OPTIMISM!!!!!

Well the Warriors didn’t get the win today, but they did find the energy and grittiness that they have been missing the past 3 games. The Warriors fell to the Detroit Pistons 85-97 today, but this was a game that showed promise in a couple of areas. Like I mentioned before, the Warriors played a lot better today. The effort they gave today would have beat Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia, it is just too bad that they had to put up the good effort against the best team in the NBA. They should gain confidence from their play today and we will hope to see it continue the day after Christmas when they play the Denver Nuggets. The REAL bright spot of this game though was Ike Diogu. He finally got some decent minutes again and what did he do? He put up 27 points, leading the Warriors in scoring and only falling a point shy of the 28 points that Detroit’s Richard Hamilton scored. Diogu showed an array of moves that seemed to scream to every Warrior fan “FOYLE SHOULD NOT BE STARTING ANYMORE!!!” Sorry about that, but it is clear that Foyle’s unproductive minutes offensively and defensively cannot be acceptable anymore. The Warriors need to have that inside scoring punch that only Diogu seems to have on this team. The other bright spot that came most likely because of the production of Diogu was in that the Warriors only shot 11 three pointers the entire game. This is coming from the team that averages about 27 a game. This is a great sign to me. Granted the Warriors only scored 85 points, but it was also against one of the best defensive teams in the league, so you can expect bigger scoring from the team against the rest of the league. The rest of the Warriors didn’t really have great games. Troy Murphy had 11 points and 11 rebounds, Baron Davis 14 points and 10 assists, and Jason Richardson had 14 points and 9 rebounds. The scoring was all below their season averages, but attribute that too the emergence of their Beast Ike Diogu and that this was the Detroit Pistons. Well that is it for now, but I am optimistic about the Warriors play again and I have three words to Coach Montgomery “UNLEASH THE BEAST!!!!!”