Early on it seems like everyone on the W's is shooting well. Curry with some nice half-court passes, Kwame actually playing good defense and man handling Boozer/Noah a bit, Monta doing well on offense but Thibodeau is attacking him on defense.
Ish-Monta-Rush-Udoh-Kwame lineup going right now. Bench showing some nice defense and Rush hits another 3. Monta dominating the ball but hes driving and dishing a lot and Steph seems unable to penetrate at all.
After one both teams shooting the lights out. The difference is a) turnovers and b) Monta was pretty hot and was the only Warrior to play the whole quarter. Warriors collapsed on everything in the paint and got a lot of turnovers under the rim there. Thibodeau sat his starters early, Rose included, last night because they weren't playing D or something. Not sure if he did the same tonight but it seemed like the starters were out at least half the quarter.
Thibs plays a 2nd unit pretty much as a whole. Not sure why he rested Boozer and Rip so early. David Lee lit us up, but I think Boozer was guarding Kwame Brown. I think I'd play Rip as many minutes as possible, only resting him when he says he's tired.
Kwame can't finish sh*t near the rim lol but hes getting active and drew two fouls in a row on offense. He and Udoh are a pretty rudimentary 4/5 but its nice to see them rotating, boxing out, bodying up, etc.
Wow, Klay gets into the paint and finds Kwame again under the rim, this time upen for the dunk. On the ensuing play Kwame pickpockets someone (CJ Watson?) playing the pick and roll 35 feet from the rim. Klay finds Curry for 3 on the break. Loving Kwame's activity right now and although he isn't much of a shot blocking presence hes definitely a space eater and no one is moving him around down low on defense.
Rip was owning Monta. Lee is killing it but he looked great last night too. Hopefully he can return to his 09-10 all-star year form.
All of a sudden Steph getting hot. Warriors hitting everything, Bulls defense doesn't look as good as usual though.
Warriors look like they can do no wrong right now. Bulls got nothing on either side of the ball. Could be a product of being of getting an emotional win @ LAL then a road back to back here.
Monta just got naked on the sidelines at timeout for some reason lol. J. Tyler and trainers covering him with towels. Curry with another great find for Kwame under the rim. Misses again under the hoop.
GS up 16 at half. Dorell misses another 3. Looking passive through 1 and a half games and not hitting his 3's. What's most annoying about that is he continues to take wide open spot up 3's a few feet behind the line. Step the eff in please. Brandon Rush is hitting those open 3's, taking what the defense gives him as far as getting into the lane, and playing with a lot more energy. Hes definitely starting to eat into DW's minutes IMO.
Curry appears to re-aggravate his ankle sprain. Jesus. It was an unnecessary fast break too where the defense had the advantage.
Korver raining 3's to make it a 6 point game. Interesting closing lineup out there after Curry went down: Monta, Rush, Wright, McGuire, Lee. I like that Jackson showed the ability and willingness to go with both small and big lineups to our advantage. The roster lacks some talent and skill but we've got the pieces to throw a lot of different looks out there.
Good win for the dubs against a quality team. They played really good team defense and had everything going on offense. Monta and Steph both played very efficiently and had great games. Lee had another good game, he again looked like the guy I was expecting when we signed him. Loved Brandon Rush and Kwame Brown tonight. Brown had an excellent stretch at the end of the first/beginning of the second quarter and played solid again in the second half. He was better than his stats indicate and his +21 is an indicator of that. Rush also played better than his stats and his +11 suggests as much. Really like that pick up. Wright and Udoh were pretty meh. The Kwame/Udoh duo does shut it down in the paint though. Ish Smith was pretty bad. Klay had some good and bad, still missing a lot of open shots but somehow he looks better out there than his stat line suggests. I like the minutes hes getting- enough for him to learn but not so much that we're all sitting here bitching and moaning that MJ is playing this dude who isn't getting it done. McGuire didn't do a whole lot but I like him. Rebounds and plays D, you can use him as a smallball PF or added depth at SF. Beans wasn't glaringly bad, though he and Lee tip way too many rebounds. He and Kwame are proving to be surprisingly different players. yes they're both defense/rebounding/no offense types. Biedrins has no offense but Kwame has NO offense. Kwame can definitely handle himself against big ass front lines, when he was out there he was the guy doing the man handling and that was against a pretty good, tough Chicago team. Beans might be the better guy when you want to clear the glass and keep up with smaller/faster teams though. In any event, Kwame had a hell of a game and I hope he continues to play well (its a contract year for him) and if Beans keeps it up he'll regain some trade value.
First, Stephen Curry should get healthy again by resting his ankle sprain. That said, if he can play like tonight most of the time, then it would prevent Monta from dominating the ball. Sometimes, Monta tries to do too much with it and is labeled a ball hog. If Steph can dominate the ball in a good way like tonight, then he will be the one driving the offense. Last season, he had a run of good games, so would like to see him be more consistent with his ball handling and moving the offense. Monta would become the receiver instead of the initiator most of the time and that would improve our team. I admit this is easier said than done. Maybe Curry will see he can be the man on this team and be the distributor. He should be the one to dominate the ball. PGs who have developed would be Kyle Lowry or Mike Conley. When they first started, they weren't give the respect they are now.