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10
Apr

Game 78: Warriors 105, Timberwolves 89

Timberwolves 89

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Warriors 105
April 9, 2013 1 2 3 4 T
Timberwolves 26 28 16 19 89
Warriors 26 29 31 19 105
  Net 0 1 15 0 16
  Season Avg -0 0.5 -0.5 0.8 0.8
  Compare to Season Avg 0 0.5 15.5 -0.8 15.2
 Warriors Stats
  FG% 3P% FT% FTA Fouls OReb TReb Assists Steals Blocks Turns POTurns PIPaint FBPoints
Game 42.9% 41.7% 77.3% 22 19 12 60 24 7 6 13 21 34 20
Season Avg 45.8% 40.3% 79% 21.4 21.4 10.7 44.9 22.5 6.9 4.2 14.8 17.4 38.3 14.8
Difference -2.9% 1.4% -1.8% 0.6 -2.4 1.3 15.1 1.5 0.1 1.8 -1.8 -1.9 -4.3 5.2
 Net Comparison
  FG% 3P% FT% FTA Fouls OReb TReb Assists Steals Blocks Turns POTurns PIPaint FBPoints
Net Game 6.2% 4.8% -2.7% 2 -1 6 16 -5 1 0 -3 -9 4 9
Net Season Avg 1.9% 5.8% 4.3% -2.6 -2.2 -0.4 2.1 -1.1 -1.3 -0.7 -1.8 -3.5 -2.2 0.9
Net Difference 4.3% -1% -7% 4.6 1.2 6.4 13.9 -3.9 2.3 0.7 -1.2 -5.5 6.2 8.1
Minnesota Timberwolves
STARTERS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
Derrick Williams, PF 20 2-8 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -21 5
Andrei Kirilenko, SF 21 4-7 1-1 6-6 0 4 4 2 0 2 1 2 -17 15
Nikola Pekovic, C 26 2-8 0-0 1-2 1 6 7 0 1 2 1 3 -20 5
Luke Ridnour, PG 21 4-6 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 3 1 0 0 1 -20 8
Ricky Rubio, PG 22 0-10 0-3 5-6 0 5 5 6 1 0 2 2 -18 5
BENCH MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
Chris Johnson, PF 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0
Dante Cunningham, PF 24 5-10 0-0 1-1 1 2 3 1 1 0 2 2 +2 11
Chase Budinger, SF 27 7-15 2-4 1-2 3 3 6 1 0 0 1 2 +1 17
Mickael Gelabale, SF 5 1-3 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 -1 2
Greg Stiemsma, C 22 3-7 0-0 0-0 0 9 9 3 0 2 0 1 +4 6
Alexey Shved, PG 27 1-6 0-2 0-0 0 3 3 9 1 0 1 2 +4 2
J.J. Barea, PG 20 4-10 3-7 2-3 0 3 3 4 1 0 2 1 +3 13
Kevin Love, PF DNP LEFT KNEE
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
33-90 7-19 16-20 6 38 44 29 6 6 10 18 89
36.7% 36.8% 80.0%
Fast break points:   11
Points in the paint:   30
Total Team Turnovers (Points off turnovers):   10 (12)
+/- denotes team’s net points while the player is on the court.
Golden State Warriors
STARTERS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
David Lee, PF 33 6-12 0-1 3-4 3 9 12 5 1 1 4 0 +16 15
Harrison Barnes, SF 26 6-11 1-1 2-2 3 7 10 1 0 0 1 3 +23 15
Andrew Bogut, C 30 1-3 0-0 0-2 1 13 14 2 0 3 3 3 +12 2
Stephen Curry, PG 39 9-21 2-9 4-5 1 3 4 10 1 1 3 4 +12 24
Klay Thompson, SG 36 10-19 6-10 4-4 0 3 3 2 5 0 2 4 +13 30
BENCH MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
Carl Landry, PF 18 2-7 0-0 1-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 +3 5
Draymond Green, SF 8 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Richard Jefferson, SF 6 2-3 0-1 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 +5 4
Festus Ezeli, C 15 0-2 0-0 3-4 3 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 +1 3
Jarrett Jack, PG 23 2-8 0-1 0-0 0 4 4 2 0 1 0 4 0 4
Kent Bazemore, SG 6 1-2 1-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Andris Biedrins, PF DNP COACH’S DECISION
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
39-91 10-24 17-22 12 48 60 24 7 6 13 19 105
42.9% 41.7% 77.3%
Fast break points:   20
Points in the paint:   34
Total Team Turnovers (Points off turnovers):   13 (21)
+/- denotes team’s net points while the player is on the court.

