Award Categories (Please write one thing for each and then a runner-up) Favorite play of the Year: Game of the Year: Biggest Win of the Year: Most Disappointing Loss: Most Memorable Moment: Warriors MVP: Most Improved: Most Disappointing Player: 6th Man of the Year: Players that will be missed:
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting custodianrules2:</div><div class="quote_post">Award Categories (Please write one thing for each and then a runner-up) Favorite play of the Year: Game of the Year: Biggest Win of the Year: Most Disappointing Loss: Most Memorable Moment: Warriors MVP: Most Improved: Most Disappointing Player: 6th Man of the Year: Players that will be missed:</div> Here's an Example: Favorite play of the Year: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Jason Richardson blocks Erick Strickland and saves the loose ball from out of bounds by backhanding it. Warriors go the other way slowly. Jason Richardson then starts running. He outhustles Strickland who is trying to catch up and Baron Davis finds him for the long range alley oop dunk. Amazing! Runner Up (20 way Tie): Jason Richardson takes off as he is surrounded by defenders and does a 360 move in the lane followed by the final finish over Brian Skinner trying to block him as he finishes the spin. Baron Davis, behind the back dribble to himself, no look over the shoulder pass to a trailing Jason Richardson for the hard one handed tomahawk jam. Baron Davis no look pass right through and between Dan Gadzuric's legs right to Andris Biedrins for the two handed slam all over Gadzuric. Pietrus drive baseline for the slam dunk on Dikembe Mutombo AND1! Jason Richardson one handed put back over Nick Collison. Way better than his Shawn Bradley putback because he caught this one one-handed right off the miss OVER somebody in MID AIR. Jason Richardson one handed dunk off an alley oop from Baron Davis (Nice catch one handed!). This one against Sactown. Dunleavy alley oop to Baron Davis for the reverse 180 slam. Jason Richardson's huge swat out of nowhere against Kenyon Martin. Fired up the entire Arena! Baron Davis no look, behind the back, bounce pass to Adonal Foyle for the running, one handed dunk. (Didn't even need to put the ball on the floor) Usually Foyle plays aren't too pretty, but this one looked nice. Troy Murphy ball behind his head, double pump, two handed slam dunk. This was a rare treat. His putback slam dunk wasn't too bad either. Pietrus behind the back pass to Dunleavy after a steal for the layup. Pietrus crossover, hesitation drive on Devin Harris and one handed dunk on Dirk Nowitzki. Mike Dunleavy alley oop inbound pass to Mickael Pietrus Mike Dunleavy alley oop pass to Jason Richardson who shows that he can almost touch his head to the rim and then finally slams it down after hanging up there so long. 180 double windmill dunk streaking down the lane by Jason Richardson with a short bounce pass from Derek Fisher. Derek Fisher alley oop lob in transition from 40 or more feet to Jason Richardson on top of Trenton Hassell The Andris Biedrins play where he pushes and runs the break by himself and dunks it at the end of the floor Zarko Cabarkapa just takes it right to the hole past all the defense using that first step off the drive and leaps in the air for the Connie Hawkins dunk. Baron Davis drive off a Zarko screen, behind the back dribble and no look kickout to Jrich for 3 pointer! He seriously gets all 5 defenders to collapse on to him. It wasn't as pretty since the pass was offline but Jrich caught it. Jason Richardson fading baseline 3 point shot while being doubled and crowded by two defenders (Michael Finley/Josh Howard) to beat the buzzer to tie the game. Is that 20? </div> Game of the Year:<div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: The game against the #1 Western Conference Phoenix Suns where we came from behind and it rained 3-pointers in the Arena. 3 Warriors players got 28 points (Richardson, Dunleavy, Pietrus) and nailed several back to back 3 pointers from all sides. </div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">Runner up: Jason Richardson's national television game against Denver where he scores 42 points, scores from everywhere in a variety of ways and gets this huge shotblock against Kmart that has everybody going, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!" </div> Biggest Win of the Year: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: The game against New Orleans where it went into triple overtime and a lackluster Dunleavy goes in and nails a 3-pointer with 13.8 seconds left to tie the game, 97-97. Runner up: Game against