<div class="quote_poster">custodianrules2 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">But the good news is we were close. Getting killed by 13 points isn't too shabby. I was expecting a 30 point blowout.</div> On a back to back from home to the road no less...
And if Barnes didn't come in and burn our own house down with his bad, overconfident shooting, it might have been even closer. I think Andris was underused in the game, he played well straight up on Duncan in the Warriors win earlier this year.
Barnes is like Pietrus pretty much. Those guys give lots of effort and are effective some nights, but boy do they force things or simply aren't very natural basketball minds. Athletic, strong, long players dominate, but not if they got shitzu dog for brains. Body won't make the right decisions and reactions if they ain't quick thinkers. It's like an internet connection that is lossy, but somewhat fast when it's actually stable. I'd rather take the slower, laggy, more steady connection that doesn't lose packets of data. Like Battier, Brandon Roy, Andre Miller, or Luol Deng type prospects. I think Barnes and Pietrus are those guys whereas Biedrins already has outgrown lame decision-making. Don't get me wrong basketball is hard to react to because the game moves so fast relative to the opposing players out on the floor. And in nba time that is dang fast. We thought Murphy, Diogu, or Dunleavy was slow they could probably beat a few normal sized people down the court and manage to stay with most on quickness. The time during 2003 and 2004 when Pietrus was bringing the Warriors back from behind was amazing though. Point per minute production with at the buzzer buckets. Even guarded point guards too. Now... I think maybe he won't become better with us. Now if Barnes gives us some strong points as a hustle, cheapy player, maybe that ain't bad. But... perhaps somebody more Bruce Bowen like that is so underrated, he wasn't even drafted.
