No question

easily our biggest mistake cuz there were so many good names left on the board

here are key things you are missing. Like who was drafted after our pick, and the scouting reports on players you listed.
For example 2002, lets look at the circumstances, Warriors bounce the third pick in a 2 player draft, Jay Williams and Yao Ming. Mike DunLEAVey was the most polished player available and the Warriors grabbed him. You list Amare(who the Suns took a flyer on, big risk, big reward, turns out to be a great pick as Amare is top 5 big men now, but still a risk) Caron Butler( didnt accomplish much till he got to Washington, very raw coming out of college) Prince(looked polish and solid, but didnt seem to have the assests to be a star from his work at Kentucky) and Boozer and Haslem(wasnt on anybody’s radar).

So its easy to say ‘Damn Mullin, why didnt you grab Amare, or atleast Boozer instead of Dunleavey.’ thats ridiculuos. You have to keep it in context.

At the same time, look at Diougu and O’Bryant. Both of these players lack the basktball IQ and the motor to succeseed in the NBA, those are the things we should fault Chris on.

Its easy to say, how could we draft Fuller before Bryant, but you got to remeber to keep it in context….

If i remember correctly, nobody expected the Warriors to pick Diogu. He was a surprise to pretty much all mock drafters. Some mocks had us taking Granger or Warrick, but Diogu was a complete shocker. It drives me crazy when the Warriors pick a nobody like they think they know something that other teams don’t.

I thought the perfect player we could have picked was in 2003, David West. Him and Biedrins sharing the paint would have been nice.

But I think with the many role players that could be helping us right now, not to mention Bynum and Granger, they dropped the bigger ball there.

because we at least got somebody in exchange for Ike
and we also got monta with the 40th pick

 Milwaukee Bucks Andrew Bogut, Utah
2 Atlanta Hawks Marvin Williams, North Carolina
3 Utah Jazz Deron Williams, Illinois
4 New Orleans Hornets Chris Paul, Wake Forest
5 Charlotte Bobcats Raymond Felton, North Carolina
6 Portland Trail Blazers Martell Webster, Seattle Prep HS
7 Toronto Raptors Charlie Villanueva, Connecticut
8 New York Knicks Channing Frye, Arizona
9 Golden State Warriors Ike Diogu, Arizona State
10 LA Lakers Andrew Bynum, St. Joseph (NJ) HS
11 Orlando Magic Fran Vazquez, Spain
12 LA Clippers Yaroslav Korolev, CSKA Moscow
13 Charlotte Bobcats Sean May, North Carolina
14 Minnesota Timberwolves Rashad McCants, North Carolina
15 New Jersey Nets Antoine Wright, Texas A&M
16 Toronto Raptors Joey Graham, Oklahoma State
17 Indiana Pacers Danny Granger, New Mexico
18 Boston Celtics Gerald Green, Gulf Shores Acad (TX)
19 Memphis Grizzlies Hakim Warrick, Syracuse
20 Denver Nuggets Julius Hodge, North Carolina State
21 Phoenix Suns (to New York) Nate Robinson, Washington
22 Denver Nuggets (to Portland) Jarrett Jack, Georgia Tech
23 Sacramento Kings Francisco Garcia, Louisville
24 Houston Rockets Luther Head, Illinois
25 Seattle SuperSonics Johan Petro, France
26 Detroit Pistons Jason Maxiell, Cincinnati
27 Portland Trail Blazers (to Denver) Linas Kleiza, Missouri
28 San Antonio Spurs Ian Mahinmi, STB Le Havre (France)
29 Miami Heat Wayne Simien, Kansas
30 New York Knicks David Lee, Florida
 
 

05

Bynum was on top of my board and we didn’t get him.

Anyoways on a side note I will be writing up Draft Preview 1.0 in a few weeks once Collegiate and International ball gels. Sadly though, when we suck (Last time was in 06) the draft class is pretty weak and this years class may be as weak as the 06 draft.

to 1996 – TODD FULLER!? And to think that the greatest player post Jordan era was two picks later. We need to stop picking players based on size!

