It's tough to get out and run when you don't create turnovers and it takes a miracle for you to get a defensive rebouond. The problem is when the Warriors play the Jazz they struggle to get a defensive stop, when the Jazz do miss a shot an offensive rebound happens about 50% of the time thus limiting the fast break points. We will see a much different team against the Clippers on Friday and a similar game as tonight come Saturday. The NBA is all about matchups and quite simply the Warriors do not match up well against two teams and two teams only. The Jazz and Spurs.
YES. THE NBA IS ALL ABOUT MATCHUPS!! And you would think after getting beat in the playoffs by the Jazz in 5 games last season, that Nellie would try and go BIGGER against them, not SMALLER!!
Everyone is like well we don't match up well against the Spurs and Jazz. Umm people...Those are two teams that are the cream of the crop in the West. We made it to the 2nd round last year against the Jazz and lost and the Spurs won the Championship. So where does that leave us if we can't even match up against them??
We struggle to get a defensive stop because we are too small!!! The Jazz have big, strong guys who can bully us down low. The problem with playing small ball is our guys always start at a very fast pace, score a lot of points and then once the game slows down and our team starts running out of steam, then we start getting killed in the paint. Without Baron or Stephen Jackson on the floor, everyone looks lost. We actually got younger this year so now we have even less veteran leadership. Especially without J-Rich out there!
It's frustrating that we have three 6'10+ footers (two of them lottery picks BTW) sitting on the bench and we wonder why we can't get a rebound. And don't tell me our young guys are just not ready yet and need to play in the D-League. Well if they are not ready then that's our bad for drafting these guys! Boozer and Milsap were both 2nd rounders.
I could go on and on...I'm tired of typing. I'm just glad Elton Brand is out when we play the Clips.
PLEASE DISREGARD MY RANT!!!!!!!!! It's only one game.
All our bay area teams are sorry and if the Dubs don't get it done this year I'm going to probably...Well do nothing except spend more money going to games, drinking more 10 dollar beers, and buying more merchandise. Cuz I love sports.
Peace!