Official Warriors Off Season Thread

[acidicality]

Sasha's pushing off. Word to LeBron, dude's faking.
OFFENSIVE FOUL.

Bad call by the refs.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21



Searched Sasha in google for his wife, and

Hottest Wifeys Thread?

 

[sohi 23]

Pictures seriously do tell 1,000 words.

 

[jrich for mvp]

Thanks for the pics guys.

 

[dont be a menace]

i want these.. what type of paper do you use franchise?

 

[andrew630]

Here is the one I made. I just threw it away a few days ago because I'm planning to make a new one in color for my new house next fall.

And regarding SoHi's comment on Lebron not being able to surpass Tiger. Lebron is like 10 years younger than Tiger and, I really believe Lebron can passTiger at some point.

I really enjoy this thread, I like how we can branch off and not talk about the Warriors at all.

 

[livemyreality]

I think I'll be rasterbating that Adonal Foyle picture. LOL.

 

[daprescription]

if only there was a better picture

 

[goldenchild12]

Originally Posted by dont be a menace

i want these.. what type of paper do you use franchise?

that yelllow T is CRACK!!!

 

[acidicality]

 

[andrew630]

I was wondering, K-Mart didnt improve much after he got his contract. Do you think this will happen to Monta?

 

[daprescription]

He raised his scoring by 3 points. I think everybody would be happy with Monta scoring 23 points a game. Well, I know I would.

 

[jpzx]

What's going on with Al Harrington? I haven't heard much about him lately. Is he lock to be on the team next year?

 

[paul is on tilt]

^ Sadly, I think that might happen with Monta. Monta's drive to improve his game might disappear because his new contract would make him"comfortable".

 

[acidicality]

If Monta keeps doing what he does, I'd be happy. I just hope he improves on defense a little bit.

And about Al Harrington, he's doing aight, but in Nellie's system it really feels like he's regulated to being a 3 point shooter at times. I thinkhe is definitely one of the most "tradeable" pieces we have, except he might not have much value. We always joke we want to trade AlHarrington+filler for every player that's rumored to be on the trading block

So no, he's not a lock to be on the team, but he probably will be because no one will give us a deal we want. I don't mind keeping him around, but ifwe can find someone who can help us I'd trade him in a heartbeat. If there's a team out there that really covets him, I hope the Warriors are onit.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by JPZx

What's going on with Al Harrington? I haven't heard much about him lately. Is he lock to be on the team next year?

Ever hear of "Al + filler"?

Just kidding... Harrington is one of the few players from last year who is still under contract. Most likely, he'll be a Warrior next year because Ihighly doubt a team would want to trade for him. You don't hear anything about Harrington because he underachieved last year... well, you don't heargood things about Harrington.

If you look back a couple pages in this thread, there's a link to a Don Nelson interview where he called Al Harrington his "private"....That's the last I heard Harrington's name being mentioned other than on NT.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by Andrew630

I was wondering, K-Mart didnt improve much after he got his contract. Do you think this will happen to Monta?

I just checked RealGM and they have a poll going on there about the same thing. You got this from there, didn't you?

 

[acidicality]

i think that was his poll, i think Andrew is Yi Jian Lian over there.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Really? I'm Paul Is On Tilt over there. Look for me

. I don't post much over there. I only have 2 posts since I got accepted a few weeks back.

 

[acidicality]

i think i saw you post in the Brook Lopez thread.

i don't post much either, i have 100+ posts but that's probably for 2 years.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Yup, that was me

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*edit*
Let me retract my offer. I just thought to myself, I'm not good yet at making those 490x90 .gif sigs on RealGM yet. I'll just work on it and then whenI feel ready, I'll put the offer back on the table. Sorry.

 

[mjdalegend]

[h1]Belinelli, Wright work hard to get into shape, rotation[/h1]

Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, June 13, 2008

(06-12) 21:05 PDT -- The rookie campaigns for Marco Belinelli and Brandan Wright could not have started and ended on more different notes last season. While Wright missed all of summer league to rest a sore hip, Belinelli wowed an entire Las Vegas gym by swishing nonstop three-pointers in his debut in July.

The shooting, though, only eroded from there. Belinelli fired blanks once the regular season started, and by the time Wright ascended the Warriors' rotation, it was Belinelli who was on the inactive list.

"The first few games when (Stephen) Jackson was out, I played like 10 , 15 minutes, but I didn't play a lot after because I know that I didn't shoot well," Belinelli said Thursday. "It's terrible, because you're working hard and you enjoy it when the ball goes (down). It sounds good and it's incredible when you score.

"I think I'm ready now."

Belinelli certainly looked the part after another lengthy workout at the Warriors' practice facility. Gone is the baby fat that outlined his body last season, courtesy of daily, three-hour sessions with Golden State's coaches and trainers.

Belinelli and Wright have been staples here over the last three weeks, starting their days around 10 a.m. with on-court drills before moving on to strength and conditioning work.

Coach Don Nelson wants his younger players to be a bigger part of the rotation, which is just fine by the pair. Wright is fully healed from the groin injury that cost him the final four games of the regular season, and he has been working on his shooting - both mid-range and trailing three-pointers - as well as his ballhandling.

A month from now, he and Belinelli will headline the Warriors' summer league contingent, with Wright looking to expand his game and Belinelli out to prove that he's more than a one-game wonder.

"Yeah, I remember, everybody remembers," Belinelli said of his 37-point debut. "It was incredible because the first three or four minutes, nobody passed the ball to me because the style of basketball is different. You want to score immediately, you want to run. Then when I scored my first basket, everybody passed the ball to me. ...

"It was too much (hype), probably, because the start of the season was difficult."

The Warriors will be participating in two summer leagues next month to help them get ready. After a five-game stint in Las Vegas from July 11-19, the team will head to Salt Lake City for four games.

Wright, Belinelli and C.J. Watson are slated to participate, as well as this year's first- and second-round picks - assuming they are not part of any trade.

It's the closest the Warriors can get to replicating the NBA atmosphere during the summer. And despite Nelson's insistence that Wright and Belinelli will get their opportunities, Wright knows nothing is guaranteed.

"It's going to really be up to us to get out there and play, and prove we can play," Wright said. "If you're not playing well, you're still not going to play."

 

[mjdalegend]

As expected...

Azubuike opts out: Guard Kelenna Azubuike has joined Monta Ellis and Andris Biedrins in the restricted free-agent market after opting out of his contract. Azubuike, who would have made the league minimum of $797,581 next season, is in line to receive a modest salary bump after averaging 8.5 points and 4 rebounds.

"I think everybody would hope that it would get done early," said Mike Higgins, who represents Azubuike and Watson. "But I don't envy them, because they have a lot on their plate. Just like with any team, they only have a certain amount of dollars to spend, and a lot of guys to sign."

 

[andrew630]

Yea, I was just about to post that...I wonder where he is going to go. He definitely can play.

 

[andrew630]