Monty's 4Q lineup.. Thoughts?

I was actually ok with Rivers staying in for a while because he was making GSW work on defense. But Jason Smith turned in arguably his worst game as a Hornet and shouldn't have been in for as long as he was.

However, these last few games tell me that Monty is really trying to keep Davis from playing big minutes. I guess they are trying to pace his rookie year, which I'm ok with IF that's what they are doing.

Rivers definitely played well. I had no problem with him getting minutes, I just thought he should've got yanked a bit sooner.

He looked really good tonight besides missing the wide open 3

Smith looked really really bad out there.

How does a 7 footer play nearly 20 minutes and not get a single rebound?

There was one point at the start of the 4th quarter where our 5 guys had a combined 2 rebounds and both were Anderson

Davis was so in the zone. It's a shame he didnt play 35+ tonight. Smith ducking sucked

Him getting tired is no excuse. He would play the whole game if he could.

That TO by Gordon was mind blowing. He made some shots but seemed out of it

That stupid iso shot was awful too. He looked like shite down the stretch.

But he can't be perfect every game. Alas.

Gordon's big turnover was stupefying. Some turnovers come from pressure, some come from desperation . . . this one was a flat-out error.

His jacked-up long 2 when doing an iso game with Curry was lazy.

There was a good deal of laziness from his Gordonness tonight. While upsetting, it really makes me salivate at this team when he's hitting on all, or even most, cylinders.

I agree that Davis should have come back in at around 9:00 or 8:00, but he did get 32 mins...

If Davis his a couple more friggin FTs we might not be having this convo...

Warriors top 4 scorers played 36,38,38,38 mins respectively. Gravy was our leading minute getter with 34. We do need bench experience, but we are fighting for a long shot at a playoff birth, we need to play our best at least 35mins a night. Look at box scores from around the league, these guys play 38 mins and up every night. Home crowd at least deserves more of our best 7 or 8 for the most part of the game.

We nearly had that game. We really did give it away, but we did give it away playing basketball. We made some really bad plays down the stretch, and it was often our best players. Davis was missing free throws. Gordon had an odd shooting night. He had one hot stretch that basically masked an otherwise terrible night shooting the ball. Given that we nearly had the game with those things occurring, I can't fault Monty too much.

My buddy and I both got one of those stress balls at the game right before the 4th. The logos are basically gone off of both.