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Game Thread #10: Orlando Magic @ Golden State Warriors - Kwame Out, Beastin' Time For Dwight Howard?

Originally posted Jan 12, 2:50pm

Golden State Warriors (3-6) vs Orlando Magic (7-3)

TV: TNT / Radio: KNBR 680

Blog Buddy: Orlando Pinstriped Post

With Kwame Brown out for 3 months with a dislocated shoulder, Andris Biedrins (gulp) gets the assignment on Dwight Howard, according to Rusty Simmons.

On Monday, I had the chance to attend Warriors practice and ask Coach Mark Jackson point-blank about Biedrins. See here's the thing. Let's say you're the 5th option, to the point where teammates are screaming your name whenever you grab an offensive rebound (read: they don't trust your offensive abilities so they -- without considering the pyschological ramifications -- try to avoid having you proceed further with the ball in your hands). I've been both the 5th and 1st options on my rec league teams throughout the years, depending. When you're the 5th option like this, it can be like there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

Star-divide

So I asked Coach Mark how to get out of that situation. He protected his player and claimed that Beans isn't the 5th option, although Coach did say Monta was #1 and D.Lee #2. So I think tonight will be a great opportunity for Biedrins to have green lights left and right. Even if he bricks, let's hope he takes those opportunities. He needs to find that light at the end of the tunnel.

There are other interesting matchups for tonight...

If Charles Jenkins gets the start again at pg, we'll have an interesting matchup of Monta Ellis vs Jason Richardson at the 2-guard. I'm sure the Oracle will give him a round of applause during intros.

There's also Hedo Turkoglu vs Dorell Wright, who bounced back against his former team the Miami Heat on Tuesday night (players getting back at their former teams has been known to happen), and former Cal player Ryan Anderson, who can shoot from outside, against David Lee at the power forward spot. Ekpe Udoh would be your backup center.

I'm also looking forward to, at some point, Jameer Nelson vs Nate Robinson. Let's also see if Nate can put two awesome games together. That seemed to be the consensus on Twitter that, every now and then, he can be incredible. If I were on the Warriors staff, I would ask him this: What's preventing him from doing that every night?

But I think this is the one game where Dwight can rack up some stats. I'm sure he's probably thinking that, too.

I'll be at the game with a media credential again tonight. Hit me up on Twitter @poormanscommish if you want me to try and ask a player a question.
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How will Biedrins and Udoh stay out of foul trouble tonight?
cuz Tyler throws in 6?
Can David Lee use the same magical defense he used on Dwight in last year's win?

Cuz that would be great. If this turns into a shootout like last year though, the Warriors are screwed

Help!

Don’t go to a lot of games, but going tonight. (yippee!)

What places nearby are available for a quick bite. Will be meeting some folks an hour or more before the game.

thanks…

Options are not good near Oracle (if ou only have an hour)
My recs in order:
-in-n-out, just across the freeway on hegenberger. Over the overpass, first right into the shopping center, back left behind wal mart. (It’s also a good spot to park and consolidate cars)
-average sushi (on hegenberger heading towards airport, past the walnmart megaplex…just stay on hegenberger, on left across from the big bank). Cheap beer, acceptable sushi.
-in the walmart megaplex, there’s other fast food options. Wing stop is the only other I’d even remotely recommend, but there’s a little pizza, subway, panda express back by in-n-out
-

i would bring some food and a few beverages of your choice and tailgate in the parking lot.. bring a football to throw around or somethin
thanks!

thought so about the In n Out, probably what we’ll do.

Meeting up with my 21 and 16 yr olds, with my 21 yr old nephew. If we started tossing a ball around, we’d never stop…. totally takes us back to all the weekend games when they were younger.

And I love it, of course…. ;-)

Biedrins and Lee have both matched up vs. Howard

McGuire will likely get minutes at the 4. Jackson from necessity giving Udoh extended minutes could be a bigger positive than a healthy Brown — sometimes things go that way.

the team can usually cling to near-term mediocrity pretty well, it’s building for the seasons that follow that fails, leaving them short term remedies like signing Brown or trading for M.Williams. they’re more unpredictable now, and we should welcome it instead of fearing it.

Glad you are getting the media creds, PMC

Wish I coulda heard the conversation with Jackson. But my input is that somebodys got to be that #5 option on offense, they just have to contribute in other ways. Seems to me that Biedrens is good at the two most effective things those #5 guys are able to contribute: hustle and rebounding.

So yeah, almost every team has a dude like that on offense.

Heck, we even have some guys who are like #5 on defense. “please don’t get burned going for a stupid steal” or “oh GOD why would you foul him there?!?!”

Also, I love JRich, glad he still gets such a great reception at oracle

why was beans even out the last game? he does seem a tad improved this yr.

i like how we are bringing klay along and now jenkins i hope they do the same with tyler .
Giving these rooks minutes will play alot into thier psyche and reassure them that they belong. Time , stats, and upside, will then say who truely belongs

30+

I need it to win this week in fantasy basketball

More than just a game

I hope Monta and Lee go OFF so dwight can say “damn..i wanna bring my talents to they yay area”

+1

Last night he said Portland has the best fans in the NBA… Oh its on

Last year vs Orlando was the best game I have ever been to by far . It was insane, I was at the game vs LAL that we won as well and it didn’t compare

Last night he said Portland has the best fans in the NBA… Oh its on

I’ve always felt like they pump sound into their arena lol

Ya

They are loud but something feels unnatural about it

heard that in Air Canada Centre they put extra Amps and subwoofers in their sound system

and purposely plays songs with heavy bass to pump up the decibel metre on the court

Logged In the Cup Half Full Department
If they do that

then I would worry about Dwight’s defense.

Howard get 11 Rebounds

Just so he does not piss off the team that gets him at the trade dead line.

anyone here have a ps3 and play battlefield?
I have a PS3

but I do not play Battlefield lol

MW3?
no

I have Medal of Honor tho lol

I realize its probably the worst of the 3, but it was also the cheapest and I don’t really enjoy playing shooting games unless its against friends.

I got PS3

got 2k12, MW3 and BF3

Yeah, but it gets frustrating when reacons and u get killed out of nowhere. Trucks +C4 = so fun though

anyone remember currys player id for ps3? he posted it on twitter once
i think his gametag is Warriors304real. but i'm about the xbox- forza 4
Oh great... Injury bug strikes AGAIN!

“Dorell Wright will not play because of a knee contusion. He’s day-to-day.”, from Rusty Simmon’s twitter account. https://twitter.com/#!/Rusty_SFChron

what the...

more injuries? is this 4 straight seasons?

it would be right after his first bounce back ga,me

_

next, Lee’s flu is going to act back up and actually be pneumonia or something

dam

thats why he doesnt drive in much or run the fast breaks much anymore, had a feeling.

Wow we just love getting injured
wowowowowowow.

like this is bullshit. we cant get a breather for just once. I really hope we beat the Magic now just to prove Dwight we can win even with guys out. Lets hope Monta lights up the Magic and show Dwight what he can do. If we win tonight…im a believer.

(regarding dorells injury and all injuries)
Monta

After a horrible shooting game against the Heat he should shoot near 50% FG tonight, 30 Pt. game again maybe. Nate dunks over dwight, Rush leads team with block shots, D Lee with double double and a nice assist.

LGW..still!

Make me proud boys!

Man, these Knicks look horrendous
they're really not that good
theyre probably a 5 or 6 seed in the east
aka 10th seed in the west
If there is anyway to convince Dwight to stay with us long term...

We need to destroy the Magic at least by 25 points.

Greg Monroe

32 Pts 16 Reb
Tonight
just saying

and leonard is starting
Still waiting for Udoh

breakout season

Thanks a lot, Larry Riley
Ya it's def disappointing we could've had him over Udoh

But he’s on my fantasy team!!! So I’m happy about this :D

Awww...the game is taking forever to end
letdown game incoming

there’s no way we get up for the magic after the huge win over the heat

of course we can!
of course we can!

are you posting in the right thread this time?

michael redd sighting
We don't defend the 3 point line..

And have no one who can defend Dwight… We’re gonna get eaten alive since all Orlando do is make threes and go inside to Dwight.

No one to defend the 3 pt line?

So what’s Rush and McGuire?

