Another front office mistake...

you need to lighten up… geez i guess only some people have a sense of humor

… but it’s also not realistic to believe that we’re somehow a great team if we get those guys back.

Biedrins is a very valuable player. He’s worth a bunch of wins. But he’s not worth the 20+ wins he’d have to be worth to turn this team into a playoff team.

We don’t even have a chance to compete until we get some bodies healthy. There are so few guys healthy that you have to consider fatigue a factor in why the Warriors have large stretches of time where they just settle for jumpers and can’t get anything going. At least thats what helps me sleep at night.

That’s a big ‘if’. Coaches play players they trust to follow the gameplan and who are where they are supposed to be. AR obviously doesn’t have Smart’s or Nellie’s trust.

But like I said above, the real hurdle was always whether Amare would resign here or not.

B/c losing a proven double-double guy in AB, a proven rotation player in KA along with a 21 (Curry) & a 22 (BW) yr old prospect for an