Comments on: Post-game Tidbits (at Houston)

By: Mountain Jim

Mountain Jim — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:50:35 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Marcus.

Of course Mags can be a sixth man. Of course, he will whine and bitch about it just like he did with the Clippers, but so what.

By: jlight

jlight — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:24:26 +0000

Marcus, sounds like you should be out there coaching.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:04:54 +0000

Someone has to tell Nellie – he doesn’t have Jrich, BD, Pietrus, and Barnes anymore. This lineup cannot play small ball. Maggette has mentioned a few times that he’s not a PF. If his heart isn’t in it – don’t put him in that situation.

I think Nellie should have a set rotation. He MUST play the four guys in the front court rotation. Biedrens, Turiaf, Wright, and Randolph rotates between C, PF and if possible Randolph at SF. Maggette starts at SF and the only other position he switches to is SG. You start Jackson, Maggette and Crawford and rotate their positions with Buke, Morrow and Watson. Unless they get blown out – they should have at least one of these guys (Jackson, Maggette or Crawford) on the floor for veteran leadership.

I’m tired of seeing them get outrebounded by other teams. It happens when Maggette is playing PF with Jackson, Watson and Crawford on the floor.

Wake up Nellie – you have a young team! Your roster cannot play small ball as well anymore.

By: c.w.j.

c.w.j. — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:22:58 +0000

i’ve given nellie a pass in the past because we were winning, but what’s going on this year is just foul. i don’t care if wright, randolph, morrow and marco make mistakes on the defensive end cause it’s not like our vets are defensive stoppers either. you’re right, there needs to be a set rotation. i’m sick of seeing young players show flashes of what they can do, just to ride the bench. next thing you know they’ll get traded just to come back and throw up crazy numbers against us.

corey needs to come off the bench, get injured or something. he’s such a “me first” player, he doesn’t make his teammates better and unless he’s going to the line i don’t feel good when the ball is in his hands.

this season plays like an orchestrated disaster.

By: jsl

jsl — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:54:16 +0000

Good to see you finally take some shots at Nelson’s idiotic coaching, Marcus. Hope to see more thorough analysis in the CCT.

But to say they “just didn’t have enough at the end” misses the point. With Nelson’s dumb, small-ball rotations they NEVER have enough at the end — because the young bigs are out and the small old guys are worn out.

Also, have you noticed that when they play small — they actually “play” big, offensively: the game slows to a crawl, it’s almost all boring iso and non-passing jump shooting. When the young bigs are in, the game speeds up, the team plays better — and even passes — and the game’s more fun to watch. (And when they play small defensively — well, they don’t play defense; it’s Goose all by himself.)

Finally, looks like Nelson taught BW a lesson last night for getting ticked off after he was pulled in the Heat loss (guaranteeing THAT loss). I won’t play the bastard, Nelson must have thought. That sure worked out for Nelson, didn’t it?

By: Squall

Squall — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:39:25 +0000

Marcus you hit the nail on the head! Warriors can’t play small until Monta comes back, his speed alone will give us at least 3 more fast breaks a game. Jackson and Maggette were made to trail the fast break as Crawford and Monta run ahead of everyone.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:33:01 +0000

You are correct Marcus. Without Monta for half a season they will win 25-30 games. LOTTERY!!!!

By: Raja

Raja — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:56:57 +0000

Do you relize you got no Brandan Wright in your rotation?

By: Rob W

Rob W — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:48:48 +0000

the w’s just don’t play defense for 48 minutes. they can play ok defense for about 10 minutes a night, but just can’t sustain it. they seemingly just cannot stop any team. i blame the guards for our lack of defense the most. each of them let the opposing guards blow right by them.

it’s disappointing because their offense is well above average in my view. the last 2 games were not the fault of the offense.

but, this proves that a lack of defense for extended stretches is suggestive of a 25 win season.