Dwight on the other hand….

he;s gonna foul out
gotta go.

make me proud boys!

dont hear any sound.. stupid tnt
it's your cable provider

no sound problems here

No sound via International LP either :(

It’s freaking 4:30 AM local here, so some sound would be nice! (didn’t stay awake for ‘nothing’)

Thanks. didn’t realize it was on TV

Brandon Rush over DWright?

hmm why bench Dorell when he had a big game last game

left knee contusion
dorell injured and not playing tonight
dorell off the bench?
Dorell Wright benched

hmm…

no out with knee
i hear he's injured, evanz
Dorell injured and late scratch
To beat DWight, swarm him
nice ball movement to an open Jenkins
Good ball movement early.

Everyone’s injured. Let’s just hope Jackson doesn’t play Monta 40+ minutes so he gets injured, too.

GET OUT DWIGHT LOL
Biedrins blocks Howard!

beans!

gonna go off for 5 tonight
his offense is meaningless
He's the best shot we got at slowing down Dwight
and by best you mean only
blocks

did you think i meant points…lol

Rush for 3!

7-0 start!

BRANDON RUSHHHHHHHHH

3

Hope that's a good sign for Rush!
Monta nice thievery and finish
MONTAAAAAAAAAAAAA ELLIS

steal/fast break

Nice awareness from Monta - low risk steal.
Magic take a timeout!

9-0 start! Keep it going!

looked like almost a travel

My stream has no volume :(((

Ahhh

Good thing Biedrins is back

warriors need to play well today to convince dwight they don suck lol
lol

crowd needs to be loud too

We want Howard

chant

imagine how good this team could be with a healthy curry
i know

when we get going we are good but we have trouble with that being consistent

magic played last night

keep running and gunning!!!

lets keep them at 0!
I guess that should be enough to win..
they are still riding high from the miami game

and this is w/o biedrins or dw

oops meant kwame
O.T. but how many Centers get voted in the All Star Game

2 per team right?

you mean conference?
supposed to be 2, but for backups theyre allowed to choose the listed PF's that play center as well
Jenkins has a jumper , a steal and 2 dimes

a good player

Magic is gonna get shut out tonight. 109-0
Biedrins agility helping to disrupt Howard
lee going up like a man
Man...

We really slow it down on offense now

Kwame injury

bizarre

Monta shot pop out
Lee's playing high right now, around the perimeter
Jenkins early shot?

mm wtf

Aw Jenkins.....

Nellie ball moment

Charles getting

his swagger

who shot that airball :>)
Ugh, I was not feeling that Jenkins transition two

and whatdayaknow, airball

good double on Howard
Biedrins drawing another soft foul
hack howard all day
We gonna run outta bigmen
Dho is kinda slow going up?

we don’t want him I guess

Well, it's a back-to-back for Orlando.
There you go Jenkins
Jenkins got midrange stroke
I sense the Magic is more focused after that timeout
Monta jumper hasn't really been that good this season
its been pretty terrible really

not sure why

Ugh, saw that pick and roll to a monster dunk coming
I get this sense that this "ball to Lee, back to the basket on the wing" is the offense they worked on in practice this week.
Maybe since training camp
Nate getting superstar chants
Hope we get to see, Jenkins again

4 assist in 10mins last game and 3 in 6 mins so far this one. Seems like he might have some worth.

Nelson look small

but Robinson look smaller

Liking these TNT guys so far
Wait till halftime
Hence the

“so far” lol

all i hear is BS

anytime Kerr speaks

Same announcers in 2K12
Yeah I know

Prolly another reason I like em, they already feel familiar lol

Lee nice cut to the rim
Oooof, Magic cut as soon as they saw the double team to Howard
such bad d by lee lol
Lee midrange 2, swish

that’s the Lee we need

DLee is damn good tonight

so far

More good ball movement.
Monta nice swipe

force Turk to TO

Monta nice swipe attempt to disrupt Hedo
i want to see hack a howard today
I thought Beans gonna do

the dream shake

Well Beans play more than 20 minutes tonight?

What’s the o/u? lol

over

unless we see Tyler on Howard

and Biedrins is done scoring for the night lol
psh beans is a beast

hes going for 18/14 today

brandon bass has an ugly jumper
sorry, that must be davis
yea...

i was about to say, Bass has a very nice jumper for a big man

brain fart

forgot about that movement during the offseason

David Wade

drawing those fouls

D Lee

Point guard handling

That stupid jump and pass thing Monta......

ugh

Rose-esque

not in a good way

awww

Lee with a GREAT move, just missed the shot after the foul

good ball movement today
Crowd was impressed by the between the legs dribble from Lee

And so was I..lol

David Rondo with the handles
Udoh got OWNED

by Dwight

Udoh demolished by Howard lol
Ooof, Udoh got supermaned
D Wright is injured?
yes, i think it's a knee contusion

after a big night got injured

Warriors fate

Howard is schooling Udoh

gotta change that matchup

cant

unless you plan on playing beans the whole game

Just put Tyler on him

And tell him to foul hard everytime Howard gets the ball lol

Pff gonna be fouled out in 6 minutes.
Let Tyler and Chris Wright share Hack-a-Howard duties lol

now that’s entertainment

yeah, i know

if not the matchup, then definitely change the defensive help. Bring someone in earlier to disrupt Howard

only one left

Tyler

And that's why Udoh is better suited for PF
i've never understood the facination of trying to play him at c
It only works in 2K12
defense

most people in the nba cant do that

also just the hope he can be our future center
People see how he's more defensive than offensive

And just assume he’s a C.

He’s a great defensive PF, but just not big enough to bang with the good Centers in the league.

Well, there are only a handful of centers you can't expect him to handle.

But then again, almost nobody can handle Dwight.

he has no girth
thanks Steve Kerr
please dont call me that :S
coach

is talking to Tyler…

Udoh drawing whistles
lol Baby living up to his name! That was a ridiculous hissy fit

how was that not a t? we’ve seen t’s called for quite a bit less than that

he deserve that one
nice contest Udoh
good foul, he will miss 2
At least we got a foul stopping that alleyoop
great stop by Tyler
Cmon Klay

you are on TNT

yea klay you need to convince orlando that you dont suck!
eww I didn't like that ball movement by Lee, pass took too long
love how steve brings up we believe

and names just about everyone but J-rich

Greg Monroe

i want to kill Riley.

Aww, that would have woken the crowd up
Nice awareness from Monta on that pass, even though the shot didn't fall.
nice Ball movement

of Magic

theres a bad monta shot
OK, what the heck was that quick 3, Monta?
never mind, 2-for-1
2 for 1.

But he couldve gotten a better shot than that one

OTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for getting that RFA rule implemented(shakes head while looking at ceiling)

Ug. Bad Monta rears his head.
2 for 1
I'd still rather see the drive and kick.
Awful monta shot
oh right 2 for 1
I didn't even notice that Tyler is on the floor
he stopped the Howard oop
yeah, i knew SOMEBODY did
I thought that was Rush?
looked like Tyler to me

might be wrong

Jeremy Tyler getting questioned by the announcers
Monta drive and kick to Klay Allen

nice

Finally Klay

Orlando is sold

Deal done by halftime?
Wide open, you betta make that
Well

Klay has the catch and shoot down. Add even one dribble and he’s in trouble lol

hack a dwight!!!!!
Klay is good as long as he doesnt dribble
lol thats pretty damn smart

get the ball back with foul on Dwight

Guess Tyler and Chris Wright are getting their 12 fouls in tonight
early hack a Dwight
hack a dwight to get an extra closing possession

genius

tyler and dwight bonding lol
hahahaha

Plus what Steve Kerr and Kevin Harlan was saying about it too

DH12 HACKING FTW
Tyler just wanted an autograph
i thgouth you can't do that if he didn't have the ball
I think it's only in the last two minutes of each half that it doesn't get you posession.
only last 2 min of each half
Wright said

I Love you superman you are my hero

Monta is so awful
-_-

why dont we just trade him for Damp!?

Wrote that and hit post before that play happened.

Just anticipated it.

THAT STUPI9D JUMP AND SHOOT 2359H4P9B N094B1245B1512VRQFDF@$@
err jump and pass*
oh boy bad monta is in the house
Argh

a little slow executing that. Magic saw the pass to Lee coming

yea

pass SOONER

yeah, either sooner or SHARPER

so the foul rules only apply in the last 2 minutes of the 4th? or the 2nd half?

i think last 2 min of each half
that intentional foul rule does

if you are over the limit and want to send any player on the floor to the line you can foul him. in the last two minutes i think team that gets fouled either gets to choose who shoots it or whoever has the ball at the time of the foul shoots

monta turnover mis mis tunover this is why he will never be an all star
For all the people critizing Monta:

He’s played about 40 mpg in a shortened season

If he'd play better with fewer minutes, that's a problem with Jackson.
I wish Steph would come back

I think Nate gives this team a legit reason to sit Monta more

it was also a problem with Smart

and with Nelly

lol

or deph

when curry is back you could put nate in for monta instead of charles

So he cant be as bad as he darn well pleases!

he is a professional..

my cyo coach in 4th grade would bench anyone that would ever jump and pass….how is monta not fundamentally sound enough to not do it?

its sorta new for him to do it this much

i cant figure out what brought it about. problem the same thing inhibiting from shooting the jumper well

I think he's trying particularly harder this season to get others involved

And since its his natural inclination to take the shot he catches himself jumping in a shooting motion then trying to find a look in the air

twitter

Y! Sources: Rasheed Wallace considering comeback to the NBA.

