Pre-Season Game #2: Remember How Encouraging Game 1 Was?
October 8th, 2009 | by jruss |All of that Warriors good will that was generated with a nice first game pre-season win against the Clips was forgotten by tip-off of game #2 against the Lakers. Warriors were down 13 after the first quarter and it was never even close. The game really started going down hill about 1:23 seconds into the game when Monta stepped on a camera man on the sidelines after missing a jumper and sprained his ankle (yes the bad ankle). Supposedly isn’t too serious…supposedly.
I certainly don’t want to put too much stock into this game as it is pre-season and it was against the Lakers but some stats that stood out to me:
- Only two players who had + ratings on the floor… Speedy Claxton and Acie Law who finished with 16 points and made 11 of 12 free throws in over 20 minutes of garbage…I mean playing time
- Some really bad shooting nights tonight from Stephen Jackson (1 for 9) and Stephen Curry (5 for 15), although Jackson did lead the team in assists with 5
- Anthony Randolph had 18 points and 12 boards… pretty solid game
- Morrow finished with a team high 25 points and was only 33% from beyond the arc
- In addition to Monta, other injured Warriors included Azubuike, Deavan George, Rony Turiaf, C.J. Watson, and of course, Brandon Wright
- On the Lakers side, only stat that really jumps out is that Ron Artest was +25 in 23 minutes and Andrew Bynum was +36 in 30 minutes…that’s just straight up ridiculous!
Tags: acie law, Andrew Bynum, Anthony Morrow, Anthony Randolph, Antoine Walker, Brandan Wright, C.J. Watson, Deavan George, Kelenna Azuibuike, Monta Ellis, Ron Artest, Rony Turiaf, Speedy Claxton, stephen curry, Stephen Jackson
