Comments on: Warriors Not Picking Up Williams’ Option

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:35:36 +0000

Marcus Williams, AL, and Cap. Jack to the Jazz for Boozer and Brewer..?

By: Don Nelson

Don Nelson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:49:31 +0000

You Dumb Bastards! I am trying to get rid of Mully’s garbage aquisitions and in-still my own… I am going to make this team like the Dallas Mavericks… Randolph is my Dirk, Azubuike is my Michael Finley, and when Monta is back he is going to be my Steve Nash… CJ Watson is my Avery Johnson… and Andris Biedrins will be shooting 3′s in no time… Calm down you dumb bastards!

By: overunder

overunder — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:45:36 +0000

get back to me when Marcus manages to stick with an nba team. til then he’s junk.

By: dominmatrix

dominmatrix — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:15:56 +0000

Why draft any players? Why not just flush the youth and get a checklist of guys that Nelson likes. I’m so freaking tired of Nellie. There’s something inherently mean-spirited about him and I don’t think he’ll ever win a championship unless he has at least four all stars on the court for the majority of the time. In the big games, against better coaches like Sloan, Jackson, Pop and even Byron Scott, he folds like a cheap suit.

By: ALOJR

ALOJR — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:25:13 +0000

I watch williams play with NJ. You can not say that he does not have talent and can not play. He showed promise and can score. The Nets decided to go with veteran backup behind Kidd because of team expectations but they were fooling themselve about thier team expectations. Then they decided to blow up thier team. They have Devin Harris at point now and decided to go in a different direction. I thought they were going to keep Marcus. They have an extremely young team. Kenyon Dooling is one of a few vets on the team. Marcus should be given a chance. I have not seen him play while in Golden State. Maybe it is a motivation issue.

By: manhattanproj

manhattanproj — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:36:24 +0000

williams can play. if you’ve seen him in college, you’d know. you can question his motivation level, etc, but you can’t question his talent level. he was better than rudy gay when they were playing together.

i don’t understand why w’s wouldn’t pick up his option? 2 mil for another year, that’s nothing in the nba. at least give the guy another chance.

it begs the question: why even bother trading a future 1st rounder for him?

but supposedly, mullin isn’t the one pulling the trigger. this just goes to show how competent this robert rowell guy is? back to the dark age.

By: JoeSez

JoeSez — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:01:18 +0000

GM’s have 3 assets: Players, Salary Cap and Draft Picks.

Not picking up Williams option is wasting an asset.

“Oh He sucks”
Okay – he sucks. Sadly most of the NBA is overpaid. a Good franchise knows how to use players in trades while lesser franchises play power politics with their assets.

By: PHIL`

PHIL` — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:39:49 +0000

Williams was given every chance in NJ but he seemed too shot happy and not a playmaker. Being from UCONN like Josh Boone the Nets were hoping he’d succeed. I’d go with Nellie on this one.

By: Mountain Jim

Mountain Jim — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:16:43 +0000

So guaranteeing $2 million to a guy who won’t be on your roster next year is not brain dead? Like he’ll be such a hot commodity for other teams that locking him up is a plus, not a minus?

Please. He sucks.

By: deano

deano — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:23:57 +0000

Williams still has trade value to the Warriors, this season. Expiring contracts are always acceptable, even valuable, to some teams. The issue is, as with Harrington, who could we get in exchange? Neither Tinsley nor Heinrich would help. We’d be better off keeping Al and Marcus, and getting $12 MM off the cap next year. Besides Al does hustle; and he can be a big factor at times, like he was tonight. As for Marcus, he may catch on to what Nellie wants to run in a month or two. By the end of the season, he could be contributing, too, Neither Al nor Marcus should be viewed as dead weight.