Warriors Game Day Links: Golden State Warriors 112 vs Houston Rockets 121 - Oracle rocks hard, but Warriors doom themselves by their own mistakes

We have the talent but not the smarts.

Even the best teams in the league cannot play a perfect game, it’s impossible. Sure, the Warriors had a few avoidable mistakes that could’ve gave them the victory, but there’s no point getting infuriated over them. You need to accept the fact that the Rockets were simply a better team tonight. Both teams made mistakes, but the Rockets were experienced enough and talented enough to capitalize on the Warriors’ untimely head-scratchers. Golden State played as well as you could expect, especially considering they were missing their starting point guard (possibly their best player) and center. Commend them for all the effort and fantastic plays. They’ll probably finish the season with a fairly woeful record, so save the condemnations for losses against awful teams (See tomorrow: Sacramento Kings haha)

As for your points:
-Dorell has made those same mistakes all year. You just have to get used to it and every once in a while he’ll catch fire and set the franchise record for 3’s, or make a fantastic defensive play giving us momentum.

-Radmanovic has played relatively outstandingly these past few weeks, and he deserves the extra playing time. He was a major reason the Warriors got the lead in the late 3rd/early 4th so he deserved to stay on the court, so as not to interrupt their rhythm.

-Udoh clearly had his best game this year (he’s played so little otherwise so no surprise there) but in the few minutes before Smart took him out, he appeared completely lost out there. The pressure and intensity got to him and he lost his mojo, leading to a major lack of confidence offensively. In case you missed it, one David Lee replaced him, who’s our best big man and had one of his best games of the year. Personally, I was more frustrated that he took out the hard-working Lin for D-Wright.

Regarding your final statements: As I said, the Warriors played exceptionally well under the circumstances, and Monta did play unbelievably, but the Rockets were simply better, executed their offense, played efficiently, came up with the loose balls, and deserved to win (as much as I don’t want to admit).

Monta scores alot, but also has an unforced turnover problem, bad shot problem, clutch problem, IT factor problems, winning attitude problem, etc…. Monta plays like he never wants to be on a playoff team unless he is traded to a team already playoff bound. Monta is an underachiever and has that whiny look on his baby face chizzle. He misses easy lay-ups, gives-up defenseively too often when he gets beat, takes funky arse outside shots instead of driving to the hoop…….The guy is just a LOSER.

Then there is Rad – this guy is like rotting goat cheese that was never even palatable when it was freshly curdled.

Then, there is Keith Smart and his mindless rotations/shifts. He pulls out players playing good in an effort to make happy those who get paid more. Frack that bs. It is about competition, not pay scales. If someone is making bank, produces jack schit, and STILL THINKS THEY DESERVE TO BE PANDERED TOWARD, I say trade that arsewipe consceded greed masterbator.

Then, the ownership – gotta have the balls to schit can the FO!!!!!!!!!!

Dorell Wright should NOT be taking all those shots. It’s really at the point this season where he’s starting to shoot us out of games. Stop taking the contested jump shot. Drive, pass, and shoot open 3s. Simple.

The easiest and fastest way to make the Warriors playoff contenders is to get an All-Star SF and bring Dorell off the bench. Agreed.

-Radmanovic’s been playing better, true. But he should not be getting 16 min a night, especially when we have a guy at the 3 in Carney who has been playing well lately. Radman getting big minutes at the 4 over Amundson and Udoh is NOT acceptable.

It was the Ellis-Law-Lin-Udoh-Vlad (?!?!?!) lineup that brought us back into the game in the first place. At least give credit where credit is due. Amundson was fouling all over the place last night.

The guys at NBA TV said it best, "bad teams find a way to lose". And the Warriors on every level did that tonight at the end of the game. You just don’t lose games where one of your players go 15-20 for 44 pts. Unbelievable.

You do when that player refuses to play defense. It was one of the worse defensive performances Monta has had in a while. Monta was playing D like we had Dwight Howard in the paint ready to swat balls outta there. It works okay when we had Udoh (and maybe perhaps with Biedrins back), but he was giving up more penetration than Jenna Jameson last night. Yes, his offensive performance was good, as it usually is when he squares off against Kevin Martin. We just don’t have the talent to stop guys on the perimeter, nor stop them in the paint when they get there.

Was Monta the main reason we lost? No, I’d say it is more due to Dorell and Reggie really sucking the hard one. We know Monta can get his points, when Curry gets back we know he can get his too. DLee was looking better on O last night. The key to victories is for that 4th guy to light it up. Earlier in the season we had Dorell getting open look after open look, now we are hard pressed to find that guy who can provide the last bit of oomph we need to win. From last season to this season, we know Monta is not the Lebron-type who can carry a team on his back all by himself.

My good feeling about this rookie was reinforced last night.

Not just good

AB1, if yer reading, here is your replacement for Biedrens…It’s probably going to take a couple of years but Udoh seems like he at least has the tools to develop into a top tier center

On the replay, the TO wasn’t as bad as I thought. It was a tricky thing and I thought Vlad got hit pretty hard on the forearm. The subsequent flagrant was dumb, probably out of frustration. I wouldn’t be too hard on Vlad for that particular sequence. He did some good things this game.

Vlad sucked the air out of the building with that pathetic turnover and flagrant foul. Just wow.

He has been playing much better but he does seem to provide us with one spectacular “ohmygod” each game ha!

11:30 ?

This season is done!!!!!