<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <h3>Warriors Honor Foyle</h3> <div class="txt-odd"></div> The Warriors paid tribute to their longtime center with a pregame video tribute that thanked him "for a decade of commitment," and ended with fans giving Foyle a standing ovation.</p> </p> "This team, it's been a journey for me," said Adonal Foyle, whose political activism and gregarious manner made him a fan favorite even when he wasn't playing. "Where we started off, not winning many games, to where we're at right now - it holds a special place.</p> </p> "This community has been such an amazing group ... they really deserve this. I'm sad I'm not a part of it, but I wish them nothing but the best - after tonight." -- <font color="#000000">San Francisco Chronicle</font></p> </p> Foyle Moves On With Orlando</p> </p> [*]He and the Warriors settled on a buyout, the club paying him $14 million of the $20 million it owed him on his original five-year $42 million contract. That allowed Foyle to sign a free-agent contract with the Orlando Magic. </p> "I approached them [Warriors] about it because I felt with the direction the team was going, there wasn't a place for me," said Foyle, who returned to the Bay Area on Monday night for the first time with the Magic. "To be some place just earning money, sitting on the bench ... I wanted to be where I could get an opportunity to play for a few more years until I hang it up. They decided they would like [a buyout], so we came to a decision, and I moved on." -- <font color="#000000">Orlando Sentinel</font></p></div> </p>
Good for him and wow, I did not know he was a Warrior for 10 years.</p> I thought he bounced around the league for a little while.</p>
Yeaaah. He's famous in New York State. For doing something in college.</p> He also left the NCAA as the leader in blocked shots (despite playing only 3 seasons).</p> Good to see he's on a great team now, I hope he steps up his play.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GM3)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Good for him and wow, I did not know he was a Warrior for 10 years.</p> </div></p> Yeah, he pretty much sums up the Warriors accomplishments for the last 10 years (Trying to avoid another Latrell Sprewell). Mission accomplished!</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DIRK4L1FE)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> I thought everyone hated him when he was on the warriors</p> </div></p> Well, it was only because Mullin gave him that stupid arse contract and then put a coach that overplayed him... But that was because the coach hated rookies and probably because he had no choice after Clif Robinson got dealt for a trade exception, Dale Davis was being saved up in the Baron trade, Ike Diogu couldn't play center, and Biedrins couldn't avoid averaging one foul per minute. We would have loved Foyle (like we always did) if he was a backup at a backup player's salary and minutes. But he, his agent and Mullin agreed he's worth 2 mil a year less than what Erick Dampier makes every season which is a lot (nearly 10 mil a year avg for 6 years but with % increases so that the largest lump sum is at the end of the contract). Then there's the fact Foyle wanted to be a starter, despite not having been a starter before and also after he became injured in both knees.</p> What made Foyle the most infuriating is that he couldn't catch and he couldn't finish (a long time trait... even when wide open on the easy play). Foyle is possibly the most lacking center in the league when it comes to offense... but then again, I'm betting DJ Mbenga couldn't play Foyle's minutes so maybe I should withold this judgement because DJ Mbenga sucks at offense just as badly.</p> So here is what is infuriating: Foyle essentially couldn't catch and couldn't finish super easy plays... So that made him a blackhole and liability when we needed a 5 man offense to move the ball around in the interior. This is a bit different from Troy Murphy being a blackhole because at least the guy could catch it on the perimeter in order to score. Murphy could occasionally make a nice pass to a cutting guard that actually bothered to cut to the basket, but with Foyle he couldn't score or he couldn't catch to make the pass even when it was delivered right to his hands. Then Foyle was also very stiff and mechanical as he lost all athleticism when he got older and after he got injured. He was just embarassing from tip-off to failing to finish a lay in off the defenders' double team on Baron Davis... Foyle could have gotten 6 Al Harrington rebounds (which means offensive rebounds off his own misses not a teammate's) and still wouldn't make the basket despite his defender standing around. It was like fingernails raking across a chalkboard... his game was that uncomfortable to watch outside of shotblocking and the occasional offensive rebound where he didn't give up on the play.</p> I mean this is the freakin' nba! Even the worst player in the league ought to make a wide open layup and for some reason Foyle just choked on the easiest ones. He choked when trying to catch a pass right to his hands and he choked trying to make a play that most nba players should automatically do. He couldn't rebound because he just couldn't jump or catch the ball in mid-air. He was just bad. Shotblocking was all he did and if we were going to get that variant, we might as well have looked at the nbdl or gotten Mbenga before Dallas.</p> But aside from all that crappy play, Foyle did have a tremendously great attitude as a professional. It's quite a trait that is often overlooked in today's nba. I think many fans have appreciated the fact Foyle possessed a caring, winning attitude all these years during the Warriors losing... Of course Foyle's career as a starter didn't help much in the win column. Our success was really dependent on our center/power forward and need for a real shooting guard or at least a small forward that can truly emulate one. We finally got those and then things change.</p> Anyway thank you Foyle for accepting that buyout because dang you were pretty horrible as a starter and especially after that knee injury. Watching the opening tip off or jump ball was like expecting to win the lotto. No way Foyle ever wins one of those unless the other guy is neither standing nor jumping.</p> </p>
