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Preview/Game Thread #29: Golden State Warriors Host L.A. Clippers To Begin A 'Crucial' Week With Ekpe Udoh Starting

Golden State Warriors (11-17) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (19-10)
7:30 p.m. PST
TV: CSN Bay Area | Radio: KNBR 680
Blog Buddy: Clips Nation

6:53 pm update from @TimKawakami: "Udoh gets the starting nod because Biedrins is sick, but if Udoh stinks it up, Mark Jackson is going to let me hear about it (I think)."

Since a competitive and exciting game on opening night, the Los Angeles Clippers have met expectations as one of the NBA's more exciting teams while the Golden State Warriors are at a point where management has to begin considering a shift in focus from the playoffs to a future after missing the 2012 playoffs.

The time for public proclamations hasn't come quite yet for management, but the team's three games this week - beginning with tonight's game against the Los Angeles Clippers - could be a tipping point for management, according to an article by Marcus Thompson II.

So with management's focus likely turning to the future finally shortly, it seems appropriate to take the beginning of what Larry Riley has called a "crucial" week to look at a player who should figure prominently in the Warriors' future: Ekpe Udoh.

Star-divide

Thompson writes that, "If the Warriors don't turn things around quickly, Golden State will be forced to turn its attention away from the playoffs and to developing the young talent... and even more minutes for second-year big man Ekpe Udoh."

But playoff situation aside, the bigger question regarding Udoh might be why he hasn't already gotten more than the sixth-highest minutes on the team, as already discussed by Tim Kawakami who (naturally) turns to the plus/minus stats.

Udoh is head-and-shoulders the GSWs’ best plus-minus guy: They’re +111 in the 542 minutes he has played… and -139 when he has been out....Udoh is +4.0 per game. The Warriors overall are -1.9 per game...It doesn’t take a math major to figure out what’s happening–the Warriors are losing 5.9 points a game in the 28+minutes Udoh does NOT play.

Kawakami goes on to speculate on why Udoh isn't playing, but instead I think it's worth sticking with the plus/minus for a moment: Udoh's plus/minus numbers are actually even more impressive than Kawakami gives credit for when you look at the adjusted plus/minus (APM) numbers. EvanZ has already described APM at length in his advanced statistics primer, but to (loosely) summarize APM is plus/minus adjusted for the quality of players that someone is playing with and against.

In Basketball Value's individual adjusted plus/minus rankings for the last two years, Udoh ranks sixth in the entire league. And for what it's worth, he ranks 17th in the league in the 1-year APM rankings.

We don't have to have a discussion about whether Udoh is a better player than the Clippers' top-rated player by APM (Blake Griffin) to say that Udoh has been a huge positive when he's on the floor, primarily because of the defensive ability that we most recently saw on display in Friday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in which hardly anybody else did anything well.

Regardless of management's focus, it seems reasonable to say that Udoh has to get more chances on the court: if this is a crucial week in which they want to win games, they need to at least try finding more minutes for Udoh in the rotation. If they want to shift to a greater focus on development, then they definitely need to find more minutes for a player that is showing great promise right now in less minutes than other similarly effective players.

6:53 pm update from @TimKawakami: "Udoh gets the starting nod because Biedrins is sick, but if Udoh stinks it up, Mark Jackson is going to let me hear about it (I think)."

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Udoh is Nick Collison, another RAPM superstar.
Udoh at best is a bench player on a playoff team

Lets not overreact as usual.

I don't see how your point and the idea that he should get more minutes on the third-worst team in the West are mutually exclusive.

Kawakami laid out a few good ways to get those more minutes that didn’t necessarily include starting on this non-playoff team.

You misunderstood me

i was playing down the hype of Udoh. I just don’t rate him much. I sincerely hope my judgement is wrong.

if this is a crucial week in which they want to win games

why wouldn’t they want to win games in non crucial weeks? Seems like a steady pace of wins is better than focusing on one week?

i know eh

Our FO keeps proving to the world how inept they are!

Ellis dunks on Griffin!

Warriors win by 8! Lehhhgo!!!

I think I've seen this dance before
Thompson writes that, “If the Warriors don’t turn things around quickly, Golden State will be forced to turn its attention away from the playoffs and to developing the young talent… and even more minutes for second-year big man Ekpe Udoh.”

Now watch the Warriors bust out three in a row… and watch the management stand pat again

I think the Clips can be had tonight...

They hit their stride with Billups in the backcourt. They have not been the same team(and the backcourt) since he went down. They are still adjusting to his loss, trying to figure it out. They are hanging on. I think, if our backcourt plays up to their potential, we can kick their butt. I am allowing for a huge game by Griffin and Paul. Still, we can beat them, and probably should beat them!

Good luck guys!
Ah, Baron Davis is back in action
The Knicks are stacked

If they can get Carmelo and Baron to fit into the chemistry, then they could go a long way this year.

Why is the scoreboard that hard to fix???
They've got to have the deepest bench in the league
They could stand to trade a couple of their guards for another backup big man though
We can offer them Andris Biedrins as a backup big man

He’s our best defender when we need a stop on the block.

D. Williams

He won’t allow you to outplay him two games in a row.

VDN or

MJ or
Our old mascot thunder as head coach?

Lin went through a half without a TO! Must be a personal best!

Of course, New Jersey is putting a hurt on them, 8 pts ahead at the half. Knicks bench is shooting horribly. Melo is a bit rusty. great shot distribution the first half among all those big egos!

OT

I haven’t done trade machine in a long time but here’s a trade idea. Monta to the T’Wolves for Pekovic, Johnson, and Randolph. It looks uneven, but Pekovic has been really good lately. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=7am5oea

it looks uneven because you're robbing minnesota
LOL yeah

Minni would NEVER DO THAT! Pek is a beast this year, 12/7, huge body. Having Rubio helps, but he’s way too valuable to the Wolves. Perhaps replace Pek with Darko lmao.

Haha we don't want Darko
it would make the trade more fair
How about Kosta Koufos from the Nuggets? Looks like he's really productive when he plays.
they just extended him

i doubt they trade him

Dangit

What under the radar center is gettable?

maybe asik in the offseason

How about Okafor? Good-but-overpaid, defensive-minded, playing for a team that should be in the midst of a complete rebuild. I would love to see a straight-up Monta-for-Okafor swap. Udoh and Okafor, two guys with Nigerian roots, one from Texas and one from Oklahoma, could be a pretty intriguing big man combo. Together they might even provide enough D to offset Lee’s lack thereof.

From NO’s perspective: well, Monta’s from near New Orleans, is three years younger than Okafor, $2-3M cheaper, and much “sexier” in ESPN highlight-reel terms — something that might have value for a team with close to zero star power (and Eric Gordon about to become a RFA). C’mon, Riley … at least pick up the phone!

the league would favor the cheaper player

and the marketing boost. at what price point would they prefer Gordon to Ellis, and how high are offers going to go on the former ? Will Lacob accept that he has to pay bigs inflated deals, or will he continue to look for ‘values’ like he did in his venture capital days ? He says he values defense and size, but hasn’t really opened his checkbook for it yet.

You don't think we could get Koufos and filler for Ellis? They got Nene and Mozgov taking up the minutes down low.
mozgov isnt very good

and theyre trying to trade birdman because they want koufos

Koufos would be worth it! He is going to be a franchise center!

He is only 22, and they have been bringing him along real slow. I doubt they would give him up, but, if they do, that would be al ong-term fix for us.

Koufos

haha, isn’t he on mario kart?

Haha I know, jus saying that's the only way Minni accepts though
Haha I know, but I was expecting people to think that I was crazy for not including a "star" on the other end of a Monta trade.
Monta for Deandre Jordan

Would you do it?

yes
ahaha!! J-RIDAH actually said that?

Man, that dude is hilarious!

Yes I did and I still stand by it.

QUICK, someone needs to put this into a quote on thier sig line!!! ( :
Absolutely yes

But why would the Clipps?

Btw, how’s KMart working out for you guys so far ( he played a game or two already, right?)

I was kidding

And Kmart has been a BEAST.

Deron Williams is destroying the Knicks, back to back 3s
hes got 8 of them
Yep, he is going wild. Eight 3's were his only scores as the 3rd was winding down.

The Knicks were down 17, last I looked. If Lin stages one of his dramatic 4th qr comebacks, on this one, I will take my hat off to him!

