The Death of "We Believe"
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 8:23 PM PST
in Golden State of Design
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Believe me... I was trying to find something fun to draw but this 9 game losing streak is getting to me. While our community has voiced their opinions on a number of issues lacking within our team, I wanted to contribute it on the artistic tip... but how? Back in the mid 90's, DC comics decided to kill off Superman and piss off a lot of folks. While I feel like we're in the same situation, The death of "We Believe" doesn't mean it's gonna be gone forever. Hopefully it will come back the same way Superman did a few years later. You can believe whatever you want. For now, the thrill is gone.
I don't hate the Warriors, and I don't plan on jumping ship, this is just how I currently feel artistically. When I looked back at that Superman issue 75 cover of his cape flapping around some rubble, hanging on a wooden stick, that's how I feel about our season so far. I'm sure things will change when Monta returns, but you never know...
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All Hail Tony.PSD
Great piece. Unfortunate as it is, it’s one of my favorite now.
by lightz0ut on Dec 7, 2008 8:46 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I was trying to find something fun to draw but this 9 game losing streak is getting to me.
The bright side is we have nowhere to go but up (well I guess we could stay down at rock bottom for a long long time but hey, that’s not much lower )
Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol chasin me
by Skeptic con Urquell on Dec 7, 2008 8:53 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
It's crazy seeing the situation we're in right now...
It reflects everyones mood towards the team… you see it in fan posts or even just fools at your local starbucks. Ask anybody how the Warriors are and their either mad bummed out or pissed… “somebody needs to get fired!” We have the same feelings but in the end still believe in something.
I didn’t draw this piece to dead a pretty positive movement… it’s just how I felt right now. Look how bad the guys are doin’… I guess the next few pieces from me are gonna based on how the team moves forward and stuff. I will poke fun at that Spidey concept saint dee pointed out with an idea of a shirt or jersey in the trash can… but thats only if it gets worse…
by Tony.psd on Dec 8, 2008 6:22 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Awesome piece, Tony
One li’l piece of unsolicited graphic input: don’t you think it would be more poetic and stronger graphically if you deleted the big Thunder logo from the background (and maybe shrunk the GSoM logo slightly)? I think the thunderstruck W of the banner sufficiently conveys the subject, and just a plain dark/cloudy sky might better convey the gloominess you’re after, and make the raggedy form of the banner really “pop.”
Either way, it’s definitely one of your all time Top 10…
OBAMA AMABO
by Sleepy Freud on Dec 7, 2008 9:00 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
It's haunted by the ghost of Morrow's big games!
Monta! Montaye! Montae!
by Baked Biedrins on Dec 8, 2008 4:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Cohan and Rowell
Are not the sole perpetrators of this mess.
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
by ejdacanay on Dec 7, 2008 9:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
LOL... very true
That white little box was fitting for their names LOL…
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 9:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
haha yea i lol'd when I saw it.
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
by ejdacanay on Dec 7, 2008 9:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Thunder
Shouldn’t thunder be layin on his back in the dirt with his lightning bolt stuck in his chest?
Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol chasin me
by Skeptic con Urquell on Dec 7, 2008 9:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I FEEL YOU
We Believe ended when Baron left, when J Rich Left and even when Barnes Left. The emotion, the craziness and the passion are all gone. I havent stopped being a fan and i never will but i havent been able to watch the last 3 games. This team is TERRRABLE and i blame Rowell,Cohn and Nellie. And really i dont know when wer’re gonna get out of this mess.
by GoldenWarrior988 on Dec 7, 2008 9:31 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
It's ok
Even after waiting 12 long years to make the playoffs, some people are actually okay and fine with another REBUILDING process. Youngest team in the NBA once again, sucky team once again.
The 2007 ‘We Believe’ Warriors were capable of being a WCF team. They just had to make a couple more moves in the offseason to get a good inside presence that could rebound, score, defend etc. Instead, they make ‘money moves’ so they can save up to sign Ellis and Biedrins to big contracts. LOL.
We had a great team with a good mix of veterans and leadership (and we did pretty well with that team, too); but we decide to rebuild our team around Monta and Biedrins; I guess we want to see them get owned by LeBron, Wade, Carmelo, Arenas, Oden, Roy, Bosh, Jefferson, Mayo, Gay, Durant, Howard, Rose, Beasley, Martin, Paul, Williams, Horford, Boozer, Bynum, etc etc etc when all those players are in their prime.
by Five Ten Entertainment on Dec 7, 2008 9:40 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
LOL... I'm thinking of using Thunder for this hahaha!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 9:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Ahaha.
That would be AMAZING.
Monta! Montaye! Montae!
by Baked Biedrins on Dec 8, 2008 4:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
We Believe died at the end of that season
whats with all this living in the past? you guys know its 2008, right? almost 2009…
by TheWarrior on Dec 7, 2008 9:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I had know I idea
…next time i’ll ask you for permission on wat to draw :-P
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 10:03 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
for the
thunder cover you should totally use that spiderman page where he gives up being spiderman.
and it should say “we believe …no more”
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_misc/SpiderMan_NoMore_comicScene.jpg
by saintdee on Dec 7, 2008 10:05 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
A we believe shirt in the trash! I might just do a “We’re back!” shirt lol! When they started shangng the wording, it was getting kinda tacky, but who could complain? they were free!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 10:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Pretty Cool
I Love the picture. I know most of us still want to believe we are capable of being the same team but in all honesty we are not. Very poetic and genius
"Get Er Dun!"
by YayArea510 on Dec 7, 2008 10:08 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
You can believe...
