What was the point of going of that winning streak? It was so pointless. Last year was clear evidence that a winning streak heading into a new year isn't going to guarantee anything. Besides we ended this season with a dissapointing last second blunder so even if your hoping momentum is going to get you anywhere, that loss ruined it. This organization literally can't do anything right. I'm just happy we got the ninth pick and didn't fall to ten. Anyway we have a shot at getting somebody good. I doubt we will considering we have a horrible front office but hey, we'll see. This month there's going to be a lot of reports here and there. I'm not feeling too optimistic but what else can I do except root for my team? -I wanna go Gay...Rudy Gay that is but he's not going to fall. Rondo ain't bad. Hopefully somebody slips. That is all...
If Mullin doesn't package the pick, I want Splitter. He's the only guy that will fall that far that has real potential. We'll see. There are no impact players in this draft, so it doesn't matter if we had a top 3 pick as far as adding someone to help now (although it would be nice to us it to move Fisher... oh well).
I like Splitter. He's the only F/C prospect I think can be obtainable thx to the buyout clause in his current contract. Physically, I don't know if he's ready for the NBA, but I like his skillset. Poor free throw shooter and just an okay rebounder ,though. The way I see it is he could end up like Chris Kaman which is a pretty good thing IMO. Splitter seems very coordinated, especially up in the air. From what I can tell he seems to have a bit of power and finesse to his game which is what I like. Or... if I'm wrong he could end up being another Biedrins type project, but Splitter has played in a tougher professional league and has more post skills and a better all-around game including the passing game and defense. BTW, USDS, this was another reason why I was against playing the rookies in a losing situation and was for playing out the vets to get their values up. I am against putting in the rookies so they can end up losing the game and just pad their stats like all players who can't stand losing anymore do. This late season winning is another prime example of the Warriors only playing well when the remaining games just don't matter. So, the end of the year isn't really the best "dipstick" to measure where the Warriors are. Foyle... what an over-optimistic draft bust. Dipstick comments and everything he's said thus far is just hard to take seriously... This is a guy that has never seen the post season because we lacked the player we could have gotten instead of wasting picks on him and guys like Joe Smith and Todd Fuller. On the positive note, we keep working toward improving the inside-outside design of our team and work on our defense, it should develop a lot better chemistry over time. Then Montgomery's coaching style would make a lot more sense, so long as guys are willing to run the plays as instructed (so we can control the tempo if the other team is quicker, but more impatient). If we run and gun and we can't shoot free throws or make three pointers or dribble penetrate or make layups and fail to rebound or play any defense, we'll still lose. So, I hope we can improve in numerous ways in each of our starting five positions and our bench. Coaching is important in the playoffs, but to make the playoffs a better team design with experience/chemistry will equal the winning game record. Not the coaching. What do we want? The 8th seed playoff berth? That's as good as a step forward, then three steps back. We get at least a 5th seed type talent, then we can argue we have a chance to go even further and then build upon that.
If the coaching sucks,then everone is running uphill with a Grand piano on his back. i began the year giving Monty the benefit of the doubt. We played good ball ending the 04/05 year...logically Monty takes what works buils on it...but NO..instead Monty thinks Fisher-Dunleavy are Jordan/Pippen,he's got dingbat gimmick D's,he either parks effective young guns or just confuses-misuses them. we get a pattern of going small or slow and blowing leads late. Monty...at courtside may as well be trippin' cause he's sure not seeing whats there. So...I am convinced now that Dunleavy can have an awful lot of 1-7 games. I am convinced Fish will slow the flow dribble about,will NOT feed inside..will decide it's up to him to shoot. Put Monty,Dun,Fish in a big sack full of rocks,drop it off the Bay bridge and we get 10 extra wins.
There are no FOR SURE impact players in this draft...but in fact,even if it SEEMS like there are,human beings are never an exact science. Joe smith was mentioned,and in fact,he did look like the best bet. well...he was not. A consensus liked Dunleavy as pick 3,I didn't,he flopped. I thought about Amare but honest..probably would have taken Gooden with the info I had. Had I SEEN Amare,which the W's should have...it's a no brainer. I'm thinking fairly careful. I see Moty on VERY thin Ice. IF he even starts the year,he could earn a pinkslip by midyear. The W's can't afford to dig a deeper hole,and Monty can't point to any NBA history. At #9 this draft has no SF or C with much chance to step in and start. A season way below expectations hardly elevated trade value so unless we deal J Rich,we probably are selling cheap-paying high.
