As soon as Andris Biedrins and/or Monta Ellis are traded, I'm quitting the Warriors for good.
I'll consider returning if Larry Ellison or someone else purchases the team (under no circumstances will I return if the worthless minority owners purchase full stake). But I don't see that happening any time soon with the Real Cohan being a stupid prick about the sale price.
I've seen enough "Wait until NEXT next year- THIS is our future core for realsies this time!" PR campaigns in this life.
This blog, my twitter account, and all fan forum participation will cease upon the inevitable trade(s).
Signed,
CC
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Pre game reminder:
I'll educate your shit.
Jrue Holiday comes to town to see if Curry is better than him now.
Certainly wasn't last time.....
Jrue Holiday comes to town to see if Curry is better than him now.
Certainly wasn't last time.....
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The Raw Math on the Rowell Cash Dump of Monta Ellis That Wasn't
Memphis was the only team under the cap at the deadline.
They had almost $3 million in breathing room.
Thabeet and Mayo would have saved the Warriors close to $3 million in annual salary over Monta Ellis.
What's the money laundering total up to now with all the expired TPEs, insurance covered contracts, league subsidized veteran minimum deals, lopsided cash shifts on Harrington-Crawford-Jackson deals, etc.? And although I can't say I've verified directly with Larry Coon or the Mark the Sham Sports Guru directly, others tell me Coon confirms what the Sham Sports salary info indicates: Andris Biedrins never reached incentives benchmarks last season despite Marcus Thompson II's (neurotically reactionary) reports to the contrary. My guess is MTII got called up by the team and given a scoop. He released his story saying Biedirns had hit the incentives right after I brought the issue up last season. But the scoop looks to have been an outright lie. Biedrins' minutes screw over this season will save the Warriors another year of paying him his value on full minutes while they shit talk him out of both sides of their mouth.
My guess is the Warriors have saved well over $10 million in player salary commitments this season.
I'd say they're approaching $20 million.
I'd say they're not losing total money AT ALL despite terrible gate RECEIPTS (not attendance "fibs" and promotional Stat Padding).
I'd say Robert Rowell is not losing his job any time soon.
They had almost $3 million in breathing room.
Thabeet and Mayo would have saved the Warriors close to $3 million in annual salary over Monta Ellis.
What's the money laundering total up to now with all the expired TPEs, insurance covered contracts, league subsidized veteran minimum deals, lopsided cash shifts on Harrington-Crawford-Jackson deals, etc.? And although I can't say I've verified directly with Larry Coon or the Mark the Sham Sports Guru directly, others tell me Coon confirms what the Sham Sports salary info indicates: Andris Biedrins never reached incentives benchmarks last season despite Marcus Thompson II's (neurotically reactionary) reports to the contrary. My guess is MTII got called up by the team and given a scoop. He released his story saying Biedirns had hit the incentives right after I brought the issue up last season. But the scoop looks to have been an outright lie. Biedrins' minutes screw over this season will save the Warriors another year of paying him his value on full minutes while they shit talk him out of both sides of their mouth.
My guess is the Warriors have saved well over $10 million in player salary commitments this season.
I'd say they're approaching $20 million.
I'd say they're not losing total money AT ALL despite terrible gate RECEIPTS (not attendance "fibs" and promotional Stat Padding).
I'd say Robert Rowell is not losing his job any time soon.
Update: Cohan Genius-O-Meter
How a-BOUT them rookie point guards?!
Formula: [Production + Projection - Hype]
1. Brandon Jennings - playoffs?!
2. Darren Collison - negative hype from Chris Paul really boosts him.
3. Ty Lawson - playoffs!
4. Tyreke Evans
5. Johnny Flynn - owned rookie challenge. Balla.
6. Rodrigue Beaubois - Donnie Nelson steals the draft AGAIN!
7. Eric Maynor - playoffs!
8. Jrue Holiday
9. Toney Douglas - rings with Lebron?
10. AJ Price - incredible second round pick.
11. Jeff Teague
12. GQ Curry
Formula: [Production + Projection - Hype]
