Official Warriors Season Thread

[japanair21]

Can't we all just get along, no matter what color our jerseys are?

wub u guyz.

 

[715 asterisk]

I can't lie, that picture got me.

Warm and fuzzy feeling ...

 

[japanair21]

Coem on guyz, grewp hug. awwwwwwwww. ;(

 

[armanzaballa]

couldn't catch all of tonight's game but seems like we pulled away in the second half. Croshere came to play. Pietrus is kind of stepping itup. Upper his value in the off season.

It's time to build of tonights W and turn it into a win streak. The west is so damn competitive that if the first seed has a bad week, they could end notbeing playoff contenders.

Warriors get 6 wins and we could be in first. Let's do this.

 

[acidicality]

Leave the Warriors thread and never post here again. EVERYONE knows that FOYLE was the Warriors best player in franchise history.

@ you

Seriously. Stay in Mavs threads like you belong troll.

 

[livemyreality]

^You're right. If the Warriors are able to win these games against the under .500 teams, then the Warriors do have a chance to spring up as far as thesixth spot. That is only if other teams ahead of us begins to lose. We just have to wait and see how Houston will handle the loss of Yao Ming, I think theywill slowly begin to fade, but who knows. All I know is that Dikembe isn't going to be able to run with the W's. At all. I haven't watched a gamein a while either =(. I do hope I catch a game real soon.

 

[franchise 55]

^Technically, but they would only be in first if the other seven teams ahead of them all went on losing streaks.

 

[you big dummy]

 

[japanair21]

Kurupt and C-Webb..

Gangsta Gangsta..

 

[sriracha hot sauce]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

Call me silly but I'm just not that impressed by Stephen. Is he a good player, yes. Is he clutch, yes. But he's just as inconsistent as Harrington is. Stephen plays better defense but Harrington isn't HORRIBLE either. I was not arguing on whether Baron was the most important player on the team, I have no problems with that. And I'm not trying to doubt your knowledge but do you watch every Warriors game? Harrington has come up in crunch time all season long. He may not be as good in the first three quarters, but I'm telling you, in the fourth quarter if the game is close/Warriors are behind, Harrington can get them back in the game. Will he take the final shot? NO. Probably not the second to last possession either, but those pivotal 4-5 minutes before the game ends, Harrington steps his game up. I can see your point with Monta because after starting in a bit of a slump, he's picked it up and he's a very good scorer.

The reasoning behind me saying he's the second best player is because he can come up when it matters. Stephen can disappear for full games and then hit the last shot, and Harrington can do the same, except he picks it up WAY before hand.

I'm not trying to convince you, I'm just stating my case. If I were the Warriors, and they were down 5-10 with 5-6 minutes left, if Baron isn't open, I'd want Harrington to shoot the ball.

Ive watched pretty much every game for a very long time, dating to years & years back. Harrington would be the 4th option in the offense, unless he hasa HUGE mismatch, and he will STILL probably launch a three pointer. He can't do much without the 3pt shot. Harrington heats up like a microwave, asmentioned by Fitz in many games. When he's hot, he can score 10 in a row, but I still rather have Jackson, Monta take shots down the stretch UNLESSHarrington is hot. Down the stretch, Harrington would be the 4th option for any basketball decision as well. I just feel more comfortable with Baron, Jackson,or Monta with the ball than Harrington. I believe, and Im pretty sure Jackson & Monta has hit bigger shots than Harrington. Jackson has hit numerous gamechanging, momentum shots to start/end runs LATE in the 4th quarter. Monta has had plenty of KEY fast break buckets and free throws late as well.

Do you have any relation to Harrington, because you're obviously a HUGE fan of his, especially being a Mavs fan.

 

[japanair21]

None other than he never hit a game-winner/clutch shot against the Mavericks,

But that doesn't explain why I liked Jason Richardson, dude torched us.

I just really like Harrington's game, I liked him when he was in Indy and ATL.

I'm not going to go into detail anymore about Harrington, I respect that you guys don't see him more than a 4th option on the team, I just see hisimportance as more than that, that's all.


And to send this off on a great note..



AN AL HARRINGTON MIX!

AND! A BONUS!



Al on LBJ.

AL for President of the universe.

 

[acidicality]

that dunk didn't even make it to the top 10 of sportscenter

, got robbed completely by BSPN. If it were the other way around it would have been #1.

 

[armanzaballa]

enlighten me, what does the B in ESPN stand for? Why do I see dudes calling it BSPN

 

[offbad]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

AN AL HARRINGTON MIX!

hahaha i read that as "anal harrington mix"

had to do a double take.

 

[japanair21]

^ i lol'd.

And yeah, what Acid said, BullSPN.

you should have it from there.

 

[acidicality]

basically BS-PN....

 

[armanzaballa]

got it.

and yea I chuckled at the "anal Harrington mix"

oh my god I'm still laughing.

