The NBA season has started, and you know what that means … lots of blog posts about something that none of my few remaining readers care about!

The Lakers have pleased me quite a bit by winning their first two games without Kobe Bryant, which is basically the equivalent of finding a 100 dollar bill on the street two days in a row.

But let’s ignore that because it doesn’t say a lot about the rest of the season. What was much more intresting to me was watching the Golden State Warriors and their brand new Don Nelson Phoenix Sun style super-charged offense.

Simply put, the Warriors were awful. Worse than last year even. I’m not going to judge them and Nelson after one game, but the half-dozen teams out there who have all declared themselves "skill-ball clubs" this year should’ve watched this game.

The Warriors took 3-pointer after 3-pointer, again and again, clanking them off the rim, and generally spent the whole game unsure of whether they were supposed to run down the court or stand in place and play four-square. The Suns make it look really easy, but not only do they have Steve Nash, but even their mediocre role players like James Jones are better three point shooters than anyone on the Warriors lineup. It’s fun to say "We’re gonna run and gun and shoot the lights out!" but at some point, you have to actually, you know, make a fucking three pointer.

Not to mention the evening ended with Nelson calling Dunleavy a "disaster" and also tearing into Baron Davis. The fact that he picked on these two so virulently after the opening game sounds pretty damned bad to me. They’ve both presented a lot of evidence over the last few years suggesting that they’re morons and locker room schmucks. If they’re gonna piss Don Nelson off this bad after one game, I don’t know who’d be willing to deal with them. I’m not going to make the mistake of claiming I know how the rest of the season is going to turn out after one game, but I’m comfortable suggesting that this first game went as bad as humanly possible, short of half the players getting injured in the opening minutes.