“Whateva you liiiiiike!” T.I. (lol)
I was confused on what to draw this week… I have some ideas but I’ll save it after we get a win yaknowhatimsayin?!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 10:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
honestly tony
this is one of your best… top 3 imo
keep doin wut ur doin
http://goldenarrival.blogspot.com
by NinerWarrior on Dec 7, 2008 10:18 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
too soon
Hey get this flag up if we lost to the OKC Thunder tomorrow. It’s a bit premature at the moment.
Ellis to the RIM!
Monta for the win?! YES!
by XIAOXIAO on Dec 7, 2008 10:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
LOL... just wanted to get it of my chest
Hopefully we’ll be “Stomping the Yard” tomorrow night!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 10:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
then after there were like FOUR new supermans remember!!?
!!
by HoLdEmUP on Dec 7, 2008 10:48 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
yeah
and then shaq played one of them. lol
by bogeydead4 on Dec 7, 2008 10:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
After "Funeral for a friend"
The stories just got lame! than year after year, something major would happen in the DC Universe… Battman got his back broken… Green Lantern went psycho, Aquaman lost a hand and grew a beard… those were the days!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 10:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Tony
Great job.
Any way of doing one with Maggette running away with blood on his hands in the distance?
by dprodigy19 on Dec 7, 2008 10:48 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
perhaps this season is like
…the Empire Strikes Back. So in the previous movie we had shocked the world being the lowly rebels who blew up the Death Star (making the playoffs and beating the 1st seeded Mavs) – a seemingly impossible feat. In this movie we get our ass handed to us pretty badly and luke (i guess we can say monta) gets messed up and loses his hand (monta spraining his ankle). but then he comes back with his cybernetic hand (ankle), the rebels get their stuff together, and then they mess some fools up….. in Return of the Jedi (latter half of the season maybe, but probably the next season).
by bogeydead4 on Dec 7, 2008 11:02 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Nice stuff...
This could be my favorite. Great work Tony. I’m not one of those guys to get all hung up on the past, but I’m felling this right now.
"...OlympicMike is clearly the Barack Obama of GSoM"-Sleepy
by olympicmike on Dec 7, 2008 11:04 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Yea... I would've drawn this last season
…but didn’t think about doing so till this morning!
by Tony.psd on Dec 7, 2008 11:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That graphic
has medium black t-shirt written all over it. i wil take 5
please
by highflya on Dec 8, 2008 12:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
hahaha
i love the little “by chris cohan and robert rowell” tidbit in the corner
by gorillas on Dec 7, 2008 11:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I was just watching Warrios/Monta Highlights on youtube.
I mean what happened?
G Davis
G Richardson/Ellis
F Jackson
F Harrington
C Biedrins
I mean Cmon
I will always be your fan JRich. Good Luck
by chili01 on Dec 8, 2008 12:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
fiscal management happened… courtesy of Rowell and company.
by wander7 on Dec 8, 2008 12:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Let ya freak flag fly Tony
I hope you have something crazy planned to draw when we break this losing streak. (and, yes, it will end someday)
I pray i never have to use a gun again...
...unless i'm at a strip club parking lot...
...and somebody tries to run me over with their car...
...But how often does that happen??
by ssmokinjoe on Dec 8, 2008 2:52 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Tony.psd!
Awesome drawing man. It replaced Biedrins ‘now serving double doubles daily’ as my computer backdrop.
I kind feel like its a new start of the cycle, I became a Warriors fan early 90’s and we were terrible, then got teased a few times with Jamison, Hughes, and Arenas. Then we got Baron late in the year and made a push the next 2 years. Than we topped off with a second round playoffs appearance and a 48 win season, Hopefully we are back in the glory land of 8th seed and possible second round beatdown in a few years from now.
Ellis to the rim.
by warriorsscore110 on Dec 8, 2008 9:32 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Nice Work Tony!
I was watching the 1993 NBA Finals game 6 between da Bulls and the Suns on NBATV the other night and there were signs all over the place in Phoenix that read "We Believe" with fans holding them up. We believe is as proprietary as the saying Hello. Enough with We Believe. Its old and represents all that was good that is now gone in Clipper land, Charlotte, NY, Phoenix, Orlando and in physical therapy for moped recovery.
Keep it up Tony, you da mayne!
by gabezgsw on Dec 8, 2008 11:10 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
About time
We have been milking this slogan since the playoffs which was two and a half years ago. Compared to the Amazing commercial i would say this slogan is anoying. Somebody please come up with a new slogan before the next game. Jeez
BD-FOR-P!
by BDForPresident on Dec 8, 2008 11:36 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
the reign of super warriors
cory maggette- cyborg superman
cap’n jack- the eradiactor
monta ellis- superboy
ronny turiaf/buike -man of steel
it would be nice to see a drawing of this. ;]
by mrhater on Dec 8, 2008 12:19 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Wow! Impressive piece Tone!
I really like this one!
Go Warriors still.
Eat a Bud Burger. It’ll cheer you up.
By the way…I just found out the Bud’s on Springs Road died too. Pwah!
That was the only one I used to go to. My life is completely ruined now because of that and the Dubs.
uuuwwWWWAAAH.
Romes Mac Mojous
by ROMESdavidWOOD37 on Dec 8, 2008 2:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Excellent work
Great depiction of our current state (and possibly for a long time)… sigh. Good job on making sure credit is given to where it is due; to our two main perpetrators: Mr. Cohan and Mr. Rowell.
by MasuWarrior on Dec 8, 2008 9:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
one of my favorites
really well done, aesthetically. captures the moment beautifully.
heart of a champion, will of the warrior.
by cap'n hack on Dec 9, 2008 12:10 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
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