Hendrix waived
According to the Warriors team site, Hendrix was let go to make room for Monta.
"http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/warriors_waive_richard_hendrix.html"
It is doubtful that he would have made a difference. His college numbers suggested he was worth the gamble, but he was having trouble staying on the floor in the NBDL due to foul trouble. It is probably the case that he was not NBA material any time in the near future and any talk of using him as a bruiser specialist ignores that the team has much, much more pressing needs in order to become a real basketball team again. Good teams can afford that. Bad teams have more pressing needs. Still, it looks like yet another bust move. I suspect that cutting him off a non guaranteed rookie min was easier to stomach than eating Marcus Williams's larger contract for the rest of the season.
Is there a more poorly managed roster in the league right now?
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with D’Antoni turning NY around……….no I dont think there is. I hate Marcus Williams
by sam23 on
Dec 18, 2008 10:49 AM PST
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this makes no sense to me, why is marcus williams on this team, especially if were about to get felton
by montamazing on
Dec 18, 2008 11:01 AM PST
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#1: it’s not clear that we’re about to get Felton. It’s seldom that rumors pan out into reality. It seems especially true with the Warriors over the last few years. Of the moves made, I can’t remember any where there was much if anything in the way or rumors circulating before. They seem to operate in secret.
#2: Williams is on the team because cutting him means paying him to not be on the team. Cutting Hendrix is far, far cheaper. If neither are going to contribute, that’s a reasonable, albeit mostly meaningless decision.
#3: This team is poorly managed. It’s not clear who calls the shots and not making sense is the rule of the day.
by jae on
Dec 18, 2008 11:09 AM PST
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Saves the organization a million dollars or so...
Doesn’t sound meaningless to me… unless you’re talking pure basketball terms.
"No no Nene!"
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by Dubs fan in Boston on
Dec 18, 2008 11:21 AM PST
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Actually, only saves about $200k if Hendrix’s contract wasn’t guaranteed. Cutting Williams doesn’t affect how much he’s paid. The savings is what we don’t pay Hendrix.
by jae on
Dec 18, 2008 12:03 PM PST
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$200k.... that better come back to those poor season ticket holders
Once again, a business move.
It’s true that this barely affects the state of the team if at all but Nellie has made it clear that he’ll have to go through CJ, Nelson, Crawford, SJax, Monta, Marco, maybe even Azubuike before he considers putting Williams on the floor of a meaningful game.
Meanwhile, Hendrix can actually see time on the floor even if he’s not ready. When we were playing against Houston, I was secretly hoping Biedrins would foul out early (coz I know it was bound to happen anyway) just to see what kind of lineup we are gonna throw out there with Turiaf and Wright out with the flu. Our only “frontcourt” players left at the time is Kurz and Randolph.
$200k doesn’t really gives you great cap flexibility so it’s obviously a business move. And doubt they’re keeping Williams to try and trade him. We paid a conditional 1st rounder for him and has never played since, so best we can get for him now is a 2nd rounder. Unless, of course, he’s in a pending deal as a filler which is very unlikely at this point.
by lightz0ut on
Dec 18, 2008 4:55 PM PST
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They seem to operate in secret.
The secret is Marcus Williams to the Bucks for Ramon Sessions.
Corey Maggette to Detroit for Jason Maxiell.
Expected transaction date: December 29, 2008. 1:37am EST
Romes Mac Mojous
by ROMESdavidWOOD37 on
Dec 18, 2008 11:52 AM PST
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The first one would be too good to be true. I suggested Sessions as a possible target over the summer as a point guard project/ insurance. He put up very impressive numbers in limited time last season but played so little and at the time the Bucks looked to be stocked at the point. Maybe no deal was possible, but it would have been worth more than Williams.
by jae on
Dec 18, 2008 12:05 PM PST
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word bro.
- Agreed.
Romes Mac Mojous
by ROMESdavidWOOD37 on
Dec 18, 2008 12:18 PM PST
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yea I was on the Sessions bandwagon in the offseason. Looking back I’m not sure he’d be all that much better than CJ has been. A better passer, but I dont think he’d make this team suck much less.
by sam23 on
Dec 18, 2008 5:10 PM PST
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but I dont think he’d make this team suck much less.
+1 to that.
I think he could be a PG that Nellie would actually like. Average 15 assists per game perhaps?