2005 draft was great cause MONTA ELLIS turned out to be stellar!

03’ we choose Pietrus when we should’ve chose West. But Troy Murphy was already on the Warriors who prior to the draft was averaging 10 boards and 11 points, I doubt the Warriors were dissatisfied with the way he was playing.

04’ Biedrins is a good player he’s not Al Jefferson but Biedrins developed into a solid center

05’ Yea the Warriors drafted undersized Power Forward with the 9th pick but Ike was apart of Warriors-Pacers Blockbuster Trade Linkfest No Ike probably no Jackson?

06’ POB…Ronnie Brewer, and Carney seem like good players but I haven’t paid too much attention to them lately; I do remember Brewer getting dunk after dunk against the Warriors a year or two ago. And Williams was on the Board why send a 2010 or 2011 draft pick to the nets when we could have used on Williams in 06. It wouldn’t be a wasted pick like POB was. We also drafted Kosta Perovic while Milsap and Powe were on the board.

03’ Warriors had Murphy who was playing well why get west, I think getting Pietrus was ok.

04’ Biedrins he is the Warriors Best player, Jackson and Ellis are good but I think Biedrins will be more important in the future.

05’ We got Ike and traded him along with Murphy (who Pre-Nellie was playing well averaging double-doubles) and Dunleavy for Jackson and Harrington there were others included in the trade but they weren’t significant. Also, Monta Ellis the mississippi bullet MIP of 06-07 season. Warriors drafted Ellis that year.

But 06’ drafted POB let him go after 2 years? than traded a first round pick for someone who was still on the board. You wouldn’t buy NBA live for 50$ when you could have bought NBA 2k7 right? Than throw away Live and pay 50$ to get 2K7 when you should’ve gotten that the first time.

If anyone feels that my “analysis” is incorrect just type in why. Constructive Criticism though =]

In 1996, Bryant, a teenager exiting high school for the N.B.A., was not the first pick, but he exuded self-importance when he refused to play anywhere but Hollywood.

With the 13th selection, with a deal to trade Bryant to Los Angeles in pocket, Charlotte chose him. But there was a point where it looked as if the Lakers’ Vlade Divac would retire rather than take part in a trade that would send him to Charlotte for Bryant.

Destination Portland: A Big Man, a Small Place

is an idea to think though. if we picked the people we needed like say 2 of them guess how much our cap room would be close to none. Yes we could of been so much better with some but at the moment before we got nellie most of those players would of not even put us in the playoffs with the way the team was assembled back in those days. The problem back than was GARY ST. JEAN who was the head man most of the years you guys are complaining about hes the one who made the big mess that Mullin had problems fixing. Gary put most of the money in players that didn’t deserve the money. We could not trade that much since nobody wanted them, Mullin didn’t help either putting a lot of the money into the only Center he could get and keep and panicked and put it all in Adonal Foyle. It didnt help that the players we had at those times were not good for a system most of our players were journeymen or leftovers from people with JRich, Murphy, Dunleavy and that was it for a while till BD came but under Montgomery he screwed everything up cause his system sucked cause he didn’t know what to do. So if you had these factors together who would you pick. our record for awhile and luck with lottery gave us bad pics. and we would not try to get superstars. We just had a big mess. IF WE JUST HAD A OWNER WHO DIDNT CARE ABOUT MONEY AND ONLY CARED ABOUT WINNING AND WAS SMART ABOUT IT!

Then they totally could have tanked away those seasons, along with the season before Shaq came out, Tim Duncan. Imagine, Jordan, Shaq, and Duncan on the same team together! It’s all your fault Nellie for coaching the Warriors to all those wins in the 90s! Yours too St. Jean.

And another thing, I’m such an idiot for not betting it all on 24 at the roulette table! I can’t believe I’m such an awful gambler!

Grading the Mullin Picks