Warriors Game Day Links: Golden State Warriors 72 @ Milwaukee Bucks 79 - Oh offense, offense, where the heck art thou, offense?

lest your humble svt be forced to to begin unravel’ng the letter V, which I fear would not, in November, signify one Vladi, but instead, the fant’sy of large amounts of explosives…

watching about 8 rows behind the bench. He was clearly better than everyone else tonight. Curry was a defensive liability on Salmons tonight and was too slow to guard Jennings. Radman sucked with one on one, but did good on team defense. He was better than the big men other than Adrien and opened up the floor by being able to spread the floor. He also was in the game when they had that 12-2 run in the fourth.

you complain about his approach to the team, you judge how he plays Vlad and you complain about injuries? Ok let the process begin.

Smart has done a good job having the team ACTUALLY run plays with the flex offense. The team is obviously adjusting and still am working on learning how to execute the offense properly. We’re playing much better D and he has a better relationship with the players than Nelly did.

With Lee out, our current list of bigs have no offensive game what so ever. There contribution is minimal at best. BWright is not showing us anything really and doesn’t bring in any energy. Gadz & Beans are two in the same, guys who do good pick and roll jobs to get easy dunks. I will agree that with the showing yesterday that Adrien should play more because he brings energy, fights for rebounds and has ultra fresh legs. Don’t get me wrong, I cannot stand Vlad, but with us having 3 bigs on ir and the others playing like crap, Smarts options are very limited.

I’m kind of impartial when it comes to letting them play through injuries, but if the players say their ok (Other than the Lee) incident then let them play. The team would have been Reggie, Lin, Adrien, Vlad, Beans, Lee, the Wrights, Gadz and Bell….. Monta & Curry not playing would have resulted in an under .500 record easily and unbearable basketball. The players have to fight through injuries.

That’s exactly what he’s said he’s doing.

The thing is, even if you’re going on feel, you should be analyzing the results. He’s clearly not. And we’ll ignore running a play to end the game for the worst shooter on the floor.

Frankly, I expect him to chalk Adrien’s performance up to a fluke (again) just like he has every time Adrien has played. I expect him to continue to play Bell, even though Lin is clearly a better option at this point. I expect him to continue to play Vlad at a position that demands skills he’s never shown. I expect him to overplay Monta in rotations where Curry or Lin are better fits. I expect him to continue to allow the atrocious 3pt gunning of players who shouldn’t be shooting 3s. What’s he’s shown that does help is the zone defense, although he needs to tweak that so we can rebound out of it.

You cannot play Vladi in the post and claim you have a commitment to rebounding. You cannot claim you have a commitment to rebounding and leave one of our 3 best rebounders (Adrien) on the bench. You cannot put two players shooting under .300 on the floor at the same time and expect to score. Bad shooting + bad rebounding = losses. And that’s exactly what Smart has currently been designing.