One year fluke or are they for real?

Can Baron stay healthy?

Can Steven Jackson stay out of jail?

I'm a Warriors fan. They'll pretty much be in the same spot as last year (7-10 range). This is the Warrior way: Not good enough to compete; Not bad enough to have a good chance at the high draft picks.

No J-Rich?

*tear*

They need a free throw shooter. Just one that's all I'm asking.

If Baron Davis stays healthy which he's never done, he can have a great contract year.
The top of the West is very competitive but I see the bottom as wide open. Warriors are as good as anybody in that second tier of the west.

Who knew Stephen Jackson was that big a deal

Every Warriors fan actually. Well, that is the basket we put our bread into. If Baron goes down it is all over though. Stay healthy, ONE TIME.

The president of the Warriors (i forget his name) came in and spoke in one of my business classes before Thanksgiving. It was real interesting about how he got the job, and all the different tactics the Warriors use to gain revenue. He was also real honest when saying how horrible the Warriors have been until last year and how they are really committed to their young talent and always trying to improve the team. He kept making jokes about how Stephen Jackson shot a gun at a strip club which was funny as hell.

He was also honest about the Jason Richardson departure and how they loved Jason but its a business, and they couldnt afford to keep him along with all their young players who they had to give contracts. He also got the whole class (about 60 people) free tickets on Dec. 11th. He wont have to get all 60 because people in the class live all over the place and won't be able to make it during winter break, but it was still a nice gesture and im definitely going.

QFT

The Warriors executive team have always been top notch.

Title of this thread was a failure

Bump, we pwn all.

going to the game tomorrow night against the nuggets

im hoping i get to witness a carmelo injury, I hate that guy

meh they lost 124-120, fun game though no defense lol.

The Warriors actually guarded Melo and some other guys well, they were just shooting lights out.

Iverson put on a show, not one guy could guard him. If he played the whole game he would have gotten to 50 easily, I think he ended up with 39.

The Warriors were depending on other guys to score late in the game when the ball should have gone to Baron or Stephen Jackson every single play. Harrington was pissing me off, he was ice cold, but kept on shooting. If it wasn't for him they would have probably pulled it out. Monta Ellis was the same way, the guy is really streaky, one game he looks like an all-star, next game he looks like a chump.

wow, almost way off so far, havnt read any other posts yet though....

Davis, Azubukie, Ellis, Harrington, Barnes....... not the league leading FT shooters but still.....

No not anymore..... if he goes down (which they have preped for) they have men to back him up, they'll be fine.

It's too bad that the Warriors being in 7th place currently doesn't fit with my prediction. I should've included 7th place in there. Yep. It's too bad I didn't put that one in there so I'm almost way off on this one.

Do you realize that what you were quoting me on came from October 7th.

I was going off what they did in the playoffs, obviously not what has been going on lately.

And Richardson's absence has made a difference. I think they would have won a lot more games with him... especially some of those games that Stephen Jackson missed at the beginning of the year.

He would have also allowed for Baron Davis to have more time on the bench. We all know how injury proned he is, they have been lucky he has been healthy. If Davis gets injured playoffs will be out of the question. Not one of the bench players can take his place... although a lot of them have shown they can play great, the majority of them are extremely streaky.

It was necessary to get rid of him due to salary reasons though, but him not being there has definitely made an impact.

bump for pwning the magic

Yeah, you can put down the Yao Ming voodoo doll now..

In all seriousness, you guys are going to scare the living crap out of whomever has to play you in the playoffs.

Here's a question:

Who do you want, once you are in?

Mavs?
Spurs?
Hornets?
Rockets?
Jazz?
Lakers?
Suns?

I'm a Warriors fan too so I'll give my take. Also, they're only a couple games ahead of Denver so the playoffs are not that definite.

Teams the Warriors definitely don't want to face: Spurs, Suns, Jazz
The Jazz can just destroy the warriors inside like last year.
The Suns showed tonight that they would handle the warriors just fine.
The Spurs are just too good.

Teams the Warriors would rather not face: Lakers, Hornets
The Lakers are an unknown. These two games they have coming up vs the Warriors that could shed more light on the matchups. Though I'm not totally sure what the Bynum situation is. I'd rather not see them have to play against Kobe, but I'd say better chance than the three I've mentioned already.
The Hornets. I haven't seen too many of their games, but I don't think the Warriors want any part of David West (and Chris Paul obviously).

Teams the Warriors have a legit shot against.
The Mavs have already lost a series against the Warriors. Also, they've got rid of their big guy Diop. The only problem is the 'Dirk doesn't want to lose to Golden State in back to back years' factor.
The Rockets are on an awesome run but no Yao! Also, the Warriors have won a playoff series before and T-Mac never has! This would be an interesting series and is probably the matchup the Warriors want the most.

Great points. Tonight was a HUGE win. I think if we lost we wouldn't make the playoffs.

I'm pissed I didn't check the line of the game tonight, I would have made a huge bet on the Warriors +8. The Lakers can't run with GS, but they're forced to without any big men. So strange to me the line was that high.

bump. we need to win every game from here on out.

They are playing bad, Mavericks have a weak schedule, they are going to have to get past the Nuggets. They play the nugs once, and I don't think they can win. I'll hope for the best though.