 Flagrant Fouls: 1 GOLDEN STATE ( J Jack 1 )
 Technical Fouls: PLAYERS: 1 MINNESOTA ( L Ridnour 1 ) – TEAMS: None – COACHES: None
 Officials: Dan Crawford, Eddie F. Rush, J.T. Orr
 Attendance: 19,596
 Time of Game: 2:03

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9
Feb

Preview: Warriors at Mavericks

Golden State
Warriors

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Dallas
Mavericks

American Airlines Center
5:30pm | CSN-BA

2012-13 Meetings
November 19, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 105
Mavericks 101
 
January 31, 2013 • Recap
Mavericks 97
Warriors 100
 
February 9, 2013 • Recap
Warriors 91
Mavericks 116
 

The Warriors desperately need a win tonight to salvage something on this trip. The Mavericks played the dubs pretty well in Oakland a few weeks back without Nowitsky, so I can say I’m optimistic tonight without Bogut (and maybe Jack again).

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27
May

SF Warriors: Our reactions

Mike:
Assuming they pull this off at the Pier 30/32 location…

I’m excited about the move. The Warriors need a new arena, and San Francisco is really the only option: they can get private backing for a SF arena — which they won’t get in Oakland — and lord knows Oakland can’t afford to chip in any cash (nor SF, for that matter). Their luxury suite revenue will increase by orders of magnitude, and along with more corporate sponsorships they’ll vault into one of the top revenue teams in the league (meaning paying the luxury tax can co-exist with the profitability that Lacob has promised his investors). From a business and team revenue standpoint, I don’t think the move can really be argued.

As for the fan vibe, while it’s sure to be different, the fan mix was going to change regardless if the team ever got good (when ticket prices would surely rise), so in my opinion the only way to preserve the exact same vibe at Oracle is for the team to continue to suck indefinitely. And I don’t think it’s going to automatically become a wine-and-cheese crowd in a new arena — this is a great region for basketball fans, and that location couldn’t be more convenient to Oakland outside of being in the actual city (and as someone who used to live on the Pittsburgh-Bay Point line, the new spot will be a more convenient BART ride than the Coliseum is).

So my bottom line is that while change always means losing some of the things you love, in the overall scheme of things this should lead to a more successful franchise that is still incredibly convenient to the vast majority of the current fan base. It will still be the Bay Area’s team, just in a stunning new location. I can’t wait.

Jake:
I spent 8 years living in Berkeley and Oakland and I grew up in the North Bay as a fan of the East Bay teams so I have a special place in my heart for Oakland. I think I understand its grittiness, its underdog mentality, and in some ways its superiority to that City across the Bay. Granted I have not been to an A’s game in over two seasons so maybe I am a part of the reason as to why they are trying to leave too. But I just cannot give that ownership group any more of my money when it requires an hour and a half drive from Santa Cruz to get there. But enough of this tangent and on to another.

During the 2007 We Believe season I was working one night a week in a bar in San Francisco and living near Lake Merritt. It was not a sports bar, but rather the type of place that B-Diddy (Mojito) and Capt. Jack (Hennessey) might stop into after a game or on a night off. None-the-less when I was working Warriors games were on the TV. Maybe one person in the half empty pre-DJ hour bar would care. Glance up from their 5th drink and look back down into half full glass. While Oakland was believing for a solid month suddenly something changed in SF. It didn’t change until game 80 though. By the playoffs all of sudden everyone in SF was a Warriors fan. Blue and gold everywhere. A full bar 60 minutes before tip-off. All eyes glued to the single TV, beers in hand waiting to erupt.  People walking by on the street would run in at the roar of the crowd and stay. The bus stop outside our door unofficially moved inside under the TV. Half-time was a chaotic cluster-f of pouring. Just a few games into the next season and it went back to one or two people staring blankly at the TV. So yes, this was a long way of saying that SF fans are a bit fair-weather and the atmosphere in the new arena will be different than Oracle. At least until the Warriors are good again(?). And if they start giving players stupid, cute animal nicknames just to sell merch … I will lose my sh*t.

Correct me if I am wrong but the new collective bargaining agreement will increase luxury tax penalties as the years go on, making it less and less of a regular tool for many teams to us. So color me a bit skeptical that the new arena will lead consistent luxury tax spending by the Warriors.