1. Brandon Jennings - playoffs?!
2. Darren Collison - negative hype from Chris Paul really boosts him.
3. Ty Lawson - playoffs!
4. Tyreke Evans
5. Johnny Flynn - owned rookie challenge. Balla.
6. Rodrigue Beaubois - Donnie Nelson steals the draft AGAIN!
7. Eric Maynor - playoffs!
8. Jrue Holiday
9. Toney Douglas - rings with Lebron?
10. AJ Price - incredible second round pick.
11. Jeff Teague
12. GQ Curry
They say +/- is meaningless out of context
So you're telling me Indy can manipulate AJ Price's +/- better than Nellie and Stephen Silas can manipulate GQ Curry's with 40 minutes per night? Huh. Ty Lawson may be setting records here. No idea. Brandon Jennings is leading a playoff contender as an ungroomed rookie point guard with loads of problem areas to work on. Game sense is fine though. Unlike some empty gym stat padders I know who have internalized the garbage ball break and continue to neurotically fling weak and poorly executed passes up court at all times.
GQ Curry has invented a new NBA flaw: Volume Passing. He's a Passing Shitwing! It's incredible. Really incredible. Check my previous "analysis" of chucking shitwings and apply the same basic idea to Curry's terrible net passing work. It's unreal. He chucks plenty, too, despite having a nice shot at shootaround.
These rookie point guards are incredible!
1. Ty Lawson (+154)
2. Eric Maynor (+46)
3. Brandon Jennings (+19)
4. AJ Price (+18)
5. Rodrigue Beaubois (+16)
6. Jeff Teague (-13)
7. Jrue Holiday (-50)
8. Toney Douglas (-82)
9. Darren Collison (-105)
10. GQ Curry (-114)
11. Tyreke Evans (-205)
12. Johnny Flynn (-369)
GQ Curry has invented a new NBA flaw: Volume Passing. He's a Passing Shitwing! It's incredible. Really incredible. Check my previous "analysis" of chucking shitwings and apply the same basic idea to Curry's terrible net passing work. It's unreal. He chucks plenty, too, despite having a nice shot at shootaround.
These rookie point guards are incredible!
1. Ty Lawson (+154)
2. Eric Maynor (+46)
3. Brandon Jennings (+19)
4. AJ Price (+18)
5. Rodrigue Beaubois (+16)
6. Jeff Teague (-13)
7. Jrue Holiday (-50)
8. Toney Douglas (-82)
9. Darren Collison (-105)
10. GQ Curry (-114)
11. Tyreke Evans (-205)
12. Johnny Flynn (-369)
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Robert Rowell Initiated Ellis Trade Talks With Memphis. And Yes, Of Course, He Failed
When he cut Speedy Claxton's expiring, insurance-covered contract two weeks before the trade deadline, Larry Riley claimed he had everything he needed to make the trades he wanted to make. But now, reports are surfacing from Memphis papers and elsewhere that the Warriors initiated the Monta Ellis contract dump talks with the Memphis Grizzlies that would have landed OJ Mayo and Hasheem Thabust for Ellis. Memphis turned Riley's best offer down. So it would seem that Good Ol' Larry figured absofuckinglutely wrong when he Aw-Shucksed his way through that awful Claxton announcement a few weeks back. Actually, he was probably right. He knew he wasn't allowed to do anything.
Robert Rowell called Memphis up. Robert Rowell got shot down.
Now the Warriors will attempt useless damage control lying, dead wrong fan-baiting GQ Curry hype, and Raja Bell/Kelenna Azubuike courtside appearances (they've been absent for over a month- have they been fined?) to distract from....
The Monta Ellis situation.
Ellis has been linked to Memphis on and off for the last two and a half seasons and definitely wants to go. Ellis has already made the Warriors aware of his desire to be traded at their earliest convenience, like Stephen Jackson before him. The only questions are when will the Warriors make their characteristic no-value cash dump and will Ellis have to get fined for publicly stating his desires first?
Knowing the Warriors, yes. Yes he will.
Meanwhile, it's clear the Warriors found out the only teams dumping for expirings who would also talk to them were direct rivals. The Clippers and Kings both set up for major spending this offseason in what could be the greatest free agent class in league history. Tellingly, the idiotic PR plants the Warriors pay more than their international TALENT scouting division have come up with this genius spin bull shit:
The Knicks and co. are idiots for setting up to play the greatest free agent class in league history.
There's no guarantee of getting perfect Hall of Fame players by that plan so why try?!
I'm serious. This is actually what Robert Rowell thinks and actually what he wants you to believe.
It's over.
Robert Rowell called Memphis up. Robert Rowell got shot down.
