First of all, if Monta does not play, only 5 players would be playing so your idea was very lame, but Monta's way of playing was never conducive to winning in the long run. For the bolded part, this is Monta Ellis you are talking about. He ed about many things before that and after that too. And GSW would never have forgotten the moped incident. He scored 37 points. Impressive, and gave up 11 turnovers. The rest of the team had a total of 10. Let's take 1 turnover as 1.5 points. Monta gave up 16.5 points already. Curry = point guard. Ellis = shooting guard. I will agree he showed up doing what he does, and that is to score, but he still freezed out Stephen Curry.