Getting an early start on this...
So the "new" Warriors ownership is 30 games into its first season of games after making clear, decisive, and loudly touted moves over the Summer. Those moves include the Ekpe Udoh drafting, the Jeremy Lin signing, the David Lee signing, the Rodney Carney signing, and the Dorell Wright signing, and the very strangley timed but public- and disruptive-as-possible Don Nelson canning. Don't bother arguing with any of that, it was all Lacob and his close friends, Robert Rowell/Chris Cohan. Peter Goober has no input, thank god, and no basketball knowledge of any sort while he sits in the Los Angeles home for the VAST majority of Warriors home games.
They've already burned through a full season's worth of typical Robert Rowell/Ray Ridder/Dan Martinez excuses (We don't own the team yet! We just got a new coach! What a tough schedule! Damn these injuries! Refs hate us!) and have had Bob Fitzgerald making most of them with some help from the usual team-sponsored "media" sources and fan forum moderators. So that's all out there, it's all the usual Cohan era bullshit, and of course a 3 game win streak against the Kings, the dying Blazers, and the Iggy-less, road-terrible, young and questionably designed 76ers after their road back to back has turned into today's Playoffs! mantra. On the Sixers apologism here: no one is bragging about beating the Warriors or Sixers this year. No one. For a reason. But they start younger and run younger on the bench than the sort of ancient Warriors. And they have a TRUE new coaching hire to work on while evaluating established All Star pieces who either aren't All Stars any longer or need a new situation. Etc. Not a great rebuild thus far in my opinion. But a victory over a rebuilding team is no major victory and the league knows this.
So here we stand: 12-18 with a 5 game road spell coming up that should result in a minimum of two wins if the team is worth even half a shit, more than that if it's as matchup and pace savvy as Nellie Ball fanatics calling for the fast break to cure all ills claim it might be after we scored a few FB and hot 3 point chucking points vs. terrible, terrible defense in Sacramento and vs. the Sixers. We shall see. Kick off vs. a VERY beatable, mismanaged Atlanta team today, then a full day off before Stephen Curry's home game in Charlotte. Charlotte sucks as bad as the Warriors, if not worse. NO excuses for losing that game. None. Miami is a Loss. Orlando should be a loss but the Warriors can score in bunches and the Magic play no defense. That one might be a crazy game that leads to FAR more pro-Warriors, anti-Magic noise than it reasonably should. But Otis Smith vs. Joe Lacob/Chris Cohan is always a good one. Then the Warriors wrap with a must-win vs. the dying New Orleans Hornets, who start Marco Belinelli and not Stephen Curry and have the original soft fantasy stat irrelevant PF, David West. He taught David Lee everything neither one of them knows.
All this said, the suckers and paid team apologists never rest and never admit anything any way so it's just the intelligent who can't stop hoping for a Real Change or a Real Move talking amongst themselves while the Lacob Family Plaything begins its march toward Yorkish 49erism. Their most recent attempt to diffuse the smarter fans was to joke about crusading fan media types like me. Uh huh. Their bitter anger is an easy mark. I was top tweet for a week following my Mark Price piece after a planted Warriors PR connection joked about me blogging from my mom's basement. They're very original. I was surprised to see that sort of give-in by the team's PR wings, even at a low low season point pre-Big Win Streak, but it's harmless free publicity for me and it highlights just how heavily invested in and preoccupied with the fan media game the Warriors are. You have to feel sorry for those folks. They probably don't even leave the house/office these days.
To that end, and because I have a particularly demanding work life staring me in the face in the coming weeks, I thought now might be a good time to let the hypesters, PR interns, and towel boys play amongst themselves for the trial period with their much-ballyhooed "healthy" team firing on all cylinders. Vote Dorell Wright for Western Conference All Stars!
Maybe they'll even get a little rest and relaxation in before the Big Trade Deadline at which point we become Complete Contenders overnight with the fancy Gadzuric/Radmanovic expiring deals-for-Superstar trade we're told to expect ("Big Splash").
I'm taking a 20 game vacation from the Warriors while they show us all that they're a legit playoff team like Joe Lacob said when he went on that fabled Giants postgame show back in July and promised us big things from Day One that have not happened, were never going to happen this season, and may never happen. But here's to hoping something might actually change in Warriorland for once.
See you on February 9th.
Signed,
CC
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Warriors Ditch li'l Stephen Silas: 3 Game Win Streak!
Stephen Silas went to coach in Charlotte with his daddy. He gets to hang out with his buddy Stephen Jackson again, too. Warriors had a very friendly three game stretch of easy wins vs. Sacramento and Philadelphia, sandwiched around a ridiculous atrocity of a referee display vs. Portland without Brandon Roy. 3 in a row! Break up the Warriors!
Monta Ellis: phenomenal play. Player of the Week. Bye bye li'l Stephen Silas! Have fun with your computer!
Makes perfect sense.
Mark Price still bullshit, Jeremy Lin to the D League about 6 months too late (complete waste of a roster spot), Ekpe Foyle not good.
Jrue Holiday was the correct draft pick last season, like I said.
SO much better than Curry will ever be,
Monta Ellis: phenomenal play. Player of the Week. Bye bye li'l Stephen Silas! Have fun with your computer!
Makes perfect sense.
Mark Price still bullshit, Jeremy Lin to the D League about 6 months too late (complete waste of a roster spot), Ekpe Foyle not good.
Jrue Holiday was the correct draft pick last season, like I said.
SO much better than Curry will ever be,
Saturday, December 18, 2010
New (to me) Warriors Blog to Track: Warriors and Whatever
Just found this one.
Excellent name. Effective insouciant tone. Cool stat tracking table concept. Solid Warriors link roster. Even though I'm not one of them. Check it out:
http://www.warriorsandwhatever.com/
Excellent name. Effective insouciant tone. Cool stat tracking table concept. Solid Warriors link roster. Even though I'm not one of them. Check it out:
http://www.warriorsandwhatever.com/
Friday, December 17, 2010
Reality Check.
Monta Ellis is absolutely available.
And he's not going at great rates....
3 years of Ellis for $33 million sound good?
Warriors are ACTIVELY presenting that as a "Plan B" to teams who may be dropping out of the Carmelo Anthony running. Remember, the "top" offer on the table for 3 more years of Carmelo is New Jersey's offer of Favors, Troy Murphy's corpse, and an assortment of number one picks.
If you know Robert Rowell, you know exactly what they're initially demanding for the Ellis contract dump.