Now the Warriors will attempt useless damage control lying, dead wrong fan-baiting GQ Curry hype, and Raja Bell/Kelenna Azubuike courtside appearances (they've been absent for over a month- have they been fined?) to distract from....
The Monta Ellis situation.
Ellis has been linked to Memphis on and off for the last two and a half seasons and definitely wants to go. Ellis has already made the Warriors aware of his desire to be traded at their earliest convenience, like Stephen Jackson before him. The only questions are when will the Warriors make their characteristic no-value cash dump and will Ellis have to get fined for publicly stating his desires first?
Knowing the Warriors, yes. Yes he will.
Meanwhile, it's clear the Warriors found out the only teams dumping for expirings who would also talk to them were direct rivals. The Clippers and Kings both set up for major spending this offseason in what could be the greatest free agent class in league history. Tellingly, the idiotic PR plants the Warriors pay more than their international TALENT scouting division have come up with this genius spin bull shit:
The Knicks and co. are idiots for setting up to play the greatest free agent class in league history.
There's no guarantee of getting perfect Hall of Fame players by that plan so why try?!
I'm serious. This is actually what Robert Rowell thinks and actually what he wants you to believe.
It's over.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Best parts of the game last night
1. Halftime entertainment was a huge, brightly colored and crazy-wigged Irish dance club. Ten straight minutes of New Age Irish jig River Dance bedlam. Very nice.
2. Pizza/Shirt Squad has a really cool new shirt-flinging gun. Dude was launching shirts to the upper reaches behind the baskets from halfcourt. Claxton's money is not being wasted, don't you worry.
3. Dunk squad has an awesome new closer with all three dudes flipping and stuff. They're still working on it, they messed it up last night. BUT, they decided to disregard the teams starting to come onto the court after the horn from timeout and ran it AGAIN, successfully, to the second-biggest applause of the night. Priorities in Oakland have never been more appropriately ordered.
4. Pablo Sandoval was there after being in town for the Giants' fan fest earlier in the day. Panda got the biggest applause of the night. He also helped toss shirts. So Speedy Claxton's money is going to a very good cause, rest assured.
2. Pizza/Shirt Squad has a really cool new shirt-flinging gun. Dude was launching shirts to the upper reaches behind the baskets from halfcourt. Claxton's money is not being wasted, don't you worry.
3. Dunk squad has an awesome new closer with all three dudes flipping and stuff. They're still working on it, they messed it up last night. BUT, they decided to disregard the teams starting to come onto the court after the horn from timeout and ran it AGAIN, successfully, to the second-biggest applause of the night. Priorities in Oakland have never been more appropriately ordered.
4. Pablo Sandoval was there after being in town for the Giants' fan fest earlier in the day. Panda got the biggest applause of the night. He also helped toss shirts. So Speedy Claxton's money is going to a very good cause, rest assured.
February Rookie "Point" Guard Update: Curry Coasting After Winning Prom King
Stephen Curry has been officially erased from David Thorpe's rookie point guard rankings. Best passer, best penetrator, best anything but shooter.... GQ can't compete. GQ's only skill these days is scoring in garbage time. Nice shot, kiddo. Wish you could pass or see the floor. Those neurotic break outlet passes? OKC wasn't impressed. And the aim/strength/usefulness? Oy. Stick to shooting jump shots, kid. Meanwhile, he's playing 10+ fewer minutes per game since the All Star game contest selections were announced. At least the Warriors are focusing on what's important for a future winning culture.
Eric Maynor had no problem working Curry over last night.
Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton are READY for the Chris Paul trade. Wow, they've been incredible in his absence. New Orleans could make a killing in the next two weeks if they dump Paul, West, Peja, and Okafor. Shinn can run the league. Yeah right.
