The Hypocrisy of the Bay Area Sports Media and Fans

shooting efficiency trumps shooting volume any day.

the biggest reason (as I see it) that we lost that game was because of his shot volume. he should have dished more to lee and the rest of the team.

his 4th quarter was pretty incredible tho

All the quarters count equally.

Of the regulars, I’d say Lee, Wright and Curry all had less counterproductive (read: better) overall games than Monta.

4Q is what really counts

With your logic, in this case it was OT that really counted.

it is nonsensical to act as if we lost because monta played "horrible". You rarely lose a game where it is 1 persons fault.

Agreed. Monta’s certainly not the only reason we lost, but he’s one of the biggest reasons. Personally, I’d rate him the biggest reason, or at least 1a/1b with Smart. As godawful as Smart was last night, it’s hard to for me to imagine that any coaching performance would have as negative impact on losing as going 11-27 from the floor with 1 rebound, 2 assists and six turnovers. But if there’s any coach in the NBA capable of having that strong of a negative effect, it’s Smart. I can’t think of any other coach who would bench his best player for the entire 4th quarter when he was rested, not in foul trouble, and playing well.

Pretty much my sentiments. But after a game like last night’s, the ol’ standard GSC broken records do sound particularly appropriate to me.

that curry is one of the best 4th quarter offensive players in the game…both in points and efficiency.

I’m pretty sure by “best player” he was referring to Curry. There’s an (extremely weak) case to be made for Monta, but even if for whatever reason you consider Curry the Warriors’ 2nd or 3rd best player, it doesn’t alter the substance of Gov’s criticism.

You’ve waited way to long… good organizations act pre-emptively

I’m interested to hear a informed rebuttal of this point

When a guy with a defensive pedigree like a Rondo makes a point of cross matching to guard Monta, doesn’t that tell us all we need to know. Other teams put their best defender on Monta, seems like a logical conclusion that they view him as the better player

I think the whole “who’s the Bes$t Playa” is pretty juvenille, but since it is inevitable around here…

I made a long post at the beginning of the year about the shame it was (on all the pitchfork carrying fans and Nelson hating press around here) that Nelson was basically beat out of town.

How nice and good a guy Smart is, along with how “been around the block so i don’t need or care to ‘play the game’ with the press” Nelson is….all plays into this bigtime. Yes indeedy.

Which is just one more sign our whole Bay Area culture doesn’t help producing good hoops teams. We have writers who prop up lameness and rip a great coach because he doesn’t answer them straight.

Which leads to how vastly injured the last two Nelson years were (the two combined THE MOST injured team in the league, and that all right when the front office gave Nelson one of, at the time, the youngest teams to boot.)

Now, other than a couple of backups and a few games missing Lee, the W’s have been VERY healthy. Make sure you know this as fact. Smart has had WAY more to work with.

Hey bay area writers. Maybe the “better D” is simply from slowing down the O a bit (which Smart has done,) along with health to his best players and the addition of Dorell? Maybe?

OK, even if we give Smart the benefit of the doubt and give him that he’s “improved the D,” is it that impressive if they’re still lame on D and now worse on O? Sure, he’s talked about it, stressed it, “created a culture” more in tune towards D. But ANY coach would have. Even Nelson wants (or wanted to) go more defensive, but he didn’t have the players so he ran.

Nelson would simply have won more games with this team. Smart’s substitutions alone have cost them a few at least. Smart is not a leader of men. It just doesn’t exude off of him, at all.

I noted early on, vs NY at NY, that Smart seems to coach on faith and not rational thinking. (Sure, some “feel” can always be added, but ….)

In that game at NY Smart had Monta shoot 3 tech FTs, while Steph was in the game…3 tech FTs of which Monta sure enough missed one. That game came down to the wire, and that “decision” by Smart could very easily have cost the Warriors.

Is there a more straight forward coaching decision to make than putting your BY FAR best FT shooter at the line for techs?!

Now a simple, small mind would say, just like they are saying now with Monta having a great late 4th Q, “well, we still won.” But in both cases that’s not the point.

The point is they in both cases should have won easily, or more easily. The point is what it tells you about how Smart “thinks.”

And what it tells you is that the reason Smart has crazy sub patterns and allows his team to risk pts at the FT line on techs by shooting Monta, is that he goes WAY TOO MUCH ON FEEL. And it’s the same with giving Monta too much freedom/allowing him to be inefficient.

(By the way. With shooting techs, it is possible sometimes to try and “get your shooter hot” by letting him shoot tech FTs. But in that NY game one was really early and nobody had really got going so have your best, THE LEAGUE’S BEST, FT shooter shoot them, eh? To then do it 2 more times in the same game?!)

It is clear Smart is a nice, good, hardworking man/coach. It is clear the team’s whole “motto” this year was team unity after the crazy last few years.

So, nobody is bold enough to point out what is obvious.

Nelson isn’t NEARLY as bad as most thought, in fact he’s pretty damn shrewd (when his teams aren’t completely hurt,) and Smart is in WAY over his head.

nicely done!
let’s hire the digital version of Smart!

I assume the Warriors made an amazing roster move as well? Somehow managed to win the title this year?