Dude, you must have forgotten that either way we were screwed because when we play open court ball, guys like Pietrus, Zarko, Dunleavy aren't reliable as they were in those games that didn't matter last season. Plus, Fisher can't even run a fastbreak, but yet he's one of our best shooters how sad is that? Then there's not much one can do if guys can't catch the freakin' ball or score inside, create a shot, finish layups, or shoot from outside if it's the only shot that's available. Playing man to man defense or packing in the middle with zone can really tear us up and its why our offense has been ineffective fast or slow. Which is why we need some more athleticism/quickness/smarts/discipline so we can play organized half court when we're slowed down. It's about controlling the tempo. Also defense... just like Murphy says "what offense?", how about "what defense?" Guys in the starting five just aren't matching up one-on-one because they've got a group of guys that have to cover each other asses on D. And their help defense and zone defense sucks just as well, especially Murphy. They ain't guarding any team that knows how to create with the ball/off the ball/or any team that knows how to exploit the warriors and their weak frontline and perimeter players. The Warriors don't play good defense individually or as a team as long as Murphy is in there being the weakest link and guys like Jrich/Dun are kind of mediocre even though the effort is there... Our transition D sucks, so we can't really afford to go at it fast paced. C'mon REREM be honest, the coaching isn't the sole reason we missed the playoffs. Addition by subtraction in the coaching ain't going to win us 10 more games when these freakin' guys haven't made the playoffs in years and they don't do the simple things like play honest man to man defense with reliable transition D and shoot free throws! Over half the time in close games, it's the players that keep shooting themselves in the foot due to inexperience or just plain bad decision making a lot more times than the coach gambled on the wrong play on whether to foul or not to foul or whether or not to stop a play. Show me a team that can execute like they can during in-bounds plays. Obviously they can't if the point guard controls the ball and he's not running the plays or the rest of the team isn't executing. The reason the Warriors suck isn't solely on Dunleavy or Fisher, it's the fact we don't have an inside-outside type of game with any kind of honest defense unless Murphy is absent from the lineup. (but then our rebounding sux and we lose a reliable scoring option). Just check out the games where we held some pretty good scoring teams at 40% when Murphy and Baron were out of the roster. When Murph came back in, we sucked again and allowed too many layups/dunks and were over the foul limit suddenly. Foyle can't cover everyone, especially Murphy. We need role players like Foyle and Dun, but they need to do more and these guys just don't which really hurts the franchise because those guys are starters and we lack star power. Every year, we play more rookies hoping they'd be the ones to save the franchise and it's the same crap that ends in failure. It's about developing these guys the right way around solid vets and I'm not convinced throwing them into the flames is good for their learning. We don't have solid vets because those guys we have in our present core are learning on the job too and it's been through constant mental mistakes... Guys like Fisher/Foyle... only Fisher seems like a legit vet but he's not perfect either. Sorry, we know we got a rookie coach, but the idea behind motion offense + man-to-man D just doesn't work if you have point guards doing their own thing and no reliable centers and the veteran core is struggling anyway and there's few scorers and good individual defenders on our team. This was a failure waiting to happen and it didn't have anything to do with whether or not Monty was a college coach. Throw Muss or Larry Brown in there and they'd inherit a flawed team that'd get beat by most teams in the league. The reason the Warriors have no identity is because they don't have skills that compliment an interior and outside game or the defense in the post, in transition, on the ball, weakside or whatever. If we go run n' gun we still can't score consistently with our talent at the starting five and guys end up choking at the line or in 4th quarters anyway. What's the point? It's about going back to the drawing board and salvaging the good guys this team has and Mullin knows it. Next time the media won't be so dumb into believing the hype and labeling a team that hasn't seen the playoffs in a decade a playoff team just because it played well in the 2nd half of a season in meaningless games. Guys talk about what a great coach Muss was and he was great for rookie type players, but what about the old vets like Clif Robinson and Van Exel who've played for great coaches? Vets like those hated his lack of a system. For any coaching system to work it needs to be given time to work and the right players. And Muss knew that the only way he could get young guys to sort of play like a team was to just open it up like guys not used to running plays would do. Sorry, that type of non-organized type of play is what gets guys killed in the 4th. We're not the Suns or the Nets here in the realm of open court ball. If we get smarter, more talented, the rest will flow. You can't always blame the driver for why the car won't move when it's got no freakin' wheels. Maybe we can blame the driver for driving a car with no wheels, though. Musselman was the Warriors last scapegoat, let's not make another. The warriors will start winning games when they finally got a roster to compete with in the Western Conference that makes sense on both ends of the floor.