Milwaukee where Derek Fisher nails a game winning 3 pointer at the buzzer after Jrich passed it because he couldn't draw the foul. That was a game we shouldn't have won after Jrich missed both those important free throws. </div> Most Disappointing Loss: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: The game against Dallas where Jason Richardson makes an improbable 3 point shot at the buzzer to send the game into overtime while being double teamed by Finley/Howard. The Warriors go onto lose by not being able to score or make stops. Runner-Up: The game against the Hornets. How the hell did we manage to do that? Former Warrior, Dan Dickau helped wooped our butts and Bostan Nachbar, according to Jim Barnett, "has become Larry Bird!" </div>Most Memorable Moment:<div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Dunleavy when he got mad at referee Bill Spooner for calling fouls on him all the time on either end of the floor, starts jawing and cursing, gets ejected, and then storms in the direction of the lockeroom muttering to himself, thinks about taking off his jersey, pulls it back down, and then has the "ah, what the hell" look on his face, tosses his jersey off into the crowd and tosses his hands in the air while shirtless. Then the guy who caught the jersey immediately puts it on. Totally out of character and totally laugh out loud funny when a guy like him is doing it. I didn't even mind the loss to Dallas after watching that. I think I stopped criticizing Dunleavy so much after that. Runner Up: Stephen A. Smith saying in that obstreperous tone of his that "Baron Davis will not be traded at the deadline" and then finding out that he was... TO OUR TEAM! Wohooo! </div> Warriors MVP: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">If not counting Baron Davis because he got traded mid-season, then Jrich is MVP and Troy Murphy is runner up. If not... Winner: Baron Davis. What is our record after he came onboard and started? Exactly. He makes everybody better and that makes our chances of finally reaching the playoffs after 11 seasons almost surefire. Just as long as he's happy (which he is) and that he's healthy (which he is not entirely) Runner up: Jason Richardson. He carried the team on his back and single-handedly willed the Warriors back into games, but like Vince Carter/Kobe Bryant he didn't have the supporting cast around him or played the position to make the huge difference overall. He put up some huge allstar numbers in points, rebounds, steals, and assists. His job was to put the ball into the basket, stretch defenses and act as a secondary point guard and he's done a fine job of it. He's not a point guard that runs offense or a big man like Tim Duncan or Shaq that can full time dominate in the low post and pass out of double teams. Based on what Jrich has done he definitely shouldn't be forgotten because of Baron Davis. Jason is a winner and without him we went on that huge losing streak before Baron Davis came onboard. </div> Most Improved: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Jason Richardson (Who thought he would be an allstar after looking at last year's performance: Only a secondary scorer, not a true go-to guy, not a great defender, not consistent enough, predictably horrid on the second of back to back games, disappears frequently). He's an allstar this year even though he didn't get voted in by coaches. He will be next year, though. Runner up: 3-way Tie (Mickael Pietrus/Mike Dunleavy). Baron Davis makes them better, but one thing you can't ignore is Dunleavy's ability to be a more consistent shooter from behind the arc and off the catch. He also gets to the foul line when there's room to drive to the hoop, and he plays honest defense (limited flopping and lower amount of times where he gets burned badly). Pietrus also gets the award for being able to become an effective dribble drive penetrator where's on numerous occasions finished strong over bigger players and gotten the And1 foul play. The dunk on Dikembe Mutombo was his best dunk of the year. Also he's worked on being a little more crafty with the ball using crossovers and dribble hesitation moves and has been a consistent foul shooter late in the season. He's also nailed several back to back three pointers in transition, off the dribble, or from a set shot. He's explosive and he's learning how to unlock that serious ass potential he posesses </div> Most Disappointing Player: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Tie (Calbert Cheaney/Adonal Foyle). Cal seemed to lose some consistency in that bread and butter midrange jumpshot of his. Adonal Foyle didn't deliver