Warriors on the other hand take the shot right away if you are close or open from the 3. Hardly any attention to getting a dunk or any better shot. I guess that is why Boston has a championship and we are competing for the 8th spot.

Isn’t that mostly coaching.

The team he has if he builds right is two years away from competing for playoffs and Nelson won’t be around. He just wants to get the wins and after that he gets fired, so what, he can collect the money.

In trying to pass Wilkens, he goes with the hot hand for the moment, without even seeing if the guy may start making shots later. The young kids get treated with so much inconsistency daily, their confidence will be ruined and their games but as long as Nelson does what helps him get a win for the moment, he will do it.

Us beating Dallas, that wasn’t Nelson as the Warriors before that had owned Dallas as well. And the team would have made the playoffs that year with a full year of that core of guys. So Nelson gets too much credit for that year, though he may be a good coach at some time, he is too stubborn, sometimes downright ignorant in some of the way he handles the players and does things.

But there’s another issue, too. Teams have learned to double AB, secure in the knowledge he’s the Warriors’ sole inside threat — given Nelson’s idiotic penchant for playing losing Stupid Small Ball (for which he was schooled badly by the young Bulls and Nets coaches). Sure, Garnett moved to Goose to block out, but he wasn’t alone down there. And since our “shooters” ALL seem to hit at less than a 40% clip, doubling AB is the sure, simple way to beat us — as all our recent opponents have shown. (This would likely change if Nelson went big — perhaps with a double post — using AR, Ronny, and even BW with Goose. Nelson can’t seem to see that, though he should be able to tell that SSB, particularly with Maggette as the four — as in Q4 in Boston — is a sure recipe for defeat.)

Now, Nutso Don may be thinking about adding another team cancer (Marbury — according to Ratto this morning) in his never-ending quest to sacrifice long-term gain for short-term wins that will boost him past Wilkens. Sad commentary, because this obstinate imbecile used to be such a creative guy before his brain ossified. And now WE have to pay the price as he — once again — fails to develop his young talent (I still can’t believe AR gets limited to ONE MINUTE in Boston) while overplaying his old guys such that they’re tired — and worthless — in Q4, when the game’s on the line. (And why does Nelson allow Maggette to keep throwing up those awful threes that almost always clank off the front rim?) So, your point is right on, but Nelson seems certain not to implement a simple cure.

And we can thank Rowell for adding two years to Nelson’s contract even BEFORE anyone got to see whether he’d learned any lessons from running the team into the ground last year. Now we see he’s become even worse — and we’ve been largely stuck watching that stultifying iso BBall and SSB, even tho we lack the players (i.e. quick, fast, running scorers) to make it work. Square peg, round hole: typical Nelson approach these days.