Maybe Steinmetz is trying to fool other teams into biting on offers for Ellis.

Jeff

p.s. I agree with you, but shhhhhhhh!!!!!

I would trade either Ellis or Curry for Bynum or oden…I can add in Udon if U must.

At the end if we dont find a good coach and a Post player, if Ellis is traded now, we will be talking about getting rid of Curry in 3 years.

Remember Beindris 3 years ago? A lot teams wants this young Center with great hands, there is no way we would trade him unless its for a hall of famer, and now….he shouldn’t be in the NBA now. What about A. Randolph? I say…trade them all…get one superstar player and starting building with him. There are none on this team now.

The choice between Curry and Ellis is easy. You keep Curry.

At best, Ellis is an average scorer (efficiency-wise) who relies mostly on his athleticism. People get too enamored with Ellis’ highlight plays that they forget he often shoots the Warriors out of the game.

I admit, I love Ellis and love what he can do, but his game is limited. He’s a volume scoring, undersized 2 guard that cannot defend. He gets a lot of steals but how many of his steal attempts fail and how many of those failed attempts lead to the other team scoring?

Soooo, short story long, I’m with you on this – and if they give up one of Curry/Ellis I can’t make a choice right now. Anyone want Biedrins?

Finally, for a team that is struggling to find production from the bench, especially at backup PG, it seems obvious they would let Lin get some run. But instead, Curry and Ellis are playing 40+ min games. I’m not sure whether it’s Smart wanting to develop some cohesiveness with the starting lineup or he just doesn’t have confidence in the bench, whatsoever. I mean, last night against the Heat, he ran the starting lineup deep into the 4th quarter when they were down by god knows how many points. It seemed a little cruel.

We can argue whether or not more PT would allow him to come out of the wood works, but we can only guess as to why he’s not getting (consistent) PT and why he’s not showing he can run an NBA offense.

I would argue that he’s just not ready, mentally. On defense, he seems physically capable of being decent (I think he gets around screens better than Steph Curry, if that means anything).

By going to the D-League, he’d get consistent minutes and wouldn’t be restricted to just dribbling across half-court and passing the ball. He would be given a little more freedom. And that’s part of the problem I see with Smart. I appreciate him not wanting to run-n-gun the Don Nelson way, but it seems to be bottle-necking the decision making for some of the guys.

Until then, Coach Smart is paying lip service to his emphasis on defense. And we’ll see the same story night after night with the W’s trying to crawl back into games with hot shooting.