RECAP: Warriors 106, Lakers 114 - Just Not Enough

i usually don’t gripe about the refs, but HOW MANY times did they blow out of bounds calls ( i counted 3) and let the Lakers MAUL either Jack or Maggs in the paint then and the next possession call a ticky tack on the W’s against Lamar or Pau hitting the rim at full tilt. About 5 times.

But no…nobody can comment about the ref’s because Donaghy proved the games are not fixed – oh wait he did fix games.

And the league isn’t pushing hard for a Cleveland/LA finals – Kobe v Lebron – oh wait…they are.

whatareyougonnado

Once in the third when the Lakers came out aggressively and caused us to play terribly until we were down 18. The second time was in the 4th when we were had ALMOST fought back to tie the game, and Buike took what looked like a rushed three, which missed and led to a Laker score so we were down 5. That killed our momentum during that 16-4 run and allowed the Lakers to recover, letting them off the hook.

I thought JD had some nice minutes with a couple of shots and a cleanup dunk. I didn’t catch it it live, but some people posted saying that JD had trouble getting rebounds. In any case, JD has made enough of an impact on me to believe in him as a 3rd backup guy.

Jack’s bad offensive night didn’t help us, though he played pretty good defense on Kobe. Um, except for that flop Jack tried to take. That’s a moment when you hope the photographers are taking photos of Kobe driving, and not of you falling backwards on your butt.

BWright got a double double! I didn’t notice BWright getting that many rebounds, probably because he got 7 rebounds in that first qtr. Um, yeah, the qtr that got wiped out because of the Cavs-Blazers OT. Thanks LeBron for NOT FINISHING THE GAME ON TIME!!! But I did hear Jim praising BWright on the radio side about BWright being all over the glass.

I did see one moment of concern for BWright, and that was when Trevor Ariza was under the basket, and Wright was there, and Wright ran up to Ariza’s SIDE, instead of Ariza’s FRONT. That opened the lane for Trevor to run by Wright for a reverse jam. On the timeout, I saw Nellie yelling at Wright about it. I thought Wright would be gone from the game after that, but without AR, I guess Nellie had no choice but to put Wright back later in the game.

Well, we gave the Lakers a scare. Plus it piles on to the issues they recently had about their “mental toughness”, or “killer instinct”. It’s always good to hear about problems in Lakerland.

Yup, not bad. Definitely one of those nights where I was loving the kids and hating the vets — Jack and Maggs bitching to the refs gets really, really old sometimes. Conversely, you had another pretty good Monta game, a stellar performance from ‘Buike, and a sloppy but fairly productive 33 minutes from Wright. (He’s given many better performances — the numbers just seem more impressive when he plays more. Tonight was actually the worst shooting performance of his NBA career.)

Some real ugly stretches here and there, but overall this was one of our better road efforts of the season. In some ways the most important remaining games are the ones on the road… we already know we can hang with teams in Oracle. We didn’t get a win tonight, but we showed some fire. I’ll take that.

While both of these guys make huge contributions at times, their turnovers are absolutely atrocious, and tonight was a good example.

Despite getting 7 assists tonight, Maggette has proven to be an absolutely horrible passer. Throwing it cross-court twice way above the head of his teammate when he was getting double teamed… what a complete joke.

And good ’ol Clumsy Jack, getting stripped repeatedly because he thinks he is a good ball handler.

Another thing I noticed was Jermareo Davidson giving the Lakers two extra possession on two different occassions, both presumably because he wanted to up his rebound total. One time, the ball was headed for Monta below him after a missed shot, but he stuck his hands out and knocked it out of bounds. The second time, Kobe missed a shot and instead of blocking out Odom I think it was and letting it go out of bounds (which he easily could have done) he lunges for it and once again sends it out.

so no BMW nickname for him.

We need a really good ball handler next year. No surprise there.

What is interesting was they had more turnovers, and we only got rebounded by 8. We had more steals and equal assists.

They shot better.

I am scared of next season – 9 winning teams in the west, plus us/clips/thunder will probably play better next year. West is going to be murder.

from the game is that we played really sloppy and was able to compete. The whole game I thought we played out of sync expecially that 3rd turnover prone qtr.

Here are some more POSITIVES cuz what’s the point of negativity?

Monta Ellis – his mid-range jumper is back. once his explosiveniess to the basket is 100%, how can u defend that guy? Altho he isn’t a true PG, i feel just so much more comfy when he handles the rock as oppose to those one-on-one play we see started by jax and maggete. Please don’t leave next year Monta!

Bukie – he is a legit 3pt threat! is it me or are nelly and them clueless? sasha killed us with his 3s, and he got them cuz of ball movement and penetration. why can’t the warriors seem to do this for the likes of bukie and morrow. when we were coming back in the 4th, maggs penetrated and dished to bukie twice. the result…..a 3ptr. why can’t we seem to do this more with our offensive weapons??

those are the only 2 positives i could find in last nite’s game. wait….that’s a positve in itself cuz only monta and bukie had good games and we still competed.

what’s the point of negativity? :)

There were numerous times when blown calls killed our momentum, but I can pinpoint it to one moment that really did it. When this happened I turned to my friends and said if we lose this is why.

We were on a 12-0 run and had cut the lead to six when Sasha Vujacic turned the ball over trying to inbounds it by walking along the baseline. Unfortunately the ref did not/chose not to see that and what should have been Warriors ball became a three pointer for the Lakers.

I hate to try to blame the refs for a loss because our players certainly did a lot of things to allow this game to get away… but it really seems like every time we play the Lakers it’s not just them that we have to overcome. Remember last year when Monta “fouled” Derek Fisher in overtime by being pulled to the ground by him?