i wouldnt make the trade because i think we would have had a better chance of making the playoffs last year.

i would make the trade because someone eventually had to go and the longer we waited the less we would have gotten.

I really wanted to make the playoffs last year.

but see, even if i want to vote “no”, the word “never” dictates that i would never in the future have wanted to trade JRich either. This is not true for me.

JRich’s trading may have impacted baron leaving as well… but I’m glad baron left, sooner rather than later. baron’s a great fixer, but his act gets old quick. he’s not having fun unless he’s drawing attention as the new guy, and everyone around him suffers the longer he stays in one spot.

OK. since the topic asks within the time frame of one year, i’ll vote no.

how can you people think this was a good trade????

I’d definitely make it again. There’s a good chance we would’ve made the playoffs with J-Rich this year, and it was certainly disappointing that we missed them. But as I see it, there’s no way we would’ve made the second round… we most likely would’ve nabbed the eighth and gotten swept by the Lakers, much as the Nuggets did. I would’ve preferred that, but let’s not pretend that we would’ve all been exhilarated by such an outcome.

That team’s ceiling was low… any team with a good inside player had our number. That’s still true, but we now have a younger, cheaper, more flexible roster… we have a much greater chance of trading for an elite big man than we did a year ago. The team also looks pretty decent, to boot. I’ll take that over a capped-out, aging team that wasn’t ever going to reach the conference finals, no matter how sweet the memories are.

One reason many weren’t ready to agree with Matt was because the jury is still out on Wright. Matt’s refusal to acknowledge that Wright may be a very good player down the road makes his argument very one sided. I wright doesn’t get much better than he has shown – I agree with Matt – but it is too soon to say!
Wright, if you or any of your peoples are reading this – PLEASE PROVE MATT WRONG!

but i do miss J Rich! We didn’t use the $10 mil, so that sucks but we’ll have to give B Wright another year before we really evaluate this trade. he barely played last year and he’s still what 19 y/o maybe 20 y/o

50% agree. 49% disagree.

of NBA basketball or the Warriors. For some reason ->he needed the attention ->digs up buried bones -> relives the past. Matt, there are 12 step programs out there that can help!

the board is spilit… i think if jrich was still here we would never had the monta blossom like we had this year and maybe monta would have been cheaper this year.

I’ve actually been an active reader for this site and a crazy dedicated warrior fan for a while now and I usually don’t post comments but this thread has split this whole forum and half and I don’t think it’s neccessary…... I just want to say…..

GET OVER IT!!!!! nothing we do now can undo everything that has happened already!!! We all loved JRich and we always will but everyone should have moved on by now even Matt Steinmetz and I don’t even know why he’s still bringing this up. All we should care about now is how to get to this season’s playoffs and nothing about JRich!!! Let’s just take this thread out!! IT’S POINTLESS!!!!

yes, it’s too early to judge this trade, but Wright will be here for a long time and looks like he’ll be a good player.

Didn’t the W’s win more games last year than the season before?

Keep talking about J-Rich if you want, but trading him meant breaking up the whole ‘We Believe’ squad just so we can keep Monta. There was no point of having Baron Davis on this team in the first place if we were just going to end up saving money for Monta Ellis and Andris Biedrins to get pwned by guys like LeBron, Oden, Paul etc. in the future.

We waited 12 years to make the damn playoffs and we finally put together a GREAT team. We acquired Baron Davis who was the best point guard we had since Tim Hardaway, we brought Don Nelson back to lead the team even further, and we added key pieces in Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington. What did that lead to? It lead to the team going 16-5 in the games they played together and they ended up pulling off an upset and going to the 2nd round. Our team was good enough to be one of the last eight teams remaining out of the 30 overall. Do you know how great that was? Isn’t that the success that we all have been waiting 12+ years for??

What do we do after? We trade Richardson, and then we let Baron walk. All because we value Monta and Biedrins so much. So yeah, 12 seasons just so we can get a tease huh? We wait 12 seasons, and then the organization teases us by getting Baron and acts like we were working towards a championship. But no, that was just to get us excited for a while. Now we’re rebuilding AGAIN with Monta, Biedrins, Randolph, Wright, etc. Ok, lets wait another 3 years before we become one of the top teams in the league again, but even then we’re still going to get owned by guys like Greg Oden, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Andrew Bynum, Al Jefferson etc. etc. etc. all of them will be in their prime by then.

We were already a top 8 team in the league in 06-07, we were just one big player away from smelling that championship but instead we decide to break everyone up since we all love Monta so much. The Brandan/Jason trade better be worth it, we better win a championship within the next 10 years; we could have gone pretty damn close to winning one had we kept the group together. Don Nelson didn’t come back from retirement just so he can lead a bunch of 20 year olds.

