Warriors vs. Cavs @ Oakland, Jan. 20, 7:30PM FSN

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No Baron today.

 

Warriors are doomed today:
1. Monty still has the job.
2. Dun and Fyole are gona start and look like Z and Lebron will go over them.
3. Fisher will shoot 25 shots, and make 8 or so...
4. Pietrus will not get a lot of chance to guard Lebron, because Monty thinks that Dun is better.

 

What has gotten into the Warriors! Man they are so full of energy and Dunleavy has been awesome guarding Lebron.

 

What a block by foyle, it looks like thw Warriors are hitting in all cylinders.

 

It's strange how Murphy and Dunleavy can't well in the same game...

It's good to see the warriors playing well without Davis. The Cavs are struggling without Hughes.

I'm surprised by Lebron's 2-11. I'm thinking it's going to be a big second half for him.

 

Well, this is the best case scenario (after first half). All the W's are chipping in and doing a little extra in lieu of Baron. Dunleavy's been very impressive, but Murphy...man, he's just getting abused by Gordon.

 

OK. We know 3 things.

1. There are aliens.
2. Alien took old Dunleavy away and implant one of them at the beginning of the year.
3. Unfortunately, those aliens came back and returned old Dunelavy to Murphy's body...

What a job by Dunleavy, outplaying James in both end in first half. He has been aggressive, take less outside jumper and drive more. And, the result has been fantastic. In other hand, Murphy's offense disappeared and Gooden is absolutely raping our inside. We are up by 10 pts, and let's see if we can hold on...

 

Dunleavy was awesome in tonight's game. He was a triple threat all the way finishing in very nice ways and absolutely stroking the ball from all over. Very dynamic player that could create his own shot whenever he wanted to. And his defense was very good.

In defense of Murphy, he had a few nice plays and he got rebounds for us and scored within the flow. Defense is always his biggest flaw as evident by the opposing power forwards lighting him up.

I noticed the Warriors were really forced to move the ball around because we had no insane dribble penetrator like Baron Davis tonight. So we had to rely on everybody moving the ball around and moving off the ball. Guys like Jrich, Dunleavy, Fish did great jobs manning the point. The Warriors are starting to play like a team just the way the coaches want. How about Dunleavy, Fisher and Mickael Pietrus!!!!?? They were awesome. Pietrus had the most exciting plays.

 

Great win without Davis. Cavs basically self destructed in 2nd half, and Warriors didn't forget to take an advantage. Great game from Dunleavy, overplaying James, Richardson produced as usual, both Murphy and Fisher had good 2nd half, and Pietrus also added excellent defense to James and instant offense as well. Only bad thing was that we could have big garbage time, if offense clicked pefectly in 2nd quarter, but I guess we can't have all . Back to .500 with huge back to back Clippers games ahead...

 

freaky friday for the Warriors a total team win and the best game played by the Warriors so far. If nothing else the best hustle game by the Warriors this year. Can't wait for sunday's game against the Clips and Monday's game against the Clips.

 

Once again, Dunleavy looked awesome... I'm speechless. Kwan, you had me rolling with that 3 things comment.

 

Seriously, who could imagine Dunleavy outplaying James? Before that, who actually imagined that Dunleavy would actually guard James to begin with? His outside shooting still isn't there, but he learned to drive inside and that really changed this season for Dunleavy. I really hope that he can play like this all season. And, since he is career 35% 3 pts shooter, hopefully his outside shooting will eventually come back.

If I were a Cavs fan, I would be angry at the headcoach. Gooden ate Warriors inside alive in first half, and he hardly saw any action in 2nd half. Maybe that's one of the reason why Cavs self destructed at 2nd half...

 

Well, I was at this game tonight, and there were several elements I noticed:

1)The Warriors had a plan

2)Fisher thought long and hard about his approach to this game, probably from the moment BD got suspended

3)Dunleavy was the best player on the court at both ends

4)Cleveland was as flat as a pancake from the get-go

It was JRich's birthday tonight (at least we celebrated it at the Arena) and he came out with fire. I really give credit to him tonight, his numbers aren't huge but he played great at both ends, really a break-out game for him in terms of focus and energy.

Same is true for this whole team. It was a blast from the start, the defense was great, Dunleavy forced LeBron into some awful decisions (this had to be one of LB's worst games ever), Foyle stepped up with some huge blocks, and Pietrus was a spark-plug.

Eric Snow cannot shoot. He had several wide-open free throw type jumpers and they were ugly.

Damon Jones shot a few threes from 6-7 feet beyond the arc, in practice, and barely caught backboard. So that's why he's been slumping so bad, I thought to myself. He just doesn't know how to practice. The Cav's warm-up session was worse than a high school team -- Drew Gooden standing under the hoop bricking opposite-handed (left side of the hoop, right hand shot) lay-ups and dribbling juke-moves around the ball boy like he's AI. No wonder Cleveland came out so flat tonight, they really looked like they weren't prepared, or just didn't prepare.

One big thing that stood out, though, was that the Cavs had probably 25 fingertips on loose balls around their own basket -- primarily because defenders kept coming over to help on LeBron -- but time and time again Gooden, big Z and even Donyell Marshall were playing volley ball on the offensive glass, and it was evident that even with Biedrins and Foyle the Warriors need a legit 7-footer to contend the paint -- if they want to contend for the playoffs, that is.

Wow, all I can say is that overall this was a fantastic game to go to and the new Warriors put on one of the best defensive efforts I've ever seen. Keep it up GS!

 

Oh, P.S. -- the Warriors can't shoot free throws

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting hipokrat_x(LV):</div><div class="quote_post">Warriors are doomed today:
1. Monty still has the job.
2. Dun and Fyole are gona start and look like Z and Lebron will go over them.
3. Fisher will shoot 25 shots, and make 8 or so...
4. Pietrus will not get a lot of chance to guard Lebron, because Monty thinks that Dun is better.</div>

well....Monty still has the job,that part came true

 

Mike Dunleavy > LeBron James, easily.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Run BJM:</div><div class="quote_post">Its the next Magic-Bird rivalry.</div>



Anyway, what an encouraging win without Baron. I've said it before, there is no reason why they can't play like that against every team in the league. It boils down to hustle. I think Pietrus has been a big catalyst in reviving the Warriors execution.