 

[andrew630]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/warriors/ci_8390764

O'Bryant just wants a chance to play By Geoff Lepper

Mickael Pietrus was the most voluble Warrior seeking a change of venue last week before the league's trade deadline. But he wasn't alone.
Though he eschewed Pietrus' speechifying, second-year center Patrick O'Bryant would have equally welcomed a move. And, just like Pietrus, O'Bryant is all but certain to pack up and go elsewhere once the season is over.

"I'll play anywhere I'll (get a chance to) play," O'Bryant said. "I'm a basketball player, not a basketball watcher."

This much is clear: He doesn't plan to sign up voluntarily to serve under Warriors coach Don Nelson again.

"Obviously, if something weird were to happen and Nellie didn't (have his option picked up), then maybe," O'Bryant said of a return to the team that selected him No. 9 overall in 2006 but this summer declined to pick up his third-year option.

And if Nelson does get asked by the team to fulfill the final year of his contract? "Then it probably wouldn't be my first choice," O'Bryant said with a wry smile.

Grin and bear it is what O'Bryant's career has been reduced to. We'll never know what Mike Montgomery, Nelson's predecessor and an avowed lover of back-to-the-basket centers, would have done with O'Bryant.

But it's hard to think O'Bryant could have possibly been any worse off. He's received a whopping 88 minutes on the floor this season -- less than rookies Brandan Wright and Marco Belinelli -- and did not even suit up Tuesday as the Warriors muddled along without starting center Andris Biedrins.
While there may be a paucity of minutes coming from Nelson, the coach does provide a long list of items for O'Bryant to improve, long-term.

"He needs to get more consistent, to where you know what he's going to do," Nelson said. "Less turnovers. A dominance in something that he does, whether it's shot-blocking or rebounding. And a few other things. That's enough, huh? ...

"It's kind of all over the map. He passes a little bit, rebounds sometimes, sometimes he'll block a shot. But there's no consistency there. So I never know what he's going to do in a game or in a practice."

Nelson -- who at this point considers raw rookie Kosta Perovic to be "pretty close" to O'Bryant on the depth chart -- wouldn't rule out the notion of O'Bryant returning next season but didn't exactly light up at the prospect.

"He's a free agent," Nelson said. "So we'll be one of 30 bidders in the free-agent market. He'll be on our board."

O'Bryant said his agent, Andy Miller, reported that a few teams were interested in acquiring O'Bryant's services before the trade deadline last week but that the Warriors didn't appear to have any significant talks about moving him.

"There was some interest, but they couldn't find the right scenarios. And the Warriors would have had to get something out of it, too," O'Bryant said. "I would have liked to have gone somewhere and played, but I'm here. I'm staying ready if I get a chance."

That appears to be highly unlikely. Perhaps no moment has better encapsulated O'Bryant's time on the team than Monday's practice, when he and Perovic stood shirtless at either end of the floor as extra defenders during the Warriors' four-on-five drills.

There was a perfectly rational explanation for the situation; The Warriors have only three colors of practice gear (white, blue and orange), and they were already running three teams of four players each, so there was no color left for O'Bryant and Perovic.

But the subtext, intended or not, was clear: You're not even good enough to merit a uniform.

The Warriors have a long litany of first-round busts in the draft -- Chris Washburn and Todd Fuller leap immediately to mind -- but O'Bryant doesn't feel it's fair to lump him in that category.

"Not at all, because I haven't played much," O'Bryant said. "You can't label something you don't know."

 

[japanair21]

I feel bad for PoB, but he won't get a real chance in GS.

 

[andrew630]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/warriors/index?

Good news on the injury front. Andris Biedrins has healed enough from last week's appendectomy to begin some conditioning work today. He's doing light passing and shooting drills with trainer Mark Grabow right now, just getting his muscles re-acquaintated with moving around again.

Still no official word on a target return date, but a welcome sight, nonetheless.

 

[lazyj10]

I feel like I'm watching CMC with that CWebb x Kurupt colab. Redman cameo as well? wow.

 

[acidicality]

I feel bad for POB too....in the games when he's played significant minutes (like the Clippers earlier in the season) he showed a lot of positivepotential...however, if it really is an attitude thing where Nellie can't see anything positive about him in practice, then I think that's POB'sfault. But at the same time, we'll never know how good he is and some other team will probably find out

, what a waste of a draft pick. if he can'tget PT NOW with biedrins out, i don't know how. and

at Nellie saying Kosta and POB are "pretty close"

 

[japanair21]

Warriors have always drafted good, but the players usually prosper once leaving, lets hope PoB isn't one of them for the Warriors sake.

 

[vietsta4o8]

i have a feelin that pob can be good. i hate that nellie doesnt play him

 

[paul is on tilt]

Get POB in the game Nellie! There are times when I would rather have POB in the game instead of Matt Barnes or Mickael Pietrus at the 4. Put O'Bryant atthe 5 and move Harrington down to the 4 instead of making him an undersized center. I hate that Nellie hates young, inexperienced players. I probably am one ofthe few on this board (acidicality the other that I've seen) that think POB will turn out to be a good playerin the league. But yeah, it sucks for POB when it's a blowout and he can't even get garbage time

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