Golden State Warriors

By Fantasy Junkie So many questions, so few answers: Is Don Nelson tanking already? Is John Wall that good? When is Stephen Jackson going to get traded? Can we trade for Chris Bosh even if he doesn't sign an extension? Will he even be any good playing for this cursed franchise? If you could trade all the Warrio...

By Adam Lauridsen “We need Biedrins and Turiaf” – Injuries are always the easiest excuse, but not all injuries are created equal.  Nelson’s system has little use for Biedrins and Turiaf when they’re healthy (other than hauling down rebounds and blocking shots), so it’s strange to suddenly elevate them to...

By Adam Lauridsen It took the Warriors ten quarters of basketball, but just after the half Wednesday night against the Memphis Grizzlies, the five players running up and down the court finally looked like a team.  Granted, it’s only start — but given what came before it, something to build on is precisely wh...

By Adam Lauridsen Around 5:30 Tuesday evening — roughly 24 hours before the Warriors tip off their 09-10 season — the Bay Bridge snapped.  All the Warriors can do now is hope it’s not an omen.  The Warriors, like the Bridge, have suffered nearly two decades of neglect in the wake of abrupt catastrophes.  Many wi...

By Adam Lauridsen “It’s only preseason” is usually invoked against the Warriors’ ugly, losing performances in October.  Far too often, however, we’ve seen them make the same October mistakes in January or April.  For Thursday’s win over the Hornets, I’m hoping that for once it’s the positives — not the neg...

By Adam Lauridsen What do Ralph Sampson, Uwe Blab, Alton Lister, Tyrone Hill, Victor Alexander, Rony Seikaly, Todd Fuller, Erick Dampier, Adonal Foyle, and Troy Murphy have in common?  They've all been opening night starting centers for the Warriors in the past twenty years -- and their performances as...

By Atma Brother ONE 48 minutes30 points (10-16 FG - 62.5%, 6-8 3pt- 75%, 2-2 FT- 100%)5 rebounds (1 offensive)4 assists : 1 turnover4 steals2 blocks Let's review what Morrow has done this preseason:  Preseason Game #1 vs LA Clippers: 21 points (8-11 FG, 4-6 3pt, 1-2 FT), 1 rebound, 3 assists, 2 stealsPreseaso...

By Atma Brother ONE Suns Fall Short Against Warriors, 104-101 - Bright Side Of The Sun Exhibition #4: Ws vs. Suns - Inside the Warriors - with Marcus Thompson Warriors 104 Suns 101 " Feltbot's Warriors Blog 48 Minutes.net   " (Exhibition) Game No. 4: Warriors vs. Suns, live

By Adam Lauridsen Stephen Jackson — Our captain may still be on the roster, but mentally and emotionally he looks like he’s already been traded.  The box score captures his 1-9, 0 rebound line, but it doesn’t convey Jackson sitting on the floor following no-call contact on a drive as the Lakers went streakin...

By Adam Lauridsen In three weeks, the Warriors will finally take the court in Oakland for their first preseason game. It remains to be seen whether real basketball will put an end to the air of discontent currently swirling around the franchise — or only heighten it. When compared to last year, this off-seaso...

By Adam Lauridsen Standing in the way of the post-season goal are teams that have worked hard this off-season adding talent. Oklahoma City, Minnesota, and the Clippers should be significantly better. Memphis’ young core gained valuable experience last year and might finally gel. Sacramento looks dead on...

By Adam Lauridsen Monta Ellis — At the center of so many of the Warriors’ crucial issues — ball movement, speed of play, defense, team chemistry — sits Monta Ellis. Hopefully Ellis comes into training camp healthy and in shape, giving him a full month of practice running the point with his current teammates. I...

By Atma Brother ONE Well I guess the Warriors won't be picking up that 4th year option on Marco Belinelli! Jump for more thoughts on another Chris Mullin pick that didn't work out for the Warriors. The Raptors will send Devean George(notes) to the Warriors. 2004 2005

By Atma Brother ONE We interrupt your regularly scheduled Amare Stoudemire to the Warriors and Masala Curry madness to take a look at the Warriors new young point guard who has been on the squad for less than a week. Warriors bring in Law [SFGate] State of the Hawks point guard [Peachtree Hoops]

By Atma Brother ONE Does anybody want to play for the Warriors?- I think Tim is giving Chris Mullin way too much credit (see The Mullin Myths: Chris Mullin made the Warriors a franchise players wanted to join), but it's still an interesting read if anything else.Will Jrue Holiday work out for the Warriors? So...

By Adam Lauridsen So with season ticket renewal week upon us, I have to tip my hat to the Warriors’ strategy.  Corey Maggette and Stephen Jackson are out-of-sight, out-of-mind.  Anthony Randolph and Anthony Morrow are scowling and fighting every game to keep the Warriors respectable.  And even Monta has gi...

By Atma Brother ONE There's a lot of resentment within Warriors Nation towards one man for BD's departure from Clippers North (Golden State Warriors) to Warriors South (LA Clippers). Fairly or unfairly Robert Rowell has been demonized essentially for nixing Chris Mullin's 3 year $39 million extension...

