Sign Tim Hudson now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Assuming he misses November, that would be 17 games. On the bright side I feel like we do have a deeper team than last year. Im excited to see if Marcus Williams is going to step up. I think he can definately strive in the Nelly offense. Will this be a blessing in disguise? Oh well, I wish Monta and healthy and fast recovery. I’m somewhat in the same boat, besides the fact that I dont get paid to play basketball. I tore my ACL couple months ago and had surgery 4 weeks ago. Surgery is definately not going to be fun for the young gun.

CJ watson heres ur chance too.

It’ll only be that much sweeter when Mona comes back.

This is a killer ! I just hope that some of the young guns step up (Williams,Beli,Randolph)-let’s see these dudes gets some PT !

Rest up boy!., We Believe in you!

Option 1,
Trade Al for Kirk Hinrich and try and weasal a first rounder from them. Hinrich like Monta can play 1 or 2, and his known for his defense. I have been totally against in the past but with 8 being injured I would be all for it now.

Option 2,
Ride it out with Williams and Watson, playoffs are doubtful anyway, lets let the kids develop and get rid of Al and Jack in 2 years, draft another good prospect, sign a another solid player and become a legitment force in 2 years.

What do ya’ll think?

That’s starting now, and not starting when the season starts right? That’d be most of the season if it’s the latter.

Is it just me or does it sound like BS when Monta says he hurt it “working out.” He was probably playing football with his friends or something stupid.

How fitting, they post up the back to back 51 pt games from Jamison for us to remember the old days.. well the old days are here again. All this anticipation for the season then things like this happen. DAMN!

the latest from Kawakami…

* He hurt it Thursday, was checked out over the weekend and at some point in the following days was diagnosed with a high-sprain in his left ankle plus a torn deltoid ligament.

* Surgery to repair the ligament was performed today at James Andrews’ facilities in Birmingham, Ala.

* Ellis is expected to have his ankle immobilized for 6 weeks. If that goes well, he’ll follow that with 6 weeks of off-court (non-basketball) work.

If both of those go well, in 3 months, Ellis will begin on-court work–and obviously probably will be far from ready to go in games.

That puts the timetable for his recovery at more than 3 months, almost certainly, and I’d guess 4 months is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM.

We were going to be a fringe playoff team if anything, some of the young kids can log big minutes without Monta which is definately a positive. If by some great miracle we play .500 ball we can still be in the mix when Monta gets back. Don’t count on Kawakami, he’s a pretty negative guy and I’m sure there is a possiblity that Ellis is back in the 3 month time frame.

If it turned out Baron was responsible, slipping water on the floor at his training facility in a Tanya Harding sort of way, and there are photos emerge of Monta on the floor saying “Why me? Why…”. Barons motivation became the Warriors pretty much igniting motivation for Brand to start looking at other teams… and Baron resigned to hanging with Ricky Davis and the shell of Marcus Camby and Chris “My country and my father is disappointed in me” Kaman. Laughed about that one for a few minutes before I cried that Monta wont be playing till Dec…

Take this for account: The guy is young, and has always recovered quick. I think he will be back middle of Nov, it will be a Steven Jackson situaion being out the first 6 games. Monta is a beast, SHOULD be back quick. Silver lining? Anyone who sees the potential for the W’s to look at their depth to play some younger guys. Don’t think its going to be Livingston, he is going to want a guaranteed and not going to get it, but CJ, Marcus, and the round-peg-in-square-hole Belinelli filler will allow more playing time for Morrow, Jackson and Mags on the floor at the same time, and Randolph getting early PT this season. Lets be honest… IT WOULD BE WORSE IF THIS HAPPENED TO BENDRIS THINK ABOUT IT. We would be freaking out more, and you know it…

I’ve been hoping that one of these days we hear of a Livingston signing. Although i like Watson I don’t think he has a long term future with the Dubs. A healthy Livingston however very well could be an integral part of our future. With Williams as the #2 backup, i thought it was well worth the risk to cut Watson and bring on Livingston. But that was yesterday…

Here’s the latest on Livingston’s recovery:

Livingston has been playing full contact, full court basketball in Chicago under the guidance of NBA trainer Tim Grover, and is said to be getting his explosiveness and swagger back. Supposedly Shaun is dunking the ball and attacking the basket against NBA guys in Chicago.
…he’s not back to a 100, but is closer to 75 to 80%.
…With NBA training camp set to open in less than 38 days it’s not out of the question Shaun gets a deal – the question is will that deal be guaranteed and will Shaun get a chance to play himself back into the NBA elite. Someone could get themselves a very nice player if they take the risk.

Unfortunately, I think with Monta’s injury the Dubs are going to have to keep Watson because they need a backup PG now and can’t wait on Livingston’s recovery.

But maybe I’m wrong… Maybe because of this injury we should pursue Livingston harder. Now there are actually going to be minutes to give him if he gets into playing shape before Ellis returns.

without monta, we will start off the season horribly and we won’t be able to get back into the playoff hunt. we should either trade al and jackson and get a star or do nothing but play our young guns and hope for the best and then we can draft an upcoming star. am i wrong to say let’s trade jacks and al?

Ellis suffered a Grade 3 high ankle sprain, a torn deltoid ligament, and a syndesmosis disruption of his left ankle last Thursday and underwent successful surgery today to repair the ligament. The surgery was performed by Dr. Angus McBryde of the Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=9867

I’ll be on the conference call with Chris Mullin later this afternoon, so check back to the link with his thoughts .. updating the story as I get more info.

Faaaaaark.

No good way to spin this… this is the one big injury we’re not equipped to handle. Williams hasn’t shown himself to be ready for extended play, Jack probably can’t handle the point, and Watson’s just a guy.

But even that’s not the real issue — Monta missing a quarter of the season sucks, but this season wasn’t a sure thing anyway. Like others, I find the biggest downer of this to be that Monta doesn’t get training camp to work into the position.

I think our best lineup, given the current roster, is Jack/Buike/Maggette/Al/Biedrins. That looks to be a fairly stagnant offense, but it’s a lineup with size and speed, and everybody at least contributes something offensively, if they can get anything going in the half-court. But that’s not a strong lineup — less than the sum of its parts, given the absence of a playmaker (not that Monta’s even a proven one). That lineup will definitely lose some games.

I kind of hope the Dubs don’t make a move of any size based on this… signing a cheap guy is fine, anything more than that is an overreaction. Guys like Buike and Randolph will probably stumble into some bigger minutes as a result of this, and that’s not a bad thing. But it will, in Monta’s absence, be a fairly bad team.

Finish the season? I wonder if we get off to a horrible start without Monta if Nellie quits on the team at some point, I wouldnt be too shocked if that happens. I hope Monta doesnt turn into Grant Hill now, thats the worse thing about this injury, this could potentially completely alter Monta’s career, I pray he comes back at full strength and still has his amazing quickness and amazing cuts back, but that might not happen and thats scary. Screw the 3 months, take 5 months and make sure Monta is completely at 100 percent before hes on the court, were not contending for a championship this year, maybe we pull a Spurs ala Robinson being hurt then getting Duncan, and just tank this year with Monta and luck out and get a superstar in the draft next year. But with our luck we will get a Dunleavey again with a top 3 pick or Joe Smith with the first pick.

Sorry to read about Ellis’ injury. He is a fun player to watch and us basketball fans up north hopes he makes a very speedy recovery!

Hang in there as you are some of the best fans in the league. Best of luck with the season…

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