Warriors SCORE Board, 2.23.10

Previous Editions: 12.21.09 • 1.10.10 • 2.08.10 • 2.17.10

Our formula remains the same, but this time out, we're going to excise 'Buike, Randolph and Vlad and zero in on the ten Warriors we've seen lately.

Stephen Curry has scrapped his way into second place on our SCORE Board, undoubtedly one of the proudest achievements of his young career. CJ's hot week also has him on the rise. Turiaf, meanwhile, has stumbled a bit, and now ranks below Anthony Tolliver both by three of our five metrics and in total. And there's even less consensus about Monta's season than ever; PER and Doolittle's WP3K rate him as one of the two most effective players of these ten, while Simple Rating and Win Shares deem him one of the two least effective guys listed here. By the latter system, Monta's 2,073 minutes of court time have resulted in exactly 0.0 Offensive Win Shares... Raja Bell's 23 minutes resulted in 0.1. Ouch.

The overall picture remains the same: Maggette's been really good, George and Hunter have been really bad, everyone else is milling around somewhere in the middle. Curry should only continue to rise, though, as 82games has yet to incorporate the last week's worth of data. By this time next week, he may have distinguished himself as the second most-effective player on the team. Curry probably won't catch Tyreke for Rookie of the Year, as there may not be enough time to close the scoring gap, but second place is now his to lose. And considering how quiet Curry's numbers were through the end of '09, that's saying a helluva lot. It's too early to call the kid a savior, but he's looking pretty damn good.