By R Dizzle Oh me oh my.  Oh my oh me.  THAT was quite a game.  I love to see Warriors vs Suns games - they're high scoring, fast, and we usually win. K-AZ-BOO Mr. Richardson, A.Stoud. Amar'e, M-Barn Dear Mr. Barnes, Dear Mr. Ellis, Feenix Suns Guys, Dear Mr. Jackson,

By Adam Lauridsen Andris Biedrins - Andris may have been abused a few times by Bynum, but he returned the favor at the other end with some great moves attacking the basket.  More importantly, he provided a steady rebounding anchor to the Warriors’ defense while Wright, Turiaf, and Randolph rushed at shoote...

By Adam Lauridsen How do you follow-up losing to the worst team in the NBA?  How about losing to the team previously tied for the second worst record.  If the Warriors truly are tanking, the last two games have been coups.  On the other hand, if the Warriors are still trying to win basketball games, this might be...

By Adam Lauridsen Anthony Randolph - I’m personally willing to contribute a few bucks to Anthony Randolph’s fine for dunking over Yao, then letting rip with the scream and death stare.  This is a team on the verge of losing focus and intensity given its brutal losing streak.  To see Randolph throwing his body...

By Adam Lauridsen We get a point guard who can drive and kick, shooting guards who can shoot, Jackson anchoring things at small forward, Randolph cleaning glass, blocking shots, and pushing the ball at four, and Biedrins doing what he does best at center.  Our bench is more than able, so we should be able to ke...

By rss@youtube.com (1EDmanLV) LOS ANGELES, November 15,2008(AP) -- In the first meeting between Baron Davis and Corey Maggette since they switched teams as free agents this summer, an undrafted rookie named Anthony Morrow stole the show. Morrow had 37 points and 11 rebounds in his first NBA start, leading the Golden S...

By Adam Lauridsen Without a true ball-distributing point guard, the Warriors must rely upon players capable of creating their own offense.  Right now, they don’t have enough of them.  I’d actually describe this as a carry-over problem from last year, when the team became stagnant and Davis largely gave up...

By Adam Lauridsen Saturday’s game was only available on NBA League Pass, but those who missed it were spared some of the NBA’s ugliest basketball in the first half.  The Warriors relied primarily on put backs, broken plays and trips to the foul line to claw their way to 52 points.  You can blame some of the uglin...

By Adam Lauridsen Don Nelson will abandon small-ball - Whether by choice or necessity, I think it happens this year either immediately or after the likely trade of Harrington.  Nelson may flirt with a Nelson/Azubuike/Jackson/Maggette/Biedrins line-up, but I doubt Corey has the defensive mindset to gu...

By Brett Edwards Up north where the Golden State Warriors play, it won't be pretty either, at least for the first few months of the season. That's because their best player (apologies, Mr. Maggette) decided to engage in low-speed moped riding during the off-season (this still amazes me ... the moped = injury pa...

By dberri The Warriors did make some changes to their roster in an effort to at least maintain their team production of wins.  The most significant was the addition of Corey Maggette.  Last season Maggette played for the Clippers, so essentially Golden State traded Davis to LA for Maggette. Corey Mag...

By Drew Roberts Part Six of our WAC football preview is here.  Today, I am examining the June Jones-less Warriors of Hawaii. The Warriors lose a lot of big offensive tools from last season with the departures of Colt Brennan, Ryan Grice-Mullen, Davone Bess, and company.  The Warriors also lost June Jones...wh...

By Adam Lauridsen Jackson: 34 mins - This is five minutes off Jackson’s pace last season.  While Jackson will be the veteran leader on this team and a key part of whatever success we have, his minutes were far too high last season, as demonstrated by his March and April fade.  Jackson may never admit that he was w...

By Adam Lauridsen Watching the Hornets make the Spurs look their age has been one of the more enjoyable scenes so far of 07-08 Playoffs. There are moments with Paul and company streaking up the court when — if I go cross-eyed and color blind — the action looks a lot like the Warriors at their finest moments. With a...

By David Friedman The Bottom Line: Will somebody please pull the plug on the "Stephen Jackson should have been an All-Star/is the best player on the Warriors" campaign? Baron Davis leads the Warriors in scoring (21.9 ppg) and assists (7.6 apg). Monta Ellis is averaging 20.1 ppg on .533 field goal shooting this season and in the last four games (including this loss) he increased those numbers to 23.8 ppg and .575. Meanwhile, with the Warriors' playoff hopes in serious jeopardy, Jackson--who has the same scoring average as Ellis but the worst field goal percentage (.406) of any player in the Warriors' main rotation--scored six points on 3-11 shooting from the field (including 0-6 from three point range), grabbed one rebound, passed for eight assists and committe...   [read the full post]

By Atma Brother ONE The Spurs D vs the Warriors No-O in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter summed up in one pic. Makes you really appreciate Bob Fitzgerald and Jim Barnett. So Fitz and Barnett get my award tonight. Thanks for bringing it every night fellas! Photo: AP Photo/Eric Gay + D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images

By Atma Brother ONE Is it over? Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images) CDubbz: Rumor: Warriors "Seriously Interested" in Chris WebberRumor: Chris Webber to the Warriors by Tuesday 1/29/08Chris Webber Says "It's a Done Deal"Chris Webber BELIEVES and So Do IYouTube Tuesday - Express Yourself

By Atma Brother ONE Golden State, meanwhile, quietly chased Barry (and his Bay Area ties) hard and still has a $9,999,999 trade exception from its Jason Richardson trade with Charlotte on draft night. The Warriors, furthermore, are some $8.3 million under the luxury-tax threshold, meaning that they could...

