my new mantra: monta ellis is out for a few months, not a few years, don’t saddle the team with someone who cannot play in the same backcourt as him.

so when monta comes back, is the plan to be absurdly undersized at the guards, bring maggette or jack off the bench and hope that wright pans out straight away? or to be absurdly undersized at the guards, start maggette and jack, and be absurdly undersized at the forwards too? please, please, no. harrington is not the best player in the nba, but he is a respectable starter, and despite all the remarks on this site, he is not the worst player on the team, and trading him (particularly for a guard) this year will probably make us worse. this situation is not a probably, this trade definitely makes the team worse.

They guy is somewhat streaky, but can score in bunches, and he had a bunch of other guys on his squad that could score also. But the fact that he was saying he deserved Loul Deng type money, shows that he has severely overrated himself.

Nellies system has always had a big that can hit from range, the loss of all would not leave us an option of a shooting big. I guess Ronny can hit from 18’, but that’s about it. So I don’t see this helping much.

Ben Gordon isn’t the answer for the Warriors, unless this is just a salary cap move. In that we do not intend to extend Gordon and let him walk after the 08-09 season. By letting Gordon leave via Free Agency we would save the Warriors from having to pay Al’s 10 million dollar salary for 09-10.

I just don’t see Chicago doing this deal. Besides the fact that even if Gordon accepted the one year tender of 6.4 million from Chicago prior to the trade that he’d be making 2.8 million less than Harrington. That’s a 31% difference, just over the maximum allowable difference of 25% in total traded salaries. We’d have to take a player like Aaron Gray or Demetris Nichols who make 700k to bring us under the 25% differential. Again, I don’t see Chicago agreeing to this, nor do I see Gordon accepting this deal without receiving a contract extension.

To me Ben Gordon is a Dale Ellis/Vernon Maxwell type player that hasn’t accepted the fact that he isn’t much more than a gunner from the wing. I’d much rather take a chance on a player like Livingston (who might just sign with Portland) than bring in Gordon for multiple years.

Yes! Let’s deal with a short term problem by making a long term problem even worse!

  Gordon is a small, Al is a big. We don’t need more smalls we do need the TMNT. Who dreams up this crap anyway? and who pays him to dream it up?? Why???

… get Heinrich instead of Gordon. I don’t know if the money matches though. Gordon would be a bad decision on the long run (probably in the short run too).

And I agree, Ben wouldn’t really fit a need we have and would just added to the Warriors “Chuck’em and Run’em” mentality.

If we get a LEGIT point, maybe. This is a no go.

Hello BOOM Gordon

Great 3 ball shooter. 41% Something the Warriors really don’t have. Great free throw shooter. 90% The poor free throw shooting has really hurt the warriors the last couple of seasons. Career average 3 assists per game. This could possibly be bumped up to maybe 5 a game if he is used more in a point guard capacity. I remember some pretty skilled passes last year watching him on NBA league pass so it is not out of the realm of possibility that he could be a servicable point guard.

Let’s not get confused people… What we need is Al to step up, what we don’t need is another combo guard. I’m selling this all the way

If you asked me, this would be a steal of a deal for the Warriors.

And it’s not like I’m the world’s biggest Ben Gordon fan. I’ve criticized his importance many times over at Blog-a-Bull.

Al Harrington has one purpose on the Warriors, and that is shoot the 3 ball. Ben Gordon does that better, and is also a much more dynamic all-round scorer. Offensively, he is a HUGE improvement on Al Harrington.

Defensively, he struggles, but at least he tries. He’s just not big or athletic enough to compensate, but it isn’t for lack of trying— he’s no worse and likely better (because he tries) than guys like Michael Redd, Ray Allen, Barbosa, etc. And his offense is nothing to sneeze at.

THE ONLY PROBLEM, is the matching of salaries and meaning you’d be paying Gordon quite a bit to match Harrington’s overpaidness. And the BYC stuff gunks things up some.

Yeah, where does he fit in? I dunno.

I know if I was a Dubs fan I’d rather have Brandon Wright or Anthony Randolph out there over just-waiting-for-his-deal-to-expire Harrington— especially when playoffs are not the likely goal. You want development, and draft picks.

Gordon is certainly not a PG, but he’s as good of a shooter at SG as you’ll find and able to run as well. He’s a smart player, a better guy than he is being presented as with the contract holdout, and a very efficient scorer for a jump shooter.

If Monta can actually be a PG, it’d be a unique, totally Nelly-esque backcourt, and who knows if it would work. All I know is, he does what Harrington does even better, is younger, can do more offensively, and plays hard.

Talent wise, you’d be winning this sort of trade.

Now, undersized SGs who don’t have PG skills are usually my least favorite players, so again: I ain’t really a huge Ben Gordon fan. But I think his worth is being pooped on a bit by the contract hold out, which is more likely caused by the Bulls jerking him around so many years while telling him they know it doesn’t matter if he comes off the bench— and then using it against him during contract talks.

Harrington is what, entering his 9th season? 10th? What ya see is what ya get. He ain’t stepping up, he is what he is. If you can get actual value for him, you’re coming out ahead.

Mortimer