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Corrections (Warriors 101, Blazers 93)
The Warriors are a dramatically better basketball team when Monta Ellis doesn’t dominate the ball and when Ellis’ teammates make themselves available to receive it. Both things happened Wednesday night against a lifeless Portland team playing its third game in three nights. There were some scary moments along the way and the Warriors shouldn’t plan [...]
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January 26, 2012
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Exposed (Warriors 90, Grizzlies 91)
Author James M. Barrie once observed that “life is a long lesson in humility.” It’s hard to imagine a more blunt or direct lesson than the one the Memphis Grizzlies delivered the Warriors in Monday’s epic collapse. Behind all of the team’s crowing about “the best backcourt in the business” and “all-star caliber” players, underneath [...]
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January 24, 2012
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Denial and Silence
The Warriors are 5-10. If they don’t start winning a bunch of games in a hurry, odds on a playoff appearance will go from long to impossible. In the midst of these struggles, their playoff-guaranteeing coach is denying there’s any need for concern and their playoff-guaranteeing owner has gone silent. For Warriors fans, it’s a [...]
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January 23, 2012
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The “No Excuses” Team Finds a New Excuse (Warriors 91, Pacers 94)
The Warriors are nearly a quarter of the way through this lockout-shortened season. It’s time for Mark Jackson and company to come up with an end-of-the-game play that doesn’t reduce the game of basketball — a game typically played with five men on each side — to a not-so-epic battle of Monta Ellis vs. the [...]
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January 21, 2012
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Not Enough (Warriors 100, Nets 107)
The Warriors’ young season is a work in progress, but Wednesday night’s loss to the Nets was simply an unfinished work. After playing an offensively sharp (albeit defensively weak) game for three-and-a-half quarters, the team once again collapsed in the final minutes. Amid signs of progress, the team is still troubled by lingering and unresolved [...]
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January 19, 2012
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Post-Ellis (Warriors 105, Cavs 95)
The Warriors 105-95 road victory over an upstart Cleveland team was a nice continuation of an adjustment that began in the win against Detroit. The Warriors won this game without Monta Ellis making a meaningful offensive contribution — let alone dominating the ball. They didn’t stand around waiting for Ellis to produce and Ellis, to [...]
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January 18, 2012
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Together (Warriors 99, Pistons 91)
The Warriors left Detroit Sunday with their first road win, and just maybe a hint on how to grab a few more. What started out as a typical Warriors performance — poor, passive defense; forced, selfish offense — was an entirely different ball game in the second half. But unlike past games where Monta Ellis, [...]
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January 16, 2012
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You Didn’t Miss Anything (Warriors 100, Bobcats 112)
Hopefully Bay Area sports fans spent their afternoon watching the San Francisco 49ers’ tremendous playoff victory. The Warriors’ 100-112 loss to the Bobcats was nearly the absolute inverse of the Niners’ performance. Almost no defense, little toughness in the face of adversity and not a lot of faith in teammates to pull out a victory. [...]
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January 14, 2012
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Warriors / Magic Open Thread
The Warriors just got a lot smaller with the bad news that Kwame Brown is out for the next three months. Although the Brown signing had been widely ridiculed at the time (myself included), he worked hard during his short tenure with the Warriors and gave the team some steady low-post defense it had sorely [...]
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January 12, 2012
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The Aggressors (Warriors 111, Heat 106)
Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that “the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” There was nothing pretty about the Warriors stunning 111-106 come-from-behind victory over the Heat Tuesday night. There were major components — like the horribly stagnant third quarter and Monta [...]
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January 11, 2012
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The End of Optimism (Warriors 87, Jazz 88)
Different game, same result. The only variables that changed in the Warriors’ 87-88 loss to the Jazz actually make the loss seem worse–at home, against a beatable opponent, the team still fell to pieces when it mattered most. With weak defense, sloppy offense and no hint of team play in crunch time, this was a [...]
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January 08, 2012
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Down and Out in the Staples Center (Warriors 90, Lakers 97)
Good teams — particularly ones with two full-fledged superstars and a third in the making — have a margin of error. They can go to sleep for a quarter or two, make a variety of mistakes, allow momentum swings here or there and still walk away with a win. Less talented teams — particularly ones [...]
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January 07, 2012
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As Expected (Warriors 95, Spurs 101)
Warriors fans have every right to be frustrated following Wednesday night’s 95-101 loss to the Spurs. Stephen Curry has re-injured his ankle for the second time after being rushed back into service in time for the nationally-televised season opener. The Monta-or-bust offense that plagued the team last year has not changed, largely because management did [...]
