Comments on: Point Guard Fodder

By: petaluman

petaluman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:06:11 +0000

Perry,
Thanks for your response, but I’m not “lashing out”. If you don’t think $12M is important to Warriors ownership, that’s fine. Sounds like a lot of money to me…

Since you also indicated a lack of trust in the team ownership, though, you might want to consider their reasons for making the trade. Ultimately, Chris Cohan has more influence on the organization than Don Nelson, if he chooses to wield it.

By: Chris Cohan

Chris Cohan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:42:10 +0000

Bustinelli gone!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!

By: deano

deano — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:17:09 +0000

Losing Crawford did not affect the point guard situation one way or the other. Crawford is a shooting guard who was asked to play point guard, as were Ellis, CJ, Belinelli and now Curry. None had success. Right now, the only experienced point guards on the roster are the two guys from Atlanta, Law and Claxton, and they are pretty bad. So, with or without Crawford, we still do not have a competent point guard.

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:02:23 +0000

“Petaluman….”………….

Always quick to lash back responses to other posts……

A lot of “nice” guys have had personality conflicts with Don Nelson throughout his coaching career:

1. Tyrone Hill – generally regarded as a quiet, hard-working, humble and coachable player, Result: Badgered and black-listed by Nelson in the 90s and becomes an All-Star in Cleveland.

2. Al Harrington – quiet, unassuming, accepted his 6th man role or whatever role was handed out to him, never complained about being made into a stand still 3 point shooter and yanked out of the game if he wasn’t “hot”……never complained about the constant abuse by Nelson, Result: Traded to Knicks for Jamal Crawford, then went on to average 20+ppg for the Knicks for the balance of the season.

You can even include Jason Richardson and B.Wright in that mix……both guys coachable and nice guys………

Sorry to say, “Petaluman”……but Nelson’s credibility as well as ownership’s is worse than Jerry Springer.

I would never give the Golden State ownership group or Don Nelson the “benefit of the doubt”……never, ever, ever……….it’s a loser organization.

By: Petaluman

Petaluman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:22:10 +0000

“Follow the money”
I think it’s much more likely the Warriors did the JC trade because it saved them 12M, not some made-up personality conflict. Jamal strikes me as too nice a guy to have one with, anyway. Cohan and Rowell are the money men.

I’d also have preferred that we kept him. We’re woefully short on PG experience without him, and he would have been a nice 10M expiring contract next year.

By: Lufty455

Lufty455 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:09 +0000

Earl Monroe is right. I hope Crawford averages 20+ point a game and gets 50 points against the Dubs.
Nellie and Rowell can’t run S..T here.
One is robber and a lush the other one is just a mop boy living a dream he was over 5’7 and can play with the big boys.
I wonder if we can trade Nellie and Rowell for a bag of peanuts and a soda.
That would be asking too much.

By: Chris Cohan

Chris Cohan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:37:56 +0000

Have you read the transcripts from the Cuban-Nelson arbitration? Robert Rowell a sniveling little doofus. Totally played by Nellie and his attorney. Mullin brought Nellie back, Nellie milked Rowell the money guy.

Classic, classic Warriors incometence. Now we’re stuck with Nellie all over agian. He smoked COhan and co. AGAIN.

By: earl Monroe

earl Monroe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:48:50 +0000

The Jamal Crawford deal was purely based on Don Nelson’s ego and personality clash with Crawford, when a player rubs Nelson the wrong way, its pretty much over, and since he controls the front office now, he had the juice to get Crawford out of here, he had very little resistance from Rowell since the contract was huge. I don’t think they expected Acie Law to be in such bad shape either, so now they are stuck trying to keep Watson, also the two country boys did not account for the possibility of Curry being available, so now we have a huge backup at the guard position, I would have kept Crawford, this may not be a popular stance, but he should have gotten another season, last year was a waste and an impossible one to use for judging a veteran player with mostly rookies playing .
Egg on Nelson’s face for trying to force Crawford to opt out, in this economy how many players opted out of $10 million dollars a year?

By: A's in 2009

A's in 2009 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:51:06 +0000

Atlanta was probably the only team in the league willing to give expiring contracts for Crawford. Riley took it and ran, I’m glad he did.

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