Listen, I Realize the Season is Almost Over and all...
Why does Geoff hate good reporting? I swear, by this point, it appears that he knows what should be written and defiantly refuses. To wit, a sentence from my game notes: "If Jason Richardson is not the lead tomorrow, Lepper has taken this thing to a whole new level." I honestly did not think it was possible to fuck this story up. I was wrong. Let's review: Richardson scored 27 points on a not-horrible 11-24 from the field and added 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in 42 minutes. Simply put, the man was all over the floor and would not let his team lose (I think I'm becoming Lepper with all these cliches). So, not only does our hero lead with his slurp-fest on the two rookies (whom, admittedly, both had solid games), he doesn't even mention Richardson until the 11th paragraph (!!!). Granted, his paragraphs are really tiny, but still. Not only that, check this out:
-but also more subtle items that are absent from your morning boxscore. Like the time Ellis deflected a Phoenix pass right to Jason Richardson but received credit for neither a steal or an assist on Richardson's one-on-nothing dunk. Or when Diogu set a solid screen to halt the pesky Shawn Marion in his tracks, creating a wide-open 3-pointer for Richardson, who drained it for part of his team-high 27 points.
He only mentions Richardson in passing to continue his verbal blowjobs of Ellis and Diogu! Several theories come into play here: 1) yet another shitty Warriors season is wrapping up, let's concentrate on the future, i.e. these two promising rookies; 2) Richardson has either ass-fucked someone in Lepper's immediate family and neglected to ever call again or stolen a girl from Lepper; and 3) Since Ellis and Diogu are rookies, they are naive and don't know which reporters are worth talking to and which aren't, so they give Lepper pretty good quotes, while Richardson just stares past him like he doesn't exist, which he may as well not. Out of these theories, only the first makes sense, so I'm going with the latter two.
Since Geoff desperately wants to talk about Monta and Ike, I guess we can indulge him.
The list of great big man-small man combinations in the Warriors' West Coast history can comfortably fit on a Post-It note. One of those tiny ones.
Hilarious.
In the 1960s, there was Wilt Chamberlain and Guy Rodgers. The next decade, Nate Thurmond and Jeff Mullins took up the torch. And for one brief season a dozen years ago, Chris Webber and Latrell Sprewell lit up the Coliseum Arena. That's about it.
That's about it? That sounds dangerously like "I think that's all but don't really want to do the research, so I'll use this wishy-washy qualifier in case I forgot someone." This lack of research is exhibited by the fact that Thurmond and Mullins started tearing it up together in '68. How about the 1987 run to the Western semis with Joe Barry Carroll and Chris Mullin and/or Sleepy Floyd? Plus, if we're going to include the Webber/Spree year, I might be able to sneak in a bunch more questionable ones. Not only is Webber hardly a big man, Sprewell is definitely not a small man. Ask P.J. Carlesimo. Plus, that team got swept in the first round of the playoffs. I understand that all is relative and this probably still qualifies as "lighting up the Arena" in Warriors-world, but come on.
Diogu didn't start but spent the majority of the game at center against the undersized Suns — who were resting Steve Nash and Raja Bell in preparation for the playoffs — racking up 10 points, a team-high 10 rebounds and a career-high four blocks.
What makes this a good place to mention that Nash and Bell took the night off? Would their frames (6'3, 195 and 6'5, 204 respectively) have really helped out the power game?
However, this is all moot, as Lepper's presence once again inspired the troops to defeat a Western-conference juggernaut. More importantly, the Warriors improve to 2-0 since we created this site. We may have to keep it going next season (assuming Lepper is still employed, of course, which is by no means guaranteed) and watch a run to the conference finals.
Finally, nothing beats inter-blog networking. Shout out to the boys over at Golden State of Mind since one of our readers informed us that they linked us.
Another game tonight! However, it's in Portland, a marathon hour and a half flight away, so Lepper will most likely not be in attendance.
-but also more subtle items that are absent from your morning boxscore. Like the time Ellis deflected a Phoenix pass right to Jason Richardson but received credit for neither a steal or an assist on Richardson's one-on-nothing dunk. Or when Diogu set a solid screen to halt the pesky Shawn Marion in his tracks, creating a wide-open 3-pointer for Richardson, who drained it for part of his team-high 27 points.
He only mentions Richardson in passing to continue his verbal blowjobs of Ellis and Diogu! Several theories come into play here: 1) yet another shitty Warriors season is wrapping up, let's concentrate on the future, i.e. these two promising rookies; 2) Richardson has either ass-fucked someone in Lepper's immediate family and neglected to ever call again or stolen a girl from Lepper; and 3) Since Ellis and Diogu are rookies, they are naive and don't know which reporters are worth talking to and which aren't, so they give Lepper pretty good quotes, while Richardson just stares past him like he doesn't exist, which he may as well not. Out of these theories, only the first makes sense, so I'm going with the latter two.
Since Geoff desperately wants to talk about Monta and Ike, I guess we can indulge him.
The list of great big man-small man combinations in the Warriors' West Coast history can comfortably fit on a Post-It note. One of those tiny ones.
Hilarious.
In the 1960s, there was Wilt Chamberlain and Guy Rodgers. The next decade, Nate Thurmond and Jeff Mullins took up the torch. And for one brief season a dozen years ago, Chris Webber and Latrell Sprewell lit up the Coliseum Arena. That's about it.
That's about it? That sounds dangerously like "I think that's all but don't really want to do the research, so I'll use this wishy-washy qualifier in case I forgot someone." This lack of research is exhibited by the fact that Thurmond and Mullins started tearing it up together in '68. How about the 1987 run to the Western semis with Joe Barry Carroll and Chris Mullin and/or Sleepy Floyd? Plus, if we're going to include the Webber/Spree year, I might be able to sneak in a bunch more questionable ones. Not only is Webber hardly a big man, Sprewell is definitely not a small man. Ask P.J. Carlesimo. Plus, that team got swept in the first round of the playoffs. I understand that all is relative and this probably still qualifies as "lighting up the Arena" in Warriors-world, but come on.
Diogu didn't start but spent the majority of the game at center against the undersized Suns — who were resting Steve Nash and Raja Bell in preparation for the playoffs — racking up 10 points, a team-high 10 rebounds and a career-high four blocks.
What makes this a good place to mention that Nash and Bell took the night off? Would their frames (6'3, 195 and 6'5, 204 respectively) have really helped out the power game?
However, this is all moot, as Lepper's presence once again inspired the troops to defeat a Western-conference juggernaut. More importantly, the Warriors improve to 2-0 since we created this site. We may have to keep it going next season (assuming Lepper is still employed, of course, which is by no means guaranteed) and watch a run to the conference finals.
Finally, nothing beats inter-blog networking. Shout out to the boys over at Golden State of Mind since one of our readers informed us that they linked us.
Another game tonight! However, it's in Portland, a marathon hour and a half flight away, so Lepper will most likely not be in attendance.
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