To die hard Warriors fans like ourselves, we still get excited about our young team beacause we see promise that we haven’t seen before.

The promise comes in the form of a coach who has taken this team (although a different team) to the playoffs before. A young, talented core, and a General Manager and organizational objective that at least on the surface look like they have a direction. We love basketball here in the Bay Area and we were even coming out to watch our team when Mark Jackson was our starting Power Forward.

But those fans also know basketball and know when a situation is almost hopeless. I understand that young players take time to develop, you have to be patient, you have to win before you lose, all of that BS.

But I am beginning to lose my patience and I think we are just a bad team.

We are the 3rd worst team in the West behind Oklahoma City and the L.A. Clippers.

Memphis, Minnesota and Sacramento are better than we are. I repeat Memphis, Minnesota and Sacramento are better than we are.

I hate that, I feel that we are a deeper and more talented team than Memphis, Minnesota and Sacramento.

BUt the one thing those teams have that we don’t is a go-to player that can close games out if need be.

Memphis has O.J. Mayo, Rudy Gay, Hakim Warrick and Marc Gasol, not a bad little core at all, real basketball fans will agree to this.

Minnesota has AL Jefferson. When Minnesota needs a basket down the stretch, they throw the ball into Jefferson. He has excellent moves in the low post and can get to the line.

Sacramento has Kevin Martin. He is better than anyone we have down the stretch, closing games out, his game is more conducive to that, more so than those of Stephen Jackson or Jamal Crawford for instance.

Maybe Monta will provide that when he comes back, but too many questions now and we are not playing well. Even though we are playing better than I would have ever imagined. You can bet your life that if we did not have Biedrins, Jackson, and Azabuike, we would be 1-12 right now!

Even without Arenas, a 1-10 record and their recent firing of their coach, I bet our young Golden State squad will leave Washington D.C. with nothing but their hats in their hands.

It’s a road game, we lost 2 tough ones in a row, young team, new players, Jackson’s attitude already headed for the worst. If we lose this game, I would not be surprised one bit!

I tell myself game in and game out, “A.J., give them another chance, we won 2 in a row last week, maybe we can put together a win streak.” But now 2 wins in a row has become 2 losses in a row and things just look terrible as far as winning and playoffs.

As far as young talent and building a team, I like the direction, as far as patience and willingness to wait, I’m not so sure!

I don’t know, it just looks bad and with the rise of teams that I thought would go nowhere this year like Denver, it just does not seem good.

2 losses to Memphis and 1 to Sacramento, not to mention a home loss to a Bulls team that looked like a YMCA team against the Lakers last week.

We are too far down in level of competition compared to other Western Conference teams. For the Lakers, we would be like the varsity team at Monte Vista High School. For New Orleans, we played tough, but we were like the St. Mary’s Men’s Basketball Team.

The Lakers destroyed the Bulls and we couldn’t even play with them down the stretch. The Lakers destroyed Denver on Saturday night, but this is a Denver team that would beat us 3 times out of 4 I’m sure. We lost to Memphis twice who has 4 total wins on the season. Sacramento looked like Santa Clara University’s Men’s Team against the Lakers last night as they were wiped off the floor, but yet we lost to them!

We will not be able to compete in our division and conference this year. Last week’s big wins brought my hopes back up, but the last 2 losses were terrible. I keep telling myself I will never watch another game.

I love basketball and I am too big a fan not to. I used to watch every single game in the Hughes, Jamison, Vonteego Cummings era, why wouldn’t I watch every game now?

But my patience is wearing thin and I also am a Laker fan at heart. So luckily I have something to lean back on. But I know I will be back in front of my big screen Plasma, watching the next road game on HD and being dissapointed yet again!

We have four starters who don’t. You can’t play good basketball like that, especially when none of those four is close to being a real star.

Look I dont want to see all out abusive 155-149 games every night because that is a insult to the integrity of the game but at the same time 89-81 where the defense it fouling on every play is also a insult. I feel when you slow the game down to a halt and hack and whack on evey play you are taking all fun out the game for the fans and you are disrespecting the integrity of the game.