AST Ratio (season)
1. Maynor - 31.9
2. Teague - 28.9
3. Collison - 27.5
4. Lawson - 26.7
5. Holiday - 26.3
6. Jennings - 23.5
7. Curry - 23.3
8. Flynn - 20.9
9. Evans - 18.7
10. Price - 18.7
AST/48
1. Teague - 11.1
2. Flynn - 10.9
3. Jennings - 10.2
3. Collison - 9.9
4. Terrence Williams! - 9.3
5. Maynor - 9.1
6. Evans - 8.7
7. Price - 7.9
8. Thornton - 6.7
9. Curry - 6.3
10. Beaubois - 4.6
AST/TO
1. Flynn - 12.00
2. Jennings - 5.40
3. Price - 3.33
4. Thornton - 3.33
5. Evans - 3.00
6. Terrence Williams! - 2.80
7. Collison - 2.07
8. Holiday - 2.00
9. Wesley Matthews - 2.00
10. Curry - 1.83
AST
1. Collison - 7.8 (37.5 MPG)
2. Jennings - 6.8 (31.8)
3. Evans - 6.0 (33.0)
4. Flynn - 6.0 (26.5)
5. Thornton - 5.0 (36.0)
6. Curry - 3.7 (28.0)
7. Terrence Williams! - 3.5 (18.0)
8. Price - 3.3 (20.3)
9. Maynor - 2.3 (12.3)
10. Lawson - 2.3 (25.8)
Oh What the Hell, February Rookie Scoring
The only thing the Curry hypesters had going for them....
1. Thornton - 23.5 (.462)
2. Evans - 22.5 (.586)
3. Collison - 16.5 (.443)
4. Lawson - 15.5 (.688)
5. Curry - 14.3 (.410)
6. Casspi - 13.0 (.452)
7. Flynn - 12.5 (.364)
8. Blair - 12.0 (.600)
9. Jerebko - 10.0 (.520)
10. Matthews - 10.0 (.400)
3 PT shooting this month
1. Lawson - .750
2. Beaubois - .714 (2.3 ATT)
3. Jerebko - .667
4. Evans - .500 (3.0)
5. Thornton - .438 (8.0)
6. Flynn - .429 (3.5)
7. Collison - .400 (3.8)
8. Curry - .357 (4.7)
9. Maynor - .333
10. Harden - .300 (3.3)
Eric Maynor had no problem working Curry over last night.
Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton are READY for the Chris Paul trade. Wow, they've been incredible in his absence. New Orleans could make a killing in the next two weeks if they dump Paul, West, Peja, and Okafor. Shinn can run the league. Yeah right.
AST Ratio (season)
1. Maynor - 31.9
2. Teague - 28.9
3. Collison - 27.5
4. Lawson - 26.7
5. Holiday - 26.3
6. Jennings - 23.5
7. Curry - 23.3
8. Flynn - 20.9
9. Evans - 18.7
10. Price - 18.7
AST/48
1. Teague - 11.1
2. Flynn - 10.9
3. Jennings - 10.2
3. Collison - 9.9
4. Terrence Williams! - 9.3
5. Maynor - 9.1
6. Evans - 8.7
7. Price - 7.9
8. Thornton - 6.7
9. Curry - 6.3
10. Beaubois - 4.6
AST/TO
1. Flynn - 12.00
2. Jennings - 5.40
3. Price - 3.33
4. Thornton - 3.33
5. Evans - 3.00
6. Terrence Williams! - 2.80
7. Collison - 2.07
8. Holiday - 2.00
9. Wesley Matthews - 2.00
10. Curry - 1.83
AST
1. Collison - 7.8 (37.5 MPG)
2. Jennings - 6.8 (31.8)
3. Evans - 6.0 (33.0)
4. Flynn - 6.0 (26.5)
5. Thornton - 5.0 (36.0)
6. Curry - 3.7 (28.0)
7. Terrence Williams! - 3.5 (18.0)
8. Price - 3.3 (20.3)
9. Maynor - 2.3 (12.3)
10. Lawson - 2.3 (25.8)
Oh What the Hell, February Rookie Scoring
The only thing the Curry hypesters had going for them....
1. Thornton - 23.5 (.462)
2. Evans - 22.5 (.586)
3. Collison - 16.5 (.443)
4. Lawson - 15.5 (.688)
5. Curry - 14.3 (.410)
6. Casspi - 13.0 (.452)
7. Flynn - 12.5 (.364)
8. Blair - 12.0 (.600)
9. Jerebko - 10.0 (.520)
10. Matthews - 10.0 (.400)
3 PT shooting this month
1. Lawson - .750
2. Beaubois - .714 (2.3 ATT)
3. Jerebko - .667
4. Evans - .500 (3.0)
5. Thornton - .438 (8.0)
6. Flynn - .429 (3.5)
7. Collison - .400 (3.8)
8. Curry - .357 (4.7)
9. Maynor - .333
10. Harden - .300 (3.3)
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Warriors Screw Over Another Bill Duffy Client
Speedy Claxton was cut today for... Anthony Tolliver.
