Is/was Murphy really that bad that he deserves to be grouped with Dunleavy (i.e. Dunmurphy, Murphleavy, et al) everywhere on GSoM post Pacers trade? I’m not the biggest Troy Murphy fan, but I thought he did some things well here; at least enough to separate himself from Dunleavy.

Dunleavy’s shortcomings are well documented and I wholeheartedly agree with the prevailing assessment of his game here in Oakland. In contrast, Murphy averaged a double-double in 3 different seasons, could stretch the defense, and was a fairly solid 4 overall. I know that he got pretty soft inside, was given a ridiculous contract (not quite as bad as Dunleavy or Foyle though), and allegedly sat out to stay at 10 rpg in 05-06. Still, I don’t think he hurt the Warriors on the court (nor was his salary as unjustified) as much as Mike Dunleavy.

For what it’s worth, Foyle was a disaster once Nellie got here, however, for whatever reason nobody has quite the animosity toward Foyle as they do for Murphy. Why is that? Is it because the guy went to Colgate? Because his salary is still counting against the cap, yet when I talk to people about Foyle they tend to laugh and not express the anger and animosity that both Murphy and Dunleavy inspire.

My guess about Dunmurphy is that it’s just a consequence of being traded together, but if that’s the case, why not throw in Ike? We wasted a top ten pick on him (and wouldn’t throw him in for Garnett, right?)

Anyways, I always look to the posts here for insight, so I’m interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on the matter.

Go Warriors!

People wanted him to be alot at the #3 pick overall, but in truth he is like Steve Nash. Great with great talent around him. Unfortunately he never had that. Now he is with Danny Granger and had a solid year last year. This year I think this was his 3rd game?

I know what you are getting at, the Warriors are losing, not a ton of hope ( for those LA fans anyways.. ) and you need something creative to post about…. but ragging on someone who nearly had knee ending surgery on their 3rd or 4th ( I think ) game back is just lame.

Are we better off with Mike Dunleavy? No, we picked up the NON PASSING version of him in Al Harrington. Troy Murphy? NOW THERE YOU GOT AN ARGUMENT.

Why does Troy always get a pass? NOW THAT DUDE is the WORST OF ALL TIME. HORRIBLE. Post pictures on him, and you sir are a HERO!

Dunleavy is like the Britney Spears jokes, although great at one point, they’ve peaked and are now useless like Old McDonald’s monopoly stickers you were saving to win 1,000,000 dollars!

Can anyone actually say the Pacers won in that trade. Its not like Dunleavy and Murphy changed the environment in Indiana, if anything they made it worse. They actually helped turn a loyal fan base into one of the worse in the league. Its amazing how much worse and how many less fans attend games in Indiana. Dunmurphey can keep getting there stats over there and keep losing and missing the playoffs, like they seem destined to do.

Murphy was a great guy on the Warriors, Dunleavy was the vagina.

Dunleavy had all the chances in the world to succeed in Golden State. We traded Jamison to give him more playing time, we gave him a great contract, he’s been through a couple coaches and hasn’t been able to succeed in all those situations. The 06-07 season was obviously an amazing year for the Warriors, one of the crazy things we saw that season was when Matt Barnes was outperforming Mike Dunleavy.

I was a big supporter of Ike Diogu back then, too. Never really thought he sucked, he was just a young kid that needed some drive and determination. When he got traded to Indiana, I ended up getting too lazy to follow him game by game so I just told myself that Ike better be hella good in 2-3 seasons. Keith McLeod, meh, I don’t really care about him.

Sarunas Jasikevicius was a big disappointment for me. I thought he would thrive in Nellie’s system; some white guy that can shoot who was surrounded by an offensive juggernaut of guards in his team to pass to. He ended up being how Marcus Williams is right now, just riding the bench; except the difference is that Sarunas actually got a chance to play whenever the Warriors needed someone to come in the end of the game to make clutch free throws.

I think that trade was addition by subtraction and worked well for “the run,” but I think that Harrington is a flawed, role player who thinks he’s a star and Jackson is a flawed, role player who should be the 4th best player on the team and not the leader/ball controller.

They need to build on players who play to their role/ability and find some way to land the stud PF or the PG who will control the game, distributing the ball and not chucking up 1000’s of 3’s without initiating the office.

As for the comment on the Ike draft, not to be a bandwagon jumper, but I was pulling for Granger in that draft as I didn’t see a productive “big” for the warriors…