The Golden State Warriors can put a lot of points on the board and can be an exciting team to watch, but they play terrible defense and are killed on the glass nearly every game.  They are giving up league-highs in points per game (111.8), field goal percentage (48.8%), opponents’ rebounds per game (46.7), and rebounding differential (-8.7).  The Warriors due lack size, but defense and rebounding has more to do with effort than size, so they are just not getting physical enough.  When you give up over 110 points per game and are getting out-rebounded by nearly 10 boards per game, you are not going to have a lot of success.  It doesn’t matter how many points Monta Ellis, Corey Maggette, and Stephen Curry score, because when you can’t defend and rebound you are not going to win.  The lack of defense and rebounding are the reasons the Warriors are 12-28 this year.

The Warriors need Troy Hudson to step up so they can keep Baron Davis fresh this season but he’s doing a poor job this month. Hudson has played in 4 games this month and he has averaged 14.0 minutes, 2.8 points, 1.0 rebound and 2.0 assists per game. He also is shooting poorly as he is only hitting 22.2% from the floor this month.

Mickael Pietrus needs to regain his form to keep his starting job with all the new players around for the Warriors. In his last 4 games he’s only averaged 7.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 1.3 steals per game which won’t get it done for the Warriors.

Here is a guy that has averaged double figures in points 4 times in his 5 year career, he also has averaged 10+ rebounds three times but he doesn’t seem to fit Don Nelson’s style of offense thus his playing time has been cut. Murphy has played in 25 games and is averaging 8.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game this season and he needs to do better.