The team insider fat cat season ticket holder suckers say Larry Riley is after Iguodala, Luol Deng, and Caron Butler, so an extra $5 million or so in expiring salary (possibly NOT insurance covered b/c... he was healthy???) was useless. Uh huh.
Claxton wanted to play when the season started.
The Warriors med staff shut him down. At least we can always trust the Warriors med staff.
Anthony Morrow said so.
The team insider fat cat season ticket holder suckers say Larry Riley is after Iguodala, Luol Deng, and Caron Butler, so an extra $5 million or so in expiring salary (possibly NOT insurance covered b/c... he was healthy???) was useless. Uh huh.
Claxton wanted to play when the season started.
The Warriors med staff shut him down. At least we can always trust the Warriors med staff.
Anthony Morrow said so.
Warriors Campaigned Heavily to Shut League's Best 3PT Shooter Out of 3PT Contest
The entire season, proven Warriors vets and the hard-working former D-Leaguers and undrafteds the team has intentionally cast its lot with, have been clearing way for the Golden Child, Stephen Curry. He arrived with his own blog on GQ and all the ESPN talking heads talking about him. Loudly. But he's been a disaster at everything but statistical percentages on shooting and twitter followers and the Warriors locker room is in incredible shambles "behind the scenes." All because the team handed the team over to this spoiled brat from Day One and smears its own players on the side in the process. EVERYONE wants out. Even GQ, the Media Darling 6th man Daddy Complex empty gym stat pad Champ, the garbage time All Star, hates playing for the Warriors.
Last season, Anthony Morrow shot .467 from the three point mark. He led the league by more than a full percentage point (Jameer Nelson - .453). Jason Kapono led the league by such a margin the season before. And he'd led the league with an unreal .514 percentage in 2006-07 while the next highest percentage, owned by Steve Nash, was "only" .455. Kapono won the All Star weekend 3PT shootout in back to back seasons in which he led the league in 3 PT shooting. Anthony Morrow has not rattled off such dominance yet in the regular season and will not get a chance to dominate the shooting contest he was born to own.
Morrow was mixing it up with Reggie Miller on TNT last season and was discussed regularly around the league as a lock to make the contest this year. His sweet stroke is well known and much admired. And yet, no invitation to compete with Channing Frye and Paul Pierce for downtown dominance.
Somehow, the league concocted a strange invitation to the Rookie-Sophomore game for Morrow when Rose was selected to the real All Star team. This is about the least relevant way Morrow could possibly have been shown off. He's a specialist with enough extracurricular NBA athleticism, tenacity, and talent to stay on the floor to do his thing, shooting the rock. But the BEST place to show him off and the correct way to reward him for all of his hard work last year and forever as a notorious gym rat with a world class stroke.... is in the 3 PT contest. Want to push hard work, D League dues paying (though Morrow was never in the D League), and four years of college? Morrow's your guy.
Instead, Stern went with the hype gimmick and the Warriors will next reward Morrow with a round of Hardball! negotiations resulting in Morrow taking the Qualifying Offer or the CJ Watson Special CJ Watson just rejected so he can get the hell away from these psychopaths as soon as possible. Because the Warriors did NOT go to bat for Morrow in the 3PT contest. EXACTLY the opposite. Typical contract-relevant lobbying AGAINST the team's own player. After the Monta Ellis fining and the Andris Biedrins incentives witholding, this should surprise no one.
Morrow has recently been held out of Warriors games by the complicit-in-Tank Warriors medical staff. He was perfectly healthy the night Corey Maggette's defensive wizardry flopped into his teammate's knee. But the team saw its chance and pounced. Now Morrow's ready to go in a pickup streetball one-on-one game but not ready for the 3PT contest?
He's qualified for league leaders in 3PT percentage.
His percentage ranks 6th in the league, higher than all but one Shootout contestant (Pierce).
The league knows him and knows his shot.
But, as Marcus Thompson II said, this is a popularity contest.