And that's why you know they won't close on anything until they drop that price considerably or take back bad deals they've thus far refused when they've attempt to move Ellis with Biedrins. But reports that Ellis will fetch more than an expiring contract and change in the pre-Lockout market while the Knicks might still land Carmelo for FAR less than the New Jersey offer do not present a clear picture of the complexity of this particular trade season. And that's besides the position-parallel Chris Paul and Chauncey Billups availablity components.
One mid-level executive might have an ideal version of reality she or he is working from but she or he is a mid-level executive for a bad NBA team for a reason. The reality is, Ellis is a low-dollar trade option for most teams. Teams are beginning to put more competitive offers together for Gilbert Arenas than they have for Ellis to this point.
UPDATE: Magic are in serious talks about Gilbert Arenas per Woj and pretty much anyone you asked this week. Woj confirms various blog reports on the matter, in case you're anti-blogger. Monta Ellis will not be joining the Magic, one can reasonably assume, if Gilbert Arenas can be had at cheaper rates. But Gortat and Carter for Arenas, possibly with a first round pick, would be more than the Warriors will get from Orlando for Ellis. Kooky times, indeed. Arenas pairs with Jameer Nelson a little better than anyone on the Warriors, so this all makes fairly simple sense if it goes down at all.
More on the Biedrins dump that's likely to go down before February 24th: For the sake of appearances, the Warriors can't firesale on Biedrins as they had intended to before David Aldridge got word of the Kenyon Martin-for-Biedrins dump over the summer. But Biedrins can be had if you pay too much, for sure. This season sounds like the season they convince themselves they've turned Biedrins into a "must-go" problem like Richardson, Harrington, Crawford, Jackson, and Maggette before him.
The Warriors have developed a freakish personnel style NO ONE is emulating: They work from panic mode on initial trade discussion but then subvert their own feelers and semi-offers around the league. After exchanging a few calls on a possible deal, they counteract the established perception that they're ready to drop salary and introduce hardline, PR-friendly (does the deal risk public perception as a straight up penny pincher?) deal-breaker stop points. But they've dumped, dumped, and dumped salary every season under Rowell to this point. Teams tend to get annoyed by the Warriors and stop taking calls before they give them real value in trade but we've got every reason to expect them to successfully execute a contract dump on quality non-star players they no longer like.
They're completely paranoid and on bunker lockdown at Warriors HQ right now. Yes, still. But they're trying to keep up appearances now that they've completely failed to keep it together.
And he's not going at great rates....
3 years of Ellis for $33 million sound good?
Warriors are ACTIVELY presenting that as a "Plan B" to teams who may be dropping out of the Carmelo Anthony running. Remember, the "top" offer on the table for 3 more years of Carmelo is New Jersey's offer of Favors, Troy Murphy's corpse, and an assortment of number one picks.
If you know Robert Rowell, you know exactly what they're initially demanding for the Ellis contract dump.
And that's why you know they won't close on anything until they drop that price considerably or take back bad deals they've thus far refused when they've attempt to move Ellis with Biedrins. But reports that Ellis will fetch more than an expiring contract and change in the pre-Lockout market while the Knicks might still land Carmelo for FAR less than the New Jersey offer do not present a clear picture of the complexity of this particular trade season. And that's besides the position-parallel Chris Paul and Chauncey Billups availablity components.
One mid-level executive might have an ideal version of reality she or he is working from but she or he is a mid-level executive for a bad NBA team for a reason. The reality is, Ellis is a low-dollar trade option for most teams. Teams are beginning to put more competitive offers together for Gilbert Arenas than they have for Ellis to this point.
UPDATE: Magic are in serious talks about Gilbert Arenas per Woj and pretty much anyone you asked this week. Woj confirms various blog reports on the matter, in case you're anti-blogger. Monta Ellis will not be joining the Magic, one can reasonably assume, if Gilbert Arenas can be had at cheaper rates. But Gortat and Carter for Arenas, possibly with a first round pick, would be more than the Warriors will get from Orlando for Ellis. Kooky times, indeed. Arenas pairs with Jameer Nelson a little better than anyone on the Warriors, so this all makes fairly simple sense if it goes down at all.
More on the Biedrins dump that's likely to go down before February 24th: For the sake of appearances, the Warriors can't firesale on Biedrins as they had intended to before David Aldridge got word of the Kenyon Martin-for-Biedrins dump over the summer. But Biedrins can be had if you pay too much, for sure. This season sounds like the season they convince themselves they've turned Biedrins into a "must-go" problem like Richardson, Harrington, Crawford, Jackson, and Maggette before him.
The Warriors have developed a freakish personnel style NO ONE is emulating: They work from panic mode on initial trade discussion but then subvert their own feelers and semi-offers around the league. After exchanging a few calls on a possible deal, they counteract the established perception that they're ready to drop salary and introduce hardline, PR-friendly (does the deal risk public perception as a straight up penny pincher?) deal-breaker stop points. But they've dumped, dumped, and dumped salary every season under Rowell to this point. Teams tend to get annoyed by the Warriors and stop taking calls before they give them real value in trade but we've got every reason to expect them to successfully execute a contract dump on quality non-star players they no longer like.
They're completely paranoid and on bunker lockdown at Warriors HQ right now. Yes, still. But they're trying to keep up appearances now that they've completely failed to keep it together.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Ekpe Udoh Records First NBA Rebound in Third NBA Game!!!!!
He looked like complete garbage. 8 minutes in the league now. 1 rebound (off a free throw), 1 TO, 2 PF, 1 AST.
Puts him at 36th among all rookies, right between point guards Armon Johnson and Eric Bledsoe, in REB48 and third worst, at 12.0 PF48, among all rookies, right after Hassan Whiteside and some scrub named Ndiaye for Washington. He looked very slow, very dumb, and VERY rooted to the floor.
Puts him at 36th among all rookies, right between point guards Armon Johnson and Eric Bledsoe, in REB48 and third worst, at 12.0 PF48, among all rookies, right after Hassan Whiteside and some scrub named Ndiaye for Washington. He looked very slow, very dumb, and VERY rooted to the floor.
Hey.... it's only 8 minutes!
Mark Price: Detrimental to Team Shooting?
Mark Price arrived in Golden State as a big name former player guaranteed to correct Stephen Curry's point guard game. Uh huh. Moving on.
He was also supposed to be a possible future head coaching candidate and he was definitely supposed to work on team shooting. He's the shooting coach. Sidney Moncrief once held this position for the Warriors. Sidney Moncrief once completely kicked ass in that position. Look into it. As recently as 2008, no? Sid Moncrief was also a head coach candidate with ALL the makings. But he's in China so we'll just have to wait and see what Joe Lacob's next big secret plan to be awesome is. If it's Moncrief returning to coach-- SOON-- I'll be impressed.
