Warriors (7-15) @ Rockets (10-12) Warriors Projected Starting Lineup: PG: Speedy Claxton SG: Jason Richardson SF: Mike Dunleavy PF: Troy Murphy C: Cliff Robinson Warriors Keys To Winning: Have a game similar to the one in Dallas. Speedy and Murph need to have big nights. Go to the hoop and get fouled. Also run the ball and let Speedy go to the hoop. Hold T-Mac to less then 15 points and don?t have a 2nd half collapse. Also don?t let Houston win in the last 5 minutes. That always starts a bad streak for the Warriors. Warriors Key Bench Players: Mickael Pietrus and Calbert Cheany. Cheany?s silky smooth jump shot and D should provide the Warriors some good things needed from the bench. Pietrus? defense could stop Tracy McGrady and hopefully Mickael can score a lot and get some decent playing time. Projected Starting Lineup PG: Bobby Sura SG: Tracy McGrady SF: Jim Jackson PF: Juwan Howard C: Yao Ming Keys To Winning: Feed the ball down low to Yao and let McGrady play how he needs to. Also stop Troy Murphy who can easily get a double - double. Also let Sura have revenge against his former team. Key Bench Player(s): Dickembe Mutumbo should come up big in this game knowing the Warriors don?t have much post power and are weak from the outside forcing them to drive to the hoop. Player Of The Game: Speedy Claxton 17 points, 12 assists, 5 steals. Prediction: Warriors win. 102 to 97.
I like your faith in the Warriors Air, I don't think you have ever predicted a loss. Even though the Rockets aren't the team we all thought they would be at this point in the season, they should beat the Warriors.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rudeezy:</div><div class="quote_post">I like your faith in the Warriors Air, I don't think you have ever predicted a loss. Even though the Rockets aren't the team we all thought they would be at this point in the season, they should beat the Warriors.</div> I have predicted a loss before, but I edited it.
NO LOSS PREDICTION!!! 3 people predicted the loss in Hornets game, and I am sure that prediction has a lot to do with our loss
If Pietrus drives more and doesn't shoot from the perimeter all the time, I think he can pose some problems. His shot selection is crazier than Ricky Davis. I don't know what Jrich will do, he's been looking like he can't take anyone off the dribble (not quick enough), and Murphy has to find another way to score. They also need a new matchup on Speedy. Sura is actually shooting the ball well tonight and there's nobody to stop them... And to think we could have gotten a 6'4 pg in Pepe Sanchezfor defensive purposes... but we waived him. This is why we need at least one pg that can guard those combo guards because if Speedy eventually goes down, we are f'n screwed. It will be like last year but worse.
I always cop out in my own predictions, I never say an absolute win or loss, though you can usually get my "feeling" from it. If I outright say it, I feel like I'm doing the Warriors a disservice. I usually do have a personal feeling about it, though. I think it's slightly more than ankle, or a bit higher, to be a "bruised lower leg injury"? As far as Pepe Sanchez, I think the biggest problem was that he was a defensive liability, even at that size. Not quick enough, I guess.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting wtwalker77:</div><div class="quote_post">I missed the beginning of the game, why's Dunleavy out?</div> Did he not start or did he get hurt in the game? BTW bad loss for the Warriors.
