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Memphis rookie Marc Gasol, in his fourth career game, had 27 points and 16 rebounds in the...

belli nellie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:15:33 -0000

Memphis rookie Marc Gasol, in his fourth career game, had 27 points and 16 rebounds in the Grizzlies' victory over the Warriors on Monday night. Gasol is the first NBA player with a 25/15 (points/rebounds) game within the first five games of his career since Shaquille O'Neal did that in November 1992.
-Elias Sports bureau
Welcome to the league, Warriors style! I wonder if Sha´'s game was against the Warriors too...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-081104

Warriors commanding high prices...

belli nellie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:47:12 -0000

Warriors commanding high prices...

according to a CNBC article. The Warriors boast the highest percent change in average ticket prices, up 25.3 percent!!!, and the most expensive hot dog, coming in at 5.75. I wonder how the beer ranks.

Not only does Rowell know how get money back from players, it appears he is pretty good at getting it back from the fans. Hey, at least the upped prices allowed us to keep J-Rich and Baron........

I will post my poorly researched non-substantive comments here, thanks mods

Monta punishment announced (30 games, 3mil)

belli nellie — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:46:28 -0000

Check it out on realgm.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/54824/20081011/golden_state_suspends_monta_30_games/

Kawakami is going to talk about it too soon.

He is basically being suspended the extent of his injury time. Lets hope he didn't spend all of his rookie contract on pop rocks and skittles.

Seems pretty fair to me, but will there be a backlash? Is this an uber cheap move on Cohan's part?

It does pay for Turiaf this season.

********Kawakami originally said 4mil but then retracted. Maybe it is because the Warriors counted the preseason as part of the 30 games?

Random: Should the Warriors have drafted a PG?

belli nellie — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:41:48 -0000

I know it is early in the year, but seeing T-Hud (written before he was pronounced done for the year by the Don) and Belinelli struggle and Lasme get cut while Monta and Kaz thrive, I couldn't help but wonder: what if the Warriors had drafted a PG this year?

Looking back at the draft, only a few guys jump out where the Ws drafted.

I think BWright was a great pick, but what about Marco? Is he as NBA ready as we thought and will he fit in the Warriors rotation in the next few seasons like we had hoped?

Monta and Kaz have manned the starting SG spot very well so far this year and, imho, both deserve moderate long-term deals. With SJax and Barnes on the wing, Marco's minutes will be limited. Was he the right choice to replace Jason Richardson long term?

Or should the Warriors have given Crittendon a shot? From what I can tell, he has a ton of potential and is a big guard in the BD mold. I may get blasted for this suggestion, but would having a big pg with a lot of potential and talent (who if he had stayed another year might have jumped quite a bit in the draft) be a bad thing?

Baron needs a solid backup and we have yet to find him one. The Monta at PG experiment is on hold. THud is a joke and will be cut. Where does that leave Baron and his balky knees? Belinelli was supposed to take some ball handling duties, but he isn't getting any minutes. We are left with Jackson and Barnes handling the rock, and, while serviceable, is not ideal.

Furthermore, the Ws cut Lasme to pick up this Mbenga guy (or stone hands as I like to call him). There were some interesting guards taken after Lasme too: Ramon Sessions, JamesOn Curry, Taureen Green, etc.

I am just interested in what people have to say. Would the Warriors have been better off going with a point guard at either of these spots and avoiding the THud experiment? Or is this upcoming draft full of PGs to fill our needs?

Free Throw Woes...Or is it something else?

belli nellie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:12:50 -0000

First off, this is not intended to be an anti Ws, rant, just a look at what has been plaguing the Bay Area darlings so far this year. Also, I know you can't compare 5 games to all of last year, but looking at the numbers might show something: Somewhere between watching KAz, Monta, Baron and Biedrins brick multiple free throws and Brandon Bass going 4-4 I started to get jealous of other teams free throw shooting. It got me thinking as to how big of a problem the charity stripe is for a team made up of athletic scorers. I know this is not a new thing, but look at the numbers.

The Warriors are shooting 67%, good for 27th in the league, from the line while their opponents are shooting 79%, low and behold 26th. That is about a 4-5 point differential if both teams go to the line 30 times. Then throw in a team like the Mavs who shoot high 80s and that becomes a 7-8 point gap on supposed gimme shots.

