The Nelson-Rowell 3 year plan. And they're happy with it.

is not part of the plan. Monta Crawford Jackson Maggette is redundant.

I have been a Dubs fan since I can remember (since I was 5 yrs old). I always supported them throughout all the years no matter what. BUT I AM F****g tired of being always in the rebuilding process. How many F*****g years are we going to continue this???
We had a chance to take it to the next level 2 years ago or at least stay competitive. So now they have a plan?!!!!! ok let’s be patient 3-5yrs more—I will continue to be a Dubs fan but for now &^$U^#$&^%# Nelson and Rowell and specially the bitch of an owner we have.

crawford has 2 years i believe, so his role is for time being to help out but hes not a long term player….. jack management thinks is the captain leader and good to help mentor younger guys.
Mags man I just dont know. The idea in the offseason was monta, jack, mags, harrington, biedrins as our lineup, with bellinelli, buke wright, turiaf as top bench guys… But harrington had to throw a fit and crawford was best we could get for him.

The idea was put a competitive team that could challenge playoffs this year, and as monta, AD and young guys develop, in a couple years they could challenge to upper teir of west. Mags, jacks, AL were suppose to be the older leaders to help field a competitve squad as no fan wants a 20-60 season. But in the long term vision they arent there at the money they r getting.

beReal,
 you are definitely right about the constant rebuild being tiring but the truth is, we arent NYC or LAL who can just sign ANY free agent we want. If we want to win we mostly have to build internally, think of it at the portland approach….only they r a few years ahead of us.
The problem is harrington forced us into getting crawford giving us massive surplus for swing guards…Now management has to either trade him or more likely maggette.

There is too much risk of injury and uncertainty with players. A team should be competitive within 2-3 years or else scrap it. Look at the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, Rockets, Heat, Pistons – Blazers have done nothing yet – Kings are a better example of a small market putting things together within 2-3 years.

how is portland a bad example?

Cohan must be Al Adavis’ brother they bother—Need I say more!!!

Ok
had to get that out. One of the main reasons we keep getting stuck in this crap, is becuase we give star contracts to players that are 2nd or 3rd players. I would prefer the front office say we want to see what we have and are not signing anyone as we do not think there is something we think will make a difference (i.e mags) or extend a contract to Jackson WTF is the office thinking. I was against signing mags and definitely against giving jackson the extension. These players are back role players to the stars they are not stars!!!
We need a good GM and VP of Ops, until then we will continue down this path. I bet if we were to just go young fans would have gone to see them, at least we would know if what we had was worth anything
We are all frustrated, but for my part it is with the front office for making bad deals.

I’m still not a happy Warriors fan right now, but you brought up some good points about our younger players.

As much as we bitch and moan about the younger players not being developed, I believe Don Nelson has gotten the most out of the potential of Ellis and Biedrins. Those two guys are way better than anyone could have imagined, and alot of the credit should go to Nelson for that.

Same goes for Belinelli. If anyone would have told me that Belinelli would end up being one of our best perimeter defenders and distributors, I would have laughed in their face. Honestly, when he got drafted, I imagined him to be a flashy JJ Reddick or Jason Kapono type and nothing more. Nelson’s tough love on him is beginning to pay off.

Brandan Wright is also turning into a solid pro before our eyes. His “per 36” career stats are beautifully solid: 57% FG, 70% FT, 8.9 RPG, 0.8 SPG, 2.1 BPG, 1.2 TOPG, 15.6 PPG, and maybe most importantly, only 3.6 PFPG as a very young player in this league. With a positive +/- and stellar PER to boot. Not bad.

Maybe Nelson does really know what he’s doing with these young players. I still hate smallball, though.

Thanks for pointing out that Nellie is not exactly an amateur at player development. Reading posts here, I don’t recognize the Nellie that developed Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, and, sitting on the bench beside him, Sidney Moncrief. AR has tremendous potential but he’s a long way from being finished and letting him run wild in a game is not the way to get him finished. My guess is if Nellie’s talking to his agent it is about getting him to work in practice, not to work out a trade. A nice post, JSML.

i hate reading posts where monta’s name is spelled “monte”

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I am not sure where you got this three year plan from, but as long as Nellie is the coach and Rowell is the owner, with no Mullin in site, this team may not touch the playoffs. Nellie has shown that he is ready to retire, he has checked out, and we need a coach who is ready for a re-building effort. Even with Monta back we still have no PG, and very little post presence, and lets face it, Monta is far from a good defender. And they don’t have to “plan on tanking” they are doing it anyway! And I would be shocked if Nellie drafted a solid post player who could remedy our interior defense, offense and rebounding problems. And I strongly disagree with how Nellie has developed young players, if anything he stunts their growth. I firmly believe that Belenelli could have been this productive at the beginning of the season, and Randolph is ready to contribute, and Wright is supposed to be a part of the future yet he struggles to get consistent playing time. Biedrins said that playing for his national team helped him immensely (notice the absence of Nellie) and he and Monta have been in the league for what, 4 years now? They developed themselves, Nellie should get little credit. It is also undeniable to place validity on what Dunleavy and Harrington have said about Nellie. Look at how well they have done since leaving the Warriors, even Murphy is averaging a double double.

I am curious how you can say nellie has given Wright a chance to grow….how? Playing sparingly or not at all? Young guys need time to adapt to the game, that does not come at 2 minutes at a time for a total of 12 minutes a game (if he is lucky to get in at all). There are some basic and historical flaws in your post, Nellie will not, and has rarely done well developing young players, so this will not change, he will continue to stunt the growth of our team. Nellie has shown the Warriors that he cannot develop this team, and he is a GM role would be a disaster, an utter disaster. Nellie has no future with the Warriors, this team is not put together well, and unfortunately I think this season, and the foreseeable future unless something changes is pretty bleak

and Maggette are career losers who don’t make a team better (and maybe makes them worse) I can’t agree. This front office is totally mismanaged. Jax extension after signing Maggette and drafting AR? What are they thinking?

A smart front office, after they lost baron, would have declared they are going young. good players in the NBA don’t need 4-5 years to develop. Now they are back where they were stuck with mediocre vets who are capping them out. If Wright, AR or Belli pan out they will need to play big minutes in 2-3 years but will be blocked by mediocre vet.

You can never go wrong with young talent and cap space but you sure can giving 50 million to Maggette