IMPEACH COHANN!!!!!!!

Brandan Wright is an extremely promising young player. He might be able to help an NBA team win some games someday.

The Bobcats’ record with J-Rich was one game worse than it’d been the previous year, and that was despite the huge boost of Adam Morrison being unable to play. J-Rich is a fine scorer, good rebounder for a guard, and has a killer smile. But B-plus two-guards like him don’t get you anywhere.

I loved J-Rich, but I would absolutely rather have Brandan Wright than him. I will never chalk that trade up as a mistake by Mullin, Cohan or anyone. It was a basketball decision, and a good one.

O.K., your right in saying the J-rich trade was made to save money. Stupid move I think and you seem to agree with me. But, you cannot say Monta Ellis is over rated. The guy is under rated if anything. It is so rare to find a young guard who shoots 50+% from the field, but also scores in great volume. He has also shown flashes of a great assist man but has never been put in the position to look for it. He is not “deeply flawed” in really any area of his game. Sure he has areas to improve on (defense, three point shooting, handles) but his improvement in his midrange game and cutting down on turnovers shows us he is able to overcome his faults. And, who wouldn’t have wanted to trade Monta the early part of last season. He had an awful playoffs and a slow beginning of the year. (it is a wonder he still averaged around 20 pts per game)
I will say this, I would rather be able to resign Monta now than have J-rich for another couple of years.

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If we kept J Rich’s salary, we couldn’t keep Monta and AB without going over the luxury tax line. Being unwilling to go over the luxury tax line is not being cheap. Just about every team in the league is unwilling to go over the luxury tax line, so calling Cohan cheap is calling almost every owner cheap – which wouldn’t make sense since the adjective cheap is used to describe someone in comparison with the norm amount of spending. Stop saying Cohan’s cheap. He’s not.

Also, I can see why Baron’s agent suggested for Baron to opt out. He’ll definitely make less money this year, but he’s coming off of a career season – a season in which he was reasonably healthy for the first time in years – so it makes a lot of sense to lock up a multi-year contract now and not risk his value decreasing if he has another injury-plagued season next season.

This post sounds more like a reaction instead of something thought provoking so I’ll just say these points:

1) I too don’t understand why there are people out there trying to run B Diddy out of town. Not going to name any names (talking about media) but it’s both unreasonable and borderline pathetic.

2) I wouldn’t call a Baron-less Warriors the “worst team”, I’m sure we’d still be better than most of the [L]Eastern Conf. Saying that we’d be demoted like that is an exaggeration.

3) Leaving $17mil on the table really begs the question of what Mully/Cohan offered BD. I guess Geoff Lepper was right and Bob Fitz was wrong about this whole situation when Geoff of the CC times said the Warriors were lowballing BD and Fitz borderline accused Geoff of starting a conspiracy theory and stating that BD absolutely WILL NOT opt out.

From the guy who gave Dunleavy, Murphy, Foyle, and J-Rich huge max or near-max money extensions I can understand the trepidation, but I really think Mully is shooting the franchise in the foot with this one.

There are only 3 other playemakers who make their teammates better by being on the court ,currently in the league (LeBron, Nash, CP3), and Cris wants to piss off the only one he has a realistic chance of signing. Brilliant.

I know the media “experts” think BD’s injury problems of the past make him a risk with a 4 or 5 year deal, but answer me this, what are the warriors prospects at getting another A-list star in the Bay during that 5 year window??? Monta could develop into one, but you can sign him and Baron irregardless of their combined cap number with the current NBA cap rules. The other chances are LeBron in 2010 (fat chance), and some kid who’s probably still a sophomore in high school.

In the interim, having Baron under contract makes the Ws a playoff contender every year.

As a long time warriors fan I am sick of seeing great talent come through our Bay Area revolving door. How many more times are we going to fail to make the commitment to great yet flawed talent (Chaimberlain, Parrish, Webber, Spreewell, Arenas) to save a few bucks.

I guess that Mully, Cohan and company value staying below the cap above all else. That being said, I don’t think I’ll be returning my warriors season ticket agents calls anytime soon.

The warriors will miss baron next year and maybe the next. Baron has no chance however, to help the clippers in years 3-5 of that contract. The guy gets hurt far too often, breaks down and now he thinks he’s a movie star. Kindah reminds me of the mistakes the dodgers made signing Kevin brown and Jason Schmidt. They sign guys for far too long, for waaay too much money and end up getting burned. Fine with me!! Go Warriors! Go Giants!