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The Warriors faced another limping squad on a losing streak and kept it way too close for comfort.

Box Score

Postgame Audio Clips:

Baron Davis

Monta Ellis

Al Harrington

Don Nelson

I’m going to need a big ol’ bottle of Valium if the Dubs are going to keep this tightrope act up.

Monta Ellis scored a career-high 39 points, Baron Davis got a big triple-double and Al Harrington went crazy stupid dumb hot in the fourth quarter. But the Warriors are lucky they won this game. They played no inside defense, gave up 23 offensive rebounds and completely phoned in the third quarter.

Only the steady hand of Monta Ellis and some absolutely horseshoe-up-the-rear-end good shooting by Al kept the Warriors from serving up their second steaming pile of last minute defeat in a row.
Highlights: Baron dancing on Kidd with a behind-the-back fake to a between-the-legs dribble into a step-back jumper. Monta Ellis getting compared to Dwyane Wade on TNT. Al Harrington hitting 4 threes and the Warriors reeling off 22 unanswered points to start the fourth quarter.

Lowlights: Listening to Reggie Miller drain all the joy and mojo from Marvelous Marv Albert’s announcing. Nets players waltzing to the rim on almost every offensive position. The unveiling of the ridiculous Hack-A-Boone strategy. The Hack-A-Boone strategy failing miserably. Squandering a 13 point lead and massive momentum in the fourth quarter to eek out a win at home against a struggling team.
The Nets ran a lay-up line through the Warriors’ fluffy bunny defense all game long. Only their own inability to consistently finish at the rim or shoot the ball kept them from winning this thing.
Jason Kidd had an off night and he and Al Jefferson missed wide open fourth quarter threes that would have put them up late. Vince Carter (understandably) dismantled Baron for most of the game and Josh Boone of the unfortunate braids and facial hair dropped 21 points and seventeen rebounds on the Dubs.
Monta Ellis ruled the school in the first and fourth quarters. He scored 12 of the Warriors’ 33 points in the first and allowed them to hold on to the win with his perfect free-throw shooting in the fourth. Not only has Monta become the most consistent player on offense for this team, he was all the offense for portions of this game.

Such is the curse of expectations. Rather than be happy that our Dubs pulled out an exciting win on national television, I’m ranting and raving about how they almost lost.

Thank you Monta, thank you Al, thank you Baron and most importantly thank you Nets for being slightly worse than the Warriors tonight.

A couple of days rest and then the Knicks come a knockin’ on Sunday.