the double double or 8/10 average as starter regularly. The whole reason for his 5 year guaranteed salary was intended to bring such numbers. Nice blocks per game average considering his playing time, but just disappointing. We're lucky we have his shotblock timing and length, especially after his leaping ability and coordination took a hit. Poorer hands that I can remember and same raw basketball IQ and lack of situational and floor awareness. Why does he put the ball on the floor at times when he doesn't need to? Just pump fake or go up and score! Why does he do such dumb things near the end of the game? Runner Up: Rodney White. Dude the guy kinda sucks and he's a black hole on offense. But he's still got time to improve since he's young and has all the tools he needs to make a difference. But he misses constantly and passes up giving the ball to others and just ruins everything chemistry wise. </div> 6th Man of the Year: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Mickael Pietrus. Can consistently get to the foul line and convert 3 point plays. Can be a defensive stopper against guys Jrich or Dunleavy can't handle. He can also score in huge bunches from beyond the arc and is a fabulous player in the open court. Can beat a lot of players off the dribble and plays with enthusiasm and energy. Extremely quick for his size, especially laterally. A super sub when "getting it". Runner Up: Derek Fisher. Remarkable catch and shooter. Can nail anything over anybody once he has his feet set in advance. Clutch. Can pass accurately, but is not a playmaker. Strong for his size. Good perimeter defender when not getting pwned by faster guards. A remarkable role player when he isn't hoisting away extremely low percentage shots first chance he gets. Honorable mention: I wanted to give Zarko some props, but there were times where he didn't get much playing time or he had to operate out of position at center or power forward. He's gotten his groove back at least to take it strong to the rim. The same stuff we've seen that Phoenix Suns fans were raving about his rookie year. He's also improved that 3 point shot of his and has become an offensive weapon as well as a good glue guy off the bench that can pass, drive, and push the ball on the break. He's had some big games for us. </div> Players that will be missed: <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Winner: Cliff Robinson - The consumate Pro that could shutdown post players with craftiness, could pass well for a big man, and could shoot. He had no business playing center, but had to raise his value. Runner up: Speedy Claxton. Another consummate pro that did his job and didn't complain. He was solid on both ends of the floor, clutch on numerous occasions, but lacked consistency, durability, and the ability to find people off the drive. It was either getting fouled or the ball was going up unless he found a cutter going to the basket early. Part of it was the Warriors like to stand around and Speedy isn't vocal/assertive enough to command the floor. He's also not as talented of a passer as he is a dribble penetrator and ballhandler. He also couldn't stretch defenses by shooting beyond 20 feet consistently. Hence other players suffered because of floor spacing. But Speedy was a guy to respect because he was modest, played hard on both ends of the floor and I wish we still had him on the team because he singlehandedly could get to where he wanted to go at will and put the other team over the foul limit instantly. </div>
Favorite play of the Year: Its actually a series of plays that happened in the game against Sac that went to overtime..Richardson 360 layup, then the very next play throwing it down in Miller's face. I was at the game and so pumped up after those 2 plays. Also Fisher's 3 to beat the bucks was nice since we havnt had a game winning shot in a long time. Game of the Year: Win against Pheonix in Oakland Biggest Win of the Year: Demolishing the Lakers, up by 40 at one point Most Disappointing Loss: Losing to Washington in Oakland. Warriors came all the back from down by 15-20 only to lose from Arena's layup at the buzzer Most Memorable Moment: I agree with Dunleavy's outburt, that was classic Warriors MVP: B-Diddy, doesn't matter how long he was on the team, he made more inpact then anyone did all year. Most Improved: J-Rich Most Disappointing Player: At this point Im not dissapointed with anyone, I didn't expect much out of Cheaney in the 1st place. Before Davis arrived Id say Foyle, Robinson and Pietrus. 6th Man of the Year: Pietrus, did a great job as the season wrapped up. Players that will be missed: Speedy
