Don't worry about the game. Terry Porter did his best but Steve Nash and Grant Hill led their team to a win against a washed up has-been drunk and his shitwing brigade. And when Andris Biedrins went down with a ruptured spleen (2-10 weeks recovery time), he went Kurz. It went about as expected. Rob can tell you what brand of ball soap Shaq uses.
So here's a fun way to spend the remainder of this terrible season:
Pretend you're a Kings fan.
Seriously, bear with me...
You can go back on all of this the moment the season begins again but if you want some peace of mind before you're back to hoping the Warriors can steal some meaningless games against shit opponents with gimmicks and lucky chucking nights, root for the Kings' rebuild.
You'll get total satisfaction:
-They're frontrunners for Blake Griffin, Jrue Holiday, Ricky Rubio, whoever you like.
-They have some OK vets other teams want for playoff runs, so sweet dreams of all the youth, picks, and expiring contracts they can land. Draw up a 5 or 6 pick draft for them and see how they look.
-They'll have tons of financial flexibility in the very near future, so you can pretend that their courtship of major free agents is YOUR courtship of major free agents!
-They're in absolute rebuild, play the youth mode. So you can pretend you're seeing YOUR youth develop and play in meaningful NBA games without some bullshit gimmick ball crazy drunken stubborn mindfuck short leash or anything!
Etc.
It's getting close to this... and I'm sure the morons will now call me a Kings fan. I don't care. Those morons can blow me, I bleed Warrior Blue. This is about pride, decency, and league respect.
DO SOMETHING, WARRIORS.
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Not enough beer in the world to wash the salt out of this wound.
ReplyDeleteGood post. Injuries only increase odds (already very high) of front office doing something dumb at trade deadline.
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ReplyDeleteBy "Do Something," I mean break this thing down to talented youth and lots of financial breathing room. Not many picks out there for players like Maggette and Jackson but an expiring contract is a very good thing.
Rowell put out a very bad vibe plus a very good vibe by handing out cash with reckless abandon, starting with the Foyle, Richardson, and etc. deals (he "was here," as he said himself!), and culminating with the superstar cash wasted on the collaborative mediocrity of Jackson/Maggette. But in the meantime, he established that he hates superstar talents who act like superstar talents and that he'll publicly punish Hall of Famers (Mullin) and rising young stars with a lot youthful pride (Ellis) while enabling a player-killing coach.
And that goes for long minutes on vets AND NO MINUTES on youth.
Disaster.
No one wants to come to Oakland but for the cash- that's the good vibe. That gets you Baron, Jackson, Maggette. The bad vibe is the Cohan/Rowell screw job.
None of them are winners. That's how it is.
I agree with your assessment. My point was that all these injuries likely raise the odds of the front office doing something really stupid (as opposed to what seems like the only viable option which you've laid out here). Not sure what that really stupid thing might be, perhaps trading the young talent for another mediocre talent that doesn't fit. Just think the chances of a impatient, we get bent over trade / move is going up with this injury to Biedrins.
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