Warriors rejected a chance at the Starting Western Conference All Star Center, and other tales of dysfunction -PLUS- He's not a point guard: Goran Dragic DOMINATED Stephen Curry.

The myth that GQ Curry was ever going to be a legit starting NBA point guard just died last night in Phoenix.  Horrible, HORRIBLE game management despite Don Nelson's first full game preparation since early December.  TWO assists?!  He looked lost and useless as a team leader and distributor at all times.  Curry is, hands down, the WORST guard penetrator from this year's draft class.  That's just shocking for a player being hyped as a difference maker upside POINT guard.  So far off the mark...

Nelson and Curry both failed miserably and it's time to make the change in the coach's seat.

There is absolutely no shame in acknowledging that the team picked Curry to score right away as a high percentage jump shooter and to add some of the oh-so-beloved Belinelli-style shit wing handles/passing versatility so the isolation scoring options are plentiful and the team's fast break acumen assured as the number one option at all times.  I nailed the Warriors' draft day philosophy of equal parts marketing ploy and Nellie Ball volume scoring bull shit to the WALL way back when:
http://chriscohansucks.blogspot.com/2009/11/matchup-weve-all-been-watiting-for.html

Curry's only passing advantage in the league is in transition offense and specifically on outlet passes off the rebound.  He seems to lead his teammates fairly well on such plays now and then, though he routinely kills the break with bad or late reads on play development and he (despite Jim Barnett's overdrive masturbation over the kid at the behest of the dwindling Warriors PR Team authority) flat out sucks at running advantage breaks thus far.  Someone should count the number of times the team fails to score when Curry leads a 2-on-1 or 3-on-1 break. 

The passes he's sometimes capable of making in transition are fair assets in a good team's offensive/circumstantial arsenal but, really, all NBA players are expected to read and push the break and those over-the-top fancy pants lobs to a lead breaker needn't be as high risk or flashy as Curry inevitably makes them.  And as for simple bounce passes?  Forget it.  Curry's a complete disaster at recognizing and executing  the most fundamental basketball pass of all to net positive outcome in actual game situations.  The break, on the other hand, is all Don Nelson thinks about.  Like really- that's ALL he's thinking about.  Easy break offense run run run chuck bull shit.  So Curry doesn't look like a lost cause on the break since the team relentlessly "drills" the break in its planning- and often head coach-free "practices."  Translation: Warriors practices are mostly pick up street ball games. 

CJ Watson looks great in the Nellie Ball "system" all the time.  Get over it, dip shits. 

The drooling masses get worked up over a hot 10-0 scoring run on some 3 pointers and dunks once every 8 or 9 games.  It's all they know and all they've got.  But it's also all Don Nelson and Stephen Curry know and all they've got.  And they really don't have it much.  Meanwhile, Curry is fouling and shooting.  Not making team offense better, not developing in half court pressure offense situations, and not leading the team at all.  Ronny Turiaf and co. have to put on this ridiculous public display of support for the brat whose arrival and silver spoon DECIMATED team chemistry.  Rowell and co. rushed to blame Stephen Jackson.  He's crazy and should have NEVER been signed to that ridiculous contract... but he seems to listen to Larry Brown under his typical 18 month probationary effort period in Charlotte (Friday!).  Just think if he were an expiring contract for the Warriors to trade to a contender right now.  Jackson didn't do anything the league didn't already know he would once the Warriors went all in on GQ Shit Wing.  But Rowell couldn't blame the locker room unrest on his draft choice debacle and the failure to land the STARTING WESTERN CONFERENCE ALL STAR CENTER due to either the kind of low-balling that made them non-players on Kevin Garnett or due to the Stephen Curry Hype Train.  So he blamed his player.  Of course.

That's Warriors basketball.

Rowell ousted Chris Mullin.  There's a lucky man now, right?  He got out of this mess just in time after bringing the organization its only years of competence, success, player happiness, and geneal professionalism.  Rowell publicly humiliated his only top shelf NBA player, Monta Ellis, stole $3 million from him, and made him live for a year under threat of having his entire life's work VOIDED.  All just to flex and to no team benefit.  Monta worked his ass off and showed Rowell what a fool he was.  Because now Rowell can't trade Monta and still has the Curry mess to try to pimp. 

Rowell lied to his chosen best players, Jackson and Ellis, after another contrived meeting of the "minds" in which he PROMISED the draft pick that became Stephen Curry would be used to acquire a difference maker.  The team pulled out of the deal on draft day, effectively, the moment they said "let's wait until we see who's there."  They never committed and, in typical Warriors fashion, never had the balls to push the button.  Amar'e sniffed them out, they low balled him, and the Warriors struck out again.

I love Andris Biedrins, I want him on the team I root for, and I don't put major faith in Amar'e Stoudemire for all eternity.  But I didn't lie to Monta Ellis and Stephen Jackson about any of this.  Now Rowell is in hard on Curry and Corey Maggette, his other brilliant signing.  So the bull shit All Star yammering from Jim Barnett and Bob Shitzgerald when the topic is Corey "empty points in worthless losses" Maggette is easy enough to decipher.  Rowell's running scared as Cohan's latest basketball-incompetent bean counter.  Garry St. Jean runs the worst post game in the league now, just for good measure. 

The players and assistant coaches know we're all watching, they know the spoiled brat was crushed to have to come to Oakland- he REFUSED to work out for the team- they know the team itself is out of ideas and out of options, and they know he's a neurotic freak when he doesn't get his personal stats.  So they have to make nice, have to mug for the cameras.  All the while Ronny doesn't rebound or defend consistently and is a caricature approaching a contract year at this point.  The other players don't know why Don Nelson suddenly threw all former arguments for young player floor time out the window when this short old rookie showed up and they're confused as hell and being ordered to sit out under crazy injury conditions in Oakland.  Really mysterious stuff.  It's getting ugly in Warriorland and the smiling faces are the surest clue that it's about to go nuclear. 

