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Here we go…

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The season starts tonight, and with it a slightly changed format on this here blog. With little time available this year, we’re going to start with just the basics — game previews, post-game box scores, and ongoing stats — and hopefully add more commentary as the year goes by.

The Warriors can certainly help with writing motivation by getting off to a decent start — and given how tough their early schedule is, a decent start would be something worth getting genuinely excited about.

I’m relatively optimistic, and despite being burned in the past for my optimism with this crew I still have a good feeling about this year. I don’t expect a Harbaugh-esque turnaround, but based on the limited evidence we’ve seen so far in the preseason it does look like Jackson is having them play a smarter brand of basketball.

With a young team in a compressed season, I think the Warriors are set up pretty well to take advantage of the lockout-fueled eccentricities of the 2011-12 season. I’m pegging them at 34 wins — not sure if that will be enough to sneak into the playoffs, but if they can beat .500 it will certainly represent a step in the right direction for the franchise.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/kirklandj Jake Kirkland

    I am not optimistic and will go with an ever so slight down-tick from last year giving 29 wins.  I think Biedrins will play better, but the Curry injury is going to hurt.  D-Wright cannot possibly play better than he did last year so I think he is due for a slight regression, although I still like him a lot.  Will Monta be distracted by sexual harassment suits?  The team added little, while subtracting little, but I don’t think this team is built to be a good defensive team.  Curry, Lee and Monta will not be able to play hard defense in this contracted season.  And Simmons did make a good point in his podcast that Marc Jackson was a shoot first point guard who rarely played defense so yeah.

    29-37  Ugh.

  • http://profiles.google.com/kirklandj Jake Kirkland

    Adding … Injuries this year are going to hurt harder than in years passed with the compressed schedule.  May be more likely to get hurt and more likely to miss more games.  Even flu season could cause a loss of 3 games instead of a single game. I think Curry misses at least 6 games this year (10%) and any other injury could be huge. Also, more games against the West which arguably got better this year outside of LA Lakers.  This might actually be the year the W’s can beat up on the Lakers if they are willing to run the old men out of the building.  Another reason why I would be happy to see run and gun rather than defense this year.  Just play fast and young and take advantage of tired veteran teams.