Warriors Game Day Links #17: Golden State Warriors 101 vs Portland Trail Blazers 93 - Warriors survive late game 5-second-inbounds turnover, avoid another collapse

Let’s keep it at that.

2. A player drove into the lane and Tyler did not jump out of the gym on the pump fake…something that rookie bigs usually always do.

What do you mean? DW still does that all the time!

high assist to shot ratio (less stagnation watching Ellis pound the ball ?) ; probably a one game anomaly, with Por lacking the legs in its third game in three nights to cover the floor and deny passing lanes. fools gold, but boosting the confidence for Udoh and Tyler, Rush getting more time than Wright, are not bad things.

I’d prefer the draft pick and better players . Portland has caused us lots of grief over the last few years, letting us beat them to spoil our draft position. Maybe it’s cause their owner is a math whiz?

I sitting with friends at the O making bets on “when” Monta would decide to “take over the game”(and thus kill our lead) and by gosh he never did and we all happy lost our bets….he did have one promising “Monta iso” going late in the game at the top of the key and WoW—→ he passed it off to Lee for a score….“good Monta” night all around….minimal chucking up as well….saw Curry rub his shoulder as they walked off in sympathy for his “scoring struggles” (which resulted in a win due to less ball domination by Monta)

Monta was the cryptic PG, and Curry the defacto SG

Monta was assisting rather than dominating/hogging the ball but Curry bring the ball down and setting it up.

Loved udoh smiling after that too.
I think Udoh is my new favorite warriors

…I like Nate’s energy… but sometimes I just want someone solid and controlled running the point

These two statements seem ironic to me.

And tonight there was nothing wrong with the back court, Monta adjusted to how his game was going and ended up having a good night. I’d even say his defense was decent

However, when Beans is the only real Center you have to back them up, there will be issues. Which is why I liked how Kwame fit with our team.

Even though this was the 3rd game in as many days for the Blazers, it should be pretty clear that this team NEEDS a 2 guard that can play off the ball and pass well

do you have a particular affinity for the Warriors? Because you’re always in the game threads/post game threads congratulating us on our wins, and I’m not sure why. I don’t mind it, I’m just curious. Are you from the Bay Area or live here or something?

It WAS their third game in their back-to-back-to-back.

Mark Jackson should be good at post game interviews. I think he says all the right things and is trying to boost morale because otherwise the players, fans, everyone would just not even show up so to say. The problem is he is inexperienced as a coach and it will take time before he finds his own style of coaching. This is part of why the Warriors needed a veteran coach, someone who already knows what it takes. With a young team like the Warriors and for so long them used to just playing Nellie ball, it will take time for anything to shift or change. I like Mark Jackson, I like what he has to say…I remember during the lockout some event the Warriors had and I went to, everything said that night totally made me believe what they were saying….but just because someone says something, doesn’t mean they know how to get it done.

I really like how he dropped a lot of numbers. Though he did do the “drop the instincts” line, he did mention a lot of things like Udoh having a plus 18 plus/minus and Monta leading the league in assists for Shooting guards. I thought that was kinda cool because I don’t remember a lot of Smart or Nellie interviews where he was dropping numbers like that.

Appreciate you having this all set up and waiting for me and my morning coffee!!

Many times, after someone scores on him, he tries to post the guy up on the other end immediately.

this is not the kind of game that we would need Andris for, though

to be fair, Ekpe clearly cannot handle “true” centers, so when we go up against those teams Andris is useful just as a body.

I would platoon these two guys. Start Ekpe at center against teams he can handle and start Andris against the other teams. I don’t know why Jackson doesn’t do that.

but Dorell did actually try to take to the basket once last night and Lee was there to clean up….

with point 3.

While Rush has played well enough to earn the starting position (especially considering Dorell’s struggles from the first few weeks), it’s really beneficial to have a huge spark like that coming off the bench. Our second unit lineup of Nate, Klay, Rush, Udoh, and filler has proved extremely potent. I wouldn’t break it up, personally. And in certain late game situations, Mark Jackson may indeed have Rush out there with the rest of the starters. Who starts is less important than who finishes, and having Rush coming off the bench towards the end of the first keeps us humming along when starters start taking their breathers.

but I think I click flag damn

yeah it did, looks like laker colors to me. Old one was better but its alright

with a touch of snow blindness.

Yeah, the GSoM team was unanimously opposed to the orange-y peach palette they set up. It just didn’t say Warriors at all.

I definitely agree that it could use a splash of gold — I told the SBN tech crew as much — but apparently a lot of the items are tied together by the CMS, so can’t be changed without changing the whole color scheme. We’ll see what we can do! I’m sure you’ll see continued tweaking here and there over the next few days.

Two of our favorite new tweaks are the new favicon (tiny logo next to the URL in your browser) and new horizontal “GSoM” logo that appears under “Blog Memberships” in your profile page. Whaddaya think?