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January 05, 2012
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Self-Defeating (Warriors 91, Suns 102)
There are bound to be growing pains as the Warriors integrate new bodies and strategies early in the season. But the troubling aspect of Monday’s 91-102 loss to the Suns wasn’t the Warriors struggling with the new, it was their reversion to the old. Out-rebounded, out-hustled and out-smarted, the team listlessly stuck around for the [...]
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January 02, 2012
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New, Finally (Warriors 92, Knicks 78)
I didn’t recognize the Warriors team that decisively dismantled the Knicks Wednesday night. After all these years of mediocre, deeply-flawed basketball, that’s the highest compliment I can pay them. We’re currently witnessing a team growing by leaps and bounds quarter to quarter. I expected there to be a learning curve with a collection of new [...]
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December 29, 2011
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Positive Reinforcement (Warriors 99, Bulls 91)
The Warriors 99-91 victory over the Chicago Bulls was a big win. Period, full stop. Whether it was a “false-dawn” big win or “start-of-something” big win will be determined over the next days and weeks. But for a coaching staff looking to teach a team the importance of defense — in all of its sweaty, [...]
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December 27, 2011
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First Impressions (Warriors 86, Clippers 105)
The NBA is a superstar’s league. Until the Warriors land one, there are still going to be a lot of nights like Sunday’s 86-105 loss to the Clippers. You can change the coaching staff, upgrade the bench and see marginal improvement from good (not great) players — all positive developments — but when the intensity [...]
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December 26, 2011
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The Warriors Should Improve, Even If Their Record Doesn’t
The Warriors’ fate this season, like always, comes down to a series of “ifs.” If the team can build upon the aggressive defense and selfless offense their new coaching staff debuted this preseason, if Stephen Curry’s ankles hold up for an entire season, and if Monta Ellis can maintain focus amidst a legal storm, the [...]
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December 23, 2011
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The Great Equalizer (Warriors 91, Kings 95)
In their last exhibition game the Warriors violated the first rule of preseason basketball: make it out of preseason basketball in one piece. The collective groan from Warriors fans when Stephen Curry once again rolled his ankle was loud enough to be heard in Sacramento. But on a night plagued by injuries, lawsuits and some [...]
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December 21, 2011
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What Good Teams Do (Warriors 107, Kings 96)
There are certain things all good teams do: they move the ball; they patiently work for high-percentage looks; they maintain defensive spacing; they fight through screens; they close out on shooters. We don’t know yet how good the 2011-12 Warriors will be, but the team on the floor Saturday night in Oakland came closer to [...]
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December 18, 2011
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Your 2011-12 Golden State Warriors
Can you have a different team with largely the same players? That’ll be the first — and biggest — question hanging over the 2011-12 Warriors as they kick off their pre-season on Saturday at the Oracle. This team has plenty in common with the 2010-11 model that missed the playoffs by 10 games, but Mark [...]
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December 15, 2011
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The Kwame Brown Signing: Ambition & Failure
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “ambition is the last refuge of failure.” The Warriors’ abbreviated off-season kicked off with plenty of ambition, but there’s no masking that its likely conclusion — the signing of Kwame Brown — is a failure. Brown undoubtedly will help the team at the margin. But in the big picture, he’s [...]
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December 14, 2011
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Chris Cohan, Joe Lacob, What’s Changed and What’s the Same
We’ll know by Wednesday at the latest — when the Clippers’ 72-hour matching period is up — whether the Warriors’ free agency period has been a fruitful one, or just busy. Even if it ends up being the latter, there are some clear differences between this ownership group and Chris Cohan. Lacob and Co. have [...]
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December 12, 2011
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“Basketball Reasons”
Where to start? On February 1, 1984, David Stern became commissioner of the NBA. A few months later, Michael Jordan entered the league. Stern’s brilliance for promotion and spectacle was paired with the perfect vehicle for his agenda. Players became brands and owners watched the crowds, TV cameras and cash flood into a previously struggling [...]
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December 09, 2011
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Chris Paul and Risks Worth Taking
Chris Paul is the best pure point guard in the NBA. Period. Full stop. All other debate on any potential CP3 trade needs to start and end with that fact. It’s been ages since the Warriors had the best of anything (they can’t even be the best at losing when it would serve them). If [...]
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December 07, 2011
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