For now, we gotta roll with what we got and just hope things turn around someway somehow. And soon. Good luck to us. So far… so bad.
Go Warriors still.
Romes Mac Mojous
by ROMESdavidWOOD37 on
Dec 19, 2008 8:14 AM PST
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McHale's Timberwolves & Larry Brown's Bobcats come to mind
btw, after seeing DeMarcus’ new shot, i would’ve thought they’d waive his non-guaranteed deal instead.
by the evil monkey on
Dec 18, 2008 11:06 AM PST
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HIGH
Me that is on Demarcus before the start of the season! He stopped driving to the hoop and started taking god-awful ugly outside jumpshots! He’s D didn’t impress me once he started playing against good players when it counted.
I think they should have waived Demarcus instead of Hendrix. Even if we were to trade Marcus, we’d be getting another PG (in Felton) back, so it wouldn’t have hurt. Plus we have Crawford and we’ve seen Belinelli handle the rock pretty well.
Anyways, I don’t think there is another poorly managed roster right now! Sad, sad, sad!
by scottiepimppen on
Dec 18, 2008 11:12 AM PST
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yeah
i’m not sure Hendrix was ever going to be an NBA player, but guys like DeMarcus are a dime a dozen. just like KAz and CJ before, just pick up one of the highest scoring guards in the D-League and DeMarcus is replaced.
by the evil monkey on
Dec 18, 2008 11:19 AM PST
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YUP
And that highest scoring guard in the D-League is named CJ Watson! haha They’re so redundant right now! Keeping all of these guards and stocking up on tall, lanky not so power, power forwards! Geeez louieeeez!!!
by scottiepimppen on
Dec 18, 2008 1:38 PM PST
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begs the question
why take all your pics in the draft. It seems like Hendrix was always detsined to be leftover garbage around here. We should have just traded that pic for $100,000 or something and saved money in the long run
by warriorsvictim on
Dec 18, 2008 11:07 AM PST
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RARELY 2nd rounders do anything… its like 3 a year contribute
by Warriors510 on
Dec 18, 2008 12:09 PM PST
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Its not about Hendrix for me
Maybe he wasn’t a player
But it is symbolic to me of the reluctance of this team to play Wright and to give up on the 4 most untalented guard line-up
This is a very sad season
by SFzig on
Dec 18, 2008 11:10 AM PST
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To me this all has to start with poor Warriors management. Mullin, Rowell and Nelson are not on the same page. We all know that Wright, Williams and Randolph all seem to not be Nelson type of players. They get a short leash and inconsistent playing time. So what do we do? Fill our roster up with low-ceiling undrafted role players: CJ, Kelenna, Morrow, Kurz, Nelson…and don’t forget, Jack wasn’t drafted either. We must lead the league in non-drafted players…yeesh.
If we could just draft well, play the guys that are obviously the most talented, and not care about the results…that would be best for the franchise mired in this dreadful season.
Warriors, Stupidest franchise in the league.
by kenntoe on
Dec 18, 2008 12:02 PM PST
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thought that jack
was a second-rounder
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by flipgatey3 on
Dec 18, 2008 1:32 PM PST
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Join the club
RIP Stephon Lasme & Richard Hendrix; both bangers without the buck
Remember Lasme made the Heat roster for about 5 minutes last season too, before they let him go
The pop ups on this site are starting to piss me off.
by danielholl on
Dec 18, 2008 11:13 AM PST
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Lasme actually started 4 games for the Heat last year
He is now playing in Gabon
by The Golden One on
Dec 18, 2008 1:08 PM PST
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FLICK FLICK FLICK
If God had intended us not to rosterbate, he would've made our arms shorter.
Padre renuente de Luis Perdomo, porque él es todo el que se deja hasta junio.
by Mike Hawk on
Dec 18, 2008 11:21 AM PST
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no! no!! no!!!!!!!!!!!
MARCUS WILLIAMS SHOULD HAVE GO, NOT HENDRIX!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
=Gaucho=
by Gaucho! on
Dec 18, 2008 11:27 AM PST
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You want to just pay the 1.4 million and get nothing
when there is a chance later this year, you still might be able to gt a 2nd rounder for him or something.
Hendrix wasnt cutting it in the DLeague.