Howard looks bored
whats with all this san francisco?!
hahaha

Yeah, so if they move to SF, will they show the Oakland skyline?

people think we already play there outside cali so ya
Everytime

I see Greg Monroe’s stats I die a little inside. Udoh will never get 32 PTS 20+ RBS. He could of been ours!!

If we drafed him...

he would end up like Jeff Fuller.

Thats Warrior Luck

Damn you're right.
Monta 2-5

But a steal and 3 assists

van gundy lmfao
hahahaha

Stan Van Gundy, love his bluntness there

Stan Van Gundy

serious face

LOL Stan Van Gundy
wowwwwwwwwwwww

bad foul

Nate, back the bench you go for fouling a 3 pt shooter
second that

JENKINS!

Wow fouling a three point shooter

don’t do that Nate

Udoh needs to move closer to give Monta a chance for that inside dish
Yeah. He was not prepared for the pass.

Of course, Monta wasn’t either, and didn’t even look for him until he was coming down.

You guys are making me hate Udoh with all this Monroe talk
dont hate Udoh, hate Riley

20 year old left hander who is mobile and skilled enough to play PF and C

or

23 year old lanky PF who is as raw as an 18 year old on offense but has solid defensive repertoire

monta not even finishing layups tonight...

ugh

i think that was forced

i think he expected Udoh to be closer to the hoop, and he wasn’t

You’re giving Monta the benefit of the doubt that he was looking to pass?

yes, i've seen him do that inside pass before
sure looked like he was looking for Udoh
could be that most likely

cause that shot was WAAAAAAAY off

I saw it differently.

Looked to me like he was thinking shot until the last second.

Hard to tell without looking at a replay, though.

+1

As is the Monta way

he shud have layed it up on the strong side

at worst big baby fouls him lol

he tried to go weak side where udoh wasn’t really in position and forced a weak layup

im not mad at the play, but he needs to just take that

Nate strong drive to the hoop
nate want to score

let nate score

monta should run off screens and post up right now

Orlando wont stop him at the rim w/o dwight and their guards cant guard him

Chili cheese me

Man

All I’ve eaten today is cookies, soooo hungry

JRich has 0 so far
Cavs

beating Suns on the road

yea kyrie scores a lot
he own

the great Steve Nash

Magic just played Portland yesterday

Warriors have a day’s rest. They can win this.

The Warriors have shown they can beat any team

Just not consistently

i think any nba team can beat any other team, just not consistently
Keepin my fingers crossed
Arrrgh

Udoh nice goaltend

Was that goaltending?

Was it even higher than the rim yet?

yeah, i think it was

just barely a goaltend

No it was a block on replay
looked like a goaltend to me
wtf is this

i hate our half court offense

Good help defense to stop that roll to the hoop
Monta drive and kick to Rush in the corner!
Brandon Rush is so good in the corner
I think that can be his sweet spot on the offense

the corner 3. That’ll stretch the defense.

JRich getting hot
If I were Orlando, I'd run screens to get Monta and then have JRich post him up.

He abused Monta in that situation with Pheonix last year.

Thank god for Nate

we always got a whistle

Superstar calls. :)
slamdunk champ
god klay still sucks
Monta burned right through ORL defense
He's really really good when the defense isn't set.
when dwight is out you can do that easy
wow LAZY orlando transition defense
No just J Rich
no entire orl defense

all sat there and watch monta slash to the rim

Old man JRich can't keep up with Monta
Nice lay in by monta

Announcer calling for tank?

Good box out Biedrins + Lee on Howard
I want to see Nate

Dunk over Howard

Naaaaaaaaaate Robinson
I'm at the game but could someone tell me where

Dorrell is?

in a suit on the bench

Out with a knee contusion.

Warrior's injury curse hit him
we are not

playing against Miami

don't let up, blow them out
nate has been excellent
comeback player of the year
Nate the great
glad to see rush get his chance. he is playing great.
I forgot who I heard say this on the radio about our bench

But he said that you could tell our bench is garbage cause Nate can come in after sitting a month and immediatly become our teams best bench player

Well

Best offensive player definitely, since Klay is bricks right now.

Sounds like

Barkley.

Wow, Lee gets a nice off glass bounce
Hahahaha

Did you hear the “hell no” from the crowd"?

nice try superman
Nice post up by Lee.
lol someone yelled HELL NO

on Dwights air jumper

I think that was Dwight lol
LOL

he yelled at himself? hilarious

lol, that would be some but normally a player dissin his own shot

would say “Sh——-” or “F——”

I think it was Nate or Monta saying that

lol

when howard took that you could hear someone yell “hell no!”

hahahaahahahah

Someone in the crowd yelled out HELL NO as Howard shot that

What is Howard doing

he wants the Warrior organization to be turn off

maybe hes trying to lower his trade value so he can come here lolll
Look at Nate monster jumping at Howard trying to slap the ball away
he wants to jump over dwight again
i'd love to see Nate jump over Dwight Howard

to grab a shot attempt out of the air. Now THAT would be the highlight of the season.

HE ALWAYS DOES THAT

I remember a game where he was hacking Dwight to death but the refs never called anything because he was so small lol

actually got a block on him

look at nate trying to block that
here that j rida

mecca for basketball through fan bsae, sleeping giant of a market… lololololol ;)

Announcers

We are a gold mine go ahead and tank.

Nothing like TNT.

so when the niners move to Santa Clara

they will still be playing in San Francisco??

Please read what you just posted
???

you are not watching or something apparently TNT is saying that the Warriors play in San Francisco they just showed Oracle with a San Francisco right on it.

Niners, A's

soon it will be the Raiders still in the actual bay and carrying one of the cities names

Huh?

Giants and Sharks ain’t going anywhere

forgot about those painful win or however Kuiper puts it Giants

but no San Jose is more valley and less bay. Like Sacramento. Its only a rumor now but i cant see the A’s passing up on a chance to go to San Jose if they can

It's on and poppin in the golden state
Nate falling into our laps is looking better and better
who was the one who picked him up?
1 year 1 million contract right?

If so its a bargain

He wants his

Maximum contract with bird rights

u must play for a team for 3 years before u get bird rights I think
hack howard all day
is it just me or does natl telecasts always talk about us alot compared to who were playing ?

i usually feel the opposite

Listening to Harlan and Kerr

Feels like I’m playing nba 2k12

the score feels like it
Minus Cark Kellogg
and Doris Burke

and Sprite Slam Cam

does he even broadcast in real life?
i know he does college, he doesnt do NBA
they never get to watch us

and they do when were winning

when were losing national games, we kinda get ignored

We gonna get Damon Bruce at half time?
Dom nice off glass
That Howard shoulder thrust should be an O
why are you such a beast Dwight Howard
shot that lee, wide open
Howard looks angry
Lee should just have taken the J there.
ya i said the same thing irl
Lee skilled

used his RIGHT hand on that fading to the right

Anderson's d is about as bad as Lee
cheap call

dont call that sh

lol

refs rearing their idiotic heads there

that's not a foul
He wasn't even looking forward.

Hard not to have the call go against you in that situation.

Hello Monta

take care of your dribbling

Thats pass to Dom should of never happened

Dude was alone on the fast break with defenders back and dude isn’t magic johnson

Whats up with

Ellis handle

monta looks tired worn out.!!!!!
lee hard foul

i wish he’d do that more often

Warriors needed to help Rush there as soon as he got into trouble
lmfao at monta calling for ball and nate just looking at him
Well

He was practically piggybacking the defender lol

not so lmfao

at monta’s body language after he didn’t get the ball :/

Curry should do that to him every now and then
Monta had a 2nd defender shading towards him

passing to him would have Monta instantly double teamed

something curry wouldnt do beacuse im sure the coaches make it feel like monta is number 1
You think that's still the case with Jackson?

