Talked earlier tonight to assistant coach Keith Smart as the Warriors, enjoying a rare day off on their China trip, were on a bus heading to the Great Wall for a bit of tourist time.

Smart said point guard Marcus Williams will be available Saturday afternoon (Friday evening for those of us in the Pacific Time Zone). Apparently he tweaked an ankle in a practice after the team arrived in China (so his numbers to this point were not affected by injury), but practiced Thursday and was deemed good to go.

I asked Smart about what Williams needs to show the coaches in these last two exhibition games to lock in his spot in the rotation heading into the regular season.

“He continues to do what he does real well — passing the basketball,” Smart said. “But it’s a new idea to him, to run all the time. He has to get into how we play, which is push the ball up, and then get people into scoring areas where they’re comfortable. It’s still early in training camp. He has time to get that down.”

** Alert viewers noticed problems in the scoring during the Warriors’ loss to the Bucks on Wednesday, a game that was eventually judged to be a 98-94 win for Milwaukee. The Warriors left the floor thinking they had lost by only three points due to various scoring changes throughout the game, and didn’t find out the corrected final until they were on the bus.

“We could have went to overtime and been down by one,” Smart said with a chuckle.

One problem was that there were no dedicated scoreboards in the stadium at Guangzhou. All the game details were shown on two Jumbotron-style screens, which was fine during the game. But when play was stopped — the times when coaches are much more likely to double-check things — the scoring information was replaced by videos.

“One minute you look at the board and see the score,” Smart said. “During timeouts, you’d see ads being shown.”

** As for the final inbounds play, when the Warriors thought a 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left would tie the game, the breakdown came when Marco Belinelli looked over his right shoulder and veered away from the pass by DeMarcus Nelson, who “did a good job trying to lead (Belinelli) to the corner,” Smart said.

** Smart had no word on which veterans, if any, might sit out Saturday/Friday’s…