comical to read Kakawami’s articles and laugh as it is to read GSOM posts and the reader comments. Both are delusional. Go Warriors!!!
by presto manifesto on Mar 10, 2009 10:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs





















