RECAP #26: Golden State Warriors 95, Portland Trail Blazers 96- Sloppy, boring, and bad. + Gilbert Arenas and Jason Richardson partying like it's 2002

I agree the Warriors need more guards, specifically a true point guard. It is pretty painful watching Monta play point guard, he looks very uncomfortable playing the position.

I just don’t think the D-league is the answer. How about trying to make trades with other NBA teams for legit NBA players. I feel like Riley has fallen in love with the D-league because of success with guys like Williams plus under the Cohan/Rowell regime he was forced to shop in the D-league. My guess is teams like Lakers, Boston, or Orlando don’t get scavening the D-league to fill areas of weakness.

I remember last season, I was getting very frustrated with the offense because it looked like everyone was just sitting around watching Stephen Jackson with the ball. The offense was stagnant and rhythmless. That happened right up through the @Knicks game, the one where Curry played only a few minutes, blocked David Lee’s shot, and got into a small argument with him.

Then the very next game @Bucks on the very next night, the Warriors offense COMPLETELY turned around. They moved the ball back and forth, in and out, in rhythm, no hesitation, looking for the open man. All it took was one night, and suddenly things clicked among the players. I doubt Don Nelson could have completely revamped the offense on a back-to-back road trip in one night. And I doubt it had anything to do with Stephen Jackson being traded, because the players said they didn’t know about it until the day after the Bucks game when the news hit them.

I remember all this because I wrote a detailed comment about it after the Knicks game, and then again after the Bucks game.

So it’s difficult to know if this season’s offensive frustrations are because of Smart’s gameplans or if the players simply haven’t clicked with each other yet. When you look at the players inability to complete fast breaks, it’s plausible to believe that the players haven’t clicked yet.

Because our head coach goes by the name of Keith Smart.

without even having to look back I can easily recall Monta nailing a 3 to put us up at the half against the TWolves and making a driving layup against the Jazz to close out quarters recently. Getting his pocket picked by Miller was really bad, but overall he’s a better option at the end of a quarter than most teams have. AB1 will take any opportunity he can get to take shots at Monta. Forget the fact that he was able to get to the line repeatedly in the 4th and knock down his free throws. That was a huge factor in getting us back in the game last night.

How many times can he write something that starts with something along the lines of “It was funny back when the Warriors lost Baron and everyone thought we’d hand the team over to Monta”? It feels like there is something along those lines in every other post. He’s worse than Fitz when it comes to repeating himself.

Apparently we don’t have the players to do that either.

Nearly 100 points to a Blazers team that had lost like 12 of 14 or something and they were without their best offensive threat. Sad….

that is the first potential game winning shot he has taken in his whole career, at least to my knowledge.

I believe he has taken a handful and I know he made one back when Baron was still here. It was a corner 3, and it was pretty awesome considering that was when he was terrible at shooting 3s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqUijrvyqQ

Well, he’s 1 for 2

Smart should just scrap his half court motion $#!t ball. Our half court sucks. I’d still like us to play better defense, but on offense we need to up the pace.

The last couple years I may not have been a Nellie supporter, but now I really wish we kept him for one more year. I’m sure he would’ve made the games a lot more competitive and find the mismatches to exploit.

EVER? And I mean tied the game or won the game?

Has Reggie?