bruindre

The most underrated part of the Warriors streak is the scrappy defense they're playing. It's the same reason they finished last season 16-5 to get into the playoffs.

Half of the games the W's have won in this period in time have been closer than necessary because of the freedom of the players to chuck up 30+ 3-point shots a game - when they aren't falling (as in the Sacramento game Tuesday night), you keep a sub-par team in the game.

My concern is Nellie shortening up his rotation already 20 or so games into the season. He's got a promising young rookie in Brandan Wright - who HAS SHOWN good performance (esp. rebounding) when Nellie actually puts him into a game. Patrick O'Bryant has shown to be a more than adequate replacement for Adonal Foyle. Heck, even Austin Croshere and DJ Mbenga can spell a few minutes.

The MAJOR concern, however, is a lack of legitimate back-up PG play to spare Baron Davis - who going into today is averaging 40.4 minutes played/game. The Warriors have made efforts to get Monta to fill in as a combo guard to try to help spell some minutes from Baron - at least that was the plan in training camp. Monta is too turnover prone, however, to be a legit backup PG - but this is more than made up for by Stephen Jackson's ability to see the floor (I never knew Jack was such a good passer).

I dunno about that, HB. As I said above, Nellie better learn to use and trust his bench, otherwise, this team is going to run out of gas before the All Star game.