Nelson and his record ...

this team has about 3 healthy players. Phil Jackson wouldn’t be doing any better with this team.

And if you don’t think Nellie was a major player in the We Believe team – you’re just high. Remember the 13 straight years before he stepped in as coach….?

i feel your pain – i have NBA league pass and i didn’t bother tivo-ing the last two games because i couldn’t bear to watch another “we fought hard and ran out of steam at the end” loss.

But the fact that this team is IN virtually every game until the waning moments of the fourth shows this team hasn’t quit – and the coach has a little something to do with that also.

This team, together and healthy next year could win 50 games. Healthy.

I’ve grown so sick of Nelson’s game plan out there that it isn’t even enjoyable for me to watch games anymore. As you said, he gives 1-2 guys on the team carte blanche to run ISO’s all day and just hopes for the best. I think that offensive strategy might work if that player is a well-rounded point-guard who knows how to set up and find his teammates (e.g. Baron). However, if those two players are Monta and Maggette, arguably two of the worst passing scorers in the league, you are going to have a very dysfunctional offense.

Is it any kind of mystery why teams are able to pull away from us in the 3rd or 4th quarter seemingly at will? All they have to do is start playing tight defense on M8E and Maggs and our offense grinds to a halt.

Cohen’s retarded self is paying him 6million/yr to be on the sidelines. Im sure he wanted him to actually coach our team but the fact that he has been disinterested these last 2 years doesn’t matter to Cohen because he is not going to eat the remainder of Nellie’s contract. Regardless we wouldn’t be much better if we had a better coach but undoubtedly our player development would be better. What Nellie was doing to Randolph earlier in the year and what he’s doing to Beans right now is so effin rediculous it’s obvious he’s lost his desire/knowhow to build a winning team. When he had Baron, Jack, J-Rich and Al he had vets who knew how to play and all he had to teach them was how to run his offense. Now he has a bunch of kids who need to be taught how to play winning basketball and he can’t relate to them so he struggles to get through to these kids. He’s turning Monta into Iverson which means great scoring but high turnovers and ballhogging. That doesn’t fit a team that has 5+ players capable of scoring 20+ on any given night. Monta should be concerned with being our closer while getting his teammates more involved during the first 3 quarters but instead Nellie lets him run wild. Alot of people like to compare Roy and Monta so heres one big difference between them that makes Roy a much better player at this point. 82 games . com has a clutch statistics section which uses the last 5 minutes of the game and overtime as their basis. Monta averages 29.9ppg per 48 on .375eFG% while Roy averages 36.4 on .500eFG%. WOW, thats a huge difference. My feeling is thats a by-product of Monta playing 40mpg while Roy plays 31mpg but either way we are not winning games so why not see if less is more? I know injuries have us handcuffed but Nellie has never been able to use his bench in an efficient way like say Phil Jackson does. For us Warrior fans to have any hope at seeing Monta, Steph, and Randolph get us to the playoffs first thing that needs to happen is Ellison buy the team. Secondly Nellie has to be relieved of his duties and they can give Smart a chance if they want but 20 games at most if we struggle. Otherwise Avery and Scott should get strong consideration. If Nellie is still in charge next season we can maybe make the playoffs if healthy but we all know Nellie led teams don’t go far so conference championship aspirations are out of the question. But barring any significant pickup this offseason the playoffs would be a huge accomplishment. Either way it sucks being a Warrior fan right now but I can’t care for any other team the way I do the W’s so let the struggle continue.

P.S. Anyone here who thinks Nellie should stay needs to get off that Nor-Cal bud and hit up some rehab like Beasley cause he’s clearly lost his desire to be an elite coach in this league. He needs to do us a favor and join Dunleavy in the unemployment line.

but they are treating the ABA coaches differently from the ABA players.

However, I relish the fact that MY team not only be in the playoffs this year (and the following two years as well), but will pull at least one upset, while Nellie and HIS team will be in hiding, praying for the draft to land John Wall in their laps, so they can move him to power forward.