But back to Mark Price. He was actually, technically, officially hired to teach shooting.
The team's shooting sucks ass. All year.
Currently 20th in the league in FG%. 4th in 3PT% though! 26th in FT%.
Incidentally, the team ranks 26th in the league for points per shot, too. Part of that is FT shooting but LOTS of it is terrible shot selection and weak work inside the 3 point arc. The old Warriors mantra was that a 3 pointer is worth more and, hey, you make 3 pointers and you may bump up your PPS, right? Apparently not. The fundamental stuff is THAT terrible on Mark Price's watch.
To review, the Warriors ranked 8th in PPS, 5th in FT%, 4th in 3PT%, and 8th in FG% last season. They still lost a shit ton of games but MY GOD.... that's an unprecedented shooting dropoff, even for a Mark Price coached team. The number that really stands out here is Free Throw shooting. The Warriors have fallen from .782 on FT last year to a terrible .722 this year. The big team talk point when the Warriors hired Price was that he'd help guys like Biedrins and, presumably, Ellis take the next step and become, respectively, a non-debilitating FT risk late in games and a top-flight penetration threat who makes teams pay whether they let him score once he's past them or not. But none of that seems to be happening. Biedrins was inching ever-closer to 60% on FT under Sid Moncrief. Last year was a wash but the team certainly made hay on his FT woes (16% on a handful of attempts in an injury-plagued season). Don Nelson mocked him openly and Robert Rowell's PR team missed no opportunity to start a Biedrins bashing thread in the various "fan" forums they frequent on a daily basis. And so the Price talk point-- gotta have a talk point in Oakland at all times!-- was whipped out and the world rejoiced. So far, Biedrins is at 25%, Ellis is down to 70% from 75% last year (83% the year before that) and on an ironic, illuminating side note, Ellis is shooting 3 pointers much better after putting that work in on his own time starting LAST offseason, before Mark Price ever showed up.
This isn't the first NBA team Mark Price has screwed up like this.
Price was the shooting coach for the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2007-08 season.
In 2006-07, the Grizzlies shot .465 overall, .367 3PT, and .761 FT.
In 2007-08, Price helped them to .454 overall, .349 3PT, and .723 FT, and was let go after the season.
Next, Price worked for the Atlanta Hawks for two seasons.
In 2007-08, the Hawks shot .454 overall, .356 3PT, and .772 FT.
In 2008-09, Price helped them to .458 overall, .366 3PT, and .737 FT. This incredible success was rewarded with his second tour of duty for the Hawks.
In 2009-10, Price helped the team shoot .468 overall, .360 3PT, and .750 FT. The Hawks said "goodbye" after that. At first glance, the floor shooting looks improved.
But they'd already shown improvement from 2006-07 by upping their team shooting from .444 to .454. Their primary shot takers were Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Josh Childress, and Marvin Williams. Childress went from .504 that season to .571 the following year, then he left for Greece the year Price arrived. The team drafted Al Horford and signed Flip Murray, a decent shooter. This might explain some of the minor FG% rise in Price's first eyar but we'll give Price full credit for the .010 rise in his final year in Atlanta. But they're up to #5 in the league on FG% this season and, really, you have to acknowledge Al Horford's increased role in the offense after he already improved team shooting by his mere presence as a reliable inside threat two years running before now. And the team of course had Joe Johnson bucking past trends in his contract year while Jamal Crawford stayed a bit more focused and selective while he fished for his own extension. Those extenuating contract circumstances surrounding two notorious chuckers ABSOLUTELY MATTER in evaluating the Hawk's shooting success last year. Tellingly, both have fallen off considerably this season while the rest of the team excels with Price's confining regiments and weird Josh Smith counseling sessions out the door. The team has improved overall yet again.
In 2010-11, the Hawks are shooting .472 overall, .366 3PT, and .780 FT.
As Josh Johnson enjoys his new contract, several players have made noticeable improvements on parts of their shooting games. Josh Smith is shooting FT at 70% after shooting 62% from the charity stripe last year. Al Horford has improved both his FG% and his FT%. Mike Bibby is on fire, shooting FG at .472 after a down .416 year with Price around. Much of this has to be considered incidental for now. The overall numbers seem fairly stable, too, so perhaps Price made some minor improvements and they stuck for this year even if last year's results didn't show the fruits of Price's teaching labors. Who knows? But so far, he's got three NBA teams he's left in worse shape shooting than he got them in.
This is the body of work the Warriors had before them when they brough him in as a "shooting" coach. That, and a VERY brief (unsuccessful) stint with an Australian basketball team that fired him midseason and replaced him with a veteran player on the team in a player-coach role. The team's fortunes instantly improved...
Price has a spicy coaching history from that Down Under experience and recent days. He had nothing to do with Rajon Rondo's PLAY but he was brought in by Boston to work on Rondo's ATTITUDE. Price is sort of an authoritarian's hit man. I'll spoil the punch line a bit and say this: he's a Culture Coach.
Nothing wrong with asserting a straight and narrow team philosophy, I suppose, but it can lead to problems with established players (in any professional setting) when team results in the win column are less-than-ideal:
Price has not found any measure of success as a skills or personnel coach in the NBA as of yet. But he HAS been in the Lifestyle business for a while now. He's credited as the philosophical mastermind of the "On Court Player Development" program. From their website:
I'm trying to get past the program's apparent slogan ("Family. Education. Basketball.") and the "character building and life lessons" prominence in the program's self-description to focus on the "basketball fundamentals" part. But after watching a full quarter season of Mark Price's influence up close and personal and comparing what's about to be FOUR FULL YEARS of FT damage from this guy (never mind he couldn't even cut it in Australian League basketball?!), I don't buy it for a second.
I see TREMENDOUS regression and outright suck from Stephen Curry as a point guard, shot selector, and leader. Monta Ellis is hit and miss, as well. Jeremy Lin is atrocious. Acie Law is just running shitball since his arrival. Mark Price was a good NBA point guard. He does not seem capable of making any current NBA players good NBA point guards.
