Roy wants a 5th year on his deal………

Portland just made a big offer to Millsap…….doesn’t Millsap play the same position as their 2 young, talented players Aldridge and Outlaw?

Doesn’t it seem like Portland is a little confused………sure does to me.

The Hinrich talk, …..then it died down…..then the Millsap offer……then negotiation stalls with Aldridge and Roy.

It could all end up working out in the end, it probably will…….but smart GMs recognize these situations and try to take advantage of them.

Remember when we stole Baron Davis…then Al Harrington and Stephen Jackson…….

Didn’t you get the feeling that this organization had a big plan in the works to go after 1 of the guys on my “list” or any other player that would command a big contract or a max contract when they dealt Crawford?

Didn’t you get the feeling that the Crawford deal was just the beginning of something maybe bigger to come?

I certainly felt that the Crawford deal was only step 1 to a bigger plan that may have included the dumping of more contracts to open up room to pursue some “difference maker” players.

Now, I threw my list together in 10 minutes mainly to prove a point that if we had continued with a pre-season objective to deal our bigger contracts, then maybe we would have a chance to attract some big name players.

Once again the Warrior organization dissapointed me and got my dick hard for no reason.

I like a lot of the guys who make big money on this team….I think most of the contracts are well-deserved…….AB, Ellis, Turiaf at $17 million….I like all those guys……I even like Corey, I think he’s our best all-around scorer (I’ve already gotten into this before, not going to elaborate my reasons).

But maybe we could have found a team that could have used a scorer like Maggette and a tough, energetic role player like Turiaf……..

That’s the point I’m trying to make here……we have no plan, no objective and no foresight.

It is going to take a step by step plan to get a big name to come here, no question about that.

But we have to start somewhere,…….I’m not stupid, I know Odom won’t take an MLE to play for the Golden State Warriors, I know Millsap is commanding big money, I know T-Mac hasn’t made it out of the 1st round when he’s healthy, I know David Lee would hinder AR’s growth……….but it is the big picture that I’m trying to convey here.

You have to start somewhere,………..

Also, I know that there is no guarantee that anyone would want Corey Maggette and his contract…….

But I also felt that way about Troy Murphy and his deal, J-Rich and his deal, Adonal Foyle and his deal, even Erick Dampier and his $52 million deal…….

We made those deals though and in the case of the Murphy deal, got ourselves into the playoffs with the players we acquired.

Not everyone one of those deals worked out great,…..but there are even stupider teams out there than us that would be willing to make desperate moves to try to improve.

The problem is that that would take shrewd management and that is something we don’t have; that’s why I’m blaming the organization.

That’s about the extent of my response to you……

The problems with this organization go far beyond this year’s cap space, stupid………..

If I don’t blame the orgnanization, who else am I going to blame.

I’m glad to see “Just Puked” and “Optimus” not too over-excited about this…..let’s keep things in perspective. Glad not to see an “overly-homeristic” response to Anthony’s 42 in SL by bloggers……

Let’s see if Anthony Randolph can do this from November 2009 to April 2010………

If he ends up playing the 4, which I think he will, let’s see if he can do this against T. Duncan, L. Aldridge, D. Nowitzki, Al Jefferson, D. West and A’mare Stoudemire.

If he is able to perform that way under the circumstances I named above…….then yes…..we can start calling him a “star” in the making.

Good job, Warrior fans, in keeping this in perspective and not getting over-excited and crowning Anthony Randolph the second coming of Christ just yet.

Most guys in SL don’t even make an NBA regular season roster……those are the guys AR scored 42 on.

But here is a series of “if’s” for everyone.
– If Randolf is that high on the learning curve as his all around play seems to be (granted it is against poor competition).
– If Curry really does pass and shoot like he is proported to be able to do.
– If Monta comes in healthy with a good attitude.

Assuming these are true, then we would be looking at
Monta, Curry and Jackson at guards, and Randolf and Beidrens down low. Even with Monta and Curry’s defensive deficiencies, Jackson can take on almost anyone outside, and apparently Randolf has worked hard on his defense and rebounding, so Beidrens wouldn’t be all alone under the basket.

We wouldn’t be the Lakers, but we also wouldn’t be the Thunder/Clippers – somewhere in between? Maybe even up to 6th (???) in the west.

Probably too optimistic – but if the brass can swing a 2 for 1 role player trade to upgrade the rotation, then we wouldn’t be as bad as last year, and would be looking up in the next few years as the guys mature.

Im just glad to see AR is trying to take his game to the next level. I saw a couple of nice new low posts moves and oh yea….that dunk was SICK!! You cant teach drive and he has a lot of it.

You are seriously blaming the Warriors organization for not bringing one of these guys in? Lets go down your “list”.

Lamar Odom: we are a losing team and could only offer him MLE from my understanding. why in the hell would he come here?

Brandon Roy: I really hope you are joking. He is the franchise player for the Blazers.

T-Mac: You are advocating the warriors go pick up an aging, non-playoff winning, volume shooting, highly paid Tracy McGrady. Yeh, he would drastically improve our team…

Millsap has been talked about, Warriors never had an opportunity to get him (we didn’t have the money to offer him).

Lee: You want to have Lee come in here and supplant the role of Anthony Randolph? Lee, an under-sized PF with no shot? We are trying to move AWAY from mediocrity, not towards it.

Boozer: The only way I would be ok with having Boozer here is if he was going to play the 4 and we played Randolph at the 5 (presumably trading Beans). Even still, Boozer is undersized and plays absolutely no defense.