<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After all the talk of being misused in his previous four seasons, Mike Dunleavy found himself right back where he started this week. In his fifth game of his fifth year, Dunleavy was again the Warriors' starting small forward, which might not have been such a big deal except for his roving past. He's already started at point guard and both forward spots this season. He's started games on the bench and finished them there. He's logged anywhere from 13 minutes in a game to 32. Still, the search goes on. "We're just trying to figure everything out," Dunleavy said after Tuesday's loss to the Hornets. "We've had some guys come back and it's totally different than preseason, so we're trying to stir everything in. "I understand what's going on," he added. "We just got to find something that works." A similar lineup shuffle occurred last year under former coach Mike Montgomery, but this wasn't what Dunleavy or new coach Don Nelson expected after a successful preseason that began with Dunleavy's appointment as a team captain. While Nelson envisioned him as a point forward to push the pace and initiate the offense, the Warriors' first three games were characterized by broken plays and shoddy interior defense. Small ball with Dunleavy at power forward and Troy Murphy at center was essentially abandoned after one game, and Nelson cited Dunleavy's lack of rebounding -- he has 15 through five games -- as one of the main reasons. With Murphy and Jason Richardson still below par after missing most of camp with injuries, Dunleavy's effectiveness has swung from average to minimal. Though he's off to a better start in shooting than last year, especially from three-point range (4-for-9), his minutes, rebounds and assists are down. </div> Source Let's put an ad on Craigslist for Duns. WANTED: In search of role
LOL. Either that or sell his contract on ebay. Lots of people overbid on stupid stuff all the time. BTW did that Dunleavy authentic jersey turn up online? I would have kept it and scratched the name off the back or sewed something over it.
lol..i wouldn't pay a penny for dun's skills. I think he just needs a new start. Hopefully Nelson will do so and we can resign pietrus or something. But i wouldn't pay Peitrus that much too because look at Diaw. 5 years 45 million..and he's not doing so well
<div class="quote_poster">michiganave17 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">just give Duns some POMPOMS </div> Screw that, give him some TAMPONS.
<div class="quote_poster">AnimeFANatic Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Screw that, give him some TAMPONS.</div> ouch thats kind of harsh. but funny/true. LOL!!!
<div class="quote_poster">AnimeFANatic Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Screw that, give him some TAMPONS.</div> Beat me to it.
I am relunctant to make too many judgements or comments on Dunleavy's quotes from this article since I don't know what questions he was answering. But what is he saying? Maybe he is talking about the team in general, so that is why he is saying "we" all the time. Or is he talking about something else unrelated to the title "Dunleavy Remains In Search of a Spot" of the article, so then I should blame the writer? I want Dunleavy to be active. I do not like his passiveness. I don't like his nonreaction to not finding a spot on the team. He has to adjust and fight to deserve the spot on this team. He can't just be sitting back and saying OK, tell me what position to play and I'll do the bare minimum to not look too terrible on the court. He has to be like Mickael Pietrus and Baron Davis who are competitors and who go out there not to lose but to win. Surely, maybe if he was like Baron Davis all the time, that won't work. But being that way none of the time is just not cutting it, or even 3 minutes in one out of three games. The worst thing of course is the extention...
I just got the new Duns -- pink velvet with neon lights. They came with a signed photo of Dun, having just broken the backboard on a two-handed jam, standing over a fallen Ben Wallace, staring down at him and flexing both arms as the shards of glass fall like the teardrops of his beleaguered fans.
I agree with Clif's perspective on Dun, but still... I'm feeling mighty angry about Dun lately. Watching him play has me thinking either nothing will happen or bad things are going to happen when he's on the court. There are some good things that happen when he's on the floor, but not enough to notice. And I do like intangibles, I just don't see much from him that another player could emulate. This is probably the emotion speaking right now and I don't have individual matchups or what variables might have caused a string of bad plays. One play could be... Dun moves over to help, Murphy doesn't cover, guys blows right by into a layup or a dish off pass to a big man waiting under the hoop, we try to run it right back by inbounding quickly, pushing the ball up, nothing materializes, so we settle for halfcourt, guys pound the ball or cycle around the perimeter, and we hoist up a 3 because the paint is clogged, which we miss the three, in turn leads to a long defensive rebound for the other team and guys push it out ahead and beat our guards or our bigs in transition. And we keep settling for more threes because we have no post up guys or finishers that can at least emulate Stromile Swift, Chris Wilcox, or somebody. We got Biedrins...
BTW maybe the article should have been re-titled "Dunleavy Remains In Search of a jump shot" For a pure shooter out of college, he's been pure garbage for the last few seasons. Prior to '06 he shot well overall, but game-to-game he would get 3/4 field goals one game and 1/5 the next. Or maybe longer bouts where he'd shoot mediocre even though he was the most open player on the floor. Just awful mental game Dunleavy has. People say he needs to take more shots, but how good of a shooter is he? He can't even ace 85% at the line like a guy who supposedly has a shot touch, is supposed to do for our team. It's really embarassing of the Dirk and Peja comparrisons. Not only are those guys faster and probably stronger, they can shoot.
Yeah what's with that rubber band he's been wearing lately -- is that supposed to keep his hair back? Because it doesn't look like it does anything... other than make Dunleavy look even lamer, if that's at all possible. Seriously, he ain't fooling anybody trying to hide that bald spot -- he'd be better off just going Tom Tolbert style.