The slobbering masses who pay folks like Chris Cohan scads of money for bad basketball know who the pretty-mouthed little shithead legacy brat from some crappy basketball school is. They're primed to forget Anthony Morrow already. The team had an obligation to its young player and its fans to do what was right and put the league's best 3 point shooter in the 3 point shooting contest. Instead, they chose the easy money route and continue to go all in on the GQ Curry hype campaign as they shit on the relevant NBA talent and rotation pieces that could eventually lead to, you know, actually winning some games.
They've now intentionally and ACTIVELY (with actual lobbying calls to league offices and everything) put Curry ahead of Morrow. They've replaced Ellis and Morrow with Curry for all future intents and purposes. THIS is precisely what Robert Rowell's Fist Bump on draft day- the one Larry Riley couldn't believe was happening as it happened to him- was all about.
Rowell found his salary dump messiah, a coddled legacy media darling the league could not POSSIBLY crap on just because the Warriors landed him. The Warriors drafted GQ Curry to shoot, shoot, shoot, as I said after the draft. NOT to play point guard. He sucks at point guard. David Thorpe didn't mention him ONCE in his midseason point guard awards. He called him the best rookie shooter at the midway point. And he called him the "most improved," whatever that means (AJ Price was co-named). The league is feeling the pinch on the overblown national media frenzy on GQ. This is their last shot to salvage the hype machine this season.
He'd better fucking win the damn thing after his daddy and the Warriors lobbied to get him in the contest. This is all he and the Warriors have going for them, like Jason Richardson's dunk contest greatness not so long ago. And they're all in. They're all in.
Last season, Anthony Morrow shot .467 from the three point mark. He led the league by more than a full percentage point (Jameer Nelson - .453). Jason Kapono led the league by such a margin the season before. And he'd led the league with an unreal .514 percentage in 2006-07 while the next highest percentage, owned by Steve Nash, was "only" .455. Kapono won the All Star weekend 3PT shootout in back to back seasons in which he led the league in 3 PT shooting. Anthony Morrow has not rattled off such dominance yet in the regular season and will not get a chance to dominate the shooting contest he was born to own.
Morrow was mixing it up with Reggie Miller on TNT last season and was discussed regularly around the league as a lock to make the contest this year. His sweet stroke is well known and much admired. And yet, no invitation to compete with Channing Frye and Paul Pierce for downtown dominance.
Somehow, the league concocted a strange invitation to the Rookie-Sophomore game for Morrow when Rose was selected to the real All Star team. This is about the least relevant way Morrow could possibly have been shown off. He's a specialist with enough extracurricular NBA athleticism, tenacity, and talent to stay on the floor to do his thing, shooting the rock. But the BEST place to show him off and the correct way to reward him for all of his hard work last year and forever as a notorious gym rat with a world class stroke.... is in the 3 PT contest. Want to push hard work, D League dues paying (though Morrow was never in the D League), and four years of college? Morrow's your guy.
Instead, Stern went with the hype gimmick and the Warriors will next reward Morrow with a round of Hardball! negotiations resulting in Morrow taking the Qualifying Offer or the CJ Watson Special CJ Watson just rejected so he can get the hell away from these psychopaths as soon as possible. Because the Warriors did NOT go to bat for Morrow in the 3PT contest. EXACTLY the opposite. Typical contract-relevant lobbying AGAINST the team's own player. After the Monta Ellis fining and the Andris Biedrins incentives witholding, this should surprise no one.
Morrow has recently been held out of Warriors games by the complicit-in-Tank Warriors medical staff. He was perfectly healthy the night Corey Maggette's defensive wizardry flopped into his teammate's knee. But the team saw its chance and pounced. Now Morrow's ready to go in a pickup streetball one-on-one game but not ready for the 3PT contest?
He's qualified for league leaders in 3PT percentage.
His percentage ranks 6th in the league, higher than all but one Shootout contestant (Pierce).
The league knows him and knows his shot.
But, as Marcus Thompson II said, this is a popularity contest.
The slobbering masses who pay folks like Chris Cohan scads of money for bad basketball know who the pretty-mouthed little shithead legacy brat from some crappy basketball school is. They're primed to forget Anthony Morrow already. The team had an obligation to its young player and its fans to do what was right and put the league's best 3 point shooter in the 3 point shooting contest. Instead, they chose the easy money route and continue to go all in on the GQ Curry hype campaign as they shit on the relevant NBA talent and rotation pieces that could eventually lead to, you know, actually winning some games.
