how about we stop thinking about that tiny possibility we once had for getting KG….it was like 2 years ago, lets get over it already

Even if we did that trade, we would’ve been like the west coast version of the Timberwolves with KG being the leader on a team that can’t go anywhere.

We shouldn’t have signed Brandan Wright to his contract, because it meant that we had to wait 30 days in order to trade him.

I still remember that summer, man. Desperately waiting for August 6, 2007 to arrive so that the Warriors can finally trade Wright in a package for Kevin Garnett. We had the best to offer at the time, but before August 6th arrived, the Boston Celtics finally gave in and decided to offer Al Jefferson. The Celtics package was better than what the Warriors had to offer, but if we never had signed Wright to a contract then Boston wouldn’t have had the time to think about offering Jefferson.

Oh well.

KG would have been the perfect big man for Nellie’s offense. A point-center, and it would be incredible seeing him in the frontline alongside Andris Biedrins. Baron, Jackson, Harrington, Garnett, Biedrins, (I don’t know if Monta would still be on the team after the trade).

That would have been the perfect move to follow up the J-Rich trade that followed up our We Believe Playoff run. We would have gotten BETTER instead of worse.

We won 48 wins with a team full of guards that season. Add a dominant low presence like KG and the Warriors would have had almost all of their problems solved.

Oh well, at least we got Monta and Biedrins for the future to battle Brandon Roy and Greg Oden in future WCF battles for years to come. LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsbQKhJdR4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9c9vI6HjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDwBEnOOJ7Y

Can you imagine how SCARY it would be for other teams seeing Baron/KG and company running like crazy on fastbreaks? Like how the hell do you stop Kevin Garnett on a fastbreak? lol.

It’s easy to say, “Wow, stop talking about that, the Warriors were NEVER CLOSE to getting KG, and even if they got him they wouldn’t have done anything with him anyways”.

The only reason it’s easy to say that is because the trade never went down.

If the Warriors failed to make the playoffs in 2007. “Wow, stop talking about that, the Warriors were NEVER CLOSE to making the Playoffs in 2007. They were simply just too banged up (J-Rich was out for 2 months, Baron was out for 3 weeks, Ike Diogu out for a month, etc), and Jackson/Harrington weren’t used to the system yet. Just face it, when the team finally got healthy the Warriors were 7 games under .500 and had the toughest remaining schedule in the league. It was impossible, and even if the Warriors somehow did miraculously make the playoffs, they would have been too inexperienced to handle the postseason and probably would have gotten killed by the Mavericks. We might have beaten them in the regular season, but the playoffs is a whole different monster”.

Really easy to disregard things that don’t happen, no matter how close they were to happening. I’m random…. lol.

“The Town”

I thought that was ghetto slang?

I remember watching the Warriors game, and on one of the previews the guy was saying “This Friday, Stephen Jackson and the Warriors are heading back to the Town to take on the Championship Celtics”. Not ghetto at all, haha.

…have Biedrins in this scenario. He’d be a Timberwolf.

I don’t think Garnett would’ve led to a championship purely because Nelson’s tenure here has been marked by big minutes for big players. Garnett is only getting around 30-34 minutes a night in Boston, so he’s stayed very fresh. I suspect he’d be pushing 40 minutes per if he were here, and that’s 40 minutes of sprinting up and down, as well.

Look…first off, we would have had to give up too much to get him. More importantly, garnett thrives in the half court. Hes the kinda guy that can needs to go to work in the post to get stuff done. In a Don Nelson system (run and gun), i dont know how that would work since I’ve rarely seen anyone try to post up…but then again, we dont have any real post up players.

If we could have had a lineup of baron, monta, JR, KG and beans…id do the deal in a heart beat.

We’d have nobody right about now if we made that trade. The Celtics wouldn’t have won the championship if they didn’t have a strong rebounding C in Perkins and some other strong scorers. What would our lineup last year have been?
PG Baron
SG Azubuike
SF Jackson
PF Croshere??
C – Garnett?

I dunno what we would’ve done. But here’s what I hate about if we made that trade. We would’ve been good. very good. but not quite championship caliber. And there’s nothing worse than being like the Detroit Pistons are right now….good enough that you don’t make a drastic change, bad enough to know you won’t win a championship, old enough to know you won’t get any better.

I’ll take the current team we have, with skyhigh potential, over the 2nd round of the playoffs 3 years in a row, and then another 12 year playoff drought…

Richardson wouldn’t be on the team. If we want to get realistic then let’s get realistic.

KG=KG, so that remains the same.

Baron Davis=Paul Pierce? It’s tough to say, but I would take Pierce. Arguable.

Ray Allen>>>>>>>>>>Stephen Jackson and this is undeniable.

Who do we have to play center? Celtics had Kendrick Perkins, who turned out to be a player.

We play in the West, not the East. Which means that our season would be much more of a grind, and if Nellie over-relies on Davis and Jackson (and probably Garnett) then there is no way our defense is current Celtic level like by the end of the year. As far as I remember, Davis and Jackson both ran out of steam last year.

When we get into the playoffs, we aren’t playing the 37-45 Hawks, and we likely won’t have home court throughout. The West was loaded last year, would our team really have been equipped to take on the Lakers among others?

What I’ve noticed on this board is that for all hypothetical scenarios, we believe that the best possible scenario is the likely scenario. Anthony Randolph may become some Tayshaun Prince player, but he has no jump shot right now. The “We Believe” team may have played every game the way they played during their playoff run if we kept them, but after the Jazz figured out their gimmick you can bet more teams would throw monster PFs at us. And the only reason we were so fresh for the run was because of injuries during the year, if we stay healthy the whole year you can be assured that the swarming defense we had would have become a standing defense. We may have been an automatic title contender with Garnett, but you see how Brand is working out for the Sixers versus their expectations of him.

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