Monthly Archives: December 2009

You’ve Been Served: Lakers 124 Warriors 118

Posted on December 30, 2009 by feltbot| 15 Comments

An incredible, gutsy, inspiring effort from the newly reassembled Warriors kept them in this game right until the end. Only a heroic performance from Kobe Bryant allowed the Lakers to prevail.

Are the Warriors a mess? Is Don Nelson washed up?

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Pre-Game Jitters: Lakers

Posted on December 29, 2009 by feltbot| 1 Comment

The Warriors are +11.5 road dogs to the Lakers tonight. This is a sucker line, and I wouldn’t look at it twice unless I seriously believed the Warriors had a chance to win. Which I don’t. If the Warriors lose competitiveness in this game, it could easily turn into a blowout.

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Tagged anthony randolph, Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors, Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry, Vladimir Radmanovich

Big Again: Warriors 103 Celtics 99

Posted on December 29, 2009 by feltbot| 8 Comments

Back to back games with a real NBA center available. Back to back games in which the Warriors looked like a real team. Back to back great wins against two of the best teams in the league.

Coincidence? Virtually every Bay Area sportswriter and blogger, not to mention every NBA writer on the planet, has been telling you that the Warriors are a mess, and that the problem lies with Don Nelson. He’s washed up, he can’t communicate with today’s player, the league has caught up with him, he’s destroying this franchise.

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Tagged Andris Biedrins, Anthony Morrow, anthony randolph, CJ Watson, corey maggette, Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors, Monta Ellis, Rony Turiaf, Stephen Curry, Vladimir Radmanovich

Pre-Game Jitters: Celtics

Posted on December 28, 2009 by feltbot| 1 Comment

The Warriors are +5.5 home dogs to the Celtics tonight, in the return of Andris Biedrins to the Warriors lineup (it’s really happening, right?). This line seems curious to me. The Celtics are one of the best road teams in the NBA, it is true. They had won 9 road games in a row, and 13 of 14, until they lost last night to the Clippers (on a BDiddy last-second dagger. Oh, the memories…!). On the other hand, consider this: The Celtics are without Paul Pierce. They are an old team, and they are playing a back-to-back on the road. It is the third game of their road trip. Their starters played heavy minutes last night in a close game.

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Tagged Andris Biedrins, Anthony Morrow, anthony randolph, corey maggette, Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors, Monta Ellis, Rony Turiaf, Stephen Curry

Crazy Nellie: The End of the Hornets Game

Posted on December 27, 2009 by feltbot| 5 Comments

“A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” – Euripides

In the recent Warriors game against the New Orleans Hornets, the Hornets had the ball and were up by 2 with 0:36 left in the game, when they called timeout. This was the key possession of the game. If the Hornets could run the clock down and make a shot, the game was over. The Warriors needed to get a stop.

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Tagged anthony randolph, Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry

Big and Beautiful: Warriors 132 Phoenix 127

Posted on December 27, 2009 by feltbot| 2 Comments

My recap of this game was posted on Golden State of Mind. Post your comments here or there, I will be checking both.

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Pre-Game Jitters: Suns

Posted on December 26, 2009 by feltbot| Leave a comment

I suffered my jitters over on Golden State of Mind this morning. Look for my post-game recap there as well.

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Just Short: Hornets 108 Warriors 102

Posted on December 23, 2009 by feltbot| 13 Comments

This much was made clear by this game: The Golden State Warriors have passed by the New Orleans Hornets in talent. They are the better team. All that is needed now is for the Warriors to get their team back.

In this game, the short-handed Warriors were playing on the road on a back-to-back. They played a 7 man rotation, while the Hornets got contributions from 11 players. They played their power forward at center, their small forward at power forward, and a back-up point guard at small forward. And they gave the Hornets everything they could handle. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that the depleted and undersized Warriors couldn’t keep the Hornets off the boards, they may well have won this game going away.

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Tagged Andris Biedrins, Anthony Morrow, anthony randolph, CJ Watson, corey maggette, Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors, Monta Ellis, Rony Turiaf, Stephen Curry, Vladimir Radmanovich

Pre-Game Jitters: Hornets

Posted on December 23, 2009 by feltbot| 2 Comments

The Warriors are +10 road dogs against the New Orleans Hornets tonight. Hmm. I know the Warriors are short-handed, recognize that they’re on a road back-to-back, but that strikes me as a lot of points. I like them against this spread, on this day. Continue reading →

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Big Man Blues: Grizzlies 121 Warriors 108

Posted on December 22, 2009 by feltbot| 5 Comments

Let’s just call this one B minus two. B as in Beans. The Warriors are counting down the games until their starting center returns to action, and they never missed him more than they did on this night. Because with Biedrins in the middle for this game, the Warriors might very well have come away with the win. Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph steamrolled the Warriors front line for a combined 55 points and 27 rebounds, and came within one of fouling out both of the Warriors “centers,” Chris Hunter and Anthony Randolph.

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