I’m not so sure

I'd like to see some off the ball plays with Ellis

He can burn by these guys

This goes beyond Nellie

Hack a Dwight with the lead

on a 2nd quarter

out of this world

dont piss off Dwight
Howard looks really really bored.

No night clubs

What are you doing Lee? Taking it at Dwight?
That's twice he hasn't taken the jumper, and has gone in and missed badly.
second time far worse

Trying to take Howard off the dribble.

For reals?

Well

He was making everything until he last two shots

Cuz he was playing against Ryan Anderson

Could be wrong, but I don’t think he was making them by going one on one with Howard

He was making them against Ryan Anderson
lol

Yeah, that makes more sense

I guess that's why Lee's nickname was

DaWhite Howard

In Mexico with League Pass blacked out and no TNT.

How the Warriors looking? By the score it sounds good. I know though that the Magic could just be sucking worse…

Biedrins holding his ground on Howard
Well that is awesome
Good ball movement
That is also awesome

LGW!!!

tough board by lee there

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDON RUSH

monta pass

Nice Rush head fake
Rush nice patience with the pump fake, step aside, open 2
hes giving DWright more ideas

more pump fakes to come when he returns!

monta jump-pass works most of the time

but the times it doesn’t it just creates the worst looking turnovers ever

same with curry's passes

nice. random hateraide

Curry does turn it over too much

who would of thought you would agree w/ dubzfan…

go figure….

Wait so you think Curry’s turnovers are not an issue? Did you see his turnover rate?

this game seems so unsynchronized and jagged

like there has been no consistent tempo set at all

That's kinda been all the Warrior games this season, except for maybe the Bulls game
Too many stupid commercials on TNT!!!
how does dwight howard not have 20 and 20? every night??
Because he doesn't play the Warriors every night
so how does hedo look to you guys?

cause we may end up with him if we pull the trade

I think he looks okay, not worth his contract (amnesty cough cough) but still

Couldn't use amnesty on Hedo anyways
I really like him

I just hate his contract

stupid raptors

could you imagine with the way Paul Allen whined and moaned during the lockout had he signed Hedo that summer and still tried to hardline as much as he did?

damn it he make both
Klay with a nice sharp short pass to Lee

Lee finish that dunk!

AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW that was a great play
LOL Klay

BEAUTIFUL pass to Lee. Missed dunk. Then he grabs Dwight

That was a nice pass though from klay
yeah, he's shown some other skills in brief flashes

moar!

we are giving howard too much practice at the line
Hacking only works

If Dwight misses them

uh oh, we're only up 6

need a score

klay has 4 fouls lmao
are we sure this isnt Nellie-ball reincarnated?

that was one of Nellie signatures, letting guys rack up fouls and still play them

i dont think coach cares about klay fouling out

he wont be playing in the 4th anyways

umm no curry, no dorell

Monta cant play the entire second half, at least effectively

howards made 4 in a row

time to stop the hacking

DWight takes forever on this freethrows
Arrrrgh

That Nate 3 in and out. Monta nicely working out of the corner without forcing a shot

I'm waiting

For that we believe Barkley cutout from butter…

Lee nice soft hook
The Hook is becoming more consistent
lol Lee back to scoring again

On Anderson

Damn it

Bear hug him sooner Beans

why are you such a beast Dwight Howard
Arrgh

Biedrins, you need to hit the gym and get stronger and WRAP up Howard there!

are team is gona be fouled out
This whole Jenkins gets to play the first 5 mins of each half thing is

dumb.

Infuriating, don’t understand it

I like Nate but Jackson has to play them in shorter spurts

Well at least Nate in spurts.

Dwight won't come to Golden State

We pad his stats too much

uh oh, only down 3
Yeah. How did that happen. We were in control.
we're the warriors
i think we missed shots and they've hit them

it’s been a slow climb back for the Magic

because if dwight can shoot 55% fts every possession

he’s already above average efficiency

and we're literally fouling him every time down lol
Lee is abusing Ryan Anderson LOL
Lee's owning Anderson
why do guys foul like little girls?

i will always applaud the bad boy Pistons and Pat Riley for implementing that “no easy buckets” mindset in their teams

again

Dwight abuse us

Udoh just getting schooled everytime Dwight goes at him
everyone gona foul out
Howard is a beast

Everyone will foul out by the end of the game

Yeah, Udoh isn't stopping Howard any time soon
let me see Jeremy Tyler
Get destroyed by Dwight?
yes

better than Udoh getting destroyed by Howard

why
try something new

Udoh not working. Try Tyler

Udohn't!

make shots

That was a weird possession lol
lol

weird last 10 seconds there

howard has 7 more free throw attempts than the entire warrior team
yeah, hack a howard
Have everyone foul out
or have Ish Smith and Chris Wright foul out
not working when you cant score yourself
its because he gets superstar calls and the refs are all against the warriors!!

lol…

Wow ugly sequence
Somehow we got the ball?

I just missed the turnover

Fk it. Sign Ronny Turiaf
broken hand

and he under contract with the Wizards anyway

hes with washington right?
hes a wizard

and not what we need, hes not a big body

fresenko is a better option
ooookay

wuh happen?

twilight zone just happened
the no calls of no calls
But I thought the refs totally had it in for us!
24 second violation?

f it, play on!

Lee probably should have been called for a foul there
Got pretty lucky there

Looked like Dwight hit the rim with his hand, the ball didn’t

well

that’d be goaltending, so I’d say that’s a break for them if he hit the rim with his hand.

not if the ball was outside the cylinder
that ball

even though not going in, was probably right above the cylinder when he hit it

and, im pretty sure u cant hit the rim when a shot is in the air period.

it was close

Dwight hit the rim almost before the shot

Howard already pretty much has a 20-10 lol
40-20 incoming :S
Dwight already with 19-12
Dwight gets a lot of steals for a center

just ridiculous

he times his rips pretty well

before they put a shot up he will try and slap it out the hands on the pull up

how about we go get Hunter?

lol big body

Chris Hunter?

Didn’t he get cut from his d-league team for being injured?

lets see

klay 4
lee 1
udoh 2
biedrens 3
jenkins 2
rush 2
nate 2
mcguire 1
tyler 1
monta 0

monta being too lazy to hug dwight ;)
you know thats Dwight homey(one of 5 players Dwight said he would want to play with)

Monta said i wont hack you big homey

Man

We’re never gonna see this team fully healthy. With Kwame and Beans we’d have two guys who can at least hold their ground to Dwight under the hoop.

Closest we will see is the Bulls game
we had some really good big name deph before
we had everyone that game but ish was in instead of jenkins and nate wasnt here
Shaq never made FTs when it counted LOL

he sucked at shooting FTs

wasnt he like 14-14 fts in that fixed game 6 against sacramento?
"fixed"
i've never seen so many phantom calls in a single game all against one team before

and being a warriors fan, thats saying something

I personally think the Heat/Mavs was worse overall though

Refs won the NBA finals for the Heat

that was mostly bad calls at the end of the game

that lakers/kings game went on throughout the entire game

both were pretty bad though

and both potentially cost teams championships

It wasn't just at the end of games

I remember one game Wade has more FTs than the entire Mavs team combined. Refs kept bailing him out.

That's how you knew it was fixed LOL
yea

magic rim made shaq fts go in

13-17
for shaq, thats pretty much the same thing lol
9-9 against portland game 4 WCF
he's also had his share of awful games in the most important games

nothing out of the ordinary, just random variance

yeah 2 of his ten worst came in the 2000 finals

and i dont know why wade sent that tweet, i’m just scouring through shaq’s game logs and he had some atrocious free throw performances during Miami’s playoff runs

Shaq wants Dwight to avg

28-15

Well

With his current team, he kinda does if he wants a ring lol

expectations should be higher

40/20 at the minimum. if wilt can do 50/20 so can dwight :P

Dwight's offensive game has not developed yet

But it should have.

