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    Azubuike, Wright to start; could Watson join them?

    The changes for the Warriors aren’t just limited to the front office.

    Brandan Wright will start this evening at power forward, replacing veteran Al Harrington, who was set to see a doctor Friday afternoon for an MRI on his sore lower back, which he said has been hurting him since training camp.

    And Kelenna Azubuike will open on the wing in place of Corey Maggette, who still holds out some hope that he might be able to go Sunday in Sacramento. Maggette’s right hamstring, which he originally hurt in China, is now healed. The left one, which he strained in Memphis last week, is still questionable.

    (As a funny aside, Maggette can practically qualify as an M.D., at least in hamstrings, after injuring them twice last season and twice more this season. “I’ve learned how to read my own MRIs,” Maggette said. “The doctors come in, and I say, ‘Those white lines (micro-tears in the muscle fiber) don’t look good.’”)

    Harrington said he tried to keep his own injury quiet early on so it wouldn’t jeopardize any potential trade opportunities, but “since the trip to Toronto (Oct. 31), it’s been killing me.”

    It also wouldn’t shock me to see C.J. Watson, who played 42 minutes in the 111-101 win over Denver on Wednesday and provided 14 points, five rebounds and four assists, replace DeMarcus Nelson in the starting lineup, although coach Don Nelson has declined to discuss any potential changes there.

    Don Nelson did allow that guard Marcus Williams has “made weight” and will suit up, so the inactive list looks like it will be Maggette, Harrington and mostly likely either Richard Hendrix or Anthony Morrow.

    After the 7-1, 265-pound Marc Gasol just toyed with the Warriors in the paint on Monday, this seems like the right time to finally deploy Hendrix. After all, if you’re going to have a (team-high) 255-pound plodder on a high-tempo team and you don’t use him in this situation, then why on Earth is he here?

    – Geoff

2 Responses to “Azubuike, Wright to start; could Watson join them?”

  1. Joe November 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    “Don Nelson did allow that guard Marcus Williams has “made weight” and will suit up,”

    If Marcus’ problems with Nelson have been weight related, i.e. too much weight, then I am all for Nelson benching him. That’s not stubbornness, it’s basic acceptance of responsibility and frankly, parenting 101.

    Love and Logic: If Marcus can’t make weight then he can’t suit up.
    “An example of the Love and Logic™ theory might be allowing a second-grader to decide how much he prepares for a spelling test. If he says he doesn’t need to study and ends up with a poor grade, that’s a teaching consequence. “

  2. commish November 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Geoff, a little off this topic, but here is another rant about Nellie. Now tell me if I’m wrong because I never played basketball growing up, but didn’t Nellie’s coaching in the third quarter of the Memphis game tonight doom our team? By that I mean why did he go with the smallest possible lineup while we were getting pounded on the boards and our three guards on the floor were being toyed with by the like of Warrick and Arthur and Gay? I am serious, dude, I don’t know the answer to my own question but it sure seemed stupid to me to get us buried in the third and then try to come back, which we almost did, in the fourth.

    On a positive note, Nellie actually gave incredible playing time to his bench, at least a good portion of it. I just don’t understand why Williams, Nelson, and Watson all had to be on the floor at the same time with Marco filling in as well. This, of course, is with Wright and Randolph sitting on the bench along with Ronny. Wow, what a genuis Nelson continues to be.

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