They've now intentionally and ACTIVELY (with actual lobbying calls to league offices and everything) put Curry ahead of Morrow. They've replaced Ellis and Morrow with Curry for all future intents and purposes. THIS is precisely what Robert Rowell's Fist Bump on draft day- the one Larry Riley couldn't believe was happening as it happened to him- was all about.
Rowell found his salary dump messiah, a coddled legacy media darling the league could not POSSIBLY crap on just because the Warriors landed him. The Warriors drafted GQ Curry to shoot, shoot, shoot, as I said after the draft. NOT to play point guard. He sucks at point guard. David Thorpe didn't mention him ONCE in his midseason point guard awards. He called him the best rookie shooter at the midway point. And he called him the "most improved," whatever that means (AJ Price was co-named). The league is feeling the pinch on the overblown national media frenzy on GQ. This is their last shot to salvage the hype machine this season.
He'd better fucking win the damn thing after his daddy and the Warriors lobbied to get him in the contest. This is all he and the Warriors have going for them, like Jason Richardson's dunk contest greatness not so long ago. And they're all in. They're all in.
Monday, February 1, 2010
OKC Youth good, GSW Snark not. January rookie "point" guard review.
Darren Collison recently set the rookie record for assists in a game this season with 18 in a big road win at Memphis in Chris Paul's absence. Collison will get another shot at leading the Hornets now that Paul will miss 1-2 months (and the All Star game) to have knee surgery. This probably means the Hornets are about to trade major pieces, too, so Collison's numbers could actually take a dip if the talent around him takes a big hit via cash dumps. But he was dynamite earlier in the season with Paul out. Worth paying attention to.
Curry turned in another terrible, terrible game faking point guard last night. His TOs and dumb fouls are a huge problem, not to mention the complete lack of impact his useless Nellie stats have upon good team play or winning basketball. CLASSIC 6th man stuff. Which is fine. No shame in that. But the team has to admit the fact in order to proceed reasonably and either cash in on the remains of his hype value or fire Nelson and go bigger and faster while playing far more defense. In either case, Curry starting next to Ellis is no longterm ideal. More likely than any rational team building approach: Monta Ellis is traded for terrible return, perhaps as ridiculous as direct cash savings for Cohan via expiring contracts covered by insurance. You know, like the Harrington-Crawford dumps last year and then the Jackson dump this year.
Coby Karl debuted for the Warriors in OKC last night and was awesome at all the point guard-y things the team lacks when forcing Monta and Curry to co-exist. 6 AST, 0 TO (from a Warriors point guard?!), and 2 STL. Some fouls but he was a major positive on the floor at all times besides that. BIG point guard. The myth will be that he and Curry form a formidable backcourt duo. Wrong. Curry does not move well without the ball, is not a slashing threat, and would be relegated to jump shooting duty, period. It's his best role but he's already an easy one-on-one cover. He needs B/C squad defense on him in order to put his NellieBall points up. Karl's Warriors debut was so point guard-rific, it shut the Warriros plants and apologists up good and makes Curry 100% expendable in any deal to improve the team. On Earth, at least. In Hype La-La land, Curry is better than Steve Nash. Uh huh.
Most folks in the Bay Area aren't even paying attention any more but Nellie coaches the stat sheet box score drooling masses like no one else. It's so worth it.
Nellie benched Curry frequently against OKC, including crunch time as Karl and Monta brought the team back to the brink of victory before NellieBall killed all momentum. Ellis took and missed the quick clock 3 that probably sealed it, but that's the playbook. Baron did it. Jackson did it. Everyone does it under Nellie's listless heaving. The team was looking ready last season as Ellis came back to health. Now they're just lost and the cash dump of Ellis is a sure move in the next two weeks. Enjoy your Nellie points from the 6th man draft pick, dummies!
