If we are only 8 games worse we’ll be out of it.

Agreed. I’m not saying .500’s a great place to be… I’m just saying that’s roughly where I see us.

Is Magette/turiaf(if we get him) a better rebounding pair than Boom and pietrus?

Yes, in the sense that the position shifts get Jackson out of the frontcourt.

I don’t know if this is still true, but going into last season, Jackson was the worst rebounder for his height in NBA history (assuming a certain minimum number of games played). I mean, he’s an insanely bad rebounder. Maggette’s not a plus rebounder, but he’s not the gaping hole that Jackson is. Monta/Jackson/Maggette/Al/Biedrins is a better rebounding lineup than Baron/Monta/Jackson/Al/Biedrins. Turiaf isn’t an elite rebounder either, but he’ll also help some.

How is losing Boom , pest-r-us, and maybe KaBuki improving our defense?

The Baron/Monta backcourt was horrible defensively… a Monta/Jackson backcourt will be significantly better, and replacing Jackson with Maggette doesn’t make the frontcourt all that much worse. We’ll miss aspects of Pietrus’ defense, but we’ll enjoy aspects of Turiaf’s. I love Buike and hope we keep him, but I certainly don’t think we’d miss his defense.

We’re not a great rebounding or defensive team now, but we should be better than we were a year ago at both. That should be factored in.

Will Magette’s scoring efficiency score more points than Booms play?

Definitely not… that trade’s a big downgrade for the offense. But Maggette’s offensive strengths shouldn’t be glossed over—we now have a very effective weapon we didn’t have a year ago. Maggette’s not a guy who shoots you out of games the way Baron sometimes does. That doesn’t mean he’s better than Baron… it doesn’t even mean he’s as good as Baron, because he’s obviously not. But it’s a silver lining.

We’re worse than we were a year ago. We will struggle without Baron. But there’s just too much talent on this team for it to actually be terrible.

over the course of the argument he actually started bashing Jrich because he wasn’t “efficient” and said that Kellenna azabuike who was soooo “effecient” could easily yes easily score over 20 a game if he had the shots JRich had.

OZ didn’t understand that
1) If you shoot more shots and are expected to create your own shots, you shoot more difficult shots and your team needs your scoring, your not going to have as high of a fg% as if you just picked your spots and were an open catch and shoot player.
2) It probably takes just as much talent if not more to create offense and get your shot off against the best athletes in the world than it is to actually make a shot.
3) JRich created how own offense where Azabuike was more of a catch and shoot player and a pretty good slasher when he caught the ball and the defense was already out of position and he had a lane already created for him to go to the basket.
4) After a nice start of the season azabuike ended up panning out, was a fringe rotation player, and his “phenominal efficiency” dropped to be pretty average.

Now i am no JRich Homer. I love and respect him for everything great that he did for the dubs, but i have moved on. I just believe that OZ either never played the game of basketball or was never good and doesn’t understand the different aspects and different skills required to score the basketball, and he put too much value on statistics.

I would agree with you if Adonal was still our center, but Andris has very good hands and good instincts so he can take the dump off pass or follow up a missed shot and have a clear lane. Andris kills when you do not pay attention to him. With the floor spread, players are able to get into the paint and then the defense has to collapse. While Maggette does not exactly have great court vision, with the floor spread so much, the passes are not difficult to make to make.

I think the Warriors overpaid Maggette, but he is going to make a killing in our offensive system.

spread the floor. beat your man off the dribble then when Anris’s man slides over to the lane to help, Andris with is great instincts and high basketball IQ knows exactly where to be and cuts to the rim uncontested for the dump off pass and a dunk

or

the center slides over but is out of position. tries to make a play on Maggette and mags creates contact and goes to the free throw line.

you’d rather have ur wife give birth to an 18 yrd old, kick him out of the house immediately to get a job so he can support u, and spend the rest of ur life on the couch sucking on beer watching the warriors barely miss the playoffs.

not so bad. where do i sign up?