Wow! Udoh's arms look

unreal in that photo. Almost like it was photoshopped. Weird how the camera can pick up split second images like that. I never saw that before in him during games. If he could work a little bit more on increasing his bulk, I think it would serve us well.

It is weird how all of the Warriors are kind of on the slim side, isn’t it? I think Kwame was the only one who took up room, unless I am over looking anyone.

Jenkins has got some size (errrr for his size that is..)
odd choice by dantoni to go with no pg
No Biedrins tonight

warriors: Andris Biedrins will sit out tonight’s contest with flu-like symptoms. @EkpeUdoh will start in his place. #LetsGoWarriors

lol guess that means the warriors found a trade
Haha at some of these other tweets:

Rusty_SFChron: Ekpe Udoh is starting at center. It’s not what you think. Biedrins is sick.
gswscribe: Ekpe Udoh starting at center vs. Clippers #BeginningOfAnEra? – http://t.co/Uw2J6vnv

Flu like symptoms ha

He’s traded by tomorrow. Cya Biedrins

haha lets go udoh!!!

i sure hope beans will sit out until trade deadline.

did deron get hurt?
foul trouble
Lin and Deron both have 5 fouls.
yea deron just fouled out

Lets hope SC30 plays aggressive.

Oh my, Deron comes back in, hits a dagger

then draws #6

hmm imagine deron and howard in a warriors uni.

The same one? That’d be cozy.

imagine howard and deron as one player....Lebron V2
why is it that when i see deron that i think of Pluto from Popeye..???
Anthony Morrow dagger 3
Melo's return = a double digit loss against the Nets

The media is gonna destroy Melo.

Yeah, I was just wondering how quickly the Knicks fans will start blaming Carmelo for the loss

Am I evil for deriving satisfaction from Deron schooling Lin?

I think I just find it really hard rooting ex-Warriors to do well.

Edit: Morrowwwww!!!!!

Oh wait…

no you're not. I too am a Lin fan, but I am pretty bitter about the media coverage in New York.

I like Lin, but people jumped on that bandwagon like they do with the Lakers: fakes. Other than that, I am rooting for Nets because I want to prove that Carmelo is overrated and will make the Knicks worse.

Still...

21 pts / 7 reb / 9 ast / 4 stl

Even when Lin has kind of an off-night, his numbers are generally impressive. You gotta like a guy who fills up every part of the stat sheet.

he is fighting for his chance to stay in the NBA

anyone would run around for steals, and rebounds

Assuming that’s true, you gotta like who fights and puts in that kind of effort, right?

yah

its great that he is doing good. it just sucks that its the knicks T.T

lol. Agree. He is fighting to keep his starting job.
i really don't think his starting job is in danger

baron is a shell of his former self, and no one else is capable of playing the point (please dont say bibby ;P)

I agree; just responding to the comment, above, about Lin

fighting to stay in the NBA…

im pretty sure that he is just a fighter.. plain and simple..
Yep, his bad game looks pretty good! Knicks lost this one from downtown.

Knicks shot 5-20 3s, Nets shot 15-31 (Deron 8-14). That is 45 points to 15! Knicks bench sucked tonight.

I want Lin to do VERY well, so much that it really hurts our management and makes them rethink how to run things
also, I like Lin and have from the beginning
I want Lin to do VERY well, so much that it really hurts our management

Done and done!

YESSS! ~does fist pump~
why is Obama in Oracle

talking about Warrior basketball

lol huh?

There’s some reporter that looks like him lol

he looks more like gustavo from breaking bad
Hallelujah ...

There is a GAWD !!!

League Pass is blacking out the Dubs game in San Luis Obispo :(
So, are we going to win this one?
unfortunately YES
We'll see about that!!

i’m rooting for you guys!

dudde... just admit u guys are TOAST
its our schizophrenic team at its best again... be ready to hear the brakes on the tank start screaching ...
Yep, I have a hunch the tank is parked,

and we are going with Major Jackson’s airborne infantry…

haha im going to rec this after im done tying here..
Don't forget to really pull on that emergency brake....hard!
NBA all star weekend is so boring.....
looking at the schedule

if we lose tonight, we’ll have a solid 8 game losing streak going into early march

Don't jinx it!

i’m pretty sure the warriors suck is stronger than any jinx i could put on it

Tell me, is this the most optimistic you can be?

we’ll win every game from here on out! better?

WOW... butler was a TWO time all star?
We have to hit our jump shots

We got no inside size to counter their size.

Hmm, I don't remember hearing Clippers' fans in previous years
the wagon is getting heavy
bandwagon
Lakers fans getting

light

How can we not get back on a made basket
Wide open shot =

“Good Warrior D”

Griffin Destroy the rim

improvisational play apparently means getting bailed out from a turnover by udoh

That is definitely a charge on CP3
ooooh

some post moves from Griffin

You need to hit those, DWright
Griffin is an arrogant prick!
Udoh GREAT post move
Might be the best I've seen from him this season.

Has all the athletic ability to get that done consistently… just needed the balance…

great defense, Lee
D wright needs to get those easy baskets
Wow Udoh has post moves?
Monta bringin' the heat!
What the hell was that, Curry?
Curry NICE pass to Udoh's dunk!
Wrap around pass
Curry just made me GOL

giggle out loud

Udoh call the bank
Udoh midrange shot

need moar

Blake still doesn't have any good post moves

The Clippers announcers think that Udoh is awful apparently.

i think the clippers are awful
they're pretty clearly not awful
i bet its because he scores 4 points per game
I've noticed a lot of people do

Like, a lot.

Yep

that was an awful dunk lol

Lawler thought

that the Bobcats is the most horrible team he ever saw. speaking of Clippers horrible years

After three possessions

I’m getting the feeling I’m not really going to enjoy the broadcasting tonight.

good rotation on d
Good defense

Curry scrambling to double team, scramble back when Blake passed away.

So I'm guessing Udoh is starting from now on
We can only hope

I still feel he’s better off the bench and destroying their bench. But right now, I hope Biedrin’s flu lasts for a while.

About time

Biedrins got the flu…

Ekpe Udoh looks fantastic
Udoh is beasting
only if Udoh is 3 inch taller
or had 20 lbs of more muscle
Udoh is 4/4

He had a jump shot, a dunk, a great post move, and …???

2nd dunk
one off the monta bailout pass and one off the steph wrap around
Udoh with 8 points!

Say what? he just doubled his season totals!

wooh finally made it after watching Nets kick butt. and second glad I picked up Udoh in fantasy yesterday
can i get a link ? i want to witness the explosion of Udoh
firstrowsports.eu

book it

rigght arm , thanks
Ellis Bingo
lol
annoying right?

hate Clippers announcer

It's the Law though

look out its a SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMM DUUUNK

Even worse to me are the:

“Oh me oh my!”’s

The bingo guy got fired or something right?
not yet I guess
Hmmm

I thought the last game I watched I never heard the bingo. Could be mistaken though.

bingo is for the 3's he's tries to say it everytime but sometimes his Alzheimers kicks in
no they got fined i think and had to write/make public apologies

i assume you are referring to the Hamed Haddadi incident mocking his Iranian ethnicity

Oh yea

Thanks for clarifying.

such a joke of how weak a punishment it was. Sterling didnt even care

if he didnt have to he wouldnt have done anything. He probably would have laughed and encouraged more jokes like it

recently

he did a comment against the Bobcats the worst team he ever saw in his whole announcing years. Talking about the Clippers

or Smith: "Get that weak mess outta here" after every block
Udoh good box out of Jordan

Way to fix your mistake Lee

randy foye is so bad

so streaky, i dont know how Nova was so good using that 4 guard lineup

i don’t think i’ve ever seen him play well. he constantly chucks and bricks

a good shooting season for him is like 39%
Notice, Udoh doesn't get the rebound stat there
Udoh great OREB

DWright = DWrong

How is Dorell still in the league!?
i guess he thinks he's being traded

Oh dang all those rebounds!

Watch things open up for us

now that we have an inside threat

Warriors brainfart when they could have recovered their possession

Ugh

Who was most at fault there? I looked away
I'm not sure, it just looked like everyone was waiting for someone else to get the ball
Yes...

but that was rather outstanding transition defense, in terms of positioning…

that's true

I was about to write that they stopped the fast break

way to become spectators there warriors

crazy that Griffin has better post polish than Howard
Udoh block on Blake
Udoh, you dont even need to jump to block Paul.
Damn, CP3 made Udoh pay
Refs bailed out CP3 there.

