Since the Warriors seem to start all over EVERY year any way…Just blow everything up from the front office to the team. This is the last time I want to hear, “the Warriors have a young nucleus, and just wait until next year!” Let’s just get it over with. I am willing to absorb one more season of pain, and losing. Blow it up, the years of torture must end! I really took a good look at the team while they were playing Minnesota. The Warriors look like a high school team. No beef, no defense, no inside presence, no post game, just name it and the Warriors don’t possess it.

It’s time to stop pretending like this team has a chance! I come at a quarter of the price of Riley. I don’t need a flip camera to tell you what’s wrong with the Warriors. I can tell you for free! O.k. Marcus, hook me up with a meeting with Lacob. I guarantee you, he wouldn’t be wasting his money putting together a team, or trading away all his valuable assets and in turn receiving nothing! I have been a long suffering fan for years, and I would be able to purge the losing ways the Warriors have been accustomed to. Change the Mentality! You know its going horribly wrong when you can’t even retain your mascot/symbol (Thunder)! Not that we need Thunder but…would the NBA consider taking/striping the logo from any other team? Lol. The Warriors are not even respected by the NBA. The only reason the Warriors still exist is because the Bay Area has a Great fan base. Losing is not acceptable under any circumstance. It is up to the new ownership to change the culture here. Let’s begin the job now. In the words of Batman, and Robin…Ka-Pow,Bam,Boom!!!!!

4) Goodbye AB. Wow Jello is tougher. We need that sourpuss whiney face off our bench and out of the locker room. We need a big body bad. Willing to do the dirty work, set screens, rebound, lay the lumber when required. Udoh is a start. He doesn’t need to score. He needs to occupy space and create space. AB won’t and can’t do this. There’s a reason guys like Damp and Shaq still have jobs. Admunson is too small. Nene, Marc Gasol…whomever you go for, has to fit this mold. Because of our team, we need to target a guy who can make 60% from the line.

5) Plan the move to San Francisco in a state of the art arena. Half of the NBA fans don’t even know where the Warriors play. NBA teams stay in SF when they come here. It is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city. Anyone happen to take notice where all the stars have gone. It’s where the money is, where the suites will be sold. It can be “the” other destination on the West Coast. That will never happen in the 50 year old, outdated Coliseum no matter how you renovate it. It’s in a horrible part of town, in Oakland, near nothing.

6) Get one great player free agent. Just one.

There you have it. The Warriors are fixed.

1)Goodbye Larry Riley as the head of Basketball Operations. You want to keep him as an underling fine, but I’ve heard enough statements of his commitment to uptempo small ball, and it doesn’t work. We need a new sheriff who will demand accountability from the players, staff and ownership. I would prefer to move now and have this guy in place for the draft. What’s Pritchard doing? If we have to wait, Colangelo, Popovich (who’s gotta be ready to get off the bench), and Warkentien would also be targets after the draft when they are free in June.

2) Goodbye Keith Smart. You have 3 great shooters for their positions in Lee, Wright and Curry, and we have no 1/2 court design. He defers to Monta to avoid the hell Nellie got and bought into the concept that he’s our best player and as coach he has to get along with him. Wrong. We need a real 1/2 court game to take advantage of the strengths we have. Clearly the new GM has to make this call. If I’m the GM, I target Spurs lead assistant Budenholzer. The current hybrid more uptempo but still half court effective Spurs is the direction this team needs to take.

3) Goodbye Monta Ellis. In the real world of the NBA Monta would be the perfect sixth man they way JR Smith has been and they way he used to be. He won’t accept that. Fact is unless you can match him up with a Point 2 or a Point Forward he’s always a negative mismatch in crunch time. He really can’t guard PGs and be expected to have the energy to provide offense. He doesn’t see the play, he doesn’t have the patience and passing to really run an offense. He’s a defensive liability. In short, he’s the tougher guy to hide defensively because he really can’t play PG. Now throw in Poor IQ, not a great handle and dubious practice ethic and you’re left with a great scorer and not much else.

2. Don’t trade J-Rich for Brandan Wright

DONE.

WE BELIEVE BABY!! 2011 EDITION!

FYI – He was the 1st pick overall in TNT’s Ultimate Fantasy Draft.

I understand your points but Kobe was drafted by Charlotte and traded to L.A. for your close friend and favorite player, Vlade Divac………….

But you make a decent point, overall…..just don’t get too carried away……you had a nice run going until you messed up with Kobe Bryant.

You obviously don’t know much about the Lakers, typical of most Bay Area fans.

But, the underlying and prevalent theme on this thread, echoed by many posters, is simply, …….You have to have talented, winning, ‘difference making’ players to succeed in this league, plain and simple, case closed.

Golden State simply does not have enough ‘difference making’ talent……

We’ve struck out on everything…….drafting, free agency, general management,ownership.

But the bottom line for Joe Lacob is profitability. That’s it…..If he’s profitable, he is successful.

The Golden State Warriors are just one business among many others for Lacob…..

Can you imagine what we are talking about when a $450 million investment is just a side business?

Astronomical amounts of money these owners have…….more than the players and we think players are wealthy……..

The Maloofs in Sac are an excellent example, these guys haven’t done shit to improve their squad in 5 years, they started Beno Udrih at the ’1′ for two consecutive seasons for God’s sakes; but as soon as the shit hit the fan in the profitability department, they are ready to ship their product out of town in search of a more lucrative venue and market, although they have been planning to get out of town for years now…..

It’s all about money with every owner, some owners know more about NBA basketball, surround themselves with the proper decision-making and player personnel and put everything into owning an NBA franchise (e.g. Dr. Jerry Buss; Marc Cuban; the Russian Prokerov) while others are just happy to be profitable.

Warrior owners are making money, plain and simple, otherwise they would be out of business……

I still like my ideas in post #28. They still stand up past the deadline. Hope you see it the same way, MTII.