On paper, if everyone was healthy, had a full year to play together, Randolph gets minutes and pans out, this lineup looks good to me...

PG - Curry/CJ
SG - Monta/Azu
SF - Mags/Morrow
PF - AR/Wright
C - Biedrins/Turiaf

Add a top 3 draft pick and focus more on defense and this team "should" do well. Just saying.

still not more than 25-28 wins... but I do like that lineup and wished I'd seen it fully in action for more than a preseason game...

For next season, that lineup looks good enough to battle it out for the 8th spot. Anything higher would be expecting too much out of Randolph/Wright and team defense.

I'm ready to move on without Morrow... shoulda kept Belli [way more versatile]..... I'm over Biedrins too. He's made 0 improvement in like 5 years.

I would keep Raja Bell. We need the defense pretty bad IMO.

Morrows not the problem. Biedrins is part of the problem. you guys get on here and talk about bench players like Morrow and CJ. As i aid many times before, the starters are not good enough to compete. the guys you talk about are holding up their end as bench players. The starters cannot compete with the other starters in the league. So even healthjy, this team is horrible.

The Coooach wrote:The starters cannot compete with the other starters in the league. So even healthjy, this team is horrible.

I just don't agree. Teams need time to gel and young players need time to develop. Injuries prevented any geling this season and Nelson (whom I continue to support to a degree) is guilty of not giving AR his needed minutes.

This lineup hindges on AR imho. If his game ever catches up to his obvious athleticism then he would be the All-Star big this team has needed for ages.

Here's how I see the starters...

PG - Curry: Brightest point on the team. Is looking better every game and does look like an all-star point guard in the making. His passing is sick, he needs to curb his turnovers, which he will. He's only a rookie.

SG - Monta: Boarderline all-star now. Awesome scorer with awesome athleticism. If he has a downside it is that he is short for his position, and will have a hard time defending some of the 6'7" and 6'8" SGs in the league. He's been a little ball-hoggy this season, but I have no problem with that. He needs to get comfortable being the main scorer on the team. He started off not dishing out when he was doubled or even tripled but he has already made improvements there. He's been kicking out of the double teams well lately.

SF - Mags: People seem to love him or hate him. I think many hate his contract. Regardless, his numbers have been stellar ESPECIALLY for a second scoring option. When the team needs to get to the line he does it, and he does it better than most in the league. He's also an excellent rebounder for a SF.

PF - AR: This is the key, as I've mentioned before. He has the height, speed, athleticism, blocking, rebounding, scoreing combo that you see in the top-tier all-stars in the league. He is very sloppy at times and really needs to tighten up his game. HE NEEDS BIG MINUTES!!! I think if he gets them he will be a nightmare for the rest of the PFs in the league.

C - Biedrins: He isn't playing to his potential. When he got his big contract he looked liked he deserved it. Now he doesn't. Is it because of the injury? Whatever his issue is, he is at least rebounding well atm, which is the weakest point in the Warrior's game. Get him back to his old self and he makes this team tough. If he can't get back to his former self, Turiaf can be just as good or better. I think splitting time between Biedrins and Turiaf will prove to be effective if/when they are both 100%.

So, it all comes back to Anthony Randolph. He needs to develop or the Warriors need to rebuild. In the meantime, the more games we lose the more likely we get a stud in the draft. Sometimes that's all that is needed to turn a franchise around.

This team could have been pretty good. Injuries are nobody's fault, but clearly AR and AB are two key young players who haven't progressed.

Personally, I think Nelson wants AR out anyway and I expect him to be sent away in a shocking trade.

Chum wrote:On paper, if everyone was healthy, had a full year to play together, Randolph gets minutes and pans out, this lineup looks good to me...

PG - Curry/CJ
SG - Monta/Azu
SF - Mags/Morrow
PF - AR/Wright
C - Biedrins/Turiaf

Add a top 3 draft pick and focus more on defense and this team "should" do well. Just saying.

depends who's coaching that line up really. Otherwise AR and Wright split 28 mins between them, and maggs plays the 4

we also lack size. Not hight, but muscle. out of that starting 5, Mags is the strongest guy which is a huge concern

Quazza wrote:
depends who's coaching that line up really. Otherwise AR and Wright split 28 mins between them, and maggs plays the 4

we also lack size. Not hight, but muscle. out of that starting 5, Mags is the strongest guy which is a huge concern

Concern?? Actually MAGS is pretty League respectable in being a GYM workout WARRIOR!!! (& you can see the results in his body)

You don't mean to imply you wish more of the 4's n 5's we had on this team looked more like Stephen Seagal as opposed to Napolean Dynamite

C'mon guys. This team is weak and small. Who says Randolph will be anything more than MEDIOCRE. You guys act like he is a saviour. That's too much to put on a kid. The team has too many tweeners. There best players are guards. A major over-haul up front is needed. too many one-dimenional players. You guys are still in that same ol' tired bag of the famous 8th seed. Screw the 8th seed. Why even participate if you not going to try to win it all. Who cares if you get the 8th seed and then get your ass kicked. That's not sucess. You're suppose to try to win it all every year.

If you don't think I'm correct, tell your kid s to only try to kid a "c" in school. Tell your kid that all c"s are great. You know what, C students end up mowing the lawn of A and B students.

C'mon guys. This team is weak and small. Who says Randolph will be anything more than MEDIOCRE. You guys act like he is a saviour. That's too much to put on a kid. The team has too many tweeners. There best players are guards. A major over-haul up front is needed. too many one-dimenional players. You guys are still in that same ol' tired bag of the famous 8th seed. Screw the 8th seed. Why even participate if you not going to try to win it all. Who cares if you get the 8th seed and then get your ass kicked. That's not sucess. You're suppose to try to win it all every year.

If you don't think I'm correct, tell your kid s to only try to get a "c" in school. Tell your kid that all c"s are great. You know what, C students end up mowing the lawn of A and B students.

Have mercy, Coach, that second time really drove it home!.

War Years wrote:Have mercy, Coach, that second time really drove it home!.

LOL..

I get frustrated pressing that Submit button as well

PAWNO wrote:

War Years wrote:Have mercy, Coach, that second time really drove it home!.

LOL..

I get frustrated pressing that Submit button as well

LOL , Sorry, I'm a friggin Cowboy fan too. I think Don Nelson is our Coach on the Cowboys too.