<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> <font size="4">WARRIORS NOTEBOOK Spurs normally provide model for defensive success</font> Janny Hu, San Francisco Chronicle <font size="1">Monday, April 11, 2005</font> <font size="2">The Warriors proved Friday they could play offense like Phoenix. </font> <font size="2">Up next: Playing defense like San Antonio usually does. </font> <font size="2">Coach Mike Montgomery says he would like to see the Warriors, who were giving up 100.3 points a game before Sunday's high-scoring affair, develop two or three "shutdown defenders." </font> <font size="2">Baron Davis and Jason Richardson have the athletic ability, but Mickael Pietrus is perhaps the team's best on-ball defender. </font> <font size="2">Spurs guard Tony Parker compares Pietrus with teammate Bruce Bowen, whose name is being thrown around for Defensive Player of the Year honors.</font> More </div> This is exactly why I'm not sold on certain players, especially the guys who aren't athletic and don't know help defense. Double whammy right there. Individually good defenders I like because you can teach them to play team defense and then you have everything tight like the Pistons or the Spurs. When the scoring ain't hot, you can at least control the tempo on the defensive end. I'm sure Kwan and everyone else who has seen how suspect our defense is at times can agree. We'll basically be like the Kings on some nights where we can score, but we can't make stops or maintain leads because one or two team defenders are just lagging and then it causes the other guy to get pulled off his man all the time to come help.