I see terrible team shooting overall and the results at the free throw line speak for themselves. This is not solely about the Warriors' strange desire to hire worse shooters but take more jumpshots (so it seems in any given game, at least). Sure, swapping out Anthony Morrow's for Charlie Bell's shooting will lead to major problems, but this incredible dropoff is systemic, not individual. In fairness, Dorell Wright is a fucking train wreck when not streaking some 3 pointers in in a loose game. He's killing us overall at under .400 from the field. Vladimir Radmanovic, Louis Amundson, Charlie Bell, and Jeremy Lin are all also under .400 from the floor. AcieLaw is shooting .167 so far for the team. But he was already terrible from the floor. On the other hand, blame the team's scouting division all you like if you so choose to defend Price on all of this. I don't disagree with such criticism. They've signed a bunch of shitty players and sent some more useful skillsets packing for no good reason. But there are other warning signs that Mark Price, and those who employ him to counsel or marginalize young "attitude problem" players, are setting this team back considerably.
There has been a recent series of strange "team building" twitter campaigns from player social media outlets on movie nights and such. One of these included contrived, COORDINATED (multiple players all at once) mention of a player about to be cut, Jeff Adrien, being out on a special team dinner last weekend with Stephen Curry and some Super Great Guy Vets (maybe even Hyper Christian Jeremy Lin? He's usually in on these outings). The continual "Happy Team" and "Close Team" efforts of the PR and a select few players lending their social media outlets to the team culture cause are disturbing signs of a team that has completely lost sight of professional BASKETBALL priorities.
Mark Price may wish everyone was a tea totalling Republican Evangelical like him (I have to assume), but perhaps an actual improvement to the team's ON COURT play would be a better sign of his relevance to NBA play in the future. The guy has been hired and fired from about a job a year over the last 5-6 years it seems. Players don't like him. At all. Or so the evidence available suggests. And the results of his "coaching" are terrible. Over time. Every time. And still the primary Warriors industry seems to be soft feel good press releases and these kooky photo ops and social media campaigns. Well, Rowell and co. have tried the Great Time Out off court Super Fan string-along nice stories for years now. They don't do much for the win column. And Mark Price is already ruffling feathers while some "select" Great Guy Vets allow themselves to be planted as Keith Smart critics in recent practice reports (Practice?!). Let's not play hide-the-ball here, Warriors. We all KNOW you went cheap as hell and "hired" the shittiest head coach on the market. Keith Smart wasn't even on the market. NO ONE else was going to hire him as a head coach. No one else (in the NBA) ever will. But you're coaching Lifestyle and strange "family" ideology behind closed doors while roling out a Sunk Season with LOTS of unanswered questions like this? Really?
Why not drop the forced Happy Family stuff and make some meaningful player personnel and coaching moves now?
He was also supposed to be a possible future head coaching candidate and he was definitely supposed to work on team shooting. He's the shooting coach. Sidney Moncrief once held this position for the Warriors. Sidney Moncrief once completely kicked ass in that position. Look into it. As recently as 2008, no? Sid Moncrief was also a head coach candidate with ALL the makings. But he's in China so we'll just have to wait and see what Joe Lacob's next big secret plan to be awesome is. If it's Moncrief returning to coach-- SOON-- I'll be impressed.
But back to Mark Price. He was actually, technically, officially hired to teach shooting.
The team's shooting sucks ass. All year.
Currently 20th in the league in FG%. 4th in 3PT% though! 26th in FT%.
Incidentally, the team ranks 26th in the league for points per shot, too. Part of that is FT shooting but LOTS of it is terrible shot selection and weak work inside the 3 point arc. The old Warriors mantra was that a 3 pointer is worth more and, hey, you make 3 pointers and you may bump up your PPS, right? Apparently not. The fundamental stuff is THAT terrible on Mark Price's watch.
To review, the Warriors ranked 8th in PPS, 5th in FT%, 4th in 3PT%, and 8th in FG% last season. They still lost a shit ton of games but MY GOD.... that's an unprecedented shooting dropoff, even for a Mark Price coached team. The number that really stands out here is Free Throw shooting. The Warriors have fallen from .782 on FT last year to a terrible .722 this year. The big team talk point when the Warriors hired Price was that he'd help guys like Biedrins and, presumably, Ellis take the next step and become, respectively, a non-debilitating FT risk late in games and a top-flight penetration threat who makes teams pay whether they let him score once he's past them or not. But none of that seems to be happening. Biedrins was inching ever-closer to 60% on FT under Sid Moncrief. Last year was a wash but the team certainly made hay on his FT woes (16% on a handful of attempts in an injury-plagued season). Don Nelson mocked him openly and Robert Rowell's PR team missed no opportunity to start a Biedrins bashing thread in the various "fan" forums they frequent on a daily basis. And so the Price talk point-- gotta have a talk point in Oakland at all times!-- was whipped out and the world rejoiced. So far, Biedrins is at 25%, Ellis is down to 70% from 75% last year (83% the year before that) and on an ironic, illuminating side note, Ellis is shooting 3 pointers much better after putting that work in on his own time starting LAST offseason, before Mark Price ever showed up.
This isn't the first NBA team Mark Price has screwed up like this.
Price was the shooting coach for the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2007-08 season.
In 2006-07, the Grizzlies shot .465 overall, .367 3PT, and .761 FT.
In 2007-08, Price helped them to .454 overall, .349 3PT, and .723 FT, and was let go after the season.
Next, Price worked for the Atlanta Hawks for two seasons.
In 2007-08, the Hawks shot .454 overall, .356 3PT, and .772 FT.
In 2008-09, Price helped them to .458 overall, .366 3PT, and .737 FT. This incredible success was rewarded with his second tour of duty for the Hawks.
In 2009-10, Price helped the team shoot .468 overall, .360 3PT, and .750 FT. The Hawks said "goodbye" after that. At first glance, the floor shooting looks improved.
But they'd already shown improvement from 2006-07 by upping their team shooting from .444 to .454. Their primary shot takers were Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Josh Childress, and Marvin Williams. Childress went from .504 that season to .571 the following year, then he left for Greece the year Price arrived. The team drafted Al Horford and signed Flip Murray, a decent shooter. This might explain some of the minor FG% rise in Price's first eyar but we'll give Price full credit for the .010 rise in his final year in Atlanta. But they're up to #5 in the league on FG% this season and, really, you have to acknowledge Al Horford's increased role in the offense after he already improved team shooting by his mere presence as a reliable inside threat two years running before now. And the team of course had Joe Johnson bucking past trends in his contract year while Jamal Crawford stayed a bit more focused and selective while he fished for his own extension. Those extenuating contract circumstances surrounding two notorious chuckers ABSOLUTELY MATTER in evaluating the Hawk's shooting success last year. Tellingly, both have fallen off considerably this season while the rest of the team excels with Price's confining regiments and weird Josh Smith counseling sessions out the door. The team has improved overall yet again.
In 2010-11, the Hawks are shooting .472 overall, .366 3PT, and .780 FT.
