What are your predections for the Warriors in the 2006-07 season? I think we will make the playoffs this year aslong as the Warriors stay healthy. Maybe the 7-8th seed. Atleast 40 wins. Jason Richardson will have a carreer year and so will Mike Dunlevey. POB will suprise alot of people if he gets minutes. Baron will have a good season, and hopefully will Murphy but hopefully he gets traded before the all-star break.
I see playoffs. I expect we will be using a lot of guys. Will push the pace-though not nessicerily be a pure fast break team. I see real gains for Ike,Monta and Biedrens,getting bigger roles from the start. Dunleavy,Pietrus,Taft will play if they can show early they can produce. O'Bryant won't play a lot early season but might be getting good minutes by late Jan. The W's will look a lot more efficient overall. Will look more like a team. Nellie will show some "small" but not as much as you may think. Back in the 80's-he had talented 6-5 guys to spare and few bigs to use. Nellie and Baron will be a good mix. Murphy will be a solid F/C,with more overall game than we've usually seen. Ike will be a force-will get the touches to make more impact.
Its very hard to make a good prediction right now, there are so many question marks. I think its a fair prediction to say we will be in the thick of the playoff race going down the stretch. If Nellie is able to utilize these players the way Monty was never capable of, I think we will get our first taste of the playoffs since he last took us there in 94.
I am going to predict we will be 34-48 just like the last 2 years, that way I wont be disappointed if we dont make the playoffs, but I will exceed my expectations if we do make the playoffs. I actually agree with all of you, however it sounds like a broken record being played over and over every year for the last 12 years...
Great, I'll do the same. 0-82 is my prediction. Of course that is impossible because we're bound to win some when the games don't matter anymore after all-star break.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting iLL PiLL:</div><div class="quote_post">If we make it into the playoffs..i think Nellie will be up for coach of the year</div> And Baron and/or Jrich will be up for MVP. And I will be a monkey's uncle...
I think the Warriors lost 17 games by 3 points or less last year? With that in mind I think the difference between Monty and Nelson alone could make 4-7 games difference right there. And if the key players stay healthy, even more. While I still think making the playoffs in the West will be a challenge, they should be noticeably improved from last year. I'm going to say they finish above .500, 43 wins.
They'll be better, but I can't see playoffs, they just don't have the players on the roster. New Orleans, Sac and Utah all have superior rosters. And Memphis with Gasol are always in the picture, although with no Battier I think they will be a bit different.
playoffs i see. Jrich having a great season and B-diddy having a good season and hope fully Nellie's coaching can get more points. JRICH IS THE MOST UNDERRATED PLAYER IN THE NBA.
Honestly, predicting the Western Confrence playoffs is very difficult right now. Just predicting the Pacific Division for the Warriors is a task in itself. Outside of the Suns, who is the almost guaranteed first place team, the rest of the division is up for grabs. The race for second between the Clippers, Kings, Lakers, and Warriors will be intense. I believe that Houston and New Orleans are two teams that will make the playoffs this season, who didn't make the playoffs last season. I think Memphis drops out without Gasol for about a month of the season or more from a hurt leg, and another team from the Pacific Division. Thus for the Warriors to make the playoffs they will have to shoot for at least third in the Division and hope that a team like Seattle or Utah does not make a big run this season. This season is going to be extremely intense in the West. That I guess is my prediction...No my prediction is going to be that the Baron/Jason/Murphy trio will become very strong. Monta Ellis and Ike Diogu will be key off the bench. The rebounding will be better, because Nelson understands to run, you must rebound. Jason Richardson and Mickael Pietrus will finally become like Michael Finley, Baron Davis will have a coach that can turn him into a very good PG, like Steve Nash or Tim Hardway.The team has aquired some good defenders this offseason with Devin Brown, McLeod to go with Monta Ellis, Pietrus, Foyle, Taft, and Biedrins. I think the Warriors win 48 games this season and make the playoffs. Last year the Grizzlies won 49, Clippers and Lakers won 47 and 45; so why can't this team win 48? 48-34 is my prediction.
