Recap #48: Golden State Warriors 100, Milwaukee Bucks 94 - Shoot Well, Play Well, Get W

They’re just not very deep. They can’t score the ball off the bench like you would like," Nelson said. "They compete and try, but I don’t know if they’re a playoff team this year. Your team isn’t that strong. That’s the bottom line.

What sucks about this statement is we are two ‘minor’ things away from being a playoff team. Andris returning to form. And a legitimate 6th man.

Not saying that team will go deep, but that team would have atleast 4 more wins now.

The difference between 21-27 and 25-23 and being 0.5 behind portland.

This was not a good game. A win may be a win, but getting dominated like that on the glass against a team without a center is inexcusable. Lee should have to run laps or something.

Did anyone else notice that, once again, Smart adjusted to what the other coach was doing rather than the other way around? He played “small” rather than using our real bigs to give us a size advantage. If we’d been even in rebounding, this game would’ve been a cakewalk.

I don’t know if it’s the coaching, or the players, but our defensive rotations are not very good. There are stretches in games where we play good D, but I can’t think of one game where we played solid D for more than 30 minutes.

The last few games Monta has imerged as the PG. He has been creating for others way more than Steph, and more importantly he is looking to get Steph involved by finding him for good open shots, more so than the other way around. Also he is not dishing out discustingly horrid TO’s at an alarming rate. Steph had at least 3 passes that were so well placed to the defenders chest that I was wondering if he was just trying to keep it a close game. Don’t want to rag on Steph too much, love dude, I just think he looks to make the “oo-aa” pass too often.

Before the season started CWeb had stated that Monta should be the PG and Curry should be the spot up shooting SG. That would be a better stratedgy if we were focused purely on winning for this season. But in terms of long term growth, we need to bring Steph along as a PG as well. Good job by the coaching staff to keep both guards as primary playmakers until Curry is able to drop double digit assists on a regular basis.

I said before the game that I sort of wish Maggette wasn’t traded for Gadz and Bell, despite his awful contract. He reinforced that sentiment in the 4th quarter. Corey’s 20ppg off the bench for us would be HUGE this year. We’d probably be a game or 2 within .500 by now.

Overall, a win is a win, and you take it with a smile. But this one is a bit of a forced smile. We have to play much, much, much better basketball in every way if we hope to compete with Chicago on Saturday. If it wasn’t for injuries to DWill, Jennings, and Bogut, we very well could’ve beeen looking 6 losses in a row. A streak that would’ve started with a loss at Staples against the Clipps, which is the same team and venue that Chicago got their most recent victory in.

Saturday is a must win. Despite the odds, we absolutely have to win if we have any chance of getting back in the 8th spot hunt.

during my morning throne reading I opened up the sports section to find no other then don magic won nelson gave a interview to knbr.

he said that the warriors roster, that he helped build, was flawed and that curry and ellis can not win consistently together.

he also said that keith and riley are the man.

is anyone else glad this terd is no longer coach of the warriors?

if the roster is flawed then why did he help build it and how can he praise riley and keith as they also assisted in building this roster..

Really I am hoping that this offseason keithy and riley will also be gone.

Look, I always love a win, but this was a pretty humbling one. The main thing I noticed is that Smart seems more and more lost every game. A lot of Curry’s turnovers felt to me like a guy who didn’t really know what the possession was going to develop into.

I don’t understand why they don’t just run the pick and roll down everyone’s throat on every single possession, a la Stockton/Malone. They have the perfect personnel for it, and that strange mix of guys isn’t really great for any other identity. Look at the prime Jazz team, and they were virtually the same (though obviously a level up in talent). Great mid-range shooting PF who can dive to the hoop, PG who can dish and shoot high percentage from anywhere, and a SG (Hornacek) who’s small but will make collapsing defenses pay. Even the athletic SF who fills in the gaps. Everyone talks about how they need to play high-octane style, but wouldn’t a grind-it-out offense better hide their defensive weaknesses? Utah was considered a tough defense and they had two tiny guards who athletically pale compared to Monta and Curry.

if i had just watched the game without the score showing, i woulda assumed that the warriors were losing. we were making some awful mistakes. if anything, i was a pretty big fan scott skiles and what he was doing with eryan ilysanova (spelled wrong), delfino, and mbah a moute. i think if they had a healthy bogut and brandon jennings there was noway we could win this game.

Isn’t it weird that the guy who played Magette at PF says that Monta cannot play SG? Isn’t it weird that the guy who’s team never played defense is concerned about Monta and Steph playing defense?

But what is logical, it’s the fact that he calls this roster flawed, because it has too many bigs. It is flawed, because it does not have any "prima-ballerina" characters like Baron or Captain Jack. So this flawed roster should bring 10 more wins this year, comparing to the year Nelson been coaching. So, it may be logical that Smart is "the man".

Coming into this season, I assumed Lee+Beans would mean Warriors would actually have the rebounding edge in many games. The Warrior’s rebounding has been what’s disappointed me most this season.

This game pretty much symbolizes how the Warriors season. Getting badly out-rebounded, struggle on defense & rely on overcoming everything w/ offense.

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Let Beans get fouled !! If Beans can avoid foul trouble he needs more minutes. If Smart is so scared of Beans FT shooting then at least wait till opponent is in the penalty before yanking Biedrins out for the rest of the game.

Something really needs to change. If Biedrin isn’t going to get 30 minutes a game (when he avoids foul trouble) then either he needs to be moved or coach needs to be changed. That salary should be on the floor for more minutes.