Last week, my amazing rookie point guard ranking system showed Jeff Teague and Eric Maynor all kine love. But Jamal Crawford's incredible play (Boy, a team could really use a great 6th man of the year candidate like him. You don't just dump those guys for nothing, that's for sure!) has knocked Teague back into wasted rookie year territory. Evans has been out but he's badass so he'll stay near the top. Flynn has contracted Rambisisapparentlya-stubborndumbshit-itis. Holiday is 14 years old and witness to Philadelphia's attempts to justify dumb contracts on guys like Lou Williams. So there's been some drift.
Meanwhile, John Hollinger swears Stephen Curry is a shooting guard (I don't think he's all that wrong) and Don Nelson swears he meant to do that. Whatever he did.
Formula: [Production + Projection - Hype]
1. Brandon Jennings [ROY. No one's catching him.]
2. Tyreke Evans [Most Important King. Not close.]
3. Darren Collison
4. Ty Lawson
5. Eric Maynor
6. Toney Douglas
7. Rodrigue Beaubois
8. Johnny Flynn
9. Ricky Rubio [6.5 PPG/5.5 APG thru 4 for The TradeChip]
10. GQ Curry [Almost 22 years old!]
11. Jeff Teague
12. Jrue Holiday [By the time the blow-up is done, he'll be shaving and playing]
No one disputes these rankings in any way.
UPDATE:
David Thorpe's latest rookie rankings are out and GQ Curry continues to drop like a freakin ROCK!
1. Brandon Jennings
2. Tyreke Evans
3. Ty Lawson
4. James Harden
5. Johnny Flynn
6. Marcus Thornton
7. Omri Cassppi (Those lucky Kings!)
8. Darren Collison
9. Chase Budinger
10. DeJuan Blair
11. Toney Douglas (Even off a quiet game)
12. GQ
13. Jonas Jerebko
14. Rodrigue Beaubois
15. Eric Maynor
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Kind words for Crawford. But doesn't it go against the criticism you threw at him back in your March 2009 post entitled "Coaching to win"?
ReplyDeleteI'd copy and paste it, but I'm unable to for some reason.You clearly rip the franchise for having Crawford on the team. Now you rip them for not having him on the team.
Hypocritical much lately? Yep.
Uh oh, sounds like sour grapes from my devoted followers in the Warriors front office!
ReplyDeleteSorry Crawford is making Warriors management and those calling for his dump last year look so bad. I always railed against him getting 40+ MPG wihle kids like Wright and Randolph sat on the bench and boy was I right.
I've written about the idiocy of playing Crawford in 4-guard line-ups and about the stupid things he does in iso-ball, brain dead offensive "systems." And I've written about it pasisonately....
not my fault he's getting coached to WIN as part of a smart rotation constructed by smart management!
Yeah, but he wasn't good here and wasn't going to lead us to any more wins. You even pointed out his historically losing record in that post.
ReplyDeleteSo it is hypocritical to switch your stance up now that its convenient for your little website. Your credibility certainly was never that high, but this sure doesn't help it much.
By the way, Warriors front office? Don't give yourself too much credit there, pal.
No, it's not hypocritical in the slightest.
ReplyDeleteMy position was strong and correct: overplaying a bunch of shitwings in the Nellieball attack instead of developing talented young bigmen is stupid.
Atlanta took care of that problem and plays developed young bigs heavy, meaningful minutes. So there's no reason to hate Crawford now for being all scoring, no nothing else, and there's no reason to hate his game when he plays in a more dynamic offense as a great sixth man.
Simple. Guess you'd rather try to get me than think ball. Who are you, by the way? Uh huh.
By the way, this sort of miniscule misreading of the post in question in order to distract from how AWESOME my Genius-O-Meter is (and 100% fool proof accurate), is an insult to Jeff Teague.
ReplyDeleteBut we traded Crawford for expiring contracts. Randolph's minutes are up this year and should continue to climb.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate Crawford. I think he was bad here in GS. You did too. Everyone did. Thats why he was dealt. Now Morrow takes his minutes and has done a great job, solidifying himself as our SG of the future. How nice it will be when we aren't paying Crawford $10M/yr next season with a more capable and more potential laden SG on the roster.
You are trying to twist things around to say that the Warriors screwed up by dealing Crawford when we all know that he wasn't working out.
Really there is no problem, except where you try to find one.
And I'll be happy to tell you who I am if you tell me a little about who you are. I'm quite curious to know the man behind the madman.
Crawford was dealt to launder money for Cohan, no other reason. My reasons were correct and you're dancing away from the conversation you started about that (and my, how your tone changes!).
ReplyDeleteRandolph's minutes were higher to close last season and he's been jerked around enough already this year to make Bill Duffy totally within his rights to simply get the kid out of town. You can't say now his minutes will climb- and I'll put forth that they ONLY climb due to injuries to other players. Otherwise, like Wright, the kid gets benched and messed with even more.
You've got a handle in other Warriors forums... let folks know, if you dare.
Nice try.
If Crawford was dealt to launder money for Cohan then why didn't they just keep Harrington, who has one less year on his deal?
ReplyDeleteYour argument sucks.
You can try to predict the future on Randolph, but he's played 30 mins 4x in the last two weeks and 20+ in 8 of 9.
Tell us more about yourself, mystery man. Unless you've got something to hide.
This is fun. I back my stuff up, you spin off to another stab at direct attack and misrepresentation.
ReplyDeleteI win again. Too easy.
Addendum: I'm so right about everything that matters, it should be illegal.
ReplyDeleteBut it ain't, so blow me.
I thought the point was to shame Crawford into opting out by shaming and abusing him publicly while playing him in useless rotations and shitting on young talented players at the same time?
ReplyDeleteOh, yousay Harrington forced Nellie and the idiots to trade him?
Oh. OK.
You got pwned in your own house.
ReplyDeleteBy which anonymous?
ReplyDeleteThis must be how Tim Kawakami feels when he gets all the free press.....