

TIM KAWAKAMI, columnist for the Bay Area News Group, on the Warriors' recent struggles:

• While Andre Iguodala and David Lee have both been working through injuries and shouldn't be judged too harshly right now, it's a problem when two very expensive players are in the lineup but disappear at the same time, either offensively or defensively or both.

Lee and Iguodala have been very good at times this season and are both very good players: Igoudala especially on defense before he hurt his hamstring; Lee was tremendous for about a month there, especially on offense, before hurting his shoulder recently.

But they're playing now. The Warriors are struggling. And you can never count on perfect health or perfect situations (that's the silliness of the FULLSQUAD mantra), so Iguodala and Lee are judged by what they do, and lately that has been far too little.

Given the Warriors' salary commitments to Lee and Iguodala that's a problem.

For all that Lee gives up defensively (or all that Bogut has to do to cover for Lee at the rim), DLee almost has to give the Warriors major offensive and rebounding totals to come out as a "plus" player.

And against teams that can spread the scoring out among several perimeter players, Iguodala's D doesn't mean as much because he can only guard one opponent"... and meanwhile that can put Thompson and Curry in some vulnerable match-ups.


Yes, the Warriors essentially used the money they didn't pay to Jack and Landry to acquire Iguodala, which I thought and still think was a wise move.

But "... right now the Warriors really could use what Jack and Landry provided.