west is too good

YES

mavs and suns and denver are definitely gonna fall off…with the suns being the only team i can see making the playoffs.

and its gonna be us and portland back in them…...clippers arent gonna do shit by the way

this is going to be a long season.

in ‘10

They are the most athletic team in the NBA. It’s all contingent on the development of our young guys. For those who have been criticizing the Maggette signing: compare his stat sheet to that of Paul Pierce. Remarkably similar. The Warriors may not make the playoffs, but they will be a tough team to beat.

but i think that we can be pretty good, and if we steal a few games here and there (and don’t lose the games we should win) then who knows?

they wont need to be as good as last year.

as always, and now more than in recent history, the toughest team to predict…

until all the deals are done, but as of now…i’m leaning towards no, but goddam I want to say HELL YES!

but hopefully AR could develop into half the great player Scottie Pippen was. Also, hopefully could get a winning record by the season Dwade become a free agent. Than, we could sign and trade for him to form our poorman of Jordan and Pippen combo verison 2. I wouldn’t mind trading some core players from him at all.

I think more of this team than a lot of people - I think we’ll be within shouting distance of .500 - but I think that’ll get us ninth or tenth in the conference. And while another near miss like that would be frustrating as hell, it wouldn’t convince me that springing for Maggette (and Turiaf) was the wrong move.

The cap stuff’s been discussed ad nauseam, but worth reminding people that our cap space will have largely disappeared by next year, thanks to the impending Monta/Beans extensions. We overpaid for the guy, but signing Maggette didn’t really preclude other signings that could’ve happened in the next year or two. So the question is simple: is adding Corey Maggette helpful or not for this season?

Well, let’s say adding Corey Maggette makes us six wins better. He’s not a superstar, but he’s a very effective player… a guy like Maggette helps you win some games you otherwise wouldn’t. If anything, I think the number six is conservative, but let’s say he improves us by six games.

A six-game improvement could be a good or bad thing, depending on how good or bad our team was previous to the signing. If we were, say, a 23-59 team pre-Maggette, and a 29-53 team with him, I think most of us would agree that the signing was a huge mistake. If we’re gonna be crappy either way, we might as well be SUPER-crappy and improve our shot at a top-five pick.

If, on the other hand, we were a 43-39 team pre-Maggette, and a 49-33 team with him - if Maggette, in other words, was the difference between making the playoffs or missing them - I think most people here would feel pretty good about the signing. I don’t think it’d be unanimous, by any means… some folks don’t particularly care about being a doomed lower seed in the playoffs. But I’d like to see us make the playoffs, and I think the majority of folks here would as well.

So if we had a 23-59 pre-Maggette core, it’s a bad addition. If we had a 43-39 pre-Maggette core, it’s a good one.

The truth, I think, lies exactly in the middle. I think that, sans Maggette, this team would’ve gone right around 33-49. It would’ve been a bad team, but it wouldn’t have been bad enough to land us a real impact pick. Adding Maggette gets us near .500—let’s say he makes us 39-43.

Hypothetically, would you rather see a 33-49 season or a 39-43 season? Frankly, I’d rather see the latter. The difference between the eighth pick and the twelfth pick isn’t a particularly meaningful one - you’re not likely to land a real star at either point, but you can find a genuinely useful guy at either point. I’d rather savor a couple more Dubs wins and even enjoy a brief, feeble March attempt at the playoffs and land the #12 pick than watch a solidly bad team and land the #8 pick. It’s reasonable to want the opposite, but let’s not go overboard with the draft thing - eighth overall picks don’t change the faces of franchises, especially not anymore.

The rebuilding rhetoric is tempting. The problem is that we weren’t quite bad enough to rebuild properly—no version of this team was going to get a top-three pick. We’re trying to reload instead, and I don’t think it’ll be enough to get us into the playoffs next year… but all things being equal, wouldn’t you prefer to see your team trying to get better, rather than worse?

NO PLAYOFFS

We have been downgraded from last year. letting Barron was a blunder of mega proportions, Monte can’t run the point, we have a youth movement and right now and it’s string beans. With this current roster we will be lucky to win 25-30 games at most. You heard it right here first from:

Forrest Da Grump

5 years before we sniff the playoffs:

NO.

we lost our star player, majority of our role players are gone, and we’ve given the keys to a young guard who shows signs of all star potential, but has yet to proven himself as the number 1 go-to guy.

who’s spot are we going to take if we were to make the playoffs (as the number 8 spot)? just because the suns and the mavs seem to be on the decline doesn’t mean that we are better than them. we are also going to battle it out against portland, a team who will be a whole lot better than last year. and don’t forget the clippers. they may have lost brand, but you have to admit, baron is at the prime of his career and can work wonders whenever he feels like it.

realistically, we will make the playoffs in the next 2 years.

Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Denver will not be as good. The lakers? They shot their wad last year. Houston has a glass jaw with fragile McGrady and Yao. So maybe we won’t be as good. Looks like no one else will be either. An 7th or 8th seed is very possible. We are not odne yet.

Why give up when the season hasn’t started. Warriors fan til they prove me wrong. Still believing their playoff bound since their losing ways. They way to go from losing is to go up…

Dang i can’t believe some guys think losing BD is going to make us a losing record team just like that. We still have our main guys and Magette is a player that causes alot of attraction so it’s pretty much still going to be the same… i think? Just without the whack freethrow percentage bd gave us… i swear it looked like bd didn’t even try when he was shooting freethrows.

Randolph, Hendrix, Wright and BNelli since the last 2 didn;t play and now we add a good back up point guard. Our team is now deeper and in may ways better.

YES

1) How “strong” will the East be. Last year, only 4 East teams had a .500 or better record against the West. Conversely, 11 West teams had a .500 or better record against the East. Why does this matter? Well, potentially, we might return to a normal year where a team doesn’t need 50 wins to get into the playoffs in the West. Maybe it will go back down to 42-44 range.

2) Will the Olympic players from the Western Conference hold up through the year? Will fatigue/injury bite team USA players Chris Paul, Boozer, Deron Williams, Carmello, Kobe, or Jason Kidd around February and March and tank their teams season? What about other Olympians like Yao, Ginobili, Nowitzki, Parker, Gasol, Kaman, and Kirilenko?

3) Will Greg Oden stay healthy for an entire year? If Oden can be healthy and be the player everyone projects him to be, then the Portland is a playoff team for the next decade. If he busts or breaks down again, suddenly Portland may not be the playoff lock so many project and they’re back fighting for 8th.

If the status quo is in place - the East sucks just as bad as they did last year, and nobody from a top team gets hurt - then ya, the Warriors, barring Beidrins transforming into a 20/15/3 guy overnight, aren’t making the playoffs this year. However, if the Suns or Mavs or Rockets age starts to catch up, and two or three of the above mentioned players suffer an extended injury, then a healthy Warriors team is conceivably in the mix to get in.