Is Don Nelson senile?

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Who you calling senile?

The Warriors are wild and crazy guys!

The thing about the Warriors is they make no sense. Basketball at the professional level isn’t supposed to work this way. In the mixed-up Warrior World, one-on-four pull-up jump shots are encouraged, not punished; a player who has been suspended six times is a source of inspiration and stability; and guys called Mully and Nellie are considered the masterminds of the operation. source

Now how many coaches tell you to shoot the ball? Now years ago while coaching amateur teams your intrepid author used to tell players if you get your shot take it or expect to come out of the game, but Don Nelson tells his players to just shoot the ball. That will get the defense to spread out.

“It’s a lot more organized than what it seems,” Baron Davis said.

It starts with rule No. 1 from coach Don Nelson: Shoot the ball.

“He actually said, ‘Don’t worry about making it,’” Austin Croshere said. “You have to take that shot in order to get the defense to extend to open things up. It’s within certain parts of our offense. To get the ball into the corner, you have to get that guy out there.”

GM Chris Mullins thinks it makes their version of small ball work. Chris was one of the all time great long range shooters, by the way. His shot was smooth and easy.

There’s nothing you can do to stop their style. You know how you don’t want to fight a crazy guy, because you don’t know what he is going to do? The same thought applies here. If the Warriors are going to shoot the first 25-footer they see, is there really any way to defend against it?

Oddly, their best player is Stephen Jackson, the prime suspect in the Malice at the Palace against the Pistons.

With the Warriors, he’s a source of inspiration. He plays with confidence, and it spreads.

“The guys on my team know that, the best player on their team, I’m going to make him work,” Jackson said.

The Warriors were 1-6 while he served a seven-game suspension for the shooting incident. Since he returned, they’re 9-2. Going back to the end of last season, the Warriors have won 25 of their past 32 regular-season games in which Jackson has played.

The Warriors play a game even stranger than the Suns, but will it be enough to win a championship?

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