At home games, we’ll be doing our own transcripts, but on the road, we’ll make do with quotes from a compendium of sources:

DON NELSON

“They had their way with us.”

“Nash did what he wanted. He found holes in the defensive coverage we were playing and just lit us up. But we weren’t up to the task, so we made it pretty easy for them, I thought.”

“I was pretty disappointed in our defensive coverages. Nash is going to pick you apart whenever he can, and he certainly did. Offensively, we were inept. Other than that, we’re going home, and it’ll be Halloween.”

(On Stephen Curry)

“Hopefully, Curry will learn a little from each game. He saw a great point guard tonight, one that I know he would like to emulate.”

(On Anthony Randolph)

“He’ll get his minutes, but he’s 20 years old. We like him very much, but we want him to play a certain way.

“In the first game, I wanted to play that bigger lineup, so that made him the third power forward. But I like the way he played. I have no negatives at all about what he did when he was on the floor.”

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[Ed. note: We're going to try something new this year. After every home game, we'll be putting up the raw transcripts here. Hey, we can't depend on stenographing machine Tim Kawakami to be at every game.]

DON NELSON

Well, I guess that’s why I hate home openers. Anyway, my complaint on the game with my team is that we came out of the locker room at halftime and just didn’t have very much going. Go from 10 up to 7 down in a matter of about 7 minutes. So, that quarter was very difficult.
We’re going to have to play a lot better than we played tonight. But still, I think that quarter probably did us in. I had some guys that I expected to play at a high level. Corey (Maggette) has probably been one of my best players in preseason, and he goes 3-for-14 and doesn’t really get to the foul line like he’s used to. So that was kind of tough.

I was very pleased with Curry. I thought he and Ellis in the backcourt were good and active. We have some work to do to get Morrow more involved. Azubuike, I didn’t think would play very much, but actually he did alright when he was in the game. That was good to see. So I could probably use him more consistently.

The problem, for me, when we start the big lineup is exactly what happened tonight; we’re vulnerable for fouls. So in the first half, I had both my centers with three fouls and I had to be careful of that. As it turned out, I would have certainly lost one of them in the game with fouls and maybe both had we not substituted in the third quarter. I like that lineup, but yet it makes us pretty light at center.

So we’ll have a day of practice and go to Phoenix.

(You pulled out Curry quickly in the third quarter. Why?)

I’m not punishing anybody. I just thought I needed to try something at that point. I wanted to get Morrow back in the game, give him a chance to do what he does – stretch the defense and maybe make some openings for us. But if you don’t get him the ball when he’s open, it doesn’t do much good to have him in the game. We have to do a better job of understanding he’s our best shooter, and you’ve got to know where he is at all times.

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