Watching these games get progressively worse, with my fanhood not waivering is PAINFUL. Analyzing all the front office mistakes and wondering why is guy like nellie with 45 plus years of nba experience is either mindblowingly stubborn (which is the undoubted concensus) or just plain retarded. For the record, I am fond of the style he plays and the ONCE IN  WHILE genius he exudes (stephen and baron killing dirk defensively in 07 playoffs) but this god awful defense is atrocious (dont care to lookup spelling). I recently ran down the roster and asked myself these very relavent questions..

- When you are stealing buike for 3 million capable of scoring, why spend 50 over 5 years for maggette. i read in an earlier post the "bukie and maggette looking like brothers out there" and dude is right on point. within an inch of the same height. both stout with cannons for biceps and both cannot pass for s*%^!.

10 MILLION PER WASTED

-2 consecutive years,2 lottery picks, 2 left handed, light in the ass, 6'9/6'10 extremely young wet behind the ears players. while these guys are completely different players OFFENSIVELY they are the same player DEFENSIVELY. get blocks and start the break. disturb shots with their length and unfortunately get punked on a nightly basis by the nene, zach's, goodens, and millsaps of the league. while one could be marcus camby and the other be lamar odom and based off what ive see so far, id keep randolph if i had to get rid of one 

LOTTERY PICK NOT MAXIMIZED

-Morrow/kurz/DNelson

I admit it, after morrows second game i was ready to sell marco for 2 cents on the dollar but that was a bit premature. maybe i should be comparing belli and morrow forthe sake of redundancy but i call these 3 out together because these guys are D-LEAGUE PLAYERS. period! i dont mind give guys like this a shot one roster spot per year (morrow this year) but anything more and we basically got a ncaa d1 team out there. weve had some crazy steals over recent years but i think the front office along with nellie are feeling themselves a bit too much here with these guys getting way too many mintues without legitamite nba talent or potential for the tick they getting. I would hope that if we are goingto trot D-League talent out there that their strengths fill a NEED on the team like i dont know......HENDRIX! someone please tell me why 3 guys who went undrafted whom none of have what we need are getting burn over our 2nd round pick??

-Roster spots wasted

Ronny, Ronny, Ronny

I thought we were getting a steal with this guy but didnt realize his weakness til i saw him play on a nightly basis. DONT GET ME WRONG. I LOVE THE GUY AND AT 4 MIL he will never be a detriment to this team. but if he had something more to compliment his dunks and 15 footer then he would be the guy were looking for but as it stands it really depends on who were playing and game situations for him to be playing. something puzzling about him that i have yet to come to a conclusion about is his blks per game/minutes on the floor vs rebounds. EXCEPTIONAL shot blocker but does it hurt his rebounding game?? for a while there he was averaging more blocks than rebounds which has recently changed to slightly edge rebounds and if its truely because his on the ball and help defense are taking him out of position then im ok with it but looking at the stat sheet i am disappointed with his rebounding totals. Hope he improves..

I seriously dont mind losing right now as much as it frustrates me bleeding into other parts of my life if there is a light at the end of the tunnel. i say sit sjax and maggette til monta comes back. what isthere to gain? this season is lost. why try to win when we are getting our ass kicked on a nightly basis still paying a hurt jax and maggette. sit these black holes until were are ready to make a serious run, or finally ready to find some team chemistry and an improved lottery pick. in the mean time, find a solid role player / star within one of the yound guys (marco, marcus, randolph, hendrix, morrow)

the team seriously needs to find some direction by the feb trade deadline. i love jamal's game and when the rest of the team comes together jamal will be a dynamite player but he has been lost in our turmoil as of late. TRADE maggette and package him with some of this redundacy for something we can use since the cap space he would have given up to solve our problems is GONE. if it was up to me i would send corey, wright, and maybe even morrow if he got any value for anything expiring, decent wing with a defensive mind set, a bruiser/enforcer with decent high post game or a combination of the 3. REALISTIC PLAYERS that come to mind that are on my wishlist are:

D.Gooden or nocioni, Rwallace,Kaman,Bmiller,Darko w/buckner, landry or scola, oberto w/udoka.

players like buckner or trenton hassell do not have the talent based our young players have but we really need one of those vets to tech the young guys and come out there sacrafice for the team and add some experience to this squad on a reasonably cheap contract.

UNfortunatley for us when maggette becomes tradable on monday there are only a handful of team who may have interest. wings are not hard to come by in this league and when people mention trade with him you have to be realistic. san antonio, toronto, orlando, and the clips have a need. of those teams only kaman and bowen or udoka are realistic players this team needs. lol maybe petrius too.i like jermaine but we dont have enough to give in return that im willing to sacrafice for him. but id dump his ass for nesterovic im so eager to get rid of him. dont get me wrong, nice player with a mean midrage when he gets hot and awesome foul shooter but i HAVE never seen a black hole quite like him before. or maybe just never on the warriors scrutinizing his every move. but maggette has the worst tunnel vision ive ever seen in a nba game and watching morrow and jamal shrug in disbelief a few games ago was so disappointing it was funny. i think it was portland he missed a shot badly and the rebound came back directly to him. had jamal and morrow both for wide open 3's to his left and was so narrow minded he jacked up another brick with both jamal and morrow looking at nelson like WTF? this one scene told me everything i needed to know about our team chemistry with corey out there. TRADE HIS ASS!!