<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Golden State Warriors By Josh Redetzke 4/12/05 2005/06 Golden State Warriors Payroll: $57.1 million 2005/06 Estimated NBA Salary Cap: $45 million Roughly: $12.1 million over cap <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Verdana">The Good: The Baron Davis trade has worked out incredibly well so far. Davis has instilled confidence in his new teammates, and they are winning ballgames. Davis is playing like a superstar, and this team has a glimmer of hope for the first time in ages. Nearly every player is signed to a long-term contract, so if this is really a sign that Golden State has reversed their fortunes, they should be a good team for a long time. Unfortunately? The Bad: Besides the Davis trade, GM Chris Mullin has been pulling his best Scott Layden impersonation of how to blow up a team's salary cap.</font> </font> </div>http://www.nbadraft.net/stateofthecapgoldenstate001.asp Good article. But they gave the Warriors D +. ARRGHH
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting J-Rich23:</div><div class="quote_post">http://www.nbadraft.net/stateofthecapgoldenstate001.asp Good article. But they gave the Warriors D +. ARRGHH</div> The link says State of The Cap,so the D+ just reflects being well over cap. Bottom line is still that the W's ended the year hot,on a better than 60% pace,appear,from the front office aspect,to be eager to win. The next Cap will likely be higher and further moves could send the W's salary total either way. Still,it is limiting to be that far in the hole at this point.
Well, in terms of pure salary point, D+ is rather generous grade for what Mullin did in this offseason. And, if Davis hasn't come, D+ would have been a generous grade overall ...
Am I the only one that thinks the author of that article is an idiot? Ok, bash the W's all you want prior to the Baron trade, but if he thinks the team still needs a major shake up after going 14-4 to end the season, he's an idiot. The only criticism that's justified is the cap situation. But like I said, the current roster is 14-4. If the Warriors are a consistent playoff team from here on out, the cap situation is totally worth it.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting wtwalker77:</div><div class="quote_post">Am I the only one that thinks the author of that article is an idiot? Ok, bash the W's all you want prior to the Baron trade, but if he thinks the team still needs a major shake up after going 14-4 to end the season, he's an idiot. The only criticism that's justified is the cap situation. But like I said, the current roster is 14-4. If the Warriors are a consistent playoff team from here on out, the cap situation is totally worth it.</div> He is only evaluating the cap situation. I think its a pretty fair grade, i maybe would have gone more like C- because we did dump Najera and Cliff Robinson for very some picks and cheap young talent. I didn't know we were 12 mil in the hole. It seems very likely now that Dunleavy will be gone by the all-star break, theres just no way we could sign Dun to another big contract and then be able to keep Pietrus and Zarko. I've heard that Dunleavy will be shopped this offseason, presumably for expiring contracts or picks.
I won't be surprised to see a Dunleavy-Fisher package dealt so as to reduce cap overrun-ideally us getting a decent draft pick as well.
That makes alot of sense REREM. I never really thought about packages and whatnot. I could see the Clippers, Cavaliers, Lakers, and maybe Rockets willing to take Fish and Dun.
Fisher and Foyle could both be tradeable. I mean Fisher put up some 20+pt games and has shown some clutch shooting ability. Foyle is a good defensive player. Not quite as good as Ben Wallace, but could be...
The main mistake Mullin made was signing Foyle. That contract is ridiculous. In 2 years I guarantee you Foyle won't be in a warriors uniform. Due to the team option in his last year, teams will want to trade for Foyle's defense and soon to be expiring contract.
I'm just glad we were able to enjoy good basketball in the last half of the season after sucking horribly... Financials over the next four years will be tough without a doubt, but if Chris Cohan wants to prove that his franchise is a winner, he'll continue to follow Mullin's plan and whatever he asks. I just hope we don't lose any of our young guys like Zarko, Biedrins, and Pietrus. Having two young, good-sized, athletic players who can create their own shot are hard to come by. The article was okay, but it seems a bit down on the Warriors chances of making the playoffs. It's probably due to Baron Davis never having played a full season in the last 3 years. Even if we do have deadweight contracts, Foyle, Fisher, Murphy, and Jrich are at least motivated players that bring a lot of good things to the table, despite their weaknesses. That, I think, the writer should give credit. Are there any Jerome James, Darius Miles or Jerome Moisos, etc in our roster? I think everyone is pretty motivated to compete and try their best for the good of the team.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Warriorfansnc93:</div><div class="quote_post">Fisher and Foyle could both be tradeable. I mean Fisher put up some 20+pt games and has shown some clutch shooting ability. Foyle is a good defensive player. Not quite as good as Ben Wallace, but could be...</div> Foyle isn't in the same Universe as Ben Wallace. Any bball player would love to go to war with this guy.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting jzblaze:</div><div class="quote_post">Foyle isn't in the same Universe as Ben Wallace. Any bball player would love to go to war with this guy.</div> Defensivley yes he is. Maybe not offensively or skills, but he is a good defender.
I'd say that Foyle is a better defender on a team's best guy, where as Wallace is a better weak-side defender. Other than that, Wallace destroys Foyle in every category.
I don't even think Adonal Foyle and Ben Wallace are in the same class of defensive center except for shotblocking. One has quickness, huge amount of strength, athleticism and hustles, the other guy just hustles. One has a strong understanding of the game, awareness and where to be positioned, the other just reacts. Both exhibit excellent timing and both can't be trusted from the free throw line. I guess the Pistons force so many bad shots with their improved perimeter D that Ben's shotblocks have gone down. Our team however, has a red carpet leading all the way to our rim. Ben's blocks might have also gone down after removing defensive sieve Mehmet Okur from the starting lineup and adding Rasheed Wallace (Rip Hamilton also learned to play some D). If we ever get a better defender than Murphy and better team and perimeter D, I wonder if Foyle's attempted shotblocks would go down since there would be less players coming right at him...