Don’t even tell me to “move on”, because quite frankly you don’t make a trade like the Jason Richardson one and become MUTE about it. Matt Steinmetz is simply reviewing the OUTCOME of a trade, yet hella people are getting mad at him for doing so. So what, we’re supposed to make a big trade and never talk about how things ended up turning out?.I’m not just going to be all on Chris Mullin’s nuts and be okay with whatever direction he leads the team to.

Don’t get me wrong though. I can move on, since there’s no reason why someone couldn’t be able to move on while reminiscing at the same time. I will just be patient with this whole Monta Ellis thing, he’s a future all-star in my eyes and hopefully he leads us to a championship; but damn, we just broke up a great team because of him and Andris. That team was capable of doing great things, they just needed one more piece and they would have taken over. Especially with Don Nelson ready to retire again after one more season. Enough with the low expectations, we shouldn’t be accustomed to losing anymore, in my eyes the 2007 Warriors could have developed into a championship contender if Chris Mullin kept the main guys together. All we needed was a dominant low post presence and we would have been crazy.

I’m 100% sure that if Chris Mullin was the GM of the Boston Celtics, he would have kept Al Jefferson to work towards the future, instead of getting key players to win a championship. It’s whatever now, we’re all on Monta’s nuts hopefully that guy brings a championship to the Bay.

We won’t really know if this was a good trade until we see how BWright pans out. If he reaches his potential it was a great trade. If he doesn’t…i don’t know.

Giving JRich’s number to CJ the very next year was low class.The Warriors brass could have suggested another number.Wait at least a year before giving it so unceremoniously to another player ! And the “Boy’s are back in Town” video montage with JRich and Webber was WEAK !! Jason deserved his OWN video tribute !!

as big as GSoM is, we dont have 1200+ active voters

sh*t.

Trading Jason Richardson was a stupid trade in my opinion. He was our 2nd best player and we got Brandon Wright in return who was in the D-League at the beginning of the season. I just don’t see that much potential in Wright, never did. Watching J-Rich drop 42 points on the warriors and then seeing him on sportscenter’s top 10 doing a 360 last year just hurt so bad. And then, the warriors let Baron walk. So after 13 years of not making the playoffs, they make it one year, and then decide it is time to rebuild??? Haha what they hell. I was just happy to be in the playoffs since I have been a warriors fan all my life. Even tho that group may have never won a championship, they would have been in the playoffs every year for the next 3 to 4 years. And who knows, they were so dangerous and unpredictable that when they got hot, they could beat anyone. Not to mention they had only played with eachother for half a season and it looked like they had played with each other for years. Just think if they had played with eachother for 3 or 4 more years. But that’s done with now. I am a warriors fan and will always be so i welcome the new era. I just think we would have been better off with our original team that made the playoffs. But hopefully in 3-4 years I am wrong.

But I will have to side that the trade was the right move. Obviously losing JR hurts us immediatley, but it paid dividends in the end.

First there was no way we could have resigned Monta and beidrins if JR was still with the dubs. And that was our MUST going into this offseason. So that was a possitive for us.

Secondly, we didn’t get nothing in return. I mean we didn’t exactly get a starting 4 in the deal but BW will definetely be a contributor on both ends as he continues to grow.

Lastly, JR had some issues with his legs if you remember correctly. After the Dallas series when we took on UTAH his shots began to fall flat. Check Out nearly all of the UTAH games to see it. JR was hitching on his shot because he wasn’t getting the elevation he usually does on his jumpers. So there was obvious signs of fatigue there. Not saying he wasn’t still one of our best threats, but Monta is much more dangerous on the floor than JR. If it wasn’t for the deal Monta would not have had his spot to step into.

The JR trade was the reason we were able to resign our franchise players and he may be the reason Monta was given his big shot to become more than a backup.

I’m kinda glad he left. He is my boi and all, but he need get out of the bay to prove he still got it. Well, looks like he doing just fine to me. If he could find his nut to drive it in the rim more often, he will be on the list of all the ex warriors having a better career.

...it gave Ellis the opening and time he needed. In the long run it was thing to do.

It’s been a while… I voted against it, but not bcuz it was a bad trade but bcuz of all the headaches and ish I got during that 1000+ post arguement. I still have nightmares about it.

For my money the answer is definitely no. The Jason Richardson trade ended the most exciting and the best quality team GSW has had for a decade. With J-Rich the team definitely makes the playoffs and would have been good enough to scare the life out of someone and possibly make a similar run to the previous season.

They gained nothing from the trade that couldn’t be acquired at a later date if the deal truly had to be done to rebuild. They could have got similar quality in return later on.