Kawakami: The ball is in Monta's hands

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>HE HAD A PLAN. Baron Davis was only barely in that plan. And once Davis took himself out of that plan, Chris Mullin was quite ready to move on to all the other things he wanted to do with the Warriors.

    After Baron — that enormously talented, stubborn, charming, frustrating and often energy-sapping superstar.

    After Baron, this is unquestionably Monta Ellis' team, which is a lot to put on a young player who has never played point guard full time. But that's the plan. It was two months ago, two weeks ago and it definitely is now.

    "I'm pretty comfortable with him handling the ball whenever," Mullin said this week of Ellis, breaking 12 days of Warriors front-office silence after Davis' decision to opt-out and then leave for the Clippers.

    "I'm pretty comfortable with (Ellis) dictating a lot with the ball in his hands."</div>
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