AST Ratio (season)
1. Maynor - 31.9
2. Teague - 28.8
3. Lawson - 27.7
4. Holiday - 26.9
5. Collison - 27.4
6. Curry - 23.6
7. Jennings - 22.9
8. Flynn - 20.5
9. Beaubois - 18.6
10. Evans - 18.4
AST/48
1. Jennings - 9.5
2. Collison - 8.7
3. Gaines - 8.3
4. Holiday - 8.0
5. Beaubois - 7.8
6. Maynor - 7.7
7. Flynn - 7.5
8. Lawson - 7.2
9. Teague - 7.0
10. Evans - 6.6
AST/TO
1. Gaines - 4.67
2. Lawson - 3.33
3. Jennings - 3.00
4. Collison - 2.21
5. Evans - 2.15
6. Holiday - 2.11
7. Maynor - 2.11
8. Terrence Williams! - 2.00
9. Curry - 1.88
10. Flynn - 1.83
AST
1. Jennings - 6.6 (33.3 MPG)
2. Evans - 5.1 (36.7)
3. Curry - 5.1 (39.5)
4. Flynn - 4.8 (30.6)
5. Lawson - 3.6 (24.4)
6. Collison - 2.8 (15.5)
7. Holiday - 2.7 (15.9)
8. Maynor - 2.7 (16.5)
9. Price - 2.4 (19.9)
10. Terrence Williams! - 2.0 (15.6)
Curry turned in another terrible, terrible game faking point guard last night. His TOs and dumb fouls are a huge problem, not to mention the complete lack of impact his useless Nellie stats have upon good team play or winning basketball. CLASSIC 6th man stuff. Which is fine. No shame in that. But the team has to admit the fact in order to proceed reasonably and either cash in on the remains of his hype value or fire Nelson and go bigger and faster while playing far more defense. In either case, Curry starting next to Ellis is no longterm ideal. More likely than any rational team building approach: Monta Ellis is traded for terrible return, perhaps as ridiculous as direct cash savings for Cohan via expiring contracts covered by insurance. You know, like the Harrington-Crawford dumps last year and then the Jackson dump this year.
Coby Karl debuted for the Warriors in OKC last night and was awesome at all the point guard-y things the team lacks when forcing Monta and Curry to co-exist. 6 AST, 0 TO (from a Warriors point guard?!), and 2 STL. Some fouls but he was a major positive on the floor at all times besides that. BIG point guard. The myth will be that he and Curry form a formidable backcourt duo. Wrong. Curry does not move well without the ball, is not a slashing threat, and would be relegated to jump shooting duty, period. It's his best role but he's already an easy one-on-one cover. He needs B/C squad defense on him in order to put his NellieBall points up. Karl's Warriors debut was so point guard-rific, it shut the Warriros plants and apologists up good and makes Curry 100% expendable in any deal to improve the team. On Earth, at least. In Hype La-La land, Curry is better than Steve Nash. Uh huh.
Most folks in the Bay Area aren't even paying attention any more but Nellie coaches the stat sheet box score drooling masses like no one else. It's so worth it.
Nellie benched Curry frequently against OKC, including crunch time as Karl and Monta brought the team back to the brink of victory before NellieBall killed all momentum. Ellis took and missed the quick clock 3 that probably sealed it, but that's the playbook. Baron did it. Jackson did it. Everyone does it under Nellie's listless heaving. The team was looking ready last season as Ellis came back to health. Now they're just lost and the cash dump of Ellis is a sure move in the next two weeks. Enjoy your Nellie points from the 6th man draft pick, dummies!
AST Ratio (season)
1. Maynor - 31.9
2. Teague - 28.8
3. Lawson - 27.7
4. Holiday - 26.9
5. Collison - 27.4
6. Curry - 23.6
7. Jennings - 22.9
8. Flynn - 20.5
9. Beaubois - 18.6
10. Evans - 18.4
AST/48
1. Jennings - 9.5
2. Collison - 8.7
3. Gaines - 8.3
4. Holiday - 8.0
5. Beaubois - 7.8
6. Maynor - 7.7
7. Flynn - 7.5
8. Lawson - 7.2
9. Teague - 7.0
10. Evans - 6.6
AST/TO
1. Gaines - 4.67
2. Lawson - 3.33
3. Jennings - 3.00
4. Collison - 2.21
5. Evans - 2.15
6. Holiday - 2.11
7. Maynor - 2.11
8. Terrence Williams! - 2.00
9. Curry - 1.88
10. Flynn - 1.83
AST
1. Jennings - 6.6 (33.3 MPG)
2. Evans - 5.1 (36.7)
3. Curry - 5.1 (39.5)
4. Flynn - 4.8 (30.6)
5. Lawson - 3.6 (24.4)
6. Collison - 2.8 (15.5)
7. Holiday - 2.7 (15.9)
8. Maynor - 2.7 (16.5)
9. Price - 2.4 (19.9)
10. Terrence Williams! - 2.0 (15.6)
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