I know it's only been a game and a half but I love what we're seeing from Biedrins. Hopefully he continues to get big minutes. If it weren't for foul trouble against NO he could have been in the 35-37 minute range. What do you guys think his season numbers could end up looking like. If he keeps getting the ball, I'm thinking he could finally end up becoming that 15 point, 10 rebound guy we've needed for years.
Biedrins will be a star in the league. Maybe not talked about like Bynum, Jefferson, Kaman, etc, but he will be a goodass player in this league.
yeah Biedrins looked decent with the ball in his hands but got beat pretty bad a few times but Bargs and Bosh. but yeah, the kid looks like he's going to be a stud.
I watched the last 2 minutes and then the first 2 of the OT, very bad turnovers from the Warriors during those 4 minutes, especially from Maggette. Bad loss.
Wow, it's going to be a long season. So many positives for the first 3 quarters and then it just all fell apart. They completely went away from the thing that was working so well (Biedrins) and went into well-defended turnaround jumpers on no ball movement mode. Just could not score down the stretch. Another bad game for Jackson and Maggette was f-ing horrible tonight, especially late in the 4th quarter. Nice game for Harrington but that only brings him to 39% shooting for the season and he's still a terrible defender. Wright saw a little time and didn't exactly look bad, but he was kind of invisible for much of the time, not assertive enough. Turiaf was pretty good and played some tough interior defense, Azubuike looked good again. The Warriors actually outrebounded Toronto by 10, that is very impressive, but while our rebounding is up, so are are turnovers and we're forcing a lot fewer (of course not having Baron and Monta hurts us a lot there on steals). The perimeter defense is atrocious, teams are popping open jumpers at will. And while Biedrins has been spectacular for the most part, his freethrowing is killing the team. He seems to have reverted, shooting 38% from the line in the two games. I'm frustrated. That's two games in a row we if not should have won, certainly could have won, and didn't.
Yup, HiRez you summed it up pretty well. Very frustrating loss. Maggette looked really bad in that 4th quarter chucking up those fadeaway jumpers. Let's give Toronto D some credit though. They really closed up those lanes for Maggette to drive into. I wish there was more motion from the weak side. Too much iso as Jim Barnett pointed out. I guess at this point in the season we have to take the good with the bad and build on it.
Gotta love Turiaf and Biedrins inside. They were the stars tonight, both offensively and defensively. But, without a true ball-handler, this team will usually end up looking awful in crunch time. I've heard people say "don't panic." Well I'm not panicking at all, I'm just calling it like it is. Jax and Az can "fake" it during the course of the game, but when the 4th quarter rolls around, and the pressure goes up and the defense locks down, it's going to be turnover-city and 1-and-dones. They did manage to fake it quite well for 3.5 quarters, but did you see the overtime? My word, that was ugly. It looked like 5 centers trying to figure out how to dribble without looking down at their own shoes. Oh, and btw, have they not been teaching the bounce pass in Oakland? I've never seen so many sketchy entry passes in one game. They're all overhand lobs into players who end up leaving their feet (and losing position) trying to catch the pass. One of the first things they teach you in point-guard-101 is that 90% of entry passes should be bounce passes -- with occasional fake-high-pass-low and fake-low-pass-highs mixed in. I swear Toronto must have tipped and/or altered about 40% of the Warriors' entry passes tonight. Funny, though, because probably the best bounce-passer on the team is already in the post -- Turiaf. Check the tape -- he should teach the rest of the team a clinic on how to pass correctly in the post. But, this is just another aspect of why this team will never have a shot at a .500 season without a PG. The gimicks may help Nellie stay in games, but he won't win many that way. Oh, and btw their ball-movement is atrocious right now. It's worse than when Baron was here. There are a few flashes of team play watered down by a heavy dose of "stand around and watch one guy." This is something that time can help correct, as the team develops chemistry. However, no amount of time will ever solve the PG dilemma for crunch time situations. They will always fumble away games in crunch time until they have a legit PG at the helm (see every other team in the league).