48 is a bit optimistic. I think a more accurate prediction can be made after pre-season as we haven't seen what this team can do with their new coach. The Clippers were a VERY good team last season and they won 47, I don't see the Warriors winning 48 because of a coach change and almost no roster changes. I have hopes, but I'm not going to set a high number of wins on it or else it will be crushed. Being a Warriors fan is like being a moth flying around a candle.
Just having players a year older-more experianced is a plus. Good players getting IN GAMES-in a system fitting their talent---another plus. No Fish--Plus. The end of Monty's incomprehensible "system" big plus. A healthy Taft,a smart Pietrus,less chucking,less Foyle,Ike getting touches,Biedrens making some FT's....a bunch of pluses. We can ambush a lot of teams-make the playoffs and do some damage. Utah? N Orleans? They are pretty thin. The Suns-Mavs -Spurs are the elite,with the Clips getting closer-then there's the pack-and we have as much talent as any of the others.
I agree with Clif. This is some tough competition we're facing. It's especially tough if virtually every team has some form of inside/outside threat to counter our "outside only threat'. Hopefully we find a solution to score inside and to be creative passing and moving with/without the ball... AF talked about the Clippers (Brand + backcourt that can shoot, dribble, and pass) + decent or rising star center + experienced coach who has more respect than previous coaches and even the GM. Grizzlies were always in the picture as long as they had decent role players + a big man that can operate from either side of the post + do other things. Lakers have a little more depth + Kobe rebounded after an off shooting year and the Lakers had less chemistry problems. New Orleans has a possible franchise point guard with a lot of scrappy players around it. David West has helped inside a little. They did not make the playoffs, but Paul proved to be somewhat unstoppable like an A.I. with the mind of a vet player point guard. Rockets could be a good team but they are mired with injuries to their key components (Yao and McGrady). If either one of them is injured, the team doesn't win and it doesn't work. Another reason why health, geritol and a bench is important. I don't think their bench was that great... How old is Mutombo these days? Skip to my lou and Stro seemed like a good fit on paper for athletic point guard and a potential kenyon martin type power forward, but that fell through with injuries or just plain dumbness in being an actual starting basketball power forward. Stro is not too good starting... Hopefully we find more balance in offense because every team from the Suns to Dallas to Spurs or Grizzlies have some form of inside threat... even a clumsy limited defensive guy like a motivated Dampier will at least get up on that block to make the other guy work hard. A motivated Foyle unfortunately still sucks. But we cheer him on like the special olympics because effort is still important and not everybody is born with a pair of normal functioning hands. At least not any Warriors center before the 2004 draft. Free throws is a big issue for Warriors... can we shoot enough to hold the lead and add to scoring buffer so we can coast a little on defense while spending all the energy on offense? I have my doubts. I also think the Warriors should fine players for every shot they miss once they go under 70% free throws in a game. I think Biedrins, Jrich, Pietrus and Baron will be so broke they'll have to wait for the next contract extension. REREM brings up a point about experience... That is important...Young teams do not typically win to make the post season... just like us Warriors fans showing up after '94 typically not even knowing what the nba playoffs are. "Great grandpa, what were the nba playoffs like for the Warriors?" "Sorry, great grandson, I was only three at the time."
I'm basing my prediction on Don Nelson's coaching record. Way back when he moved from Milwaukee to the Warriors in '88, he went 43-39 with a team that featured many young players, including a great rookie Richmond, a third year veteran Mullin, a few other young guards (good old Terry Teagle and Winston Garland who along with the two already mentioned formed part of Nelly's four guard look), Rod Higgins in his "prime" and a few tall busts in Manute Bol and Ralph Sampson (who fell off that season and never recovered). Our current team has two "stars" like that team (J-Rich and Baron), a few extra fast guards (Ellis & Pietrus), an adequate veteran power forward (Murphy) and one tall bust (Foyle). Thus, I predict that our season will resemble that one.
