Look who Marcus Williams is compared to!!

by gsfn58 on Jul 22, 2008 4:24 PM PDT

http://www.nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/marcuswilliams.html

I am really feeling this trade. We needed a true point guard there you go. This should definetly get us to the playoffs. I look at the roster we have and we have more depth inside now. So all us Golden State Warrior fans be ready for an exciting NBA season! Now I wonder what Mullin will do with Azubuike now. We will have to just all find out and wait and see.

This FanPost is a submission from a member of the mighty Golden State of Mind community. While we're all here to throw up that W, these words do not necessarily reflect the views of the GSoM Crew. Still, chances are the preceding post is Unstoppable Baby!

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just a comparison

but i want to believe it’s true

by 61ixty on Jul 22, 2008 4:36 PM PDT 0 recs

Poor mans Deron.......

Ill take that any day over Watson, i think his style and swagger will fit in perfect with our team

Ellis to the rim!

by Sprewell4President on Jul 22, 2008 4:37 PM PDT 0 recs

yep

plus the fact the he was a thief in college lol.

by J2daZ on Jul 22, 2008 4:50 PM PDT up 0 recs

AND...

that means he’ll rack up some steals!
lol..bad joke…i know.

by thebaydestrian on Jul 22, 2008 8:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

Let's call our team the Golden State "Potentials"

I place some blame on Lawrence Frank’s system for this guy’s crappy numbers but I have a hard time believing that the Nets organization is so incompetant that they would trade someone that had the potential to be a future “Deron Williams”. We’ll see though, coming to our system the guy will defintley feel like he has a pulse again and maybe he will thrive. Last year he was good for 6 points and 2.5 assists playing 16 min’s a game. With our system I think he could be in a situation to double those numbers. I’ll take 12 pts, and, 5 assists a game from our backup pg. Anyone know about his defensive skillset?

by sarangc on Jul 22, 2008 4:57 PM PDT 0 recs

comparison

here’s who other players are being compared to:

http://nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/adammorrison.html

http://nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/patrickobryant.html

http://nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/shannonbrown.html

Just sayin….

by lightz0ut on Jul 22, 2008 4:59 PM PDT 0 recs

How can you be Gil with ratings at zero for passing and ball handling. Scratch the passing.

by yocballer on Jul 22, 2008 5:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

LightzOut!!!!

What you showed us were 2 players rated at 77 and a 3rd at 82, yet not mentioning that Marcus Williams was rated at a very high 93!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it out dude! Not many players get a 93 rating.

Just sayin…...

by smearthebeard on Jul 22, 2008 5:42 PM PDT up 0 recs

It’s based on body type and skill set. Whether the player puts it all together is a completely different story.

by Nellieball on Jul 22, 2008 6:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

Well, in Morrison’s case, I think it was based on his complexion and stupid mustache. Bird was bigger and stronger and a much more complete player. It’s easy to think about Bird as some sort of prototype scoring SF, but he averaged 10rpg for his career as well and dished out assists like a point guard. Those skills were evident in college. Morrison never showed the ability to pass or rebound much in college. He was a one dimensional player then, who has become a none-dimensional player.

by jae on Jul 22, 2008 6:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

Not gonna get an argument outta me: for my money Bird is the best passing forward of all time. But generally that is what the comparisons mean.

by Nellieball on Jul 22, 2008 8:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

SHANON BROWN i threw up on that one

by 61ixty on Jul 22, 2008 5:20 PM PDT 0 recs

if memory serves...

Mike Dunleavy, Jr. was the next Larry Bird as well. comparisons are comparisons, let marcus be marcus.

Rejoiced with each win
But whenever we lost
I walked to the bars
And got myself tossed

by mondris ellidrins on Jul 22, 2008 5:47 PM PDT 0 recs

Mike Dunleavy, Jr. was the next Larry Bird

and Larry Bird was the next Mike Dunleavey Sr. but no one told him.

Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol stalkin me

by Skeptic con Urquell on Jul 22, 2008 6:30 PM PDT up 0 recs

Ranked No 2 for paoint guards in

NBA draft only behind Randy Foye. rated ahead of Kyle Lowry, Jordan farmar, Rajon Rondo, Gibson, Blaylock, Dooby, Brown…. Case closed! If gvien a chance to play this guy is a player!

by smearthebeard on Jul 22, 2008 5:50 PM PDT 0 recs

Ranked No 2 for paoint guards in

Ha, Those rankings are superseded by the draft . That’s sorta like trying to buy a high flying stock today based on last years analysts estimates. Reality trumps projections.

Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol stalkin me

by Skeptic con Urquell on Jul 22, 2008 6:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

Skeptic, if we picked up Chris Paul you

would still bitch and moan. So your oprnions don;t count to us who read this board and therefore rendered moot!

by smearthebeard on Jul 22, 2008 6:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

Sad but true.

by belilaugh on Jul 22, 2008 6:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

Skeptic, if we picked up Chris Paul you would still bitch and moan.

If we had someone like CP3 I wouldn’t hafta be the voice of reason.Marcus Williams and Montay Ellis are not CP3 yet.

Till I get free
I live my life in the Walmart
Cholesterol stalkin me

by Skeptic con Urquell on Jul 22, 2008 8:21 PM PDT up 0 recs

stop spelling monta's name wrong

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on Jul 23, 2008 3:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

However, in this case his argument is EXTREMELY valid

The hope is have is based on his play in college and the fact that he was stuck behind JKidd and then Devin Harris, two very good PGs. We’ll see.

by Dubs fan in Boston on Jul 23, 2008 6:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

Sorry but

we weren’t a playoff team before him and by adding him, it doesn’t mean we’re a playoff team now. I still think we’ll be relegated to about 38 wins depending on Maggette’s health, Monta’s progression, and any pending trades/additions/subtractions.

If we match Bookie, resign Tay and Dre, I’m thinking 40 wins is a good number to hit, but still not good enough to make the postseason.

PG: Ellis, Williams, Watson
SG: Jackson, Belinelli
SF: Maggette, Randolph
PF: Harrington, Turiaf, Hendrix
C: Biedrins, Perovic

I really hope Nelly doesn’t rely on Turiaf to backup at the 5 spot. Hopefully we bring someone in…Not exactly looking forward to Perovic being the main man behind Beans.

by phiLthyphiL on Jul 22, 2008 6:08 PM PDT 0 recs

throw wright in there somewhere

by Nellieball on Jul 22, 2008 6:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yes

We Got A Good PG… I Don’t Want To Hear Any Comparisons But I Like What We Did… Got A Good PG That Can Pass First Guard… So Thats Whats Up And A Decent PG To Have As A Backup…

"Get Er Dun!"

by YayArea510 on Jul 22, 2008 6:17 PM PDT 0 recs

Our team is deeper than last year

Phoenix, Dallas, Denver, San Antonio are all worse off and older, Houston has a glass jaw and its two best players are very fragile. I can see us being a 7th or 8th seed. This is all debatable but the rest of the west is not getting better.

by smearthebeard on Jul 22, 2008 6:33 PM PDT 0 recs

If Bynum never recovers and Gasol goes down, the Lakers are back to being the .500 team that they’ve been when it’s been Kobe and the Stooges. For all the talk about how he finally “made his teammates better”, they weren’t any better without Gasol or Bynum than they’d been in the previous years.

Now of course if both are healthy, they’re still on top of the west.

by jae on Jul 22, 2008 6:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

Let's not get carried away...

Everyone who is hyping up Marcus Williams to be the next Deron Williams using arbitrary, subjective scouting tools, rankings, and comparisons needs to chill…

But

Everyone who is hating on him when he hasn’t even suited up in orange and blue needs to chill too…

Let’s let the kid play in our system first. Let Marcus be Marcus.

Rejoiced with each win
But whenever we lost
I walked to the bars
And got myself tossed

by mondris ellidrins on Jul 22, 2008 6:42 PM PDT 0 recs

And let him be the Marcus Williams who is a point guard. The Marcus Williams who is a SF wouldn’t really be an asset at this point.

by jae on Jul 22, 2008 9:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

i think this team can be a playoff contender…...we finally have depth, so monta and jack don’t have to play the whole game every game…...and turiaf is a banger and can grab some boards, which we were missing last year…...the young guys are only going to get better

by Nellieball650 on Jul 22, 2008 7:36 PM PDT 0 recs

I doubt he’ll be the next Deron Williams, he should be a solid PG.

In his junior season at Uconn, he averaged 12.3 points and 8.6 assists. Not a lot of players drop dimes like that in college. Granted he had great players around him like Rudy Gay, Josh Boone, and so on, but that’s still a very respectable number.

He also stepped up his game during tournament time, averaging 20 points and 8.8 assists. Not bad at all.

He may not have much NBA experience, but he was stuck behind Jason Kidd, which might not be a bad thing, assuming he learned from him backing him up. He was never really given a chance to take over the team.

Above all though, as his assist numbers indicate, he should allow Monta to play off guard where he excels, which is probably the most important factor of this trade.

by Rotudo on Jul 22, 2008 7:52 PM PDT 0 recs

Unfortunately some of the recent reviews of him are pretty negative.

We can only hope he has a bit of Deron Williams in him. Really this is what Mullin must have been thinking. I think Mully’s got a hard-on for Utah’s assets and wish he had a Deron, a Boozer, a Kirilenko, and a Milsap…

Marcus -> Deron
Randolph -> Kirilenko
Hendrix—> Milsap
Boozer? Nope don’t have a pseudo-Boozer yet. Is that the role Turiaf is supposed to fill?

by BobbyLeeHurt on Jul 22, 2008 8:43 PM PDT 0 recs