Marco Belinelli - The one that got away?

I’m still not seeing any way this trade changed any vote of confidence in our other guys. Telling them they’re in the rotation and playing them while sitting Marco gives us the same results. Also, while Marco clearly benefits from an opportunity to play elsewhere…I’m just still not sure how that benefits the Warriors. Karma is supposed to be a “you do a favor for someone, they do a favor for you later” type thing…

I really don’t see how that could be more meaningful to the Warriors than the $$. I think there’s a disconnect between how we as fans see the trade compared to how it actually helps our team. It seems to me a lot of fans take value out of knowing who’s in our rotation now, even though it has no real effect on W-L’s, and same with Marco getting a chance to play – for those of us who liked him, it’s nice to see him get an opportunity, but again, it doesn’t actually help the Warriors win games. Same with having George instead of Marco – we don’t have to listen to fans complaining about Marco not playing now, because nobody is going to complain about George not playing…

So maybe we’re just looking at it different ways? Me looking at how it effects the Warriors end results, others mixing the personal value it provides them in there, too?

considering the way he treated ‘young fella’ it is a nice compliment

Statistics won’t show that Marco did a good job slowing Kobe Bryant down and limited his scoring down the stretch of the game.

Strange then, if statistics won’t show it that you use statistics (“21 pts, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, but he only got to the Free Throw Line once”) as your argument. Do you know what a statistic is?

Morrow was the best 3pt shooter in the league last year and no, Bellinelli is not a superstar, but I have yet to see Morrow consistently hit his shots with someone in his face and I have no doubt, that if a game is close, no team is going to leave him sitting open behind the arc.
The question now becomes, can Morrow improve his game, create seperation from his defenders and still shoot at a high pct.? Maybe, but I still see Bellinelli becoming the better player and having the better all around game.

I agree it’s irrelevant what raptors fans think, and what they think is the least of the Warriors’ worries. I am concerned with the way Nelson handles his players and how he impacts their growth. Obviously Marco’s gone and he seems to be doing well in Toronto. Reading his comments it looks like Brandan doesn’t care what Nelson says or does. But AR seems to be a volatile type, who could regress if he’s not coached positively, and I’m not sure Nelson wants to do more than the bare minimum of coaching a team.

No one is suggesting that Curry should not have been drafted because of Marco, that’s silly.

No one? I was respond to Skeptic’s apparent suggestion that perhaps we shouldn’t have drafted Curry. He wrote:

If we had too may guards to keep marco why would we draft another? There had to be some athletic players in that draft that woulda worked better with Montay?

I interpreted this to question if, given that we had Belinelli, another guard didn’t make sense. Of course Skeptic’s comments were as usual somewhat difficult to parse, but it doesn’t seem to me to be a stretch that he suggested that Belinelli being arouund made it less sensible to draft Curry. So if it’s silly to suggest that avoiding Curry because we had Belinelli, are you accusing Skeptic of being silly?

I think BritWarrior got a bit upset when you accused him of being "drooling sub-moronic idiot stupid" for posting his beliefs.

And if I had accused him of that, I can see why he might have been upset. But I didn’t. Don’t tell me I said something that I most clearly did not. I didn’t direct that at BritWarrior. Nowhere in the post did I mention or imply him in any way. It wasn’t a response to a comment of his. It didn’t follow one of his postings. Your assertion that I accused him "drooling sub-moronic idiot stupid" is factually inaccurate. I did no such thing. I didn’t mention or imply him in any way as any honest reading of my post shows.

The only connection is that it occurs in followups to a fanpost that he started and it isn’t in lock-step with his assertion that it was a terrible trade. Which leaves me with thinking that BritWarrior either can no longer deal with anything I write or is totally unable to deal with any opinions differing from his own. If BritWarrior is going to go out of his way to take a response to someone else as an affront to him, then there’s really nothing that I can do. He needs to get past it. If he’s ticked that in the thread he started that someone dares disagree with his notion that Marco “got away”, tough. People will disagree with him. Sack up and deal. But getting bent out of shape when I post my opinion of the deal and of Belinelli in comments that were not responses to comments that he made? This suggests that there’s something deeper going on and he can no longer deal with seeing my name at the bottom of a post at all.