What Are They Teaching At Golden State?

Picture this! You've been there or you've seen it if you've watched a Golden State Warriors game.

Warriors go on a run, the threes are falling left and right. The ball is whipping around the perimeter and the Warriors are on fire. Five point lead goes to ten, then fifteen, our boys are humming.

Tweet! Foul! Andris Biedrins. His third foul in the first quarter. Never mind that the team is up 15 points and that layup the other team would have scored would have only amounted to 2 points.

Andris has now effectively helped the other team by taking his rebounding prowess off the floor and out of the game for an extended time. The entire flow of the game changes.

We might not see him on the floor again until five minutes left in the second quarter, because god forbid he picks up his fourth foul with another silly foul. Next thing you know the Warriors are getting out-rebounded on both ends of the floor, the lead evaporates and they're trailing at halftime.

Picture this! You've been there before. Stephen Curry, coming into his own as a point guard in the NBA, is gliding down the floor and snaps a beautiful no-look pass to David Lee for a two-handed jam that has Oracle Arena Rocking!

Next time down the floor, Curry is weaving his way through traffic, comes off the pick-and-roll and buries a three-pointer putting the Warriors up by 12. Oh, can you feel the gym rockin', as the fans are out of their seats screaming! 

Curry drops back on defense and reaches in to get a steal. Tweet! only to pick up his second foul of the quarter. No problem. Five minutes left in the half, Warriors up by 10, cool. The other team inbounds the ball, someone beats their man and Curry rotates back on defense to try and give help.

Tweet! Third foul, committed, Curry has to come off the floor. The other team goes on a 18-4 run to end the half because the Warriors floor general has taken himself out of the game by committing a needless foul at a critical point in the game. Warriors go into halftime trailing a game they had in control.

Picture this! You've seen it I'm sure. Tight game, The Warriors are going back and forth with their opponent. They score, the Warriors score. Monta Ellis comes down the floor with 18 seconds left and splits the double team, feigns left, spins back to the right, elevates and floats past the basket and drops in the most awe inspiring reverse layup you have ever seen.

Warriors up 2 with 1.6 seconds to go in the game. The other team calls timeout. This game is over folks! Oracle Arena is rockin' once again. The other team moves the ball to half court for a desperation inbounds catch and shoot.

The ball is inbounded, caught 30 feet from the bucket, he turns he shoots. Tweet! Foul, Monta Ellis. What! I didn't touch him. I just jumped past his body 30 feet from the bucket as close as I could to make him feel my presence, but I did not, I repeat, I did not foul him.

I mean you couldn't see a toothpick between us and I could feel the hair on his arms and legs as I cleverly slid by him, but I did not touch him!!

Picture this! I don't know if you saw it. But I guess they must teach it to all their players. Warriors playing good ball. They rally from a 10 point deficit. Their up one, 8 seconds left in the game, shot clock winding down. Oracle Arena is rockin'!

Dorrell Wright rotates over with Andris Biedrins to form a double team on the opposing player. He's picked up his dribble, they close in on him and the shot clock is down to 1 second. Yeah. its going to be a shot clock violation! Game over baby! Go Warriors!

Tweet! Foul! Dorrell Wright reaches in to steal the ball, even though the player had his back to the bucket,with .03 seconds left on the shot clock. SWISH SWISH two points from the free throw line. Warriors lose.

Now this is the type of lunacy and mental breakdowns we came to know and expect under Don Nelson's tenure with Warriors, but isn't the new head coach named Smart???

Dwayne Davis