He states that we potentially made a great move, but starts his piece by insulting the Warriors over and over. I can honestly say that I hate this man. He takes the easy way out, by repeatedly kicking and insulting a team that's down instead of reporting about other teams that are on the move. This time he took both sides of the fence by saying that it was a great move but could be a bad one... great reporting there guy.
Maybe you should change your name to ChadFordhater. Yeah, he is the reason why I canceled my Insider subscription. Everything he writes is wrong. That is why when he reported the Baron Davis trade, I just blew it off...
What I don't get is that he then basically contradicts himself later in the article. First he says they get a little cap space and a couple interesting prospects for Najera and a first rounder - which they don't really need, they've got a roster filled with young prospects, and the pick wasn't going to be that high anyways - so he says the deal's a wash. Then he calls Najera's contract ugly, and his upside limited. They moved a bad contract of a player they don't need - and freed up minutes they do need - in order help take some of the burden of a huge contract of a very good player in Baron Davis. They give up a middle fist round draft pick to do it, and they get a good look at two young prospects for the rest of the year to decide if they'd like to keep one or both of them, move them, or just let them walk away in a few months. Where's the downside? All of a sudden Chad Ford values middle-of-the-first-round draft picks like they're the key to turning around a franchise? Please. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the Warriors: "Warriors felt they needed to cut a little cap to help make room for Davis, so they swapped Eduardo Najera and a future first-round pick for the expiring contracts of Nikoloz Tskitishvili and Rodney White." For the Nuggets he writes: "Eduardo Najera may be many things. He hustles, can score a little and can add some toughness. But given his ugly contract, injury issues and limited upside, this trade is Kiki's admission that if he could do it all over again, he would've left Skita shooting jumpers in a gym in Italy."
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting CohanHater:</div><div class="quote_post">He states that we potentially made a great move, but starts his piece by insulting the Warriors over and over. I can honestly say that I hate this man. He takes the easy way out, by repeatedly kicking and insulting a team that's down instead of reporting about other teams that are on the move. This time he took both sides of the fence by saying that it was a great move but could be a bad one... great reporting there guy.</div> Don't get me started about Chad Ford. But then again if he was a Warrior fan it would be a lot of the same complaints that we've been having here in Warriorland so we could probably tolerate it. What fans can't stand is constant hating from a guy with nothing good to add. And there is some good things done by the Warriors franchise, but he is a writer that often goes without all the facts and he is a guy that is known to leave out important details behind a move because it solidifies the other crap he's spewing. He'll just leave in the facts that suits his argument/comments and leaves others out. At least Baron Davis for what we gave up in the trade, forces Chad Ford to be a Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde all at once rather than just 100% Mr. Hyde. He's actually leaving some optimisim in with his constant negativity with the facts he writes about. In the past, I just couldn't stand such comments as "We should have kept Dampier" and then say about Dallas "They overpaid Dampier!" Okay that's not directly quoting him, but that's something he probably has said. I try to avoid Chad Ford. He does not challenge anything or report from a neutral position. It's like he's out to humiliate the franchise (and you could argue all day that a losing franchise brought it upon themselves) and that's not what his job as a writer should be about.
As a Warrior fan with a long memory,I'd have to say that a history of the franchise could make a good sitcom. The Warriors have a long history of bungling on many levels,so much so that I have little doubt I'd have been an above average GM for this franchise,and for that matter,most of the regular posters to this forum could say the same. The Warriors swapped Wilt for crissakes,blew a very high #1 on Chris Washburn,dealt Bernard King for a *********,turned drafting Chris Webber into a fiasco,and let's not forget the deals involving JB Carroll, The Warriors provided Boston with Robert Parrish and McHale to get him and later gave him and Sleepy Floyd to get Ralph Sampson who as it had to be,had such bad knees that he seldom left the bench. I could rant on for pages. Recently the Warriors got lucky enough that Gilbert Arenas,Earl Boykins and Brian Cardinal dropped in at a total price of one round 2 pick...but soon they were gone without the w's even getting a #2 for them. To prevent more round 2 picks from escaping the Warriors dumped their top scorer for some temporary help and some guys never seen in a Warrior uniform. When someone disses or mocks the franchise,I hate to have to admit it,but most are actually being kind. I could cite another dozen cases of What-The -Hell-Are-They-Thinking. Mullin and Montgomery might change the pattern established in the post Rick Barry decades. I certainly hope so,but my expectations no longer seem to get very high
It seems my description of Michael Ray Richardson's well documented habit got censored, that's strange. His getting banned permanently for it is a sad fact
Don't forget Todd Fuller at the #11 pick during one of the deepest drafts of that time. I mean it's bad that you pick a bench player that high, but to pick a guy that isn't good enough to even stay in the league? That was definitely a setback.
