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Nellie Ball works ... this time

Published Nov. 23, 2009 9:42 p.m. ET

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Game time: Warriors 108, Trail Blazers 94

This was an impressive win for Golden State, particularly since they only had eight available players — and one of these, Chris Hunter, had just been called up from the D-League.

They managed to win by executing one more variation of Nellie Ball, i.e., play small and quick and look to shoot-shoot-shoot.

Here's specifically how Nellie Ball was manifested in the game at hand.

Defense

Portland's only serious interior threat was Greg Oden. After letting their starting center, Mikki Moore, try to handle Oden unassisted with no success whatever, the Warriors began to swarm Oden every time he touched the ball.

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