D-Ho is in the East

   Did you see his performance last night? That’s why, it was only the 5th game of his NBA career.

  The question is not if they are worse than last year but how the team compares to other teams . Do we get less balanced rebound numbers per player? Do we have less players crashing the boards? If you put dwight howard and dris on the same team who would get more rebounds?

  No, The opponents still get their share, the Warriors share is split more towards Dris’ favor. It’s just my observation from watching games, most good rebounders seem a lot tougher and more athletic than Dris so I’m thinking he probably has an opportunity advantage?

This is this last time I’m going to reply to you on this subject (for a while anyway). Afterwards feel free to continue your mindless anti-Biedrins trolling, which is so far past its expiration date everybody here can smell its stench.

Andris Biedrins is probably the single best thing about the Warriors. There’s not even a close second place (I mean, other than Morrow ;-)). We’re talking about a kid born and bred by the Warriors; a skinny kid who left home at age 18 and traveled halfway across the world to test his mettle against the best basketball players in the world; a kid with a fantastic attitude who’s worked his ass off to improve himself every year he’s been in the league; a kid who demonstrably busts his ass every single game, every single minute on the floor; a kid who busted his ass when he was making the rookie scale salary, and who busts his ass even more now that he’s been rewarded for his efforts by a very reasonable veteran deal that will keep in the Bay till his early prime (age 27); a kid who was one of the key factors in lifting this team from 13 years of suckitude to respectability; a kid who, at age 22, has joined Stephen Jackson as one of the spiritual leaders of this team, helping to fill the void left by BD; a kid who, by any statistical or anecdotal measure, is the best Warriors center since Nate Thurmond, a current top 5-6 NBA center, and at worst the second-best rebounder in the entire league; a kid who, to the sheer delight of everyone in the Bay except you, continues to work his ass off and improve every facet of his game and help the Warriors win basketball games.

Meanwhile you, presumably some kind of “Warrior fan,” not only choose to remain blind to all this, but take every available opportunity to crap all over him. Best I can tell, over the course of your trolling, the crux of your argument remains that he doesn’t “look” like you think an NBA center should look. Only you know for sure whether his nationality or race factors into this judgment. At the very least, your constant refusal to give him the slightest bit of credit, for anything, has become tired and embarrassing.

Anyway, you’re obviously not swayed by stats, reason, visual evidence, or any of the many arguments presented by the many eloquent voices on this board; and it’s not like I expect this post to change that. It’s more catharsis for me at having to listen to you drag such a fabulous player through the mud, not just occasionally, but pretty much every day, often multiple times a day. My cyber-ears are bleeding.

Anyway, carry on as you were. It must still be amusing to you, if to nobody else here.

I dunno. I have a feeling he’d still be in Nellie’s doghouse if the Warriors drafted him.

I didn’t mean that the vote is what was making me think he doesn’t get enough respect. I meant it was all the talk about his stats being inflated by our system and the fact that he is playing next to poor rebounders. Reading it again I guess it wasn’t that clear. The vote as of now is totally reasonable in my eyes. I stated multiple times that it is too early to judge, I totally get that.

The point of that post was that it bothers me to see so many W’s fans discounting his accomplishments thus far. The guy absolutely earned those stats that make him the best center in the west. Whether he will continue to earn that spot is obviously a question mark but lets give the guy some props for what he’s done so far. That’s all I was trying to say.

trade for Biedrins to the Bay

But who’s the idiot who chose that color scheme?

if i want to talk out of my ass, could you just go along with it? i have a delicate disposition…