Warriors Preseason Game Links: Golden State Warriors 105 @ Portland Trail Blazers 118 - Thank goodness the Giants won today
by IQofaWarrior on Oct 16, 2010 10:07 PM PDT
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Keith Smart
On the Blazers’ shooting performance:
"They were hot. Pretty much every time you had a hand up they still made the shot. We have do a better job the next time we play this team, knowing that guys do shoot the ball really well. We have to make sure we get to them and try to make them put the ball on the floor, and perhaps play some scramble defense from there. But they were hitting their hot guys who stayed hot and made shots."
On Stephen Curry’s turnovers in the game:
"I think it’s a bit of an adjustment [for Curry] because we probably won’t have as much space on the floor as we’ve had in the past, so some of the passes that he’s making right now are passes that he’s always made, but because of the space on the floor it’s not there. But those things are all correctable. It’s nothing major- he’s going to figure it out. He’s a good, talented player and it’s going to work out."
On the direction of the offense:
"For the most part I think we’re trying to focus on what we’re doing defensively and trying to rebound the ball. We didn’t get off to a good start, so that put us in a hole and we had to try to fight to get up and climb back into the ball game. Once we got ourselves close, you now have worked yourself so hard that you don’t have [the energy] necessary to win the basketball game. We came out at the half, after giving up a ton of points, and got the game under control and settled down. I liked how we bounced back and competed from there."
On Portland’s position in the Western Conference:
"I think a healthy team for them is going to put them back in the thick of trying to make that playoff run again. We’re trying to grow our basketball team to get into those positions as well. They have an All-Star guard and some size, have some guys that can score that you have to pay attention to on the low box."
On his influence on the team:
"I’m not trying to do something totally different- I’m just trying to look at the team that we have now and play differently from there. We have a bigger team now, so we want to focus on trying to rebound the basketball. We have to take care of the turnovers, because we’ve given up too many turnovers. What I’m trying to do is get us to play solid in the half-court, rebound the basketball, we still want to run and take advantage of our speed on the floor, but by the same token we want to control the game."
Interesting Tweets
warriors: Forward Lou Amundson suffered a dislocated right index finger in the 4th Qtr tonight. He will be re-evaluated in the Bay Area.
(after the game)
StephenCurry30: Got to get our road swag on! Bottle up the energy at Oracle and take with us wherever we go
Notes
- Amundson dislocated a finger in tonight's game and will be reevaluated in the Bay Area.
What's next?
- One more preseason home game as the Warriors face the Blazers again for a rematch on Monday.
| Date | Day | Time | Opponent | Location | TV | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18 | Mon | 7:30pm | Blazers | Oracle Arena | - | KNBR 680 |
| Oct 19 | Tue | 7:00pm | @Suns | US Airways Arena | - | - |
| Oct 21 | Thu | 7:00pm | @Lakers | San Diego Sports Arena | - | KNBR 680 |
| Oct 22 | Fri | 7:30pm | @Lakers | Citizens Business Bank Arena | ESPN | - |
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Pretty empty post game links
nothing I can do about it. I just realized I should fill out a Therapy session.
Added
Keith Smart post game quotes, 1 Curry tweet
Thanks again for these :)
always appreciated.
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
You're welcome, even though not much in tonight's post
Man, coming up with poll choices is HARD.
by IQofaWarrior on Oct 16, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
For most of the game, the Warriors outplayed the Trailblazers. How do we know that? Well, David Lee was on the floor for almost 28 minutes, and behind his 17 pts, 11 rebs, 5 assists, and 2 steals – with no turnovers – the Warriors held a +3 advantage. Jeff Adrien was on the floor for 5 minutes – they didn’t overlap, and we had a +7 advantage in that time. So over 33 minutes of the game, the Warriors outscored the Blazers by 10 points.
In their 5 minutes of playing together, Aaron Miles and Charlie Bell went -8. This isn’t much Bell’s fault, tonight – in his additional 9+ minutes, the team only lost -1. He’s now 1-6 on 3-pt shots, though.
Rudy Fernandez had an unbelievable .636 3pt% going into tonight’s game, and making more of them (3.5 per game) than anyone else. 4-8 from him right now is actually pretty acceptable.
Portland actually had a pretty good game. Lok at their DNP list and be afraid – be very afraid.
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
*look at
Adrien’s 2 boards in 5 minutes drops his REB40 a little, but not much, btw. And his FG% is down to .714
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
the Warriors outplayed the Trailblazers
Let’s do the same +/- analysis for the Blazers starters:
Aldridge +5
Batum +26
Cunningham +21
Miller +9
Roy +4
The reason Lee ended up with +3 is that he was still playing a bit in garbage time. The Blazers beat us, plain and simple.
Oh, they kicked us around, no question.
But when Lee left the game at 9:22 in the 4th, we were only down 9. By the time Curry hit a shot 5 minutes later, we were down 20. From the time Lee left the game until Adrien grabbed a board with 4:05 to go we didn’t get a rebound.
In the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter, we played seven players. Carney and Vlad played all eight minutes. Only one player did not have a positive statistical contribution in that time – Charlie Bell gave us 5 minutes of totally negative production – a turnover and a missed shot. In his 8 minutes, Vlad produced a block – along with 2 fouls, a turnover, and two missed shots. On the “defensive” end, Vlad was apparently either guarding Rudy or getting switched onto him – their fouls were against each other. And this is the period when Rudy torched us. Vlad’s turnover was a steal by Rudy. Vlad’s fouls were 2 points for Rudy.