That being said, the arena on Piers 30/32 will be beautiful and amazing. It will be easier for East Bay fans coming over on BART than the China Basin site would have been too. This is not baseball though where the ballpark is so much a part of the experience. Sitting outside with a nice view of the bay and East Bay, during a slow moving game at ATT is part of the experience. Yes, the new arena will be beautiful, but at a basketball game much more time is spent looking at the court, not at your surrounding views. The only time one will really experience the architecture is out on the concorse buying a $15 beer. However, basketball is becoming a stat heavy sport, so they could do a lot of cool tech things to enhance the game experience.  Free WiFi, ordering food to your seats not just the luxury boxes, Twitter based contests, instant voting for players of the game etc (just don’t milk us for $0.99 every time we want to participate, make it part of the whole ticket package). I also have to give the ownership group a lot of credit for privately funding the arena. No way that happens in Oakland, and no way tax dollars should be spent on making a private entity a bunch of money. I am okay with some tax breaks, as surely the City of SF will benefit from the new arena, just look at what the area around ATT was like 20 years ago.

Its just hard not to feel a little punked and sad, but at least the Warriors aren’t headed to Anaheim. I think I will be a little less forgiving if the Warriors aren’t consistent playoff contenders though. Or at the very least they better entertain me with what it will cost for a ticket. Note: David Lee putting up 15 & 15 in a losing effort is not entertaining.

Christian: (in poem form)

 Overwhelming Ovations Occasionally Overpower Opposition

Accept mediocrity, sustain hope

Kinetic underdogs crest anon

Look for logic, laud loyalty

Asshole owners disable Mueli magic

Native soul, not corporate cash

Damn. Davis’ Dunk Delivers enDuring Delight

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22
Apr

Preview: Warriors at Timberwolves

Golden State
Warriors

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Minnesota
Timberwolves

Target Center
4:00pm | CSNBA

Official Game Preview

2011-12 Meetings
March 19, 2012 • Recap
Timberwolves 97
Warriors 93
 
April 4, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 97
Timberwolves 94
 
April 22, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 93
Timberwolves 88
 
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16
Mar

Duke

Our blog founder, Mike D. went to Duke. Just saying. Feel free to comment.

(yes, us other blog author Cal and UCLA Alum have very little room to talk, but today we do)

We are all Mountain Hawks tonight.

Welcome Home Monta.

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14
Mar

The Day After

As one could see from my tweeting last night (@kirkland_j) I was not thrilled with the Ellis trade to say the least. Now that some time has gone by I am a little more open to the idea that this was a decent deal.  I just have a hard time believing that this was the best they could get for Monta Ellis keeping in mind that the Warriors also gave up an expiring contract, and a promising defensive minded player in Udoh, who was by all accounts doing everything that was asked of him.  This isn’t a roster, reset and blow it all up and start over. This was a trade made with the idea that they were one player away from greatness and that player is Andrew Bogut.  I am sorry but I still don’t buy that argument. Heck, I am not demanding or expecting a championship. Maybe that makes me a bad fan, but a fun to watch playoff team is okay with me at least for a few years. The #8 seeded We Believe team was one of the funnest times I can ever remember being a sports fan. Even for someone who bled Green & Gold in the late ’80s early ’90s. I will be okay with a few years of 7-8 seeds. I am just really not sure this gets the Warriors there.

So I will start with the Pros and there certainly are some out there:

  1. The tanking of 2012 has begun and Stern cannot get mad. Maybe the Warrior’s keep their number 7 pick, maybe they don’t. If not, they better lose their 2013 pick or this trade will have been an unmitigated disaster. 2013 may be a better year to lose a pick and it *should* be a pick in the high teens early 20s. I still think it will be hard for them to be bad enough to lose the pick unless somehow Stern helps them move up in the lottery.
  2. It does sound like Curry is being shut down for the time being. This is a really really good thing. Maybe the best thing to come from the trade.
  3. Monta was going to become a problem.  I am not sure I believe this but he was obvisouly getting tired of it being Steph’s team when Steph has done nothing to earn it. I do think he would have opted out of his option year in 2013-14 so the Warriors only had next year to turn it around before he left.
  4. Finally broke up the backcourt that was never going to work. And for that matter how in the heck is a Monta Jennings backcourt ever going to be much better.  WTF Bucks?
  5. Biedrins is going to have to play again. I see this as a good thing because he cannot possibly have less value. This forces him into games where he can either get enough confidence back or be so much further embarrassed that he too opts out and runs back to Europe
  6. If Bogut is healthy he will be a great asset. I just don’t think it is likely he remains super healthy (see cons)