The Dallas game highlights this deficiency:
Dallas 26-30
Ws 16-30

Result, loss by 5

What really gets me is that we are a fast, running line-up built for speed and open looks. What look is more open than the free throw? I know Biedrins brings the whole team down with his shot-put(which looked surprisingly good at moments vs. the Cavs), but the way that the Ws are shooting free throws is inexcusable:

Baron: 32-46, 69.6%
Monta: 21-32, 65.6%
KAZ: 19-25, 76%
Biedrins: 7-12, 58.3%
Al: 9-14, 64.3%

KAZ leads the team at 76% and missed most of those free throws against the Mavs, so I guess he deserves a bit of a pass.

I put these guys out there because they are our current go to guys. In clutch situations it is most likely going to be one of these guys with the rock and it is about 50-50 as to whether they will be shooting the j or streaking the lane for points in the paint. There is a pretty good chance they will end up at the line with free throws vital to keep the game close.

The guys that stick out to me are Baron, Monta and Biedrins.

Baron is actually a point above his career average, so I guess we get what we paid for. His scoring is effected more by his 3pt 19% avg. than anything. I just don't get how a top tier point shoots less than 70% from the line.

Monta has regressed from 73% last year, and the way he attacks the basket, he absolutely has to hit his free throws. Devin Harris plays a similar style, but he went 8-8 last night (Although his career FT numbers are only slightly better than Monta's)

Finally, Biedrins, the human shot-put. He is actually up 12% from his career average, but the way the Warriors use him attacking the basket, he is bound to be on the line late in the game. Or is his lack of free-throw shooting a reason the Warriors fail to go inside and instead opt for threes in the waning moments?

This leads one to ask, have we always been this bad?

Last year the Ws shot 71.7% from the line and I don't see how we can't get back there especially with JAX in the lineup. 05-06 was at 71.8% and 72.2% in 04-05. So needless to say, GSW recent past is marred by bad shooting from the line.

Our opponents free throws are up about 4%, but there is not much we can do about that.

These stats don't really tell us how much our opponents are getting to the line or vice versa. Info. on that would be helpful in this analysis.

So what has changed from last year?

In our major categories:
We are shooting 46.3% from the floor as a team, not bad, but our opponents have upped their FG% from 46.2% to a whopping 50.6%. That is an astounding percentage for us to be giving up.

Despite Baron's woes from behind the arc, we have actually improved our three point percentage from last year and our opponents percentage is down from last year despite that ridiculous night from the Jazz.

We are even rebounding better so far and keeping opponent rebounds down. We are getting fouled slightly more, which makes me think we are getting to the line more.

Steal, block, assist and turnover ratios are all about the same as last year.

Our scoring is up a point, but opponent scoring is up 11 points.

The moral of the story?

Obviously, lack of solid, go-to free-throw shooters kills us in the clutch. However, it is kind of expected at this point.

However, the poor team defense that is allowing our opponents to shoot >50% from the field has to take a lot of the blame. Are these teams just simply that good? Maybe, we have faced a tough slate, but we need to step up the intensity on the defensive end.

Perhaps Jackson will chip in in the areas where it appears we need it most: defense and free throws.

Question: What does the gameday roster look like?

belli nellie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:19:07 -0000

Now that most of the roster wheeling and dealing is done (assuming Pietrus is back), the final depth chart as others have posted should look like:

Baron/Hudson/Monta
Monta/Belinelli/Azu
SJax/Pietrus/Azu
Harrington/Barnes/Wright/Lasme/Croshere
Biedrins/Perovic/POB/Croshere/Lasme

or some combination of that.

My question is, who do we see on the bench on gameday?

A team can carry 13 active players on the bench? Right? Or is it 12 active and 3 inactive?

That leaves 2 to 3 players that won't be on the bench. I may be premature in my speculation as it may become obvious in training camp who gets in Nellie's doghouse, but I don't see our first rounders going straight to the D-League. That leaves three that have a shot of going down to Bakersfield imo: Lasme, Perovic, POB.

POB could come out and wow us in camp, but I really don't see it. Lasme is probably a victim of being on a fairly deep team and will spend a year in the D-League. With the money we paid Perovic, I don't see him going to the D-League, but you never know with Nellie.

The wildcard would be if the Warriors swing another trade or decide to cut someone (my only guess is possibly Croshere?).

This means that there most likely won't be camp surprises like Barnes or (almost) Wagner.

What do you all think? Is this a pointless post? Is it good for team Chemistry that we will have a solid core going into camp?

Poll

Who goes to the D-League?

Belinelli

1 votes

Perovic

14 votes

The Wizard of AZ

0 votes

Lasme

15 votes

POB

107 votes

Wright

3 votes

140 votes | Poll has closed