Dre was -14 and Ellis – 13 tonight, and clearly that’s a problem. But 5 minute chunks of time
with two players on the court who actively hurt you is a bigger one. By the time Vlad scored at 4:00 (off the Adrien rebound) Steph, Brandan, and Adrien all had positive contributions in less than two minutes.
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
Our third positive player on the floor tonight was Brandan Wright at +3, whose minutes overlapped with both Lee and Adrien. In 19 minutes he shot 5 of 6 for 11 points, 6 rebs, an assist, a turnover, a block, and a foul. If Smart’s message to bWright was “cut down turnovers and rebound”, that message was clearly received and acted upon.
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
Good to see those numbers from BWright!
"There's more to life than basketball. I can't play this game my whole life. I'm just trying to figure out what I like to do and meet some cool people along the way." -Chris Bosh
by Duby Dub Dubs on Oct 17, 2010 9:03 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
From one link-person to another
I enjoy these, thanks.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
Definitely worth reading the Blazersedge report
Good bits:
Look for more on Stephen Curry sometime early next week. He finished with 17 points, 11 assists, 7 rebounds, 8 turnovers and a steal. He will be an NBA all star sooner rather than later and within a few years I expect the Warriors to be in regular playoff contention regardless of who he is surrounded with. The only player I have seen go through a more rigorous pre-game routine than Curry is Kevin Durant and I think the two players share the same determined, confident but humble, dedicated to improving mentality.
Brandon Roy’s night was better than Monday, for sure. He finished with 6 points, 2 rebounds, 5 assists and a steal, but he got himself into some foul trouble, primarily because Monta Ellis was extremely aggressive off the dribble early on. Roy’s assertiveness was not all the way there again tonight (he took just 4 shots) but his play-making was improved. He was deferring rather than looking disinterested, and there is a big difference.
The Warriors as a whole should be much improved over last season. David Lee didn’t drop any jaws but his skill level and ease of production were markedly improved over the MASH unit Golden State threw out last year. He put together 17 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals in 27 minutes and he made it look pretty ordinary. That should add up.
Bad bits:
A short-handed Portland Trail Blazers had their offense in high-gear early and they never looked back, raining down points on a new-look Golden State Warriors team that still can’t stop anyone, before pulling away for a 118-105 win Saturday night in the Rose Garden.
The Golden State Warriors are the type of team that make you think it’s no big deal to prominently feature the undersized Dante Cunningham in the frontcourt.
A major reason for his relative lack of offensive involvement was match-ups: with the bigger Andre Miller able to isolate on the undersized Stephen Curry, with Aldridge clicking so well in the post against some soft interior defense, and with Portland’s shooters so hot, so early, the Blazers didn’t need to turn to Roy for help as they often do.
by Evanz on Oct 17, 2010 7:30 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs
Great find, Evanz. Rec.
There will be no extra point!
by Sleepy Freud on Oct 17, 2010 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
the Portland game demonstrates why you can never have too much size
size at every position
The Warriors got bigger in the off-season, but it looks like we’re still too small to compete with the top teams in the West.
and to think...
they’re playing without Oden, Pryzbilla, and Camby. OMFG.
by Evanz on Oct 17, 2010 7:44 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
that's the scary part
Baseball is a chamber orchestra. Football is a marching band. Basketball is a modern quintet. jazz, rock, hiphop, pop/ all about the beat./ still my revolution not/ til you dance through it.
We don’t have Mag to get Aldridge in foul trouble. Monta did his job on Roy. If we can get Melo or Iguo then we are a playoff team.
by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Oct 17, 2010 8:14 AM PDT reply actions
Melo makes us worse defensively
since he replaces D. Wright
Ellis is actually playing ok on d, he just needs to stop taking jumpers. Anyway, there’s no way we can get Iggy for Ellis. We just don’t have the chips to play.
That's of course the stumbling block..
Do I want Melo? YES. Do I want to morgage the team for Melo? a big NO
What's wrong with this picture
Ellis made 3/3 layups
2/13 jumpshots
Smart has to reign him. He just has to. If this continues, Reggie needs to be made the starter.
Smart has to reign him.
Not to single you out, but after “Brandon Wright” this may be the most common spelling/usage error I see on this site.
REIN.
There will be no extra point!
by Sleepy Freud on Oct 17, 2010 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah,
even if you take away 2 of his shots as half court end of qtr heaves, 2/11 midrange shooting was not helping the team last night. It will definitely be a problem this becomes a real trend.
by IQofaWarrior on Oct 17, 2010 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
And the injury curse begins
MSteinmetzCSN: Lou Amundson will need surgery on broken right index finger. #NBA #GSW
Good news for Jeff Adrien.
play like a 1 man guy
by bloodsweatndonuts on Oct 17, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
So, who wants to stand up and pretend they aren’t concerned about Andris today? Does his past production still give you confidence? He just played against a team missing all three of its centers and came up with a whopping 4 rebs and 6 points in 18 minutes, while posting the second worst +/- on the team. Be very afraid.
Sittin in my scraper watchin Oakland goin wild, ta-dow!
So, who wants to stand up and pretend they aren’t concerned about Andris today?
hold the hysteria till the season starts, we’re talkin about practice here, practice.
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Oct 18, 2010 10:36 AM PDT reply actions
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