Yeah

Still not too much a post game

the national tv audience has no clue how bad our ball movement usually is lol
hahahaha
seriously Kenny talking about our ball movement

I was like ehhhhhhhh

Maybe Kenny is

Mark Jackson buddy

why is it good tonight?
its solid tonight, and kenny smith was pointing out how good it's been on his halftime report
it's pretty decent tonight

but there have been some ugly movementless nghts

lee has been successful

for the most part. when he knocks down shots and finishes strong, it makes things flow a lot better

Just for fun

who would you have shoot the last FTs of the game? Biedrins or Kwame?

beans

kwame’s in a suit ;)

haha

i meant in general

if Nellie is the coach Beans

if not Kwame

the answer is whoever is more likely to not airball, so we at least have a chance for a rebound

which is….? no clue

Biedrins

That kid’ll shape up yet!

wow i didnt realize tyler was born in 1991

i thought he was 22 for some reason lol

lol Davis’ hissy fit was in the highlights

halftimes are too long

i got food, tried to stop a fight, put away dishes, and cleaned up a mess…and its still not over

and OMG! there’s Butterknucles and his Charles Barkley We Believe printout!!!!! lol cool

where he sitting ? take a pic
idk i saw it bouncing around on my tv as i was typing
Yeah

Basketball halftimes are pretty long lol

Useful when you’re at the game though. Actually have time to hit the head.

Too bad Kwame is injured

Would have loved to see some beef on Howard

TWSS
why wud she say that?

is she a big warriors fan too? lol

Monta drive and kick to Rush

that’s working tonight

BRANDON RUSH

automatic from corner 3s

Beans gonna have to do his best

Defend Dwight without fouling out. /gulp

CLOSE OUT ON DEFENSE

DONT BE LAZY

See that Ryan Anderson guy?

He needs to be covered on the perimeter…

3qc

here we go

noo dont say that
Both sides clanking shots to start the 3rd

as i type that, Monta hits it

Monta does seem to be looking to pass more, and shooting off motion a lot.

But I feel like the passes are still a bit clumsy sometimes.

yea, but clumsy passing is better than no passing
results in some turnovers

but overall its still a plus

Lee either looks great or terrible tonight

no middle ground

why allowed Offensive rebound

by Anderson

cmon play good defense and rebound
stuck in the air again
Gross
not stuck in the air

He got tripped up and passed as he was falling out of bounds. Probably should of been a travel

Amazing how some still think he can play point.
on this team he can, on a team with an actual point guard? probably not
Only out of necessity.
nice defense on Howard
Uh oh, JRich hurt

sad to see

JRich is down

Warrior curse hitting former Warriors too

haha

this is getting worse. The Oracle is hunted

yeah, it's also haunted
/takes out hunting knife
lol
great now my comment looks dumb lol
ugh

May need Monta to go off a bit here

Maybe our court is cursed. Lots of guys get hurt here.
Even DWright on an off day!
yea that was a surprise.
uh oh

not J-Rich got bit by the Warriors flu

Only knee on knee
time for Larry Legend to step up
Is this an issue with our training staff?

I mean, how do we keep getting injured?

TBH Ellis not being injured is one of the more amazing stories of this team imo

Considering the amount of minutes he’s played the last 3 seasons and the amount of hits he’s taken

he got pretty beat up last year too

Sac game/Tor game iirc

I think about this every time he does one of those circus drives
Yep

He is an iron man

When they repaired his ankle

They replaced his skeleton with adamantium

lol monta is wolverine?

more like the flash lol or nightcrawler if you want to stick with x-men

take it back NOW!!!
3QC in full effect
We need a shot, or this game's over
Warriors can come back

Magic are tired, they will let up

Sure

But Warriors are undermanned too.

magic trying to set the pace

if warriors start going to heavy doubles its over

Yea, then comes the scrambling defense.
they are just going to have to let the bigs rack up fouls on dwight

and hope he keeps shooting at a 50% clip from the line

Could be. I thought I'd never have to say I miss Kwame Brown but...I miss Kwame Brown.
Lee is too strong
great hard foul by Lee
Come on guys, look good for Otis Smith!!!!
Otis Smith travel with the team

it means something is up

i think he travels to most big magic road games

plus he’s a trendsetter in Oakland. without him there would never be the Gilbert Arenas rule for restricted free agents

always a step ahead

True, I forgot about Smith's ties to GSW.
Was that a text from our own Riley Dickens?!?!
Lee good foul to stop that Howard dunk

but Jenkins should have rushed in to try to steal it from Howard

Howard got that dunk

Because we like to overplay the post entry. It’s really an all or nothing defense.

Jenkins was open forever

Lee had his back to him

Jenkins nice long 2

Magic defense tightening up

its so great that Dwight can't shoot FTs

can we go back to fouling him more? rather than giving up all these 3s…

kwame in a suit :(

jenkins jumper is smooth

JKEEEEEEEEEENKINS

da man

Man I wish jenk would get more playing time

Nice play

Monta used Biedrins as a 2nd screen, opened up the baseline pass to Jenkins

at least we know Jenkins can knock down the open jumper
Wish he'd be in the corner for a 3, but whatevs. He probably doesn't have the range down yet.
Jenkins nice close out
Omg, Lee, too strong on the cleanup
oh david lee

thats sooo u to miss that easy put back

That wasn't a travel on Jenkins?
he let go of the ball in midair

so i guess that’s not a travel

Well

Only way it wasn’t is if it got blocked

he had his dribble still

and i guess the refs let him jump and still dribble?

Does Lee know he can dunk?
its a love/hate thing for him?

cuz its great when he does it, then hell stop doing it. I dont get it

Lee's got to put that back in!
That's Biedrins #4

what will we do?

bend over and kiss our....
Jeremey Tyler needs to play some minutes on Howard

He has fouls to spare

And Jenkin's is gone till the next game
there goes charles prolly for the game sadly
Jenkins come out?

then we ride nate robinson for the rest of the game?

I know Jenkins is doing good
robinson's been good

but not good enough to play the rest of the game, which he will

BTW everyone. I saw Joe Lacob outside the St. Regis hotel in downtown SF earlier today. The same hotel the magic stayed last night. Plus I saw a group of people outside the hotel and remembered this game

Maybe he was trying to make a strong push for Dwight?

probably

i mean, why not?

That was a weak foul

did Otis just try and lick his boogers?
Monta drawing fouls

amazing

Udoh's gonna get worked by Howard now, great!
Getting worked is an understatement
Let's just hope it's not a poster.
monta may need to shoot more right now
Monta finding passes on his drives tonight

Lee midrange 2 that time

Talking numbers during the game is really distracting.

They shouldn’t do that anymore.

Please Dwight, don't break Udoh's confidence!
Lee is awesome!
Lee floating one over Howard!

sweet

Udoh can't hang with Dwight

let me see Tyler

Tyler's even smaller isn't he?
yikessss

on that david lee floater. amazing he got it in lol

Kerr wont stop saying we're out of centers
going to have to play Dwight like steve nash

let him get his and just keep everyone else ice cold

problem is dwight getting his involves a bunch of dunks and not nifty 15 foot floaters and open 3’s

+1

we cant let Lee or Udoh foul out

just guard everyone else and let dh get 35

Can the Warriors do the "let Dwight go off and shut down everyone" strategy?
Well....

They can try lol

it’s really our only hope if we want to win this game

Monta with a much needed 3

wow, didn’t think he’d hit that

swag like ellis
ellis ellis ellis monta ellis ellis
Jump shot ellis
monta ellis WOO
Monta quietly having a solid game with 14 and 8 assists
Udoh only has 2 fouls

we can afford more fouls from him

maybe im dumb but wheres dwright?
Hurt, I beleive

knee

Traded to the Knicks for Baron Davis

Joe Lacob screams at the camera “We Believe 2.0!!!”

Went home

with Dwane Wade

Orlando should just throw it in to Dwight every time

We can’t stop him

over/under 3.5 bigs for GSW fouling out
if this goes to ot....
Under

We don’t have 3.5 bigs.

Hey-o!

Monta haters: That wasn't too bad right?
It hasn't been the prettiest thing

But he’s had his PG hat on tonight

It was a bad shot

Contest three pointer

Monta going to play 40+ tonight

:\

And I hate that

We are killing Monta

i hate that jenkins has had solid starts

but then is riding pine for the rest of games

hey, we actually have a 2 pt lead?
Yeah

Magic are on a back to back, we can win this. The schedule has actually been favorable for us right now.

Haha, was that Dwight Howard telling Coach Jackson about running out of big men?
jackson

getting his recruitment on

dumb foul by Lee.
Nice passing and ball movement

Rush nice pump fake, step aside again, just couldn’t hit

wow dwight 9-23 from the line now

might need to get those end of bench guys in the 4th to hack him to keep this close

Thanks for fouling Monta, Big Baby
Glen Davis is on his own Orlando tank brigade. Dumb plays.
god i just watched my college basketball game and we lost, if we lose this one, ima be mad
Klay Hack'em Thompson about to check in
hack hack hack
LOL

Dwight is getting pissed

why foul so early?

at least use some clock

make DW shoot 40ft tonight
thats a total of 20 fouls
Geez

These next 2 minutes are gonna be fooooooooorever

I agree with Steve Kerr

This is not fun to watch

it has destroyed any possible flow for the game
to howard's credit

he’s made us pay for it

Wait

NOW Dwight makes the FTs?