Good awareness by Udoh knowing CP3 had to shoot there, but could have jumped more vertically.

We are getting 8 pts and just one foul at the center position in th 1st qr!

Gosh, the world is turning upside down!

Udoh made Blake miss there

No whistles tonight

it’s not the 4th yet

Udoh GREAT speed move
Griffin hasn't had a whistle in a month.
Excellent team defense
CURRY got his fireee
Curry has to stop flopping

just play defense

so why exactly does it take beans getting the flu for udoh to get more mins? lol

Biedrins…and Kwame…

Knowing the Warriors, they’re just showcasing him tonight to trade him for a veteran to lead them to the playoffs.

Celtics? Bucks?

wouldnt shock me if they did and Udoh flourishes in the playoffs

i dont think they will just saying hypothetically
i was not a fan of nate robinson

but he brings alot of energy

Yeah! Bye-bye Durell
Next question, what will Udoh do if he gets double teamed on that drive next time?

Can he pass it out?

i think the clippers are smart enough to know not to double off the warriors' shooters
Not if they know Udoh can't pass out of that drive
tech on curry?!
Wow, a T for Curry

Show some attitude!

hey its a start, get some emotion

but of course i see its because of Reggie Evans so i’m chalking that up to Reggie doing a good job

Monta 4 pt play!

He really really had to earn that too

Double dribble, 4 point play
Ugliest possess ever?
4 point thank you
this is the 4th point play I've seen tonight
Monta said

please back up Bledsoe

Monta Crawford

Jamal Ellis

We are cooking early....
lol udoh got tired in 10min
You can't stop Monta when he gets that much room
Monta what are you doing?!?
Nasty Montaaaaa

And then the foul…

Monta iso then fouls what
stupid foul Ellis thou
Monta Ellis, ladies and gentlemen
Wow are we the dumbest team in america
Monta not the brightest kid on the block.
If Udoh can give us another 10 min with 8 pts and 1 foul...

we will win!

why does monta always get the boneheaded fouls

how hard is it to stay away

On the other hand, I didn't see a foul on the replay
but as is always the case with monta

why is he even there?

"I have no idea...why he did that." -Jim B
He wanted to record a steal

monta loves to make sure the warriors don’t play a perfect quarter

Tech on Curry

and late foul on Ellis will hunt us later

My first game in a few days

Has Klay worn the sleeve before?

Or whatever the leg equivalent of a sleeve is?
No foul there..

Paul just fell down.. Top 3 flopper in the league

Did you read/hear the quote where he was capping on Dirk for flailing/flopping

lol

and what makes it worse is that Paul is so pudgy

like who aside from bigs and certain Lebron sized forward/guards can knock you over

Maurice Jones Drew is like the same build and he never falls

playing on bad Hornets teams for 6 years, you will develop tendencies like that to win and get good at it
On the bright side Monta made a layup while paul missed a ft
the layup was made

monta just gave them a free point

Only two guys are getting that call

Chris Paul is on of them

he still shouldnt even be in the area

that’s on him for giving the ref even a chance to make a call

Not really. He beat him to the spot

Its on the ref for calling a bail out call.

it doesnt matter if he beat paul to the spot

paul is 70 feet away from the basket. there were 0.6 seconds left. putting yourself in a position to get a foul called on you is idiotic

It's more

Instinct. It’s easy for you to say that because your not playing, but it’s a natural thing to do. Listen I think he should have ran back but it was a bad call…. That’s all I’m saying..

so monta's instinct is to not play smart basketball?

how does that help his case?

part if basketball is knowing the situation. some players do this very well. monta does not.

Fair enough.

Part of being a ref is knowing the situation… See what I did.. That is a no call…. But I understand what you’re saying. You just have an ax to grind against Monta which is fine..

I think it is always a no call...

But it’s Chris Paul and that is bs. I

there was a similar call that j.r. smith got against monta on a fadeaway 3 from near midcourt

it didn’t look like monta fouled him, but the fact that he was in the area gave the ref the opportunity to call the foul, which won the game.

Totally different...

1. It was in Denver..
2. It decided the game

This was an end of a quarter thing and also jr smith is no Chris Paul. That my friends is a superstah call.. I can see why it’s frustrating for us both though!!!!!!!

are you saying it's perfectly normal for refs to call that at the end of the game

but if it happens at the end of the first quarter it must be a superstar call?

Considering the circumstances and the players involved… I’m not saying. It’s normal but it makes more sense.

refs generally prefer to make a call that doesn't decide a game over a call that does

which makes j.r. smith’s call a worse one.

and monta always does it too (seriously it's never anyone else)

ive seen him jump at so many last second desperation shots it’s mind boggling.

I feel yau

But that axe must be reallllllly sharp now.

i have nothing against monta except when his questionable decision making costs the warriors

So you get equally Upset

With curry and his turnovers?

depends how he gets the turnovers

some turnovers you can live with, some you can’t.

the lazy passes or the turnovers trying to be too flashy are definitely frustrating
Also

Near mid court?? Lol that can be a lot of places.. I think it was closer to the three point line than midcourt

Oh come on

You don’t go near a guy at all. It’s not like he will make a half court shot.

dwayane wade's the other? lol
kind of glad Curry got a tech...shows emotion and drive, which i rarely see from him
Udoh going for 40 on his first start!
And just like that, in 1 quarter, Ekpe Udoh has proven himself more worthy of the starting center position than Biedrins has all season
Dom hitting jumpers = bonus
thats like Monta making Nash passes
Mcguire looked like Monta there
Dom wants a contract
Nice Klay and Lee play
Lee hanging and finishing like a guard
I hate mo williams never seem to miss against us
You didn't want to get that board, Lee?
I saw him complaining that he was held
reggie evans

the master of getting away with fouls on rebounds

defensive rebounds don’t lead to layups

how do you let Reggie Evans run a 1 man fastbreak and get the foul?
Is Blake on the Biedrins career path?

Blake can’t hit FTs as well

hahahaha

super extreme lane violation

Whoa, Udoh back in the game
Mo needs mo brains
24 seconds of team defense!
either we got a good Defense

or Clippers too much passing

its VDN offense so I'm leaning on Clipps
Generally, when the Warriors lead the first quarter, they lose....
having Martin and Evans in at the same time

really takes away from the Clippers offense

oh noooo

Dom off the dribble :/

learning from dorell

wtf is dom doing?

lol Fitz, acting like we’re making The Clipps panic

McGuire learning that move from Monta
Klay lost his shooting touch
That was just a bad shot attempt
Damn, CP3 carrying the Clippers
offense just sucks right now
Man CP3 in a Dubs uniform sure would be nice...
in our dreams

we pass out our chance

Yes it would

At the very least, I’d like to see MJ let Curry run some plays like CP3 does. Of course he’s not as good, but I’d like to see him let Curry utilize that playmaking ability more often.

blazers have 9 points and its 8 mins left in the second quarter
I hate Chris Paul..

Should be bench v bench atm CP3 just bullying out there

That was ugly

Was that Dom?

What is mcguire doing
cant wait for baseball season

seriously with the effing dom isos

Wow McGuire is doing the full Monta ISO thing right now
probably wants to prove he deserves more playing time

but it seems like he’s trying to do that on the wrong end of the court

um is that 3 dom isos?

lolfail.

He ain't exactly shutting cp3 down either
You can only hope that CP3 gets tired and then we can take advantage
never mind, CP3 is now resting
take advantage of the free popcorn?
Take McGuire out

He apparently thinks he is MJ or something

Fitz

Loves clowning on big guys who think they can shoot….

....what happened to the csn bay area stream.....
Tired of Fitz?
yes

but i dont want the clippers …

Max contract that man!
HAHAHA

WHAT A FLOP BY MO

he was auditioning for a short film? was that suppose to be a joke.. or?

I laughed pretty hard.

ironically of course

That second of silence after and Jim acting like he didn’t hear it was hilarious.

