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Golden State stayed home all week, and not coincidentally they went 2-1 since our last weekly report…Wednesday the Warriors suffered their most painful loss in a year full of them, a 135-133 triple-overtimer to the Kings. Jamal Crawford played over 60 minutes in defeat, scoring 35 points and committing no personal fouls…As Damon Bruce pointed out this week on KNBR, Crawford has committed only 31 fouls in 27 games despite Don Nelson seemingly playing the gunner every second possible.
Stephen Jackson came back from his hamstring injury for Friday’s startling 119-114 win over the Hawks, right after it was announced C.J. Watson would be out indefinitely with turf toe…Perhaps Watson has been doing all his cardio work on East Bay high school football fields…Isn’t getting turf toe on a hardwood court like getting shin splints in your calves?…The Warriors outrebounded the Hawks 47-39, led by 16 boards for Corey Maggette…Maggette has shot 63.2% from the field since returning from a torn hamstring, averaging 19.7 ppg and 7 rpg over 7 games and becoming one of the more valuable sixth-men in the league in a short period of time…Jackson has committed 5 or more turnovers in 12 of his 32 games…Tony Randolph has started 3 of the Warriors’ last 4 games, but hasn’t played more than 16 minutes since Dec. 23 at Miami…Good news for Randolph fans: he‘s getting to practice early and getting individual coaching and workouts from Keith Smart, Rico Hines and Mark Grabow.
Golden State won their second straight game yesterday afternoon in their MLK Day matinee, routing the Wizards 119-98…Marco Belinelli and C.J. Watson are still day-to-day with their respective injuries, though Belinelli looked near death after his ankle sprain a week ago. Maybe Marco has “turf ankle”…Janny Hu reported in her SF Gate blog that Monta Ellis’ agent, Jeff Fried, met with owner Chris Cohan, Robert Rowell, Chris Mullin and Larry Riley, presumably to talk about Monta’s moped punishment and whether or not the Warriors are still threatening to void Ellis’ contract if he can’t come back at full strength. According to Yahoo Sports, Monta may come back as early as this week…The Warriors play three more home games this week, against the improving Oklahoma City Thunder (will the guy who played the Warriors’ mascot show up to the game and get his revenge?), Cleveland Cavaliers (will they look past the W’s like the Celtics did at Oracle?) and the Clippers (where the question isn’t whether or not the fans will boo Baron Davis, but whether Baron will even make the trip to Oakland with his bum tailbone, which I know sounds redundant).
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