…. this is bad. really bad.

I think it’s time to bring Mark Price out of retirement.

a slightly conflicting report on warriors.com…
it says that yes, monta had a grade 3 high ankle sprain, but is out 3 months after a surgery to repair the ligament. while he is still out 3 months, i consider this a slightly better scenario, because he has already done the surgery.

http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/ellis_surgery_082708.html

by the way. can we PLEASE change that picture?!?! brings back bad memories and suggests monta is paralyzed (again)!!

well lets start thinking about who we’re gonna get with our top 5 pick in the ’09 draft.

Wow…

This is horrible news. This was going to be the most important training camp of Monta’s career. He was about to have the keys handed to him and now this happens. We had no proven point guard on the team before this injury, all we had was the hope that Monta would impress us yet again with his ability to always seem to live up to our high expectations. Now we have Williams, who while being hyped up coming into the league has never proven that he can run a team and certainly wasn’t brought in to handle the full-time starting PG spot, and we have Watson, who while showing much promise for a D-League guard hasn’t even proven that he belongs in this league.

Am I hopeful that these guys will surprise us? Well yeah, I have to be. I’m a Warriors fan who hopped on the “band wagon” near the beginning of a 12 year playoff drought. I know how to enjoy watching a sub-.500 team and find the silver lining. But Monta was our future. He still is, but it looks like this might be one of those years that a player can never find his rhythm. We were already asking a lot of him to make the transition to PG but to come in a month or two into the season and take over at point while coming off an ankle injury… dang that’s really a lot to ask.

This may be a year that we get to see a lot of the youngsters. Not what Nellie had in mind for his final (maybe) season as a coach. I just hope that the boys put on a good show for 82 games because that is all we get to see of them this year.

that we will miss the playoffs. We’re not as good as were last year, and Stephen Jackson missed only the first 7 games last year. Monta out for at least 3 months, you do the math.

I’m sure this is an over reaction, but I can’t help but think that it might be in our long-term best interest now to see what we could get for Jackson and Al. I’ve recently said that it would be a bad move to trade Jack but with this news it might be time to embrace a youth movement.

If we could get some prospects and/or draft picks and some salary relief (although two years remaining isn’t bad at all) I might make that trade now. We weren’t a title contender by a long shot and now we aren’t even a playoff contender (barring a miracle) so would it be so bad to roll the dice and see if we can find someone who could be a real difference maker in the future. We already have some promising young guys. If we can add a few more you would think that at least one maybe two of them could be future all stars.

Ahhh, I don’t know… I want Monta back.

I wonder how attendance will be at the start of the season? I’m gonna miss all the cutie pies and honey dips!

time to step up.

monta is still young, his body should be able to recover quickly. hopefully they wont rush his comeback though, we need him healthy the rest of his career!

It’s an opportunity for unheralded players on the roster to shine, contribute, build confidence, and increase their value.

When a group faces adversity together, it increases their cohesion; it builds and strengthens bonds. Chemistry should improve.

 or to crash, burn and grate on our nerves like an ex wife to the point where we trade them for a can of food for nellie’s dog.

Point forward!!!! You heard it here first!

We know how you feel here in Portland. He is a young guy that is in great shape. So maybe he’ll come back sooner than expected. Feel for ya.

“With that beginning schedule loaded with road games and without our #1 scoring option for up to a 1/3 of the season, you can kiss the playoffs goodbye.”

Now is NOT the time to panic and declare the playoffs are out of reach, nor is it time to have a fire-sale of veteran players.

It IS the time to appreciate the Maggette signing, to appreciate the Nets deal bringing another PG in to add to Watson. It IS a time to appreciate the KAz re-signing. For those who pine for more opportunity for Marco, well if he doesn’t get time now he never will. As for Jax and Maggs they’re going to lead the way. On the road, experience and poise count more than emotion – Al, Jax, Maggs are going to be the poise. Maggs will help keep us in games attacking the basket and getting to the line. KAz’s role grows, and we need one more bench guy to step up (Wright?). Then Monta returns and it will be like the biggest mid-season pickup ever for the roster, fueling the playoff drive.

Though I’m not usually the optimist on this site, just had to balance the scales a bit. Stay away from bridges if you’re that worked up about a month off for Monta.

This sucks but at least some of the bench warmers might get a chance to get some real burn. We all know Nelly likes to ride his thoroughbreads – like he was REALLY gonna take advantage of his “newfound” depth. With his need to win now, he wasn’t gonna dip into that bench of unproven talents unless he REALLY needed to. I guess now, he needs to.

I sincerely think that had buki not lit things up the first week that the dubs were w/o Cap’n Jack last year, he would not have gotten as much playing time the rest of the year as he did. Same with the ‘07 Matt Barnes. I bet he doesn’t even see playoff action if it wasn’t for BD’s & JRich’s injuries that year. This injury gives an extended opportunity for an unproven commodity to show his worth(or show that he’s a bust). If a guy shows that he could be productive in real NBA games, he might just earn a regular spot in Nelly’s short list.

The Warrior aren’t going to make the playoffs, but at least it will force nelly to not be so shortsighted that good, young players don’t waste another year wallowing at the end of the bench. Some of those guys could turn into some real trade bait this year.

And who knows, we might have a real shot at Lebron in 2010, because of what transpires this year.

listening to the radio on the way home like at 11 knbr 680 forgot the host and he said the most karma thing out of all.

"Baron should have a grin on his face, the warriors didn’t give him the big money cause they thought he was injury prone, and what you know now his replacement just got the injury"

then i kept thinking about it holy crap this is kinda weird. and as of right now i think we are just cursed cause how the hell did this happen especially on a pick up game in mississsippi! Oh well hope we survive

I mean, fvcking OWWWWCH.

Watching Monta develop at PG was probably 50-75% of what excited me about the Ws coming into this season. He really seemed on the cusp of blossoming into a franchise-type star. Now … WTF am I even watching for? Kelenna’s glistening guns? Wright’s go-go gadget arms? AB’s kempt hair? The possibility of a #1 pick, coming into an offseason with no consensus Best Player?

Argh. I’ll continue to post here, no doubt, but it’s gonna be tough, especially with the constant allure of the winning ways of Leon Powe and that badass green team from my home town…

Seriously, why do we inflict this on ourselves?

It’s all aout the Kelenna gun show now baby!

In response to:

“Geez, what if we see Nellie go big? Jax at 1, Maggs at 2, Al at 3, BWright at 4, Biedrins at 5. Okay not likely, but what if?”

How about AR at the 1?

Jax at 2, Maggs at 3, AL at 4, Beans at 5

Yez!

I hope he still got the speed when he come back to play

cant monta be injured this season and not the next? Rubio is not coming out till ’10-11!!! There is no way anyone can spin this into anything positive. The Ws are flirting with a 12 win season…..

At least that lady behind him in the photo has nice boobs. I like boobs.

I alway try to look for the bright side if things.