Monta is starting to hit the 3 again

40% this month

again...?

as in he was ever a decent 3pt shooter…?

he was above 36% last season

and his final 30 games of the 2009-2010 season

far better than his once horrid percent from earlier this season. I expect him to get back on track and end up around 35-26 rather than the 28 he’s at now

He did pretty good last season. I’m just giving Monta a hard time.

Udoh is making post moves!
Ooof, when Lee has physical guys on him under the rim
Lee don't try to do that on Jordan again
I wonder that should be a jumpball

Lee never let go off the ball

probably should have been

but until he tried to go up on him again it was to our benefit

he wasn’t about to win a jumpball vs Deandre anyway

yup you are right

we gonna lose the jumpball

So this is what it feels like to have a scoring center
We should trade Lee for Blake
Udoh is the next Lin
if we traded him

somewhere else I’m sure

Udoh poor mans

Ibaka

If only Ekpe could rebound
Good team defense clogging the paint
Wow, Monta can pass behind the back
Udoh getting a rare start

and he becomes superman!

i still haven’t seen udoh pass out of the post. like, ever

I THINK I've seen it do it before last season

Guess that’s the next thing he works on.

Udoh still need to work on the post moves
Blake sucks at making FTs
Airballed free throw and we miss it....CSN!!!!!
it is worst than Beans FT
when beans see blake griffin sucking at the FT line

he will gain some confidence

Monta on FIRE

Udoh sets solid screens too

Now they've got the right idea,

don’t pass to Dorell!

Monta can score in bunches
CP3 is coming in i bet
Lin was just compared to CP3..smh...
One thing about Monta

He’s not afraid to shoot

Ok

I do think Lin is an NBA player, but to call him the next CP3?!

yea ikr CP3 should be called the next lin
Who knows, time will tell..

he may be the next LIN!

Dom's being horrible on O, and had multiple 3's hit in his eye ball
Hammer Blake

don’t give him easy buckets

alright monta with a miss, now lets get back to ball-movement
Here goes the crowd taunting Blake's FTs

Hahahaha

Well, it's not like Blake can make FTs
Battle of the Mississippi

Mo vs Ellis

Missing FTs will kill Blake's career

Only Shaq could be one of the best of all time despite shooting 50%

that dwight fellow is pretty good
clearly not as good as shaq, but still good
Dwight shoots 60-70 %
fair enough

he’s sub-50 this year though

but has been progressively decreasing, his best year is his rookie year from the line
under 60 career

under 50 this year

Dwight?
shaq won 4/6, missed the playoff 3 years in 19?

Dwight has only been to finals once and really hasnt been close to that year any other year

When Blake’s at the foul line, it’s the only time he doesn’t look pompous

Because he can't flop
Because he is not on top of the rim..
...........Not a Foul..........
awww why u gotta bail blake out?

he got himself in a crowd

lol curry tried to do a blake with the spin move
Damn, after that airball

Blake hits 4/4 FTs

DWrong, gotta hit those
Dwrong

Curry man up

Dorell, absolutely worthless. And embarrasses the Warriors by squealing like a clown

Wrights career is over
Maybe his career as a consistent starter.
Well, probably I don't think he'd start on most teams.
he's a starter on bad teams because they stink

he can start on loaded teams like the heat or thunder

but any other good team like Hawks, Rockets, etc he shouldnt be starting

He’s barely a rotation player

Should've traded him
Udoh saving the turnover!
Wow, CP3 is on fire, even after the whistle
Lol whoever said Chris Paul

Couldnt hit those shots

Dodged a bullet. Can't say the refs screwed us tonight at least!!
lolwut, DJ was intentionally fouled and they didn't see it?
well dorell didn't really FOUL him

little bit of a push, but stuff like that happens off-the-ball all the time

Ekpe won't have anything left in the 4th..
deandre jordan's FT is UGLY
Curry 3!

Not quite a 2 for 1

Udoh closing the qtr wth a midrange 2!
how are the warriors getting away with these calls?
The refs are high
I bet CP3 is pissed off
He def looked pissed.
That he is. He must've thought the refs blew the first call, cause he did it again.
They only hook up Blake, keeps it a bit more fair
Who cares????? Lol

Wait you wanna lose right?

If I was bigkino

I would be thoroughly annoyed with you

just thought I’d let you know

I'm sorry brosef

But who cares if we are actually getting calls. Why you need to chime in and say some out of pocket bs like that? I’m thoroughly annoyed with you now.

do you Billie, do you. lol
Just thoughts

Let you know. Such a b**** move.

i like to see fairly called games

i’m a firm believer that the team that was best each day should win

and i have no problem admitting when the opponent gets shafted by a series of calls
Wow......

So. That Monta ghost foul earlier made you mad at Monta not the refs??? Come on.

it was a bad call, but it was only called because of a stupider decision
paul on the other hand, did not make a stupid decision

it was incredibly obvious that the warriors were trying to foul deandre, and paul is a very smart player.

That comment

Imo just seems like it should have been written on the clippers blog

do you know what the word objective means?
Yeah...

Do you know what the words…. Warriors rarely get those types of calls.. Come on man. Im not trying to be a dick, but this is a game thread.back to the game

Warriors rarely get those types of calls.

NOBODY gets those types of calls.

Wrong

The warriors do baby!

oh yea because here we should all just pretend that the warriors do no wrong and the opponents are all idiots?
Exactly!!!!
that's exactly the kind of thinking that results in your "warriors can't lose to portland" post

Stay on topic sweetheart. Don’t get mad

Just expect to get

Called out during a game thread( a warriors one I might add) when you say something like that.. It’s rare it happens.. Take bigkino!! Take what we can get baby!!

nobody called me out for wondering how the refs missed such an obvious call except for you
you do realize that other people commented at that blatant foul

why don’t you go call them all out?

Ref did not call the foul
That was hiliarious

The Warriors tried to hack a Jordan, no call, CP3 launches it for the heck of it, ball back to the Warriors. WILD

do these refs not know the rules?

I’ve only ever seen that happen to us! And only once or twice, ever!

give tech on Cp3
DJ blatantly fouled and they run the clock out
REFS FINALLY WORKING IN OUR FAVOR
Haha Paul you thought you are so smart didn't you!
I think the Warriors win this one

just to keep our playoff hopes up

CP3 is killer down the stretch though. Just remember opening night...
I've never seen a ref no-call work so well in our favor
refs have been terrible tonight, Morrow got decked in the face by Carmelo tonight

blood on the court, he lost 4 teeth and then got knocked into the bench and they called him for traveling

he lost 4 teeth foreal?
Maybe now he can fix his gap toof.
you lying so hard. 4 teeth he wouldnt be goin back in the game right after that LOL get outta here
here look at his twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/BLACKBOIPACHINO

i watched the game, carmelo was a d-bag the entire night(whole team was) and kept going for little cheapshots. he got his boy back now he actin all fughazi again

he straight clocked him and the refs went blind, Morrow was bleeding all over

Wow I can't believe they didn't eject Carmelo

I never thought of Carmelo as a dirty player. But I guess he is. I bet Carmelo is buying the refs dinner.

he got his homeboy back from China now he actin all tough again

but it was a great atmosphere. Went from Lakers/Celtics atmosphere to Lakers/Kings 2002 in the 4th quarter though

Dumbass

Chris Paul.

He gonna go for 50 on us now lol
Of course I'd love to have him ,but he is such a bitch

He always complains

Seems like the same complaint

Is made about virtually all the stars in the NBA.

Quick check!

How are you guys doing against the Clippers?

Good! Refs finally made a call in our favor.
tied at 46 at the half
What's that Jackson?

Not accepting mediocrity? LOL

We got to have a bit more scoring out fo Steph and the bench to win this.

Wright was really sucking when we needed him. 15 minutes and a donut for points.

Bench Dorell for Rush or Klay
Oh?

Udoh is starting for you guys? How’s he doing for the Warriors?

Udoh is starting for you guys?
Ah shoot

double post. SB Nation glitch FTL.

awesome

7-9 from the field. one of his best offensive performances of his career, and we’re only halfway through

That's pretty good.
He's showing us what's missing from the starting center spot.
if beans injured?
he has the flew apparently
my god wright is useless right now
not impressed with this mj segment
making too many guarantees MJ
don't promist stuff u can't deliver
don't promist stuff u can't deliver
Holy crap

Kid Curry

My guess is the refs told Paul that he has to be in the shooting motion when the whistle is blown. Next time down he shoots before the whistle and they don’t call the obvious foul.