Could use some Monta hotness
Look, Dwight loves our fans! He wants to resign!!
Aww, Monta heat check

nope

Dont like that
i did not either

that was an awww of disgust

Can that be marked a TO?
See? All those hacks made Howard miss that dunk!
He thought he'd be nice to the rim, and not slam it down.
monta heat check?

aight no more of that

BOOOO

big cry baby flopper

I hate offensive foul
I don't like that call, but it wasn't horrible.
cant argue that call...

but big baby’s a flopper

But flopping IS fun to watch Steve Kerr?
real man charges

unlike varajeo who flops every chance he gets

how stupid do you have to be to consistantly get those calls wrong? they’re NOT hard calls!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
this game is putting me to sleep
Why? it's close still.
stoppage every second

snooze fest

Call was agruable so :////
Dwight is making FTs now

WTF

He's got a rhythm now lol
I get it

GSW is trying to help Dwights season FT%

I don't approve of this, I'm playing a guy against a guy who has Dwight this week
well you should win ft%
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet

I wasn’t gonna read 830+ comments to find out

But it’s gotta mean something that otis smith the gm of Orlando is at the game….
He must be scouting beans… The injury was fake cuz they wanted to keep him healthy after the curry incident…

Probably seeing what other fillers he would like and Jenkins is looking wonderful….

Klay good catch and shoot
watch Klay get hot and then draw a charge and foul out
Traveling

Pretty close though

We should run that Klay-play whenever he's out there
Kerr saying Klay is a good looking rookie

Nuff said

Hey Kaly

You’re Not Lebron, they gonna call you for that travel.

Durell and Klay should never dribble
Klay after a good shot

travel take it easy rookie

so predictable
That Klay TO hurt
Howard is a beast

He’s eating our frontcourt alive

we need to somehow pull away here

we cant hack a dwight within 2 minutes so we must go on a run

Hmmmm

HACK A DWIGHT

GO FOR THE RECORD

Holy crap didn't realize he's at 28. W.T.F.
we still have the lead... :)

not bad. need to finish tho

Sigh, this game is just crawling along
Eh, that's what you get with Hack-a-Dwight
They'll never show us on National TV again!
J-Rich

said I got club to attend to, gonna see my hommies…. Im outta here!

we better win or the strat will look bad lol
I do think the intentional foul rule

might need to be extended to include the end of halves

Monta @ 33:56

with 12:00 to go. Will he get a break? Will we ever see Charles Jenkins again tonight?

He is already getting breaks.

Everytime they intentionally foul Howard.

NO

We will make him earn that contract.

that contract pretty good though

aint like its a david lee contract

He played with Monta :S

Stay tuned for the next quarter!

watch dh12 turn in billups this qtr from the line...
Now that was just dumb DLee

Don’t do that jump in the air and pass ish

I just don't see this ending well
Magic with 5 quick to start the 4th
Damn he's (DH12) is so nasty.
Dwight has a really nice hook
That Howard good is pretty good.

We should try to get a player like that. :)

See...

When he doesn’t take a dribble he’s money lol

Ok dont travel now Klay
You got your wish

catch and shoot klay

PASS AND CRASH LOL

F THAT RULE

You suck Klay
that was not his fault

and yet another horrible charge call. on the pass and the defender was moving. fantastic

+1
Please, these are the calls that get made in every NBA game.
and?

they’re all horrible

Just saying, we're not being unfairly officiated.
i didn't say it was unfair

i said it was a horrible call

maybe i'm confusing unfair and horrible to mean basically the same thing.
not in this case
Arrrgh, I think that's a bad call

Klay was moving towards the side on that charge

horrible call there
Does one good thing, gets cocky, screws up

er, was a bad call actually

perfect description of Klay Thompson
Did you watch the play or are you just listening?

It was a bad call

You posted this two minutes after me saying it was a bad call.

wow they're letting Udoh go 1v1 vs Dwight
After that, Udoh has 2 more fouls left in the game
Any word on who they will bring in to replace Kwame?
Dwight Howard might be suitable... maybe.
I want Dwight to make the record for FTs
i want him too via Udoh fouling him

because the defense is a mess with him guarding Dwight

Just screen for Klay
Arrrgh

We had Howard stopped, but they get the rebound back

Did Lee step out of Redicks way?

Annd Dwight’s making the FTs

How did we look dead in the water, we’ve been leading most the game

Dwight Howard beasted on us
Yeah Dwight is getting the FTs record

Just have Udoh and Beans foul out and this game will be complete

My wife just pointed out that Reddick looks like the singer from Maroon 5

Also, i think Nate Robinson looks like Mike Tyson (pre-face ink)

Interesting

Pau Gasol looks like a hobo I saw on the street the other day

I know people say Andrew Bynum looks like Tracy Morgan
someone predicted Dwight go 40-20

looking very likely

Trying to squeeze every minute they can with Beans on the bench

So he can guard Dwight in the closing minutes

he'll probably foul out the minute he re-enters
if all else fails, we can put in ish on howard

and foul him every trip.

or tyler
Is the spelling error in your sig on purpose?
where?
you spelled "you're" wrong

we still have 12 fouls in ish smith and chris wright

17 if you count Jeremy Tyler
Waaaaa! I want my Kwame
Udoh

should just stand there and let Howard get a charge.

i wanna know

exactly how howard was shooting during that last foul?

He's been shooting his last foul shots pretty well
A lot more arc on the shots
no i mean

how was it a shooting foul? he had his back to the basket and was just starting to turn when he was fouled

Maybe they're already in the bonus?

I lost track of how many fouls we’ve committed

Yeah we're fouling a lot
They not in the bonus yet?
Klay fire
Every time I say anything negative about Klay he makes a shot.
hot and cold rookie
Klay Allen

Monta patiently finding Klay

Uh-oh, he made a shot, here comes the TO

Mark Jackson: Yawn City

ellis just hurt his right wrist take him out now!!!!!!!!
larry hughes sighting
Whoo!

The FT record!

knew it, beans barely lasted a minute
thats what we call a travel
Man the whole coaching bench jumped up wanthing a travel on Howard
here comes the record tie for dwight
bye bye beans

gotta be smarter than that tho

lmao this game is killin me
Beans

earn his foul

dwight is 9/15 free throws the second half
He makes them when it counts

he’s made all of them i think when we intentionally fouled him

We're part of a record setting performance tonight
Did Klay seriously just leave Lee for one on one with HowarD?
We aren't doubling him at all
would you rather RA or Hedo take an open three?
yes i would

It’s a lower percentage shot then a Howard post on Lee iso

like that open 3 Redick just nailed?

the magic are built for dump and kick outs. doubling howard only plays into their plan

Hard to shoot moving away from the basket like that.
Good Klay

force Wafer

yeah marc you are killing the great oracle crowd

even we can see that on tv

Mark Jackson did a great job taking the crowd out of the game
Monta 3!

We’re back up!

Hack-a-Boone was more successful!
Are we going small cause we have no fouls to give from our bigs?
beans 6, udoh 5, lee 3, tyler 1
Swag Like Ellis

Monta Monta Monta

Bad defense

too easy for Hedo

oh timeout that crap

Hedo Turkoslow with a DURR DURR layup

Ugh, Magic 3 too easy
Lee is not scoring on Dwight
Raise your hamd if you saw that going in?

*raises hand

I was like please don't make it :(
Monta speeding to the rim!

He saw the lane and just took off

Ellis has played 36+ minutes

sigh. Playoff teams don’t play players 40+ minutes every game.

we dont have any other choice
We do have a choice

Don’t play Ellis, play Jenkins or something.

Jordan always played over 36 minutes and he was on a few playoff teams.
So Ellis is Jordan now?

And I’m talking about 40+ minutes. There is a big difference.

I was just saying that playoff teams do in fact sometimes play players over 40 minutes a night.
However I agree Ellis shouldn't play 40+ minutes per night

you see him drop off at the end of the year every year, need to keep him fresh.

so what does that tell you?
With Curry back, we won't see that
The point is

even if a player is injured, nobody should play 40+ minutes per game

if curry wasnt out, im sure he would be playing less.
we need to lock down on defense here
please god no ot lol im on the ec gota work in the mornin
TBS keeps showing shots of S.F.

no love for Oakland

tnt
oops

all those turner stations look alike

Monta speed

I know Reddick got speed but Monta is amazing

That's a good call.
this is nervewracking.

go MONTA

Hey, yahoo box score just took off a point from the Magic

we’re tied now, with Monta about to hit a go ahead FT

never mind

yahoo box score put that point back

im still getting 100-99

warriors down

yeah, it was 99-99 a moment ago
did Carles Barkley really lose weight?
yeah, it looks like it
He was REALLY fat before
yeah they paid him to lose it so he could endorse their system
i should be more excited

1 point game and all. but this game has been so freaking boring!