If he gets better we can resign him, cause no other team will be picking him up anytime soon.
by The Golden One on
Dec 18, 2008 1:10 PM PST
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also Williams' contract has more value in balancing cost of a future trade
really grasping at straws here to find some value …
by hardcore on
Dec 18, 2008 1:47 PM PST
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The Problem is the unholy alliance between Rowell and Nellie
I’m telling you… This is ugly.
Check out my blog at www.dantheman85x.blogspot.com
by dantheman85x on
Dec 18, 2008 11:36 AM PST
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I'm pissed
But wish Richard the best of luck on his next NBA team
by dprodigy19 on
Dec 18, 2008 11:50 AM PST
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I really can’t believe that Demarcus Nelson made it over Hendrix. With Belinelli’s recent emergence as a PG, Monta coming back, and CJ and Crawford and even Jackson playing some PG, why do we need Nelson? He’s not a long term solution or a short term solution.
by belilaugh on
Dec 18, 2008 11:53 AM PST
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demarcus defends....
id rather have him than morrow or buke
by Warriors510 on
Dec 18, 2008 12:09 PM PST
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Hendrix fouls out too much in the D league?
Wow… and that’s a problem? when you bruise people going to the rack they think twice about going to the rack… think Bad Boy dynasty… if Turiaf was playing the minutes he should be playing and fouling out every game and we had Hendrix inflicting the same sort of bruising of D, teams would be making way less layups and we would be winning way more often… this point is moot though cause Nelson would never let this go down, so unfortunately, we might as well drop that hack, save 200K, and keep watching other teams shoot layups on our 4 guard lineup… unfortunately its like making a fiscally prudent small move in hopes of making up for a several seriously imprudent major ones…
by ihatenellie on
Dec 18, 2008 12:26 PM PST
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The designated bruiser might be something of value were this team expecting to make a fight in the playoffs. A guy to push people around and disrupt for 5 or 6 minutes could make a difference in a close game or two, particularly in the playoffs when defenses turn it up (or, as often, coaches get timid and neglect what got them there and move to the slow-down game that they confuse for "defense"). But we ain’t there. We aren’t even close. I doubt very, very much that a bruiser for a few minutes would make us win “way more often.” What we need is far more than a quick fix. We need guys who can lock down, guys who can pass the ball without turning it over, and guys who can make shots. We need several of those guys. Worrying about a bruiser at the end of the bench is low on the list of priorities.
by jae on
Dec 18, 2008 2:18 PM PST
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nah...
a bruiser for a few minutes wouldn’t make us win “way more often”… but playing 3 SGs, a skinny big (biedrins/wright/randolf) and one hacking bruiser (Turiaf/Hendrix) would IMHO make us win “way more often”!
by ihatenellie on
Dec 18, 2008 6:58 PM PST
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You got the "bruiser" void correct
And ANY team coached by Nelson will be TOO SMALL and too short. It’s not that he “doesn’t coach defense,” it’s that his players are easy to shoot over, are too short to get to rebounds, and can’t play against “big” teams. His “system” IS bad defense. It’s fun to watch the midgets all scrambling around (helplessly) but it’s a loser in the NBA. Hendrix would’ve made a difference against Yao.
by formerlythecity on
Dec 21, 2008 12:08 AM PST
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We Better Be Trading M. Williams to Waive Hendrix
The guy could grab boards if nothing else. He has a big body. Again, screw small ball and fire Nellie . Hendrix will be productive in the NBA – mark my words!
by terryteagle on
Dec 18, 2008 12:51 PM PST
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If we trade away either Brandan Wright or Anthony Randolph away just to acquire a run-of-the-mill barely-starter-material PG midget, I will never go to a Warriors game again in my life.
Brandan Wright and Anthony Randolph are the only sources of hope and potential we have. Felton isn’t even all that different from Marcus Williams…
by YaHeard on
Dec 18, 2008 3:37 PM PST
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I will never go to a Warriors game again in my life.
Stop giving them incentive.
Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol chasin me
by Skeptic con Urquell on
Dec 18, 2008 3:48 PM PST
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Very disappointing.....
I wish Hendrix the very best of luck and believe he will be picked up by another NBA team and will probably do very well.
I look forward to more great decisions from this franchise………
It's about heart, It's about fight, It's about being a Warrior!
by BritWarriorGSW on
Dec 18, 2008 4:01 PM PST
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