See? Beans actually does put the ball in the basket!

Sure, it’s during practice in 3 vs 0 drills but…..!

Line on Udoh at the half: 14 points (7-9), 3 REB (2 OFF), 1 stll, 1as, 1 blocked shot, 1 FOUL!

Where has he been!

on the bench lol
lol...Yep, was hiding behind Lin...
Lack of rebounds is still a huge concern.
+1

Needs more rebounds, no offense.

Yes, hadrd to replace thos loads of rebound that Biedrins got in his usual

2 qrs of play!

So he's better than Biedrins.

Thats great. The rebounding is still a big concern.

you guys think Steph will win the skills challenge? it looks like a real tough field this year. bunch of speedsters
Well....

He did it last year right?

we all know Lin will lin it
its all about the jersey sales!
The Skills challenge is really silly, I feel
i think last year's field was tougher

though is it deron that holds the record?

yeah i think Deron has the record by a tenth of a second over Nash
I don't know why someone thought that guy was Obama

Obama doesn’t wear glasses

lol Paul STILL talking to the ref
DWrong again
lol, every time he misses"

Wrong again!

Monta is still on fire
Lee is such a bum
Oh my god, that looked like a clean Udoh block on Griffin
That's not a foul.....
Kino you see that call, get the refs!
Watch out for Blake

when you breathe on him, refs will blow a whistle.

body contact i guess
Lee aaaand-1 like a guard!
DLEE and1!!!!
That looked like a Monta lay in lol
thank you david lee

protect the ball from Jordan. put your body into him

wouldnt be shocked if Paul called Stern and Stern called the refs and the Clippers get a ton of calls this half
Lol Curry Block Partayyyy
Griffin pwning Lee
Lee is just not a good 1-on-1 rebounder

he can’t go heads up with anyone who puts up good rebounding numbers

that's one of the reasons people think he gets "empty" rebounds

he seems to get a decent amount of his when there are no opponents around

Montaaaaaaaaaa
Monta is ON FIRE still
That's how to rebound.
Warriors stopped Griffin from driving
clippers cooling of quick from the arc the last 3 possessions
Haha, Griffin travel
stop doing monta ISOs
Udoh is the next Lin come onnnnn!
can we keep starting this guy?
Udoh HOOK shot, and that's after the help defender stopped the drive

I was watching to see if he’d pass it

udoh has actual post moves

its so beautiful _

Clippers announcers think Biedrins won’t start again.

Ekpedeme is doing grrrrrreat!
These refs suck...

If BG stuffed anyone like Udoh just did, he would make top plays

And again... same shit
Udoh's got jobbed on those two calls.
Rule of thumb

Dont ever contest Blake Griffin. GROSS

once AGAIN, how is that a foul on Udoh?
Look at his jersey, and look who he blocked.

It’s like Rule 10.6 and Rule 23.6 Subset B. Look it up

ARE YOU KIDDING THATS ALL BALL
Biedrins 5 RB, 2.6 PPG! Go Ekpe!

Take notes Andris

He's taking notes in his bank account
nah you know those Iron Curtain Euros: no bank accounts, gives feds an easy paper trail when they investigate embezzlement

just stack it in the closet

on how to get lame fouls?

Beans already knows how to do that.

If that's a foul, blocks don't exist
over time

udoh will start getting the benefit of the doubt on those

because the refs will go back and look at those plays and they’ll realize they missed the calls

Unlikely

But I like the optimism!

I don’t think refs care enough to do that

i like how no one that commented agreed with you

even though you made a good point. it’s like they don’t know that refs watch game film.

losing teams tend to hate refs
winning teams tend to hate refs when they're losing a game too
thats true

but I think they tend to have more faith in them overall

You guys should go on a date.

Griffin got bail out by the ref
Udoh cant rebound but hes a scorer
Dwright stay on the bench
Dorell alone should cost Jackson his job
Easy man I don't call for your job

When you don’t make my sandwich right, we won the game and I got Nate a lot of run that’s all that matters.

DWright great save
FFS

dorell you need to hit those!

What's up with Dorell this year?
I don't know

my current theory is that they’re trying to expand his game, and it’s confusing and disrupting him mentally

catch and shoot from the corner is already a huge task for him
That's pretty much all i'd ask him to do offensively.

Unfortunately he’s been streaky this year but more often times cold.

That was a dumb reach in by Blake.

Chris Paul dirty as hell. Grabbing stephs arm

Where is Rush

He has balls, unlike dorell

Honestly, how was that a foul on Griffin? lol
idk but I'd guess i'd rather have it on him than jordan who would have only had 2

Blake with 4 is good for us

why isnt Rush in
Lol Wasn't Evans the one who grabbed Kaman's balls during a game?
Monta gettin robbed

Who cares if Evans touched it, that was AWFUL ball handling by Ellis.

No you cant just blame ellis for that.............

it got knocked away.

Okay but the slow motion spin move and then putting the ball out there to be easily knocked away is 100% blame-able on Ellis.

Reggie Evans probably loves baby Ruths

this Ref is terrible
theyre all pretty bad

did the ref honestly think monta just threw the ball backwards? i know monta can’t dribble, but come on

lol yea seriously

He’s not that bad a dribbler. Honest.

to be fair

he has on multiple occasions lost the ball while dribbling where he had to run back and get it.

that looked more egregious than his normal ones

Wow refs...

It’s amazing how quickly refs start elevating a team once they draft a moneymagnet dunk machine and get the best pg in the game.

Whoa

We drawing fouls?! Is this real life?

not we, just udoh
we getting some calls now
Wow Udoh

next Carlos Boozer

just on offense and not defense or hair i hope
Should the Warriors resign Kwame?
They didn't waive him...

He’s been injured for like the whole season.

With a single FT make Udoh gets a new career high!
that girl is SO NERVOUS lol
Yeah lol
lol she gets to meet kwame brown! nice!
poor thing lol
What if the refs bet on different teams in this game

So they’re each trying to help different teams lol

Lol that would be hilarious
then there would be a balance of bad calls

speaking of betting i heard Floyd Mayweather is a huge gambler, especially in basketball and he bet 900 grand on the Nets covering the +9.5 spread on the Knicks tonight

in the end he will lose

and like many athletes, he could go broke if he doesn’t change

Looks like that's happening.

LOL she gets to meet kwame brown.. YES!

kwame is a rolemodel figure, who wouldnt want to meet him?
not like I asked to be number 1 overall and labeled as franchise savior
You KIDDING ME LEE?
I think our game plan is to clog the paint and let them shoot
and they still outrebound us smh
damn u david lee
CP3 got fooled by Udoh, who did NOT fall for the fake
LMAO at Curry trying to drive

disaster every time

CP3 looks like hes going to kill someone
Whew

Lucky there, Curry dribbled into trouble there

CP3 travel

that is new

lol he picked it up and ran with it like it was a fumble
:OOO a travel on a superstar?

but they NEVER travel

yay more foul for us
Good

Nate is in, but he doesn’t have to run offense. Just keep getting fouls.

meet nate robinson

i think it would be weird to meet an nba player shorter than me

We're defending the paint pretty well from drivers
I read it as divers and had no problem with that statement.
Monta the swag king

eff you dorell

I love Monta so much when he's on.

And hate him so much when he’s off.

that happens with most players

i could say the same about steph, dorell, lee, etc

MONTA IS ON FIYAH
Dwrong does not want to take 3 no more
what is left for him to do?
Why in blazing hell are you reaching when he's already past you?!
Udoh busying helping CP3, so he can't rebound
Nate, let that ball go!
Why did Nate save that?
because its nate, he must cancel every good play with a bonehead play
Nate great interception!

football player!

Nate should try out for DB for the 49ers
can he catch punts? heard thats the most difficult position to learn for the Pros
NATE WITH THE INTERCEPTION!
Angry Monta

Is now chucker Monta. Is now sucky Monta.

Monta wasn't fouled?

Airballs just happen…

Udoh another oreb
2 bounces straight to him
Offensive Boards, love them
i feel like all of ekpe's rebounds are offensive lol
Better than Biedrins' entire game being offensive.

And I don’t mean he’s an efficient scorer and post player.

Udoh short hook

tired?