I think

it would be better off if we had Howard in foul trouble instead of us fouling him. This game should be over if that happen. Oh well, Lets Go Warriors!!!

I was just thinking the same thing

but it’s not as easy to make that happen

this guy will block everything

like Jordan..

I just have a bad feeling about this.

We’re crumbling defensively without adequate bigs.

So where did Monta's and- FT go?
wait did we soot a FT????
omg nelson
only thing he is good at

i feel without howard he would be terrible in P & R as well

Monta beautiful play with Lee
MONTA BEAUTIFUL PASS

DLEE!

WHAT A LOOK TO LEE
LMFAO made Dwight look like a fool
That is an UGLY Howard miss
wow, just like an onerous record should be earned

off the side of rim and backboard

Monta nasty fadeaway
are they going to leave JJ on Monta

unfair

Great team defense, but the Magic found a cutter
monta was watching ball

let his man cut right down the middle

Yeah that was awful
thats why you shouldnt double unless you know how to rotate
practice makes perfect

still learning this thing called deefence

Ellis is having a really nice game
Wow, Lee recovered from the foul and managed to toss the ball up and hit rim
Why are we posting up Lee on Dwight
because he only needs 4 more fouls to foul out

duh

Dwight has worn himself out by shooting so many FTs.
Monta just watching the double team on D
Dwight needs one more point
watching this game just reminds me of how much I would like Howard on the Warriors.
So would I

I wonder if Udoh will even come back into the game. Dwight has basically destroyed his confidence.

no....he doesnt...
We got a deflection and a turnover!
Finally they call that right!
not a charge?

shocking

only D Fischer is capable of such horrendous calls
we've already seen 3 this game
LOL F THAT JJREDICK FLOP
if we lose its not cause of dh12

its cause we couldnt guard there wings late in the game

bad rotations on double team

cant leave dwight 1v1. Double=Magic 3

pretty sure dwight had something to do with it
all monta all day
if we win this is crazy game
Monta with a quiet 30-10 going on
very quiet

didnt even notice he scored that much. This game is so boring

But both teams are over 100 = HIGH OCTANE OFFENSE
It's only quiet because Dwight has almost 40-20

but he is owning anyone who guardes him

Dwight probably wants to team up with Monta even more after tonight.

if we lose, its no shame, warriors played well and with heart
David Lee has played more minutes than Monta

so there’s that

KLAY ALLEN

DONT GIVE A FFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Monta to Klay Allen for 3!
we win if kwame was playing, lol

catch and shoot klay. let’s see what he does stupid next time

With Otis in the crowd

Klay is really raising his stock with his play tonight.

thats money all day over the shorter warrior bigs
Howard are you kidding me
Crowd is not very amused
That's a goal tend on Howard! Coming off the glass!
thats what i thought too
THANK YOU MONTA

Lee has 0 chance there

Crap that was on Lee not Monta
Lee has 5 fouls

Howard is killing everyone

Gotta take Lee off Howard.
We've got no one else
Or help him out
they will hit the open threes if they double

kerr just said to bring beans in. durr

steve: Beans been fouled out
Steve Kerr forgot Biedrins fouled out
Monta slicing right THROUGH the defense!
ELLIS ELLIS MONTA ELLIS

SWAG

If we can't get some stops ...
WTF LEE

sad way to go.

Where the fuck is Biedrins?
He also fouled out
Damn, I didn't see that. Thx.
Oh my god, Lee, HACK howard so he doesn't get the and-1!!!
Lee, no boxing out, and the weak foul. CLOWN
the absolute worst thing
lee gives up the o reb, fouls out, and allows the score...
If you decide to foul then you wrap his ass up

don’t let him shoot

Dammit!

I was going to thank Orlando for not going into Howard.

Now Udoh needs to come in and foul out
If this really is 2K12.........EVERYONE PRESS R2 AND L2 TO MAKE THEM MISS
i don't get it
makes it harder for fts

The newer 2K games have a home crowd “rumble” feature against visiting teams shooting free throws.

the screen shake when you do that
video games these days
i think in NBA 2k12

pressing R2/L2 shakes the screen

We need Nellie to come coach the rest of the game

all smalls

If you won't play Tyler now, send him to D-league.
agreed Tyler should of taken minutes this game he has fouls to spare
well its the end of a close game with a great team

why would he play regardless in this scenario?

He should get time right now
If Udoh comes in he will get his 6th in no time
Dwight could get 50 if this thing goes into overtime
pretty much

wait till howard gets it then foul and hope he misses

I'll say it again

Howard is a beast. A man among boys.

Anybody else wishing they signed Fesenko?
back injury
Ah. Forgot about that.

Any other 7-1 bodies with a pulse?

He would not have factored into this game

injured

Still wouldn't be playing
Speed sign Barnes to guard Howard

WE BELIEVE

Biedirns and Lee fouled out

Klay and Udoh with 5 fouls. let’s put Udoh out there and get him to foul out too

i think we need a quick open 3 here
The Warriors should consider trading for this Howard guy

He seems like a pretty good player

ill say

if we lose this game, its because of hacka-shack game plan…

I'm gonna go with Dwight. He won this game for Orlando. Haha.
i really want this to go to OT to see some wacky lineups
That's funny, I would rather the dubs win
That's game

no way we can come back now

if they score here it’s over

That's the nail in the coffin on that wafer 3
Mark Jackson sucks

he cant draw up plays for shit. THANKS FOR A BORING GAME COACH.

the game plan before ending 1st half sucks...
ive been hating the game plan all year

half court offense is awful and we don’t run out for easy points anymore

Yeah

Since that whole go out and run style with no defense has gotten us so far in the past. How many times in the last two decades have we been to the playoffs again.

Good to know you woud have won the game without Kwame, Curry & Wright
And we're done here.
That's what you get for hacking Dwight

now we have nobody

should have used tyler to hack dwight
c'mon marc you cant test them this late in the game
they will hit the open threes if they double
The realist keepin it real amongst the surrealists
I was in Baghdad before these little B.G.’s was in they daddy-bags.
by starbury_to_s-jaxci2000 on Jan 12, 2012 10:17 PM PST up reply actions
If Kwame hadn't been hurt ...
the 1 game in his nba career where kwame brown would have made a difference...
another blown opportunity for a win

we fought hard…but just not enough to win

Damn......At least we should applaud Coach for not doing Monta Iso
Send in Udoh

Let’s have three players foul out in the same game

i didn’t like that last possession. looked like we were trying to force a 3 unnecessarily

GO NINERS!!!

I can’t wait until Saturday, first ever playoff game!!

I can't wait either!

Kinda scared though… but also excited! I wonder if this is how Niners fans felt in the 80s?

pretty sure after they handled Dallas the first two go rounds

they had nothing to worry bout much of the 80’s of course the giants and bears had some historic teams break through and the skins took advantage of strike years

They've actually been in quite a few playoff games

Super Bowls, even

I meant the first playoff game I am actually attending
I know...just bustin' your balls
Like what Dwight did to the Warriors?
lol i sayed up for this shit

where is curry ughh

back next week....maybe
It's alright

We can go down in history to be the team that Dwight Howard attempted 39+ FT’s

Yet another dubious distinction for this franchise.
What the hell just happened
....aaaaand now the aisles will be filling up.
cant even get the ball in bounds
And of course, we turn the ball over coming out of the timeout
Awww, JRich sprained knee
Damn we really suck

Lee and Biedrins are terrible.

Do we win with Kwame?
Most likely we can limit howard to less then 40-20 :S
I think we could have

Kwame could have slowed down Howard a little without fouling

Yeah

He was beasting tonight though

I think with healthy Kwame and Curry

We win.

Of course Dwight ends the game by stealing the ball

He has done everything tonight

Dwight is a monsta
Time for some T-mac miracles.
what a horrible game

Why the hell would Dwight want to come here with a coach that employs the hack-a-dwight??

So Monta plays 42:38 in a losing effort
....