Some cons:

  1. Would have rather seen Curry go at this point and it sounds like maybe the Warriors were thinking the same thing, but because of the ankle Monta was worth more.
  2. Andrew Bogut has missed 100 games in the last four years. Yes this is roughly the same number of games Monta missed, but remember he missed his in a freak moped accident, not hurting himself over and over again playing basketball like Bogut has done.
  3. I don’t think a big guy like Bogut will ever be as healthy as he was before this string of injuries.
  4. Capt. Jax is back. Not a good thing. The window for the Warrior’s flipping him is so small (he has to pass a physical) that he will be with them for the rest of the year.
  5. Your Golden State Warriors offense now centers around DAVID LEE.
  6. Giving up Udoh hurts. Giving up your best player hurts, giving up cap space hurts and then to top it all off you give up the only player in the trade who has the potential to get better.
  7. We get to hear more about ALL-STARS David Lee and Andrew Bogut while neither one are likely to ever be an All-star again.
  8. No more Monta post-game interviews.  Seriously I am going to miss those.

Overall, my disappointment in the trade is not that Monta is gone.  I can totally live with that. It is that the Warriors got such a small return on him. Maybe we were all kidding ourselves when we thought Monta was a valuable asset, but the Warriors gave up the three most valuable pieces in the trade: the best player, the young potential player, and the expiring contract.

I tended to agree more with these two takes than the local Warriors blogger’s very positive takes.

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2
Feb

Preview: Jazz at Warriors

Utah
Jazz

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Golden State
Warriors

Oracle Arena
7:30pm | CSNBA

Official Game Preview

2011-12 Meetings
January 7, 2012 • Recap
Jazz 88
Warriors 87
 
February 2, 2012 • Recap
Jazz 101
Warriors 119
 
March 17, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 92
Jazz 99
 
April 6, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 98
Jazz 104
 

The Warriors welcome the Jazz to Oracle tonight. What to watch for:

  • Take Advantage: As Kawakami has been pointing out recently, the Warriors have had an incredibly soft early season schedule in terms of Easter Conference teams, home games,  and opponent back-to-backs. They have the last two working for them tonight, and they need to take advantage of it.
  • First Team: The bench famously closed out the win on Tuesday against the Kings, so it will be interested to see if the starters are hungrier tonight. Can they “force” Jackson to leave the on the court during crunch time?
  • Rebounds: Despite the win against Sacramento, the Warriors got killed on the boards yet again with a -15 margin. The Jazz can play big up front with Milsap and Jefferson, so the Warriors bigs will need to step up to avoid another double-digit margin — and a likely loss if the trend continues.
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14
Jan

Preview: Warriors at Bobcats

Golden State
Warriors

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Charlotte
Bobcats

TWC Arena
4:00pm | CSNBA

Official Game Preview

2011-12 Meetings
January 14, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 100
Bobcats 112
 

Kinda distracted by another game so no keys to the game tonight…

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1
Nov

Happy Opening Night

Its a good time out!

FU NBA.

 

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25
Jun

Trading Biedrins


Marcus Thompson has a Biedrins trade rumor post up. The deal would be Biedrins for Hasheem Thabeet and Jordan Hill.  First wow, those were some amazing busts especially Thabeet.  Even if you thought Thabeet was not the #2 player in the draft (I was in this camp) you could not have thought that he would never be a serviceable back-up defensive center.

I have to admit that at the time of the Biedrins signing I thought it was a great signing.  The right amount of money and the right terms (non-escalating). It was obvious that Baron was a huge part of Andris’s success but I would have never predicted he would become so awful upon the loss of BD.

I have to admit that getting expiring contracts for Biedrins sounds like a great deal.  Get him off the books after 2012 and start over.  My gut reaction was DO IT NOW!!! But after 5 minutes of thinking of it I can see why the Warriors may not want to make that deal.  As MTII points out they don’t have anyone one better to replace him with and he can only improve from his disaster last year. Maybe Jackson thinks he can do something to bring back a bit of the old Beans working out in Oakland during the off season, I don’t know.  I really want him to get better and be the 10-10 guy but I just don’t see it happening.

I would make this trade but it is not a slam dunk no brainer. Or maybe it is and I am over-thinking it. DO IT NOW!!! or maybe next week after mulling it over again.

Photo of a Photo by Rineke Dijkstra