De Andre long arms might bother him
4th times the charm?
lol did Dorell just flinch?
wow the clippers are sloppy.
WOW

what is this? 4 possessions? D:

Give the Warriors credit

they are playing hard, despite the 3 game losing streak

All our game we are playing

hard except the Thunder games on 2nd half

Why is wright still playing?

what is he doing that Klay or Rush doesn’t do?

Defense on Butler maybe
rush is no slouch on D
Klay has pretty good D too
My thoughts as well
then lets ask MJ
michael jordan is busy with the bobcats
really not that hard, Caron is a huge ball-stopper with suspect range and not much explosiveness
i'm assuming it's defense
I wanna see a Montay tech
personally i dont want to give them any more free points
alright what great play mark jackson will come on with
Coaches don't call plays after every timeout
I was in the "trade Wright while his value in high" bandwagon last year
think his contract was too realistic to trade. last year looked like he had the perfect contract in a decent role
ugh

great possession out of a timeout

Hack a Kenyon
do it again, maybe he'll do the same thing and get ejected lol
Does Kenyon automatically start each game with a tech?
Oh, I see

MJ called that TO to tell them to foul Kenyon

They bet on different teams, I'm telling you!
Its getting chippy

Lets see a fight. Someone punch Griffin plz

so many players to hack on the clippers
they are dead last in free throw by a good margin, i think even the magic have a nice gap between them
i still dont like the strategy hackabadftshooter
Kenyon Martion is not a bad FT shooter

why did we foul him

career 64% hasnt shot above 60% in 4 years and is a career low this year
Fouling a career 60% shooter is not a good move

The guy has to shoot about 50 to 55% for the hacking strategy to work in the long run

yeah but he hasnt shot over 60% in 4 years

40% this year 55% the 3 years before

What are you talking about

He hasn’t shot below 55% except this year and 2006-2007, when he only played 2 games. That’s a small sample size. You have to look at a guy’s career.

Udoh going cold

but not on that block

Udoh has to drive there don’t settle for the jumper

Udoh looked like he short armed that shot. Like he was TOO wide open.
About time Lee boxed out Evans
So...4/5 of our starters will have around 30 minutes at the end of the 3rd.

Maybe all our 4th quarter collapses because our guys are too tired?

Nate, no more long range shots
Nate Robinson is on fire!
are we watching the same game?
I'm watching a sarcastic one. It's more fun this way.

Dorell is a MIP candidate for sure!

beans doesn't have that locked up?
Beans has got MVP locked up
Uh

You cant win MVP and MIP

watch jeremy lin do it this year lol
No he is watching

we playing the Heat

He’s gotta stop shooting

nate the hog is back
We are in the bonus

Let’s keep jacking up shots!

Monta SHOULD BE AN ALL STAR
he would be if he shot this well every game

unfortunately, he does not

It seems like the only time the NBA cares about efficiency and defense is to keep Monta and any Warriors out of it
nah

they just put emphasis on winning teams for players that dont have obscure stats. and monta’s efficiency and defense can sometimes keep us from winning enough games to get him there

Please

Monta is not as good as a lot of guards in this league. Just because he scores a lot doesn’t mean he’s good

I know he isn't, I just find it funny that every fan loves PPG and Kobe omgz 35 points on 53 shots AMAZINGGGG

yet Monta gets no love.

well for one thing

overall kobe isn’t inefficient like monta. hes usually average to slightly-above-average

2005 2008 kobe

have you seen how much his TS% and EFG has dropped the last 5 years?

he has become an atrocious 3 point chucker

he's still been average though

if you drop from above average to average, it’s still better than someone who stayed consistently below average

Could still be one

If Tony Parker or Steve Nash get injured

Uh no

Nash and Parker are good

monta always shoots better off a spin move and I never understand how
maybe he only practices shooting off spin moves?
maybe

if so he should do more of them lol

i remember laughing watching dirk in the playoffs last year

when it showed him practicing the 1 footed turnaround fadeaway shots. but then he made them all playoffs.

damn you paul.
Why you give that man a foul
we need this guy in the crowd

http://sixpackspeak.yuku.com/topic/83392#.T0MrVMqjIZw

i saw him in the crowd at the knicks vs nets game LOL

Win or Lose, positive game for the team

Showing management and hopefully the staff that Udoh deserves PT over useless beans

Get the popcorn ready

We got us a 4th qtr collapse inbound!

Ok so, victorious through 3 Q time to tank the 4th FTW
Warriors were up in the first quarter.

Generally, this means they will lose.

I think the Warriors pull this one out

The Warriors will always have a couple good wins after a couple bad losses to make it seem possible they can make the playoffs

thats because Mark likes to keep NATE ROB in the dam 4th and sit curry dayssss
Nate, sure, keep chucking
Nate was such a steal!
why is nate throwin up 3s...
Nate Rob sucking again
Good defense by Dom
pleas MJ I'm expecting another good 4th Q tank job

must get Thomas Robinson or Anthony Davis instead of meaningless wins in non-playoff season

i think there's something to this

we like to keep the game entertaining for 3 quarters, but then make sure we lose in the 4th. best of both worlds

i’ve noticed fitz likes to say certain players “need a blow” a lot in the last few games

i've noticed that too

not good if you have a dirty mind

well need a sniff wouldnt work as well
And we're letting Dom handle, can we get MJ to coach the All Star game?
Dom playing D get him outta there
I have a feeling there is going to be a small brawl lol
Off topic:

BlackBoiPachino: EARLY dentist appt tmrw never been so excited to go to the dentist

they won against the Linsanity

he better be excited

no, Morrow had some teeth knocked out late in that game
haha this is the second time this year he has to go to the dentist for a basketball related injury. against toronto he fell on his face and bent his bottom row inward
Randy Foye is a bad player
not with Cp3

on the roster

remember Belinelli

yes we noticed that earlier, still confused how some of these guys go top 10 in the draft. like shelden and marvin williams
Futz goin off on his homer rants lol
Man Fitz is such a homer LOL
is udoh

going to leave it at 17 so he can “improve” on that each game?

Well

He has 30 minutes through 3 Qtrs

Nate driving and dishing to Lee

there you go!

Way to brick that wide open 17 footer, guy

rush is almost all catch and shoot

clearly out of rhythm
Nate bailing out the play with a 3!

feast or famine, feast this time

wow... he hits the hardest 3....
lol Vinny stomped his foot at nate
oh dont tell me good nate is here for the 4th
i hate when good nate shows up at the end

because then jackson doesn’t put the starters back in

Nate won the game for us !
Thanks for NOT boxing out, Lee
nate chuckin and it goes in but that's just what he does lol
basket interference?
that was not a good box out lol
good job Lee, keep boxing out like that

sure let’s not box out. good plan

Nate is feeling it
Nate Rob is a black hole
Nate ready the microwave oven
nate is not down with the tank
Damn this Mo Williams, despite Udoh in his face
And now Jackson will sit Monta and/or Curry for Nate the rest of the qtr
On snap Nate the great.
Nate makes one shot and then he forgets to ever pass the ball again
Rush hour and-1!

Great drive!

lets see dorell do that....
Rush showing how DWright is worthless
Rush playing with balls, like I said

LOL at Dorell Wrong playing more than him

I still feel the Warriors pull out a close one

WHAT A RUSH.

I wonder how good we would be with DeAndre
Dlee coming on 37 minutes

has he sat at all?

only a couple of minutes
We're short on bigs with Udoh starting
Jeremy Tyler who?
i dont think now is the time for tyler lol
Well obviously

But earlier in the game

griffin, jordan will destroy him. martin and evans will outsmart him
He's played big minutes the whole season
37 minutes per game for Lee
I guess he can't be trusted against these Clippers
Rush need to start now

Klay gonna be our six man.

unless we wanna tank

Are you kidding
Rush nice drive again to draw the foul
lol Vinny straight up stomps and yells at shooters!
ppl always drop treys in Oracle i hate it sooooo
because we leave them open and dont close out
Woo!

In the bonus, nows the time we start jacking up jumpers from isos right?

Awww. Monta should have finished that layup

Griffin #5!