This kid's body language and flat out crazy self-involvement on the professional basketball court is disgusting.  The entire season has become all about Curry's personal success and comfort.  Every vet is ordered to cheer him up when he sulks around after his latest miserable failure at anything besides what he has done his whole life: me-first scoring against bad or no defense.  And it just looks trite and pathetic. It happens throughout every game he plays.  Those points come easy and Nellie sets him up to hit his average EARLY every game.  Some day I may run his first quarter stats for the world.  It's illuminating.  But this entire Warriors season has been devoted to not accepting a massive draft day and February failure while still planning for the Andris Biedrins contract dump trade, only now without the draft pick/Curry included.  And since the team sucks/tanks (damn those injuries!) SO bad that it may have a shot at the top pick, THAT pick is now a BILLION times more valuable than Curry!  They can't trade IT, either!  They've got JACK. SHIT. And yet Larry Riley stokes the morons as much as he can (no one's really paying attention any more besides we die hards and grisled Warriors vets) with promises of big time deals.  Uh huh.  Sure.  We're holding our breath.  Meanwhile, Nellie gets another huge point output from a shit wing D League stud like Anthony Tolliver (our new starting Power Forward) and Cartier Martin is AWESOME! 

I've got nothing against the D League. I respect it a ton.  But Nelson proves beyond all doubt that he isn't here to coach legit team ball and the parts in his idiotic slop ball offense-only attack are inifinitely modular.  This is not a good thing.  And it also means the Warriors are out of excuses when it comes to player "injuries" and "youth."  Nellie can do Nellieball all by himself.  Portland fans are wondering where this Anthony Tolliver came from.  Their version couldn't learn their systems and was lost on all sides of the ball because McMillan coaches strategy and defense and such.  Not that McMillan is a world-beater.  I think he's about done in Portland if they want to take the next step.  But the team results speak for themselves as Portland suffers through bad injuries.  Better team, harder schemes.  Smarter players succeed more than dumb ones there.  Nellie can get points out of... anyone.

It's Curry or bust for the Warriors now and they know the score.

The Warriors are committed forever now on the myth that Stephen Curry ever was or ever would be a viable starting NBA point guard on a good team.  They first thought they'd push Monta Ellis out with the little spoiled brat Hot Dog.  That ploy died when Nelson's offense turned Ellis into a fringe All Star game option and Ellis' own passing turned him into a recognizable name among league leaders in assists per game: he's all the team has going for it.  Not that Ellis is any sort of world-beating point guard on a team as poorly constructed and medically "exceptional" as this hot mess.  Not even Corey Maggette's meaningless career statistical explosion looks good.  Just imagine how far Curry's point totals plummet outside the consequence-free, minutes-overload Shangri-La of this desperate and through Warriors braintrust!  But Ellis is unquestionably the only even possibly premier starting player on the team.  And he's playing irrelevant, stupid basketball as much as anyone else.

Stephen Curry was destroyed head to head by Goran Dragic
Back to back fatigue for Curry against Phoenix, you say?  You played him 48 fucking minutes in a blowout over NJ to PAD HIS FUCKING STATS, old man.  And Corey Maggette seemed fine last night.  So the homer moron toolz and PR plants spamming fan forums posing as concerned ex-jocks and the like had better just keep their "positivity" to themselves.  They have denied that Don Nelson overplayed his players and have denied that Stephen Curry is a 6th man ceiling scorer in this league but they've lost both cases decisively.  Last night was merely a bit of icing on top of their shit cake.  The PR clowns just ate it hard. 

Brandon Jennings was ELECTRIC at True Point Guard last night.  13 assists and only one turnover.  He was an available point guard if the team wanted one at 7.  So was Ty Lawson.  They didn't really want one, as I've already covered and linked, above.  They wanted the most scoring-ready little guard they could get.  Enjoy the meaningless, useless Nellie points dummies.  While Ty Lawson posts an unreal 4.62 AST/TO ratio this month, becomes Denver's starting point guard of the future, and helps them win NOW, GQ Curry isn't progressing as a distributor AT ALL.  In fact, he's getting WORSE as the season goes on.  Worse.

AST Ratio (season)
1. Maynor - 32.3
2. Teague - 29.0
3. Lawson - 28.8
4. Holiday - 26.9
5. Collison - 26.1
6. Curry - 23.3
7. Jennings - 22.8
8. Flynn - 19.9
9. Price - 18.7
10. Evans - 18.1

January Update

AST/TO
1. Lawson - 4.62
2. Beaubois - 3.00
3. Gaines - 3.00
4. Jennings - 2.86
5. Holiday - 2.58
6. Maynor - 2.50
7. Collison - 2.12
8. Evans - 2.08
9. Green - 2.00
10. Flynn - 1.80

AST/48
1. Jennings - 9.8
2. Lawson - 9.4
3. Holiday - 8.5
4. Maynor - 8.2
5. Gaines - 7.6
6. Beaubois - 7.3
7. Collison - 6.7
8. Flynn - 6.7
9. Price - 6.6
10. Teague - 6.3
11. Evans - 6.3
12. Green - 6.1
13. Curry - 5.5

AST1. Jennings - 6.7 (32.6 MPG)
2. Lawson - 5.3 (26.9)
3. Evans - 4.9 (37.4)
4. Flynn - 4.5 (32.3)
5. Curry - 4.5 (39.2)
6. Maynor - 2.9 (17.0)
7. Price - 2.8 (20.8)
8. Holiday - 2.8 (15.9)
9. Collison - 1.5 (11.1)
10. Teague - 1.2 (9.3)