This Week on "Golden State", Don Nelson is Capt. Obvious!
"I don't think that the mix is good enough, it's just like with oil and water," Nelson said before Tuesday's game. "They're both really good players, but we need somebody that can guard a 2. Especially when you get into the good teams, the 2's are 6-foot-7, and Monta's not a very big guy."
I guess I can't fault Don Nelson for this one. I mean, when someone asks why you aren't playing your two shoot first, defend maybe (but probably not) undersized off-guards together, there's really only one thing to say and that's the obvious.
Of course, I don't think that means that you have to go so far to demote Jamal Crawford completely and never let the kid off of the bench. But hey, this is how Nellie works. If I was Jamal Crawford, I'd almost start thinking about filing a harrasment claim against the Warriors. Either they should offer to buy out the rest of his contract or leave him alone. Stop jerking him around and bad-mouthing him in the hope that he'd get so sick of it that he'd do the dumb thing and opt out of his contract.
On the bright side for the Warriors, Brandan Wright returned and is looking OK and Anthony Randolph continues to show some promise. I doubt those two can really work side-by-side any better than Monta and Jamal but at least they give the Warriors a couple of trade assets (or one trade commodity and one young talent to hold onto). And Corey Maggette continues to put up numbers off of the bench which might lead to some GM being foolish enough to deal for his crappy contract this offseason.