Fire JACKSON!

he was clutch in the 4th, it was close till the very end.
My point is Ellis should not be playing that much

not how good he was

DWIGHT: Come to Oakland and break more records!!!
We ruined our chances at convincing Dwight to stay here long term...

Arrggghhh…. Better have somethin up your sleeve Lacob or else….

dwight will regret this game when he comes to oakland and we miss the playoffs by 1 game! lol
Can't even be really mad at our bigs, Dwight is just that dominant. Good game all!
Anybody here think we started the Hack-A-Howard way too early?
Aw Dwight only had 39 FTs

He could have had a 40-20-40 game

what would be sweet would be if Dwight gets traded later tonight or tomorrow. lol
Hmm

Monta and Lee were both awesome tonight, and Otis Smith was watching…

... them get destroyed by Dwight
well obviously.

cp3 destroys eric gordon and chris kaman. doesn’t stop the trade. its all about getting the most talent you can back.

of course the lakers have the better deal…but that knee of bynum…

Otis Smith isn't a very good GM

Fairly sure he’s going to go down with the Dwight ship then act surprised when he leaves next year.

im not so sure about that.

but then again…he might lol. Consensus say he will be traded before the deadline. But i think if he wants the most bang for the buck…he should trade sooner than later.

i think this was an ok game. we played pretty good. but down the stretch dwight just dominated us.
We had no one to guard him. Once Lee fouled out that was it. Game over. Lol.
Lee can't guard Dwight.

Moment Beans fouled out it was all over.

Once Beans got his 5th foul it was over
Yeah

Prolly then even lol

Y'all looked a lot better than last year tonight

Granted, that’s more of a statement of how bad the Warriors have been the past two years. Also, don’t kid yourselves about ruining your chance to get Dwight tonight, you guys aren’t even in the running.

Trust me

I know I’m not.

Jokes on yall, you guys didn’t blow us out!

We know

BUT… if Lacob is dumb enough to trade Curry for Dwight without a guarantee of an extension…

I’m still hanging with the Warriors until Reggie heals btw, Bobcats are pretty boring except for Kemba and I’m already depressed and panicking about the Celtics this year. I need the unreasonable optimism that’s here for a bit.

Come back

When we don’t get ground into dust by Dwight

lol reggie will never play youll be a watching a long time.
And I will say again....

Otis smith In the house to see the game….

He was there for a reason
GSW is def in the running

This is the unreasonable optimism I'm referring to.
yup.

i don’t recall otis being at the kings game…i watched that too.

otis has met riley too for lunch…which is kind of rare given the busy schedule. But riley made the appointment/lunch reservation with otis so thats saying something.

Otis is the president too, so he is a busy man.

Well, actually I wouldn't be too surprised if they agreed to a trade

But I would be really surprised/shocked/dumbfounded if the GSW front office did the trade knowing he won’t resign.

I think at this point they know they have to do some kind of trade before the deadline. Otherwise all their talk woulda been just talk and theyd start alienating fans. Even their own employees are baffled by some decisions that are being made. At this point even if they got rid of half the team for a rental of dwight howard it wouldnt make much of a difference. Its silly to keep a losing team together when year after year it just isnt working. I love Curry, but his ankles make him weak which means his trade value is going down. We need to trade him while his value is still high and if that means renting howard I say go for it. I do think once hes here we would have a better chance at convincing him to,stay.

well there will be nights like this with our injury situation where we can play with any team until our lack of deph kills us

too many times did we have to rely on 2-3 guys on the floor and the other 2 were invisible . with just 1 of Kwame Wright or Steph we probably win

Shaq can't do math LOL
that was HILARIOUS!
LOL SHAQ

“I went 18-18. 36. I shot 18 for 39”

LOL. Shaq saying how he at least shot 50%.

Quote fail but still. That was funny.
Kenny Smith with a bit of props to the dubz
Interesting point by Kenny

The Magic are not a good team. You shouldn’t need to hack Dwight.

The Hawks proved that last year in the playoffs

Let Dwight get his and keep the other team from getting open threes and they’re done. Dwight is kind of similar to LeBron, he doesn’t really have that killer instinct.

I think he has a killer instinct

He just plays on a very bad team

Dwight is kind of similar to LeBron, he doesn’t really have that killer instinct.

Uh, sure. Those two non-killers are also the two best players in the NBA, by a wide margin.

even if they are the:

two best players in the NBA, by a wide margin.

how does that automatically make them have a killer instinct?

Yeah but they used collins and pachulia

as much as they could. we didn’t have the option of going 2 deep at center

I thought that was losing strategy as soon as we started doing it. It took us out of our rhythm and allowed them to chip a way at a double-digit lead. Plus, Dwight’s a career 60% ft shooter, which is way above the threshold for playing hack-a defense.

I thought we kinda deserved to lose for playing such a gimmicky and unaesthetic game.

I thought we deserved it too

I hate hacking. I guess I’m just used to the Warriors playing very smooth offensive basketball without a lot of defense. Maybe we will have to get used to the new “grind-it-out, score enough points and do anything to win” Warriors.

I will also say I didn’t like Mark Jackson’s quote saying he didn’t care about how the fans felt about his tactics, and that he was going to foul Dwight whenever he wanted to.

the thing is is that we did this w/o some of our best 2 players and our best defender

i think the dh12 is totally worth it, we can manage w/o curry biedrins klay/udoh if we have howard

Monta drive and kicks to Howard

Would be smexy

you mean dish right?

dwight jumpers….. haunting

i think hack a howard backfired at us

Bad strategy when we were doing it early in the game. We were up and it may have affected our flow.

I cant wait for Shaq to be removed from the TNT nba show,

bring back CWebb

Nah

He’s happy at NBA TV

it has to hurt his pride being demoted to the B team
hes on tnt sometimes

and shaq will stay cause hes shaq

Shaq brings basically 0

the antics will get old

not in ratings
I'm looking at Dwight's stat line and it's amazing

45 PTS 23 REB 3 AST 4 STL 2 BLK

45 points … on 21 fga.

Pretty ridiculous
not cause he earned his way to the line, it was our strategy
Well it failed

Hopefully Mark Jackson learned his lesson

Um...

How do you know this wasn’t Malone’s idea?

Because Mark Jackson said so in the sideline interview?
what failed on us was our rotation defense to shooters

we ndo better there we win

We doubled Dwight

It’s hard to keep rotating when you have to close out hard on shooters every time because you double in the post.

Good game, but bad strategy to go hack-a-dwight so early with lead

He started almost making every ft after it was like practice shots for him. Also Lee played horrible D and did not box out on key posessions despite his statline. Nothing new I guess.

21-39 isnt almost making every free throw
Dwight Howard should win Warrior Wonder

He was that good

Also put him in your poll, IQ

I’m voting for Dwight

i was going to ask for this lol

I totally agree. He broke Wilt’s all-time fta record … by five.

Too bad it was only the regular season record. But he did tie the playoff record.

Pick your poison...

D. Howard FG’s – 12/21, 1.14 Points per possession
Magic 3PT – 11/23, 1.43 PPP
D. Howard FT’s – 21/39, 1.07 PPP

some of those ft's were and 1s
When Popovich was hacking Shaq a lot when Shaq was on the Suns

Even he didn’t do it this egregiously. He did it to gain extra possessions and didn’t go “all in” in the first and second quarter like Mark Jackson did. He chose his spots carefully. Mark Jackson was just fouling willy nilly.

Hack a Howard also does a couple things I don't like

1.) It tells your players that you have no confidence in their ability to defend
2.) It breaks the flow of your offense

I also agree with what Kerr said

takes the crowd out of it too

Yes

Oracle was pretty quiet for Oracle, especially in such a close game.

Absolutely agree with all of this.

It’s bad for the sport.

but what happens if all of those free throws are instead fg for orlando.

I think dwight would’ve 50 or more if we had played him straight up and if we double anderson was not missing.

I'm talking about intentionally fouling Howard

Not fouling him to stop him from making a bucket

yeah

but they were feeding him every other time down the floor where he could get good position on us.

we saw what happened when we didn’t foul dwight von wafer hit that three and the crowd got silenced anyways it would’ve been better if we fouled dwight and the crowd could’ve gotten into it when he went 1 for 2

Uh....

He just said he’s not talking about fouling him under the basket. He’s talking about the hack-a-dwight strategy, you know, bear hugging him at the half court line….

Good news:

After this game, you KNOW that the mainstream media will be talking about the Dubs tomorrow

They're going to be talking about never showing such a tedious, boring game on national TV again.
Hack-a-Dwight? Ew. Back down goes my respect for MJ...

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