By Atma Brother ONE Against GSW? The only team that runs more then the Suns is the Warriors and I somehow don't see how Shaq is going to cover Al Harrington from jacking up 3's. That said he does have 6 hard fouls to deliver on Baron and Ellis in the lane. You don't want to piss this guy off. If it comes to a playoff matchu...

By Atma Brother ONE From the Chris Webber/ Juwan Howard era Bullets to the failed Mitch Richmond/ Rod Strickland experiment to the disasterous Michael Jordan comeback Wizards, which were only good for some fly retro striped Bullets jerseys to the assemblage of the Washington Warriors with Larry Hughes,...

By Atma Brother ONE Tim Kawakami: It'd be nice for Warriors fans and for Nellie and Chris Mullin, and probably nice for Jackson himself if we could all just write it down in ink: Good steady game, every night, no blow-ups, sustained focus, night after night after night.

By David Friedman Anyone who visits this site regularly knows that I have repeatedly insisted (most recently in this post) that teams should not be afraid to run against the Golden State Warriors and that the Dallas Mavericks could have avoided their upset loss to the Warriors in last year's playoffs if the Mavericks had pushed the ball up the court instead of trying to slow the game down. These truths were once against confirmed in Dallas' 121-99 win over Golden State on Wednesday night. Dirk Nowitzki scored a game-high 29 points on 9-16 shooting, adding eight rebounds, six assists and three blocked shots. Nowitzki had a game-high plus/minus rating of +25. Five other Mavericks also scored in double figures, including Josh Howard, who had 19 points and a gam...   [read the full post]

By Atma Brother ONE The Dallas Morning News Dallas Mavericks Blog is Very Stoppable Here's the context: "UNSTOPPABLE, BABY!" -Golden State Warriors rookie Marc Jackson to the Mavericks' bench, after hitting a lay-up during a 29-point loss (2000) NELLIE SMOKES CUBAN. Yo Dallas- DUNK YOU VERY MUCH!

By Atma Brother ONE The Warriors ended a painful losing streak to Ebok and the Lakers on Friday night on national TV. Baron stole the show with his heroic, uh-I-can't-believe-he's-taking-that-shot-- HELLYEAH!, booming trey and blew kisses to the Roaracle crowd as the Warriors finished off the Fakers.

By Atma Brother ONE Also Coach McMillan and the Sonics deserve a ton of credit for absolutely shutting down the pick and roll between Baron Davis or Stephen Jackson and Andris Biedrins. This is a very well coached team and they knew exactly how to render Biedrins ineffective on offense. You can tell they did the...

By Fantasy Junkie When Austin Croshere is playing, you know the Warriors must be playing well. When Fitz is saying "Austin Croshere can get scary hot" the Warriors must be absolutely killing the other team. This makes me wonder, are the Bucks a real NBA team or just an NBDL team in disguise? That's how bad the Wa...

By Atma Brother ONE This was the first game this season where I've seen the Warriors play smart, excellent team defense for the majority of the 48 minutes. Props to Pietrus for his excellent job denying the rock from Zach Randolph despite giving up a ton of pounds (or maybe that's just 1 Ton literally?) and for h...

By Atma Brother ONE You ever played NBA 2k or NBA Live or some other video game and you were up by so many that you were just fooling around to see how many players you could hook up with nice statlines? Well that's what the Jazz did to the Warriors tonight. Al Harrington: 38 points (15-20 FG and 6-8 3pt), 7 boards, 3 d...

By Atma Brother ONE Golden State of Mind: Warriors Nation was stunned when the team pulled the trigger on a deal that sent Jason Richardson to the Charlotte Bobcats for talented UNC power forward Brandan Wright and a $10 million trade exception. It's been widely rumored that Wright was just a means to an end (K...

By R Dizzle The graphics in NBA 2k8 are a lot like Stephen Jackson - they can be right on the money but also reeeal nasty. About 90% of the character models have been created accurately and beautifully. Major players - Baron Davis, Jason Richardson, Dwight Howard, Shaq, Nate Robinson, Chris Paul, Andri...

By Atma Brother ONE Nelson basically put rookie Marco Belinelli into the starting line-up, replacing the traded Jason Richardson. Nelson mentioned Kelenna Azubuike and Stephen Jackson (better used as the small forward), but it's clear that his heart, for now, is with the long-ball shooting, gutsy Itali...

By Matthew Rossi Every week Matthew Rossi writes The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to the class everyone can aspire to except blood elves. Why can't blood elves be warriors? Because giving Taunt to blood elves would be redundant.

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