Monta pwnage

Lol griffin

Refs with a huge blunder... they totally did not realize they just called a foul on Blakey
dont worry guarantee he wont foul out unless they go to OT
monta you HAVE to make that and 1

he barely fouled you ARGH

he might have been expecting more contact and it messed up his in-air adjustment
stillll

thats almost as easy as and-1s get

Nice steal

Mo slipped a little. Monta was beat but it was nice help

30 Points on 18 shots nice
lol

Phantom of the Opera walk up music for CP3

its like, "oh no!" lol
Get Griffin fouled out plz
Lee cleanup!

Rush got so used to driving, forgot how to shoot a 3

Rush really Dorell'd that 3
All of Lee's boards come right at him

lol

how is that not a foul on Evans
yeah should have been a foul
Do you guys see vinny!? That's hilarious!
What he do?

Every time someone’s shooting near him, he’s stomping and shrieking at them! So funny to see a “coach” do that so emphatically.

C'mon Udoh

Open Curry right there

i'm tellin ya

he doesn’t pass

He's so excited when he actually gets the ball on offense
He'll learn eventually, I think

He’s never posted up so he’s never learned to spot the open man out of the post

Udoh ugly miss

I think it’s fatigue

Udoh isn't much of an outside shooter anyways
i think it's a combination of fatigue and his range not extending that far
lee was shoved out of the way....
Barnett's airball theory been off 3 times at least
Evans is a dirty player
you have to play like that to earn a paycheck
he grabbed kamans balls

lol

Curry playing scary

playing scared you mean
it goes either way in the south i hear people say scary all the time instead of scurred

but curry playing timid is normal demeanor for him. he cant drive

What else is new?

He’s as soft as they come

what a waste of a timeout
OT but Marshon Brooks made a tweet bout Kobe and they put in on the screen and Harlan said it was Marshawn Lynch
what did Marshon say?
just complimenting Kobe(his idol got the moves, the tongue, the fro)

just Kevin harlan has been real off tonight and he said Marshawn Lynch instead of Marshon Brooks

Ugh, and Rush hit that too, but his release wasn't quick enough
only way is a lob to the basket lol
and david lee has made a 0.1 tip before

why was he inbounding?

Only Curry and Klay have a shot of getting that in time
Aint no Fun if the Homies cant
Lee, help defense at all?
Udoh cleaning up at the rim!
Lee getting bailed out again

Clumsy Lee

Feels like Rush has really cooled off

Udoh!!!

Can Warriors just tank

I want Andre Drummond

udoh does seem to be a good offensive rebounder

he's good at boxing his man out

he just doesn’t always secure the rebound

and offensive rebounds you aren’t boxing out obviously, so he can work to get the ball

if you can get inside position, you're still boxing out

generally speaking i mean, the guys on offense aren’t the ones boxing out

That was an ugly miss, Monta
lol Monta, take over baby!
Monta what was that...
Even Jim knew Mo would hit that
did it look like Monta got wrapped up before that shot
Drive we are in the bonus dang it
must take the long jumper its the Warrior Way
live and die by the jumper
Telling ya

The moment we get into the bonus it becomes chucker time

Can we drive please.
Lee the softie

Thats out of your range softie.

This is going to be tough

Clippers defense now toughening up

Wee ned to draw a foul rather than

jacking up jumpers

Nice defense by the Clips
Lee refusing to pass to Curry as usual
He kinda does hoh
Udoh is 3 rebounds away from a double double
BTW, it looked as though Udoh had post position

But Rush didn’t pass to him

I think Rush didn't trust his passing ability with his defender all over him
It was good ball pressure

But Rush could have done a bounce pass, I feel

OT: This is hilarious because its so true

San Francisco

is there one for Oakland?
It's bad enough Lee is a swinging door on D

but even worse when hes simply average offensively

41 minutes

Dude is fatigued

Indeed

He totally looks like his legs are tired on those jump shots.

don't be silly

swinging doors are much better at defense ;)

Here is a genius idea

We drive, get griffin fouled out and we win

let curry shoot the ball dammit. hes wide open for a couple plays and no one is passing to him
he needs to call for the ball!
ok I just got home and turned on the game

can someone give me a quick recap

blake griffin fought nate robinson
wow. I would miss the one time there's a fight
lol JK :P
LOL

successful troll. nicely done

Lee great rebound there
Why can't Lee try for rebounds more often? That was nice!
LEE PASS IT TO CURRY
Rush hour 3!

I think the Clippers are in a zone, stopping the drives

Curry actually drove and kicked

lee passed to curry! then curry to rush!

Can we DRIVE
Curry drove and got open Rush

Monta drives and gets the bucket.

everyone but curry getting the ball
Great defense!

Lee help defense stopped the Blake drive!

Lee's getting fouled like crazy!

No homer

he really really is

but i like that he gave up on complaining

he’s trying his best to play physical back the other way

Monta floater!

Yeeeeaaah!

uh oh Udoh is down
What the hell happend to Udoh
oh no

Ekpe…

Just when things go well for us, this happens

udoh down with a knee? not good

ok no beans no udoh tankarific!
hope it's not torn ligament
It better not be the ACL or MCL
didnt look too bad

Oh no… Udoh’s down

Just our luck

right when Udoh proves he deserves PT something like this happens

lets go udoh!!!! get better

just bone on bone, he’ll be ok

wth is up with warriors and injuries
The replay doesn't look that bad
Looked like a banging of knees

hopefully it’s just a bad sting

thats a penalty in hockey!
just a bruise i think
When our player is doing good suddenly Boom
just imagine if we won those games
I still think the Warriors pull this one out

They are due of one of those wins

LOSE THIS GAME!

We’re 8th worst and its a lot easier to get the draft pick now than a playoff spot!

Okay Warriors have to start winning these close games

Means now

we believe lol that era is over kid
he can walk fine
Dom blocked CP3!

great defense!

Mcguire is a baller on D
Dom is a keeper

Lee almost losing it… i was scared

if only Dom had some skills on offense

if he was even an average offensive player he’d be very worthwhile

Paul been grabbing Curry's arm all night
no one id rather have shooting those fts
shame he doesnt know how to get to the line more often
okay DUBS you better win the next 7 if you win this one
Those are all road games
I said this before

They will go on a three game win streak to regain playoff “momentum” because that’s what they do

we already had our streak we don’t need another

No, but the Warriors always go on a win streak when it seems like the season is over

yeah i know :(

Looks like this is the beginning of that 3/4 win streak

nah not with the road trip coming up. we’ll save it for late march/early april when it’s REALLY meaningless

No, that's when we go on a ridiculously long winning streak

Right now we will go on those “mini-runs” that the front office uses to keep up fan excitement and to keep selling tickets

maybe i can't tell the difference

a 3 game winning streak seems rediculously long to me when it’s the warriors

March/April is when we go on a 7 game win streak or something

Right now we will go on a mini run where we get several victories and make it seem like we are contending for the 8th seed

not necessarily 7 in a row

we just win like 9 of 13 or something like that

True

Anyways, I think we beat Phoenix on Wednesday and go into the All-Star break on a two game win streak. The front office will trumpet it and stand pat during the All-Star break, and then later on in early March we will go on another losing streak, everyone will panic (again) and we end up trying to do a trade but failing (again).

lol road trip coming up

Clutch Curry FTs

up 5

nice ass block by dom
lol its good udoh went out
Did Fitz just credit Monta for defending CP3
It was good defense...
fans shouting Beat LA
they only shout that against the LAkers
BEAT LA
Beat Warriors South!
Beat Warriors South LA no more
DUBS BALL

whats up

Hahahahaha

Griffin throws it away!

LOL Blake threw it away
BLAKE GRIFFIN

YOU MAD?

Nate with the nail in the coffin!

Clippers did not foul!

LOL clippers defense are so clueless
WERE GUNNA WINNNNNNNNNN
That's how you dont panic Blake
lol

nice last pssession. Clippers should’ve fouled

Warriors have this one
That's the problem with Nate

Everyone tries to use him like a PG.

i mean he's 5'8 how else you gonna use him

unless you got a healthy 2006 Shaun Livingston or Baron at point and a Bynum or Dwight at center

Well

That’s Nate’s problem. He’s a SG in a migdetball body. Lots of energy, too dumb to run an offense.

that was so very nice

Paul mugged Steph that entire time then they give up the duece
blake griffin was being selfish

he didnt want to foul! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

He didn't want to foul out of the game
so if riley said we'd play udoh more if we lost the next couple games

and then we won when he played a lot of minutes, does that mean he’s gonna go back to not playing much?