Big game tonight.... 8:00 EST on TNT Warriors Vs. Nuggets.... they are tied for 8th with 4 games to go.

And now we are behind the 8-ball. I think if we win 49 or 50 games and don't make the playoffs you will see a mass exodus of players or a team that mentally falls apart next year. I sure hope not, but the Warriors seem to be mental midgets IMHO and it pains me so much to say that.

**** you Don Nelson for not putting in Baron in the 2nd half of the suns game. Great way to show off your fat ego you prick. Now we prob wont pick up Barons contract since we have that thick **** as our head coach... ASDFsdfasdfafsda

I read that Biedrins and Ellis are getting paid a combined 3.4 million, and are both free agents.

Uh oh, looks like we are in for a shakeup.

It's not like this team was ever going to contend for a title

the nba is shitty like that. teams need a lot of luck to get the right players at the right time to contend. Even if this happens, often your window is only one or two seasons.

Look at Indiana. they had the team and it fell apart over bs. Sacramento had the right mix but really only had the one shot. Lost in that great series to the lakers in game 7. who knows how they would've fared vs the nets.

lol someone photoshop Ellis on the scooter then we have a winner

LOL

Monta is suspended for 30 games.

GG Warriors.

yeaaaaaaa he's also going to be out because of injury for longer than 30 games so it only changes how much money he makes

with bdiddy i loved watching the warriors play, but idk how they will fare without him, along with ellis who was before his injury and may still be poised to have a monster year. he is an absolute stud. also just something about corey magettee turns me off, and i think he will make them worse not better.

Things are looking bleak for the Warriors.

Looks like Cohan is going to revert back to being an imbecile owner and back Rowell over Mullin. If Mullin leaves after this year, then that will be a huge loss since Rowell only cares about players who kiss his butt.

Why give SJax a max extension when he will be 32 at the end of his two year contract? Also, this Kawakami column saying that there was a talk of a Price for SJax deal potentially brewing but that the extension will obviously kill any deal points to Rowell's ineptitude. All because Rowell is crying about not getting enough kudos for his part in the Warriors' resurgence.

Also, why play hard-ass on Ellis who's the future of your organization? It was a mo-ped so not like he was doing wheelies on a harley or something.

great game last night. I love u brandon wright!

Corey Maggette was worth his contract last night. I hope he can keep this up.

Also, that was the best defense and awareness that I've seen from the Warriors in a long time.

Im going to game against Suns on Wednesday

[x] jealous

Just watched the Warriors dominate the Suns. Stephen Jackson had a triple double. It is nice to start a game on a 17-2 run lol.

Got my Shaq/Nash fix in, I've never seen either play. Shaq looked in really good shape (although he does jack shit in warmups lol).

I had the worst seats in the world though. I was next to the stairs, so anytime somebody walked past it completely blocked my view, and people were walking back and forth the whole ****ing game. I still had fun though.

Nelly is benching one veteran every game for the rest of the season so young guys can get more playing time.

This is so stupid to me. Even though the Warriors are out of the playoff race, everyone is healthy and they can still compete with the leagues best teams. They are really letting down the fans with this. I still enjoy watching them on TV so this really sucks. I'm definitely not going to pay for anymore tickets this season.

You can still play young guys and suit up the veterans. It seems like Nelly just doesn't know how to coach a rotation of more than 7 or 8 guys.

Warriors are evaluating talent and they don't care if that upsets fans. the NBA is a business, success = money.

Success isn't based around fan support?

If I was a fan of a shitty team with a bunch of young guys, I would be pleading for them to play the kids. I don't get what the problem is. I don't know maybe I'm way off, the Lakers haven't sucked since Ced Ceballos was taking trips to Tahoe and Sedale Threatt was creating the future girlfriends of Flava Flav.

The Warriors are a team that isn't good, probably wont be good for a long time. They had that 1 great run a couple seasons back. The team is built by fan support imo. Oracle Arena is sold out almost all the time because even when they suck, they put on a great show.

Playing the kids is ok. Put them in every game. Don't bench starters for entire games though. Nelly seems to want them to have a ton of minutes, or no minutes at all.

The general consensus with my friends (all Warriors fans) is that this is BS. I don't want to speak for all Warriors fans, but it seems to me that this is starting to piss people off, especially season ticket holders.

Heh, even that team had a good year, upsetting someone in the playoffs. I can't recall the details now though.

The vets are older and they are PROVEN, we know what they can do..... what we dont know is if the young guys can fill in a role.... if Randolph can hang then we shot for a PG this offseason, but we need to know that he can hang first... They dont care about winning..... I am a HUGE warriors fan, My first tatto is "the City" logo with the GS bridge in the middle of the circle..... I DONT CARE ABOUT WINNING THIS SEASON. I dont want to keep sneaking into the playiffs year after year like other teams, i would rathe go 2 playoff-less seasons and then win a championship or at least make it there.....

Season is over, build for next year.

Would you pay full price for tickets not knowing who is going to be benched?

I love Randolph. I think he's got potential to be a franchise player, even though that's probably a few years off. They also need to get rid of Nelson, you're never going to win anything with him there.