[gswhoops4lifeParticipant]

he seemed like a decent GM last year but when you look at what he done since being GM he has dismantle a team that i think was only two or three players away. first terrible thing this butthole did traded jamal crawford for nothing then he wins 6th man of the year, next trades stephen jackson which i think was the right thing but com on vlad and raja what a bad trade then there is this off season the maggette trade yet again not mad that he traded him but dan g and c bell is really the best you could do. then draft day ekpe udoh over greg monroe why would we need brand wright twin stupid. then the trade that makes me really mad the david lee trade i know he was really good last year but people need to stop calling him an all star because he only made because of AI got hurt or whatever and his numbers are inflated because he played in a system like ours. but the real reason why i hate the deal so much is we gave up a 21 year old in randolph who will be great two years from know our back up center and heart of the team and buike who was just solid not done sorry but then this dumb ass isn’t willing to pay the best shooter in the game 4 mil what jj reddick just got that and morrow is way better then him. the only move i think was right is picking up j lin. beside david khan he is the worst GM in basketball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nateoak10Participant]

There would have way too much logjam between Ellis, Curry, Buike, Morrow and CJ. The Jack trade was dumb but the Maggs one wasn’t . That contract had to go. What is dumb is trading Randolph , Buike and Ronny for a defensively challenged 4. Also not keeping Morrow when he was going to be super cheap and CJ. He chose Pargo over CJ, who the f does that? Also the Udoh pick sucked

[BasketBalAllanParticipant]

At least he is not Kahn…

The Warriors are not in that terrible a position, next year they will have around 10 million dollars in cap space, they will not have to focus on resigning anyone except the money they have to give to their, probably, 1-2 million dollar draft pick. They will have a lot of young talent with which to build and move around to create more of a winning oriented game. Hopefully the new owners will clean house and fire Nelson, maybe even Riley. The year after that they lose almost no one and gain about another 4 million in cap space and are still able to keep a good core of guys together.

[llperez]

i agreed with everything you said up until whining about the david lee trade. That was a great trade and it blows my mind why so many warriors fans are in dissaproval about it.

[marcusfizer21Participant]

I agree with the Ekpe Udoh thing… Drafting him at 6 is definitely a mind blower… But come one… David Lee? The guy who dropped 37 pts 20 rebounds and 10 assists on your Warriors? That ain’t bad at all…

[burningfloodParticipant]

Ekpe Udoh was probably the best player available at the 6th pick, and if not, it’s not like any other team was going to trade up to get the 6th pick and give something that the Warriors needed in return…it was a five player draft, and we got the sixth pick. I’m over it.

As for the David Lee trade, yeah, I’m disappointed that we had to give up Anthony Randolph (I’d rather have given up Broken Wing), but still, if Biedrins can come back healthy, that’s an elite rebounding front line. Also, Lee played the 5 for the Knicks. Maybe he’s better defensively as a 4.

About the Morrow/CJ Watson business, both players were going to get multiyear deals. Morrow is one dimensional; he brings only shooting to the table, can’t play defense, and can’t create his own shot. CJ is a 2 guard in a 1’s body…if both signed for extremely cheap deals with team options, ala Pargo, that’s fine. But if we had them for longer, they’d be eating up valuable cap space…plus, we got two trade exceptions in those trades. Pair that with the expiring contracts of Gadzuric and Radman, and the Warriors can make a trade sometime before the trade deadline.

So Riley hasn’t been mindblowingly awesome, but he hasn’t been awful either.

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

Have fun convincing yourself it was a five person draft when Greg Monroe, Cole Aldrich, Patrick Patterson, and Ed Davis are long-time NBA starters (with Monroe possibly being an All-Star) and Ekpe Udoh makes his debut a couple weeks before he turns 24.

[burningfloodParticipant]

I’d wait and see about Monroe; he did not impress me in summer league…Aldrich, Patterson, Davis, and Monroe, in my opinion, will probably have similar careers. Udoh was a better fit in GS. And when I say it was a 5 person draft, I mean Wall, Turner, Johnson, Favors and Cousins are all miles better than everyone else picked below them.

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

15 and 8 in the summer league, 16 and 9 in the Big East, and all of 20 years old. I don’t have a single worry about him. Ekpe Udoh, on the other hand, is full of nothing but worries. Thin frame, bad production against the best competition, defensive repututation after played in a zone scheme that does nothing for an NBA team, and the next GM will have no investment in him which makes his being an old rookie a dangerous proposition. It is one thing for a new GM to justify investing time and effort in some inherited 21-year old who plays the same position as their $80 million “star” but the perception is different when he is older.

[gswhoops4lifeParticipant]

We are going to end up paying him 16 mill for years 30 to 33 can you really tell me that he is going to keep any bounce in his step at that Age. If we could of singed Him to a four year deal it would of made more sense. As for the numbers he put up on us he was playing a bunch o d leaguers who shouldn’t of been on a hoop court do you think he puts those numbers with a real NBA player playing defence on him?

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