Warriors got it!

Woo hooo!

CP3 LOCKDOWN.

GO HOME BUDDY.

lol Paul wanted to stat pad SO BADLY right there
1-0 with Udoh as a starter

interesting

SSS doesn't really need to be said here does it?

But yeah, Ekpe > steaming pile of shit.

how come we keep beating legit teams and not the scrubs
cuz we are trolls
trolling the top lottery picks
We play hard against the legit teams

but not the scrubs

cant they choose one

either win or lose!

Rush should definately be starting over Dwright
mcguire should start over dwright

better defense and hed prob score more pts too

im telling you...udoh as a starter will win us WAY more games.

man did he play great today.

He showed a variety of moves and good instincts with the basket.
as long as Ekpe just banged the knee

he deserves to start at center from here out

there is absolutely no argument to be made for me

he’s just better

sure he’s smaller

but we don’t have a real center anyway

i’d rather go small with better players like Dom and Ekpe

Wright definitely needs to sit for Rush or Klay

they look much more smoother on offense

I think McGuire could be a solid bench 5 in the future as well

mcguire is more of a perimeter defender
Yep Udoh looks good
Cp3 use up all his scoring

on the 2nd quarter

If we only won the Memphis

Or Portland, or Utah, or the first Memphis game…the list goes on….

LEBRON TWEETED

shout out to Monte… whoops Monta.

hes trying to fans in the bay

not happening for me :D

What if he signs with us after his contract is up?
strike 385

GTFO LeBron

is it me or did cp3 just pass it to himself?
he bounced it off the defender
CP3 may have injured his hand

Clippers just couldn’t execute any offense down the stretch.

Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith, Clippers announcers

They spend the whole game just bashing the Warriors, gleefully pointing out how the Clips are better at every position. Suck it Lawler and Smith…

Lawler must have been going nuts with the "Bingo" saying.
that is a lot of bingo

on both side of the floor

if we had jeremy lin we would be better at the point guard position
Ugh Lin again

it start with the Nets it ends with the Nets

i hardly call it ending

dude had a pretty good game

ekpe udoh earned big brownie points tonight
Del Negro, by the way, is a terrible coach
its easy to hide when you have

paul and griffin

The Ekpe era starts NOW!!

Yep. Better late than never!

I better not see Andris in the starting lineup again...

He’s a guy who flat out doesn’t WANT to play.

Udoh looked great.

it just makes u wonder why it took so long for the team or jackson to clue in..
I did not want to expose my secret weapon

To the rest of the NBA – We are going to the playoffs time to believe.

its about time
we have to play beans though, otherwise we will never be able to trade him
maybe if we don't play him

people will forget how bad he is

then people will also forget that he exists
how many years does Beans have left on his contract?

he could be traded as an expiring contract soon

2 more years after this one

with an opt out clause for that last year (guy can hope right?)

sounds tradable... sorta... sigh..
dammit. nevermind

That amnesty on Bell was worse than I thought

Yeah, it’s too bad the league can’t offer some kind of provision whereby you can get rid of an onerous contract without it counting against the cap… >:-(

Oh man that would be perfect for Biedrins!
if such a provision does exist, we would surely be using it on beans
either that or get really bold and use it on Lee
The guy averaging 20 and 10, or the guy averaging 2 and 4?
The guy that is getting paid 80 mil or 27 mil? ( :
Wait...

Who’s trolling whom?

are u calling ME the troll?

haha

J/K
i know lol.. i was too.. will the real troll please stand up!
so who starts at center from now on?

lee or udoh?

It doesn't really matter
Udoh definately... with Tyler to back him up....
i think we found the tank commander
Tyler? They wont even give him the keys...
i meant you lol
HAHA I would happily accept! I would run it flawlessely (sp)
Udoh!

This should be an indicator to any good center out there how good we can be. Add into it that Ekpe is better fitted to the power forward position.

Please, Dwightttt!!!

that would be so nasty!!!!
Hey guys!

Congratulations for beating the Clippers!

Im as big on Udoh as anybody is but he’s 15 lbs away from being a C.

hes pretty muscular as is

when you’re that large, height and weight mean less and less and intensity means more and more

He's not a C

But he’s better at the C than anyone else on the roster right now

I agree, Until its time to defend Bynum or Dwight.

I dunno....

….. I think Lee is often more effective at Center… on D, and especially on offense. Udoh seems to get pushed around more by big offensive centers. Lee is terrible on rotations and help, but is actually OK one on one.

I dont see him gaining 15 either...
altho, it seems he has gained a little sinjce last year....

I think Ekpe could defend 80% of the C’s in the league. I think Gortat will give him problems wednesday tho.

thats more nash's doing than gortats tho

We need a upgrade at the 3. Beasley plz.

he's monta 2.0....

i thought you were all about efficiency

start rush

+1 start with starting rush
i'll do ya one better

curry
klay
rush
lee
udoh

monta as the sixth (though I’ll admit he looked pretty good tonight)

yes, I fully agree with that lineup! ellis and dorell off the bench sounds like a deep team!
No

He’s just another high usage chucker.

This team needs a chucker. When Steph starts thinking about Charlotte and how he cant wait to get there during the game we only have 2 guys initiating shots.

Steph is a restricted free agent

He’ll be here for another 4 years after his contract is up

makes u wonder what offers he will get that we will have to match.. I bet the clippers make us over pay cuz of what we did with jordan LOL

Im happy Lin took away the NY option from Steph. MJ being cheap and Kemba may take the Charlotte option. The Lakers can clear cap space and make a offer.

Wanna bet? Tell him that cuz his mind is already there. Steph has shown no indication he wants to be a Warrior for the long term.

neither has anybody else on the roster

your point?

basketballs a business. you follow the money.

No dude.....

…. unless you have a tattoo of the bridge on your body, you’re not a real Warrior.

Dont have to have a tatt like Monta. Nobody doubts Monta wants to be here. He never mentioned playing for another city. He said he wanted to retire a Warrior. You’ll never ever ever hear Steph say that.

Even if Steph would prefer another team....

… do you blame him? He’s had 3 coaches and 2 owners in 3 years… even though he’s a fan favorite (which I know pisses you off) he’s still has to play second fiddle to Monta… despite every possible stat showing he’s more valuable when it comes to wins.

Why would you expect loyalty to a team that doesn’t show loyalty to you? He would be stupid to not explore other options if the franchise doesn’t turn around in the next few years.

Monta has had the same amount of coaching swaps as Steph if not more yet he never shows disloyalty. Steph is a star in the Bay. Its not many places he can go and be a star while not being a dominant player. This team has marketed him very well here. Why would a fan defend a player not being loyal? How can he be more loyal to a team that didn’t draft him or pay him?

Its not about the money. If ppl followed the money Chandler would be a Warrior. Steph has not shown 1 indication he wants to be here. Lacob would pay him as much as any other team would.

if you expect every player on the roster to somehow show their long term commitment

than your expectations are far too high

you cross bridges when you get to them.

If u really wanted to be somewhere it would cost you nothing to say you wanted to be there long term. In fact it would put more pressure on the front office to pay you alot to keep fans happy.

Right... it's not about money....

…. why would you expect someone to show loyalty to a team that hasn’t shown complete loyalty to you? And why would you respect someone who shows that loyalty despite what has actually happened?

Steph isn’t crying about not being in a big market… in fact, you’re talking (making shit up based on vague comments, actually) about Steph going to a worse team than he is already on.

Doesn't matter

he can’t go anywhere because we can match any contract he signs.

He’s gonna do the same thing Brandon Jennings is about to do. Just watch. Brandon just made the mistake of saying he’s looking to go to a bigger market. Steph is more tactfull than that.

What's Jennings gonna do?

Milwaukee has his rights. He can’t go anywhere. What is he going to do, refuse to play?

Only sign a 1 year deal when his contract is up and become unrestricted.

And leave lots of money on the table?

I don’t think he does that

brandon jennings

has a lot more going for him than steph does right now. hes allowed to say those types of things

Udoh

This guy is nothing but a sixth or seventh man in a rotation. He has almost zero offensive game, he is a mediocre rebounder, a nice defender and shot blocker. That comes out to a bench player and nothing more. Looking for more from his skill set isn’t realistic.

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