As Josh Johnson enjoys his new contract, several players have made noticeable improvements on parts of their shooting games. Josh Smith is shooting FT at 70% after shooting 62% from the charity stripe last year. Al Horford has improved both his FG% and his FT%. Mike Bibby is on fire, shooting FG at .472 after a down .416 year with Price around. Much of this has to be considered incidental for now. The overall numbers seem fairly stable, too, so perhaps Price made some minor improvements and they stuck for this year even if last year's results didn't show the fruits of Price's teaching labors. Who knows? But so far, he's got three NBA teams he's left in worse shape shooting than he got them in.
This is the body of work the Warriors had before them when they brough him in as a "shooting" coach. That, and a VERY brief (unsuccessful) stint with an Australian basketball team that fired him midseason and replaced him with a veteran player on the team in a player-coach role. The team's fortunes instantly improved...
Price has a spicy coaching history from that Down Under experience and recent days. He had nothing to do with Rajon Rondo's PLAY but he was brought in by Boston to work on Rondo's ATTITUDE. Price is sort of an authoritarian's hit man. I'll spoil the punch line a bit and say this: he's a Culture Coach.
Nothing wrong with asserting a straight and narrow team philosophy, I suppose, but it can lead to problems with established players (in any professional setting) when team results in the win column are less-than-ideal:
South Dragons have swung a wrecking ball through their fledgling NBL franchise, sacking US basketball legend Mark Price as head coach, replacing him with Shane Heal.http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Dragons-axe-Price-as-NBL-head-coach/2006/10/23/1161455658915.html
Price, the highest profile basketball identity ever to become involved with the NBL, was hired in a blaze of glory earlier this year after a stellar playing career in the NBA.
But with the Dragons losing their first five matches, the club sent the four-time NBA All-Star packing and elevated Heal to player-coach.
Heal continued the blood-letting soon after his appointment.
His first job was sacking import Todd Fuller, a former NBA player who had been posting reasonable numbers for the struggling Dragons.
...
When he came in, everyone respected what Mark Price had done as a player, and he'll leave with that same respect of what he did as a player...
Mark was a nice enough guy, very introverted.
"He wasn't big on a whole lot of discussion."
Dragons owner Mark Cowan admitted Price's fate had been sealed last week, and the American had been asked for his resignation last Thursday but refused to provide it.
Price has not found any measure of success as a skills or personnel coach in the NBA as of yet. But he HAS been in the Lifestyle business for a while now. He's credited as the philosophical mastermind of the "On Court Player Development" program. From their website:
On Court Player Development® is a systemic approach to addressing the problems that are challenging grassroots basketball by restoring the original intention of sports participation – character building & life lessons and the fundamentals of the game in communities across the country. On Court gives skill new meaning by providing standardized programming systems that improve the way the game is taught, played and organized throughout the world.http://www.oncourtonline.com/about-us/about-on-court-player-development-leaders-in-resources-for-youth-basketball
I'm trying to get past the program's apparent slogan ("Family. Education. Basketball.") and the "character building and life lessons" prominence in the program's self-description to focus on the "basketball fundamentals" part. But after watching a full quarter season of Mark Price's influence up close and personal and comparing what's about to be FOUR FULL YEARS of FT damage from this guy (never mind he couldn't even cut it in Australian League basketball?!), I don't buy it for a second.
I see TREMENDOUS regression and outright suck from Stephen Curry as a point guard, shot selector, and leader. Monta Ellis is hit and miss, as well. Jeremy Lin is atrocious. Acie Law is just running shitball since his arrival. Mark Price was a good NBA point guard. He does not seem capable of making any current NBA players good NBA point guards.
I see terrible team shooting overall and the results at the free throw line speak for themselves. This is not solely about the Warriors' strange desire to hire worse shooters but take more jumpshots (so it seems in any given game, at least). Sure, swapping out Anthony Morrow's for Charlie Bell's shooting will lead to major problems, but this incredible dropoff is systemic, not individual. In fairness, Dorell Wright is a fucking train wreck when not streaking some 3 pointers in in a loose game. He's killing us overall at under .400 from the field. Vladimir Radmanovic, Louis Amundson, Charlie Bell, and Jeremy Lin are all also under .400 from the floor. AcieLaw is shooting .167 so far for the team. But he was already terrible from the floor. On the other hand, blame the team's scouting division all you like if you so choose to defend Price on all of this. I don't disagree with such criticism. They've signed a bunch of shitty players and sent some more useful skillsets packing for no good reason. But there are other warning signs that Mark Price, and those who employ him to counsel or marginalize young "attitude problem" players, are setting this team back considerably.
There has been a recent series of strange "team building" twitter campaigns from player social media outlets on movie nights and such. One of these included contrived, COORDINATED (multiple players all at once) mention of a player about to be cut, Jeff Adrien, being out on a special team dinner last weekend with Stephen Curry and some Super Great Guy Vets (maybe even Hyper Christian Jeremy Lin? He's usually in on these outings). The continual "Happy Team" and "Close Team" efforts of the PR and a select few players lending their social media outlets to the team culture cause are disturbing signs of a team that has completely lost sight of professional BASKETBALL priorities.
Mark Price may wish everyone was a tea totalling Republican Evangelical like him (I have to assume), but perhaps an actual improvement to the team's ON COURT play would be a better sign of his relevance to NBA play in the future. The guy has been hired and fired from about a job a year over the last 5-6 years it seems. Players don't like him. At all. Or so the evidence available suggests. And the results of his "coaching" are terrible. Over time. Every time. And still the primary Warriors industry seems to be soft feel good press releases and these kooky photo ops and social media campaigns. Well, Rowell and co. have tried the Great Time Out off court Super Fan string-along nice stories for years now. They don't do much for the win column. And Mark Price is already ruffling feathers while some "select" Great Guy Vets allow themselves to be planted as Keith Smart critics in recent practice reports (Practice?!). Let's not play hide-the-ball here, Warriors. We all KNOW you went cheap as hell and "hired" the shittiest head coach on the market. Keith Smart wasn't even on the market. NO ONE else was going to hire him as a head coach. No one else (in the NBA) ever will. But you're coaching Lifestyle and strange "family" ideology behind closed doors while roling out a Sunk Season with LOTS of unanswered questions like this? Really?
Why not drop the forced Happy Family stuff and make some meaningful player personnel and coaching moves now?
Monday, December 13, 2010
ORL/GSW Trade Talk Update
Got to assume every team in the league is working the phones like crazy this week as the big Wednesday trade season opening approaches.
Warriors have other Ellis proposals out around the league, most with Brandan Wright attached as a "freebie." On the probably-going-nowhere Magic deal, Warriors are not interested in Chris Duhon and are floating moving Dan Gadzuric for Gortat as Plan B today if they can't shed Biedrins' salary in the deal. Seems like this is a real no-brainer for the Magic, though, so hard to believe it wouldn't be done already as Duhon was the only reason the earlier deal couldn't be done before December 15th.
Warriors at least being ambitious in their attempts to unload BOTH of their large longterm commitments not approved by Joe Lacob.
We already knew, dating back to the last two seasons, that Monta Ellis was up for grabs and that he has wanted out at various points under Don Nelson and Robert Rowell. Likewise, no one is surprised to hear that Joe Lacob is not an Andris Biedrins fan. Biedrins is definitely "available" but it sounds like no one really wants him at the cost the Warriors are demanding.
Warriors have other Ellis proposals out around the league, most with Brandan Wright attached as a "freebie." On the probably-going-nowhere Magic deal, Warriors are not interested in Chris Duhon and are floating moving Dan Gadzuric for Gortat as Plan B today if they can't shed Biedrins' salary in the deal. Seems like this is a real no-brainer for the Magic, though, so hard to believe it wouldn't be done already as Duhon was the only reason the earlier deal couldn't be done before December 15th.
Warriors at least being ambitious in their attempts to unload BOTH of their large longterm commitments not approved by Joe Lacob.
We already knew, dating back to the last two seasons, that Monta Ellis was up for grabs and that he has wanted out at various points under Don Nelson and Robert Rowell. Likewise, no one is surprised to hear that Joe Lacob is not an Andris Biedrins fan. Biedrins is definitely "available" but it sounds like no one really wants him at the cost the Warriors are demanding.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Juicy Freaking Rumor: Ellis AND Biedrins Out, Vince Carter's Corpse and Marcin Gortat In?
Caveat Lector- big time early rumor week noise here.
This is a known Warriors-end proposal:
Monta Ellis and change for Vince Carter.
UPDATE: Biedrins apparently not really on the Magic's radar here, which makes pretty good sense. That's a hell of a lot to pay a backup C and he can't play the 4. But this is going to be a busy trade season so who knows what comes next if other teams like Biedrins (like Denver)?
The Warriors' probable proposal at this time also includes Andris Biedrins and their primary return there would be Marcin Gortat. Additional moving parts may include Chris Duhon, who can be traded in multi-player deals as of Wednesday, Brandan Wright's expiring contract, and the largely irrelevant rights to Fran Vazquez. I'm not sure how that part works. Do those rights ever expire? But most have said he won't play for the Warriors or anyone else off the Eastern seaboard besides the Lakers. Who obviously aren't calling Otis Smith about him. But the Warriors have been enamored of Vazquez since they failed to move Mickael Pietrus in trade and even earlier than that, apparently. Early rumors that the Warriors want big-upside but super raw rookie bigman Daniel Orton may be true but sounds like he's not being made available in return for such a hefty contract acceptance, nor will draft picks change hands.
Warriors tend to overload wish list trade rumors and usually fail to close on those rumored deals but they're coming off of recent success moving some spare parts and young names for exclusive negotiating rights to sign their primary target, David Lee, and they certainly have proven that they can close on deals that shed major salary, as evidenced by the Jason Richardson, Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, Jamal Crawford, and Corey Maggette dumps since their 2007 playoff appearance.
Reminder, for the easily excited:
My "major" breaks have been Kosta Perovic getting bought out and sent back to Europe; Acie Law getting signed (and the proper hypothesis shared by everyone else, based upon years of Robert Rowell history lessons, that Jeff Adrien and his unguaranteed contract was the cut); and Kirk Lacob being the "new" ownership's sole executive hire and becoming the youngest Director of Basketball Operations in league history. I didn't believe Corey Maggette was being traded until Dan Gadzuric and Charlie Bell were really and truly crapping on the Oracle Arena floor.
This is a known Warriors-end proposal:
Monta Ellis and change for Vince Carter.
UPDATE: Biedrins apparently not really on the Magic's radar here, which makes pretty good sense. That's a hell of a lot to pay a backup C and he can't play the 4. But this is going to be a busy trade season so who knows what comes next if other teams like Biedrins (like Denver)?
The Warriors' probable proposal at this time also includes Andris Biedrins and their primary return there would be Marcin Gortat. Additional moving parts may include Chris Duhon, who can be traded in multi-player deals as of Wednesday, Brandan Wright's expiring contract, and the largely irrelevant rights to Fran Vazquez. I'm not sure how that part works. Do those rights ever expire? But most have said he won't play for the Warriors or anyone else off the Eastern seaboard besides the Lakers. Who obviously aren't calling Otis Smith about him. But the Warriors have been enamored of Vazquez since they failed to move Mickael Pietrus in trade and even earlier than that, apparently. Early rumors that the Warriors want big-upside but super raw rookie bigman Daniel Orton may be true but sounds like he's not being made available in return for such a hefty contract acceptance, nor will draft picks change hands.
Warriors tend to overload wish list trade rumors and usually fail to close on those rumored deals but they're coming off of recent success moving some spare parts and young names for exclusive negotiating rights to sign their primary target, David Lee, and they certainly have proven that they can close on deals that shed major salary, as evidenced by the Jason Richardson, Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, Jamal Crawford, and Corey Maggette dumps since their 2007 playoff appearance.
Reminder, for the easily excited:
My "major" breaks have been Kosta Perovic getting bought out and sent back to Europe; Acie Law getting signed (and the proper hypothesis shared by everyone else, based upon years of Robert Rowell history lessons, that Jeff Adrien and his unguaranteed contract was the cut); and Kirk Lacob being the "new" ownership's sole executive hire and becoming the youngest Director of Basketball Operations in league history. I didn't believe Corey Maggette was being traded until Dan Gadzuric and Charlie Bell were really and truly crapping on the Oracle Arena floor.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Salvation! Acie Law and Epek Ohno! Bye Bye Jeff Adrien. Oh, and Rookie/Sophomore POINT Guard Stats Update
Last night the Warriors solidified their identity as a rudderless hot mess with no prayer against good teams in the NBA and probably little chance against mediocre teams, as well. We know they're ass on the road for sure. TANK! strategies already being workshopped in the War Room fan forums, in which myriad CSN, KNBR, Bay Area News Group, and Warriors team employees assault intelligent fans with Pollyanna hypesterisms and weird role playing games.
Apparently, one of them has 7 final exams he or she is in the midst of while live-chatting every single Warriors game starting during pre-game this week. Another magically showed up to bump Ekpe Udoh threads with some lovely positive sentiment and high hopes. Another started as a medical information insider but now just reprimands anyone who Doesn't Believe with charages of moronism and bold promises that this finally healthy team is about to take the Western Conference by storm.
Meanwhile, the team is playing from the same season script it always has under Robert Rowell & co. - Drop expectations to the basement, get some of the competition to ignore you, steal a few wins here and there if you can and pray the softening schedule portion results in ANYTHING marketable. The PR tactics are the same as ever, so more than a quarter through the season, it's time to really be honest about the administrative leadership of this team. We know the Hypesters and Team/Media Employees have a vested interest in weekly and daily talk points through which to string along any fans still considering buying merchandize or tickets. Lin jereseys still selling like HOTCAKES and are one of three available from a number of custom jersey vendors along with those of Ellis and Curry, incidentally. So let's talk talk points and what they're covering up as the Non Sale takes full shape in the collective casual fan consciousness...
Rasheed Malek of CSN and warriorsworld.net ran with the TEAM's talk point about Robert Rowell being "neutered" and also ran a contrived Fitz hit piece that has nothing to do with Fitz's firm, lucrative, not-going-anywhere contract with the Warriors and KNBR. Lacob and KNBR and, hell, CSN, don't eat money. They don't. They're boring conservative hacks. Come on, they feature GARRY ST. FUCKING JEAN as a BASKETBALL ANALYST for all Warriors games?! Do you folks have any clue who that jackass is?!
This entire partnership between the Warriors and local media outlets bargain shops, gripes about costs, and sits on their fucking hands while trying to cram lollipops and daisies up your ass. And the fact that they went to SO much trouble to tell us that Robert Rowell was "neutered" (what about his big time hire and grooming project, Travis Schlenk?) without once holding anyone accountable for all that suck we've witnessed over the years says about all you ever needed to hear about how Joe Lacob intends to do business. He's worse than Cohan by all indications thus far. Cheaper, snarkier, smarmier, and dumber. And he hangs out with Lakers fans. Who, oh by the way..... now own the Warriors.
Karl Rove-grade message control and story diversions on Twitter and anywhere else they can't slam you with free pizzas and Warrior Girl stripteases.
Anyway, the team seemes dead in the water these days fresh off the heels of another embarrassing undressing by a quality opponent. Folks have begun to sincerely miss Don Nelson's more entertaining losing ways as Keith Smart's very boring losing ways dawn on even the casual fan. It's too early to decide Smart's exact place in the Warriors coaching parthenon but it's definitely somewhere south of Eric Musselman and Mike Montgomery, possibly north of Garry St. Jean and Brian Winters.
Everyone is losing interest. So what better time for yet another happy story after the Amundson hype a few days back salvaged Joe Lacob's 2-9 record as owner!? Now we're 2-11 under Lacob but fear not, Warriors have TWO guys coming to save the day!
It's Acie Law and Ekpe Udoh Time!
Memphis axed Acie Law because Greivis Vasquez, a rookie they drafted with the 28th pick of this year's draft, has so badly outplayed him in every way. Acie Law sucks and I hate him. He's a terrible point guard. But if it keeps Jeremy Fucking Lin and Charlie Fucking Bell off the floor, let's do it. But since li'l Kirk Lacob the party animal can't cut his bullshit crony ticket sales gimmick guaranteed cash signing Jeremy Lin but we have to make a roster slot for Acie (Familiar Name for Drooling Slack-Jawed "Fans") Law, we'll end up axing the only unguaranteed cash on the roster, Jeff Adrien.... who is more [useful + talented + athletic] than David Lee, Ekpe Udoh, Vladimir Radmanovic, and Dan Gadzuric combined if you're trying to play legit basketball and need some mix-it-up beef inside. Go ahead and check out Adrien's production and then defend cutting HIM, of all names on the current craptastic roster, on basketball grounds. You can't do it.
It's only about the cash. Robert Rowell is STILL running the basketball decisions through Salary Protection mumbo jumbo. You fucking morons.
Happy happy. Joy joy.
Anyway, on to the numbers:
Player - AST/TO [APG]
1. Sherron Collins - 5.00 [.4]
2. Ben Uzoh - 4.00 [.7]
3. Pooh Jeter - 3.67 [5.4]
4.. Willie Warren - 3.17 [1.6]
5. Jeff Teague - 2.82 [2.3]
6. Ty Lawson - 2.77 [4.1]
7. Jrue Holiday - 2.52 [7.0]
8. AJ Price - 2.50 [2.5]
9. John Wall - 2.44 [9.1]
10. Patrick Mills - 2.42 [2.4]
11. Eric Maynor - 2.33 [2.1]
12. Greivis Vasquez - 2.31 [1.8]
13. Ishmael Smith - 2.30 [2.6]
14. Brandon Jennings - 2.19 [5.4]
15. Stephen Curry - 1.75 [5.6]
16. Tyreke Evans - 1.69 [5.4]
17. Eric Bledsoe - 1.69 [5.0]
18. Darren Collison - 1.66 [4.0]
19. Toney Douglas - 1.64 [1.9]
(Acie Law - 1.40 [1.3])
20. Armon Johnson - 1.33 [2.0]
21. Jeremy Lin - 1.30 [.9]
(Marco Belinelli - 1,27 [1,3])
Assist Rate - Usage Rate
1. Willie Warren - 36.1 - 15.2
2. Pooh Jeter - 34.5 - 21.1
3. Ishmael Smith - 34.0 - 16.0
4. Patrick Mills - 33.8 - 22.8
5. Jeff Teague - 33.4 - 16.7
6. Eric Bledsoe - 31.4 - 17.4
7. John Wall - 30.8 - 24.2
8. Jrue Holiday - 30.5 - 20.9
9. AJ Price - 30.1 - 21.7
(Acie Law - 29.5 - 16.1)
10. Ty Lawson - 28.7 - 18.7
11. Greivis Vasquez - 27.5 - 20.2
12. Armon Johnson - 27.2 - 23.1
13. Eric Maynor - 26.5 - 17.8
14. Ben Uzoh - 23.7 - 13.8
15. Stephen Curry - 21.8 - 25.3
16. Darren Collison - 20.9 - 22.7
17. Brandon Jennings - 20.7 - 26.2
18. Jeremy Lin - 20.7 - 16.0
19. Tyreke Evans - 20.1 - 25.9
20. Toney Douglas - 15.1 - 18.3
(Marco Belinelli - 10,6 - 16,8)
Apparently, one of them has 7 final exams he or she is in the midst of while live-chatting every single Warriors game starting during pre-game this week. Another magically showed up to bump Ekpe Udoh threads with some lovely positive sentiment and high hopes. Another started as a medical information insider but now just reprimands anyone who Doesn't Believe with charages of moronism and bold promises that this finally healthy team is about to take the Western Conference by storm.
Meanwhile, the team is playing from the same season script it always has under Robert Rowell & co. - Drop expectations to the basement, get some of the competition to ignore you, steal a few wins here and there if you can and pray the softening schedule portion results in ANYTHING marketable. The PR tactics are the same as ever, so more than a quarter through the season, it's time to really be honest about the administrative leadership of this team. We know the Hypesters and Team/Media Employees have a vested interest in weekly and daily talk points through which to string along any fans still considering buying merchandize or tickets. Lin jereseys still selling like HOTCAKES and are one of three available from a number of custom jersey vendors along with those of Ellis and Curry, incidentally. So let's talk talk points and what they're covering up as the Non Sale takes full shape in the collective casual fan consciousness...
Rasheed Malek of CSN and warriorsworld.net ran with the TEAM's talk point about Robert Rowell being "neutered" and also ran a contrived Fitz hit piece that has nothing to do with Fitz's firm, lucrative, not-going-anywhere contract with the Warriors and KNBR. Lacob and KNBR and, hell, CSN, don't eat money. They don't. They're boring conservative hacks. Come on, they feature GARRY ST. FUCKING JEAN as a BASKETBALL ANALYST for all Warriors games?! Do you folks have any clue who that jackass is?!
This entire partnership between the Warriors and local media outlets bargain shops, gripes about costs, and sits on their fucking hands while trying to cram lollipops and daisies up your ass. And the fact that they went to SO much trouble to tell us that Robert Rowell was "neutered" (what about his big time hire and grooming project, Travis Schlenk?) without once holding anyone accountable for all that suck we've witnessed over the years says about all you ever needed to hear about how Joe Lacob intends to do business. He's worse than Cohan by all indications thus far. Cheaper, snarkier, smarmier, and dumber. And he hangs out with Lakers fans. Who, oh by the way..... now own the Warriors.
Karl Rove-grade message control and story diversions on Twitter and anywhere else they can't slam you with free pizzas and Warrior Girl stripteases.
Anyway, the team seemes dead in the water these days fresh off the heels of another embarrassing undressing by a quality opponent. Folks have begun to sincerely miss Don Nelson's more entertaining losing ways as Keith Smart's very boring losing ways dawn on even the casual fan. It's too early to decide Smart's exact place in the Warriors coaching parthenon but it's definitely somewhere south of Eric Musselman and Mike Montgomery, possibly north of Garry St. Jean and Brian Winters.
Everyone is losing interest. So what better time for yet another happy story after the Amundson hype a few days back salvaged Joe Lacob's 2-9 record as owner!? Now we're 2-11 under Lacob but fear not, Warriors have TWO guys coming to save the day!
It's Acie Law and Ekpe Udoh Time!
Memphis axed Acie Law because Greivis Vasquez, a rookie they drafted with the 28th pick of this year's draft, has so badly outplayed him in every way. Acie Law sucks and I hate him. He's a terrible point guard. But if it keeps Jeremy Fucking Lin and Charlie Fucking Bell off the floor, let's do it. But since li'l Kirk Lacob the party animal can't cut his bullshit crony ticket sales gimmick guaranteed cash signing Jeremy Lin but we have to make a roster slot for Acie (Familiar Name for Drooling Slack-Jawed "Fans") Law, we'll end up axing the only unguaranteed cash on the roster, Jeff Adrien.... who is more [useful + talented + athletic] than David Lee, Ekpe Udoh, Vladimir Radmanovic, and Dan Gadzuric combined if you're trying to play legit basketball and need some mix-it-up beef inside. Go ahead and check out Adrien's production and then defend cutting HIM, of all names on the current craptastic roster, on basketball grounds. You can't do it.
It's only about the cash. Robert Rowell is STILL running the basketball decisions through Salary Protection mumbo jumbo. You fucking morons.
Happy happy. Joy joy.
Anyway, on to the numbers:
Player - AST/TO [APG]
1. Sherron Collins - 5.00 [.4]
2. Ben Uzoh - 4.00 [.7]
3. Pooh Jeter - 3.67 [5.4]
4.. Willie Warren - 3.17 [1.6]
5. Jeff Teague - 2.82 [2.3]
6. Ty Lawson - 2.77 [4.1]
7. Jrue Holiday - 2.52 [7.0]
8. AJ Price - 2.50 [2.5]
9. John Wall - 2.44 [9.1]
10. Patrick Mills - 2.42 [2.4]
11. Eric Maynor - 2.33 [2.1]
12. Greivis Vasquez - 2.31 [1.8]
13. Ishmael Smith - 2.30 [2.6]
14. Brandon Jennings - 2.19 [5.4]
15. Stephen Curry - 1.75 [5.6]
16. Tyreke Evans - 1.69 [5.4]
17. Eric Bledsoe - 1.69 [5.0]
18. Darren Collison - 1.66 [4.0]
19. Toney Douglas - 1.64 [1.9]
(Acie Law - 1.40 [1.3])
20. Armon Johnson - 1.33 [2.0]
21. Jeremy Lin - 1.30 [.9]
(Marco Belinelli - 1,27 [1,3])
Assist Rate - Usage Rate
1. Willie Warren - 36.1 - 15.2
2. Pooh Jeter - 34.5 - 21.1
3. Ishmael Smith - 34.0 - 16.0
4. Patrick Mills - 33.8 - 22.8
5. Jeff Teague - 33.4 - 16.7
6. Eric Bledsoe - 31.4 - 17.4
7. John Wall - 30.8 - 24.2
8. Jrue Holiday - 30.5 - 20.9
9. AJ Price - 30.1 - 21.7
(Acie Law - 29.5 - 16.1)
10. Ty Lawson - 28.7 - 18.7
11. Greivis Vasquez - 27.5 - 20.2
12. Armon Johnson - 27.2 - 23.1
13. Eric Maynor - 26.5 - 17.8
14. Ben Uzoh - 23.7 - 13.8
15. Stephen Curry - 21.8 - 25.3
16. Darren Collison - 20.9 - 22.7
17. Brandon Jennings - 20.7 - 26.2
18. Jeremy Lin - 20.7 - 16.0
19. Tyreke Evans - 20.1 - 25.9
20. Toney Douglas - 15.1 - 18.3
(Marco Belinelli - 10,6 - 16,8)
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