it’s not 1975 anymore and al attles is no longer the head coach it’s 2008 and Don Nelson is the head coach now. nellie is his nickname and he doesnt use a 10 man rotation like attles. he likes to use a smaller rotation like 6. once in a while he will use a 7 man rotation when he is feeling adventurous. good lock to you

I agree, we got the deepest bench in the league. It’d be tough to name a more talented bench than we have. The big question is whether or not Nelson plans to use his bench at all.

monta
jackson
maggette
Harrington
Biedrins

Bench

Williams
Bellinelli
BWright
Randolph
Turiaf
Kellenna

HELL NAW.
i like the makeup of our team but our bench is so young and unproven. Belli, Wright, and Randolph have never even been in an NBA rotation. We lack a veteran scorer off of the bench. i think our bench has a lot of potential but this is just a ridiculous claim.

Remember this squad?
JACKSON
MILLER
DAVIS
DAVIS
SMITS
Why not mold our team after them.
First the trade.
Harrington, Draft Pick 09
for
Varejao and Damon Jones or Sasha

I would put this as my starting line up, but this squad pretty damn physical. Similar to, may be even better, younger, and quicker.

PG ELLIS
SG MAGGETTE
SF VAREJAO
PF TURIAF
C BIEDRINS

My starting line up:
PG ELLIS
SG MAGGETTE
SF JACKSON
PF WRIGHT
C BIEDRINS

“I would NOT put this as my starting line up…”

who doesnt know the difference between marvin and marcus williams

I like the look of our team, but I don’t see depth as an overwhelming strength for us. First of all, we look deeper than other teams because our roster has coalesced faster than most teams. There are a lot of unsigned players out there… come Opening Night, most teams will be deeper than they currently look. Second of all, there are other benches that I’d take over ours… Portland, Detroit and Utah strike me as deeper teams than us off the top of my head.

Turiaf and Azubuike are EXCELLENT bench players. Turiaf fits a role perfectly, and Azubuike is arguably skilled enough to start. Marcus Williams hasn’t played particularly well since joining the league, but he’s highly regarded and there are legitimate reasons to think he’ll improve… we’ll be seeing a fair amount of him, in any event. I’m guessing these three will be in Nellie’s regular rotation, and it may only be these three.

Wright is something of an X-factor—he could get a real chance to contribute this year, or he could continue to wallow. It’s hard to know what we have in him. I suspect he’ll be an asset off the bench, but I just don’t know how often he’ll be… off the bench. Randolph is an even bigger X-factor, as he could get some minutes right off the bat, or he might start in the D-league. The use and effectiveness of this two will determine whether we have a very good bench or a merely decent one.

To me, guys like Belinelli, Hendrix, Watson and Perovic don’t count as “depth”. None of them has proven they can play a significant role for a good team. Watson kinda held his own in limited minutes last year, but we haven’t even bothered officially re-signing him yet; Kosta barely played, and by all accounts didn’t deserve to; Marco didn’t play much, and looked pretty bad; Hendrix was a mid-second-round pick. It’s fun to get excited about their potential, but realistically, every team has a bunch of guys like these… they’re essentially non-factors till proven otherwise.

It’s a fun group of guys, with a young’un with some upside at every position. In terms of this season, though, I don’t know that this bench will be a huge weapon for us. I’m guessing we’ll see an eight-man rotation most of the way.

Monta, Williams
Jax, Buke, (Morrow)
Maggette, Randolph
Al, Turiaf
Biedrins

unfortunately not enough pt for Belli, Wright, Hendrix,CJ, Kosta but definitely an upgraded bench from last season

love the enthusiasm but dude lets be real here..portland, houston, and even the lakers minus turiaf..and definately utah with just counting korver and millsap..i think ur mistaken by assuming potential makes a quality bench. (and but i do think bukie qualifies as a vet scorer with all that hes been through and what he did at the beginning of the season last year agent zero)

the rockets have a deeper bench, oklahoma city too (haha)

Given that the warriors have made many personnel changes, it does appear that we do have a depp bench to refer to.

However, these individuals are still based on hype and has yet to prove themselves in the nba. last year we had great hopes for Belli and Wright, but they’re performances were not up to par.

we are expecting alot from these young guys we just picked up. the expectations are high and we all hope that these guys will do fine, and i am sure of that. just dont expect them to be the goto bench players like how other teams got it. (i.e. posey, vujacic, kopono, etc.)

i like what mullin has done to deepen the warriors rotation and give the lineup a much needed other dimension. with the drafting of hendrix and the acquisition of turiaf (seemingly quality rotational players), we have a dynamic front line with both the upside, youth and offensive skills (in randolph and wright), and a solid defensive rotation (in hendrix [led the SEC in rebounding] and turiaf) to back up harrington who likes to play outside the paint and biedrins whose rebounding skills towards the end of last year seemed to take off.

we are very much deeper than last year…but deeper than the lakers, utah and houston to say the least? not at all. if most of the dubs perform up to expectations, then we will be an exciting and fairly good team. but too much rides on the development of randolph and wright in the front court, in ellis becoming a legitimate 1 guard, and in his backup (marcus williams) becoming the player he was supposed to be behind jason kidd. there are too many what ifs. the only solid rotation is at the off-guard postion where you have maggette, jackson, azibuke and ellis all able to slide over and be a dominating 2.

the other thing you must account for is how nelson will use his players….he has to play williams at the point for at least 20 minutes a game…but the most important development of depth on the dubs will depend on how he will assign minutes in the logjam created by randolph, wright, hendrix, turiaf, harrington and biedrins at the 4 and 5 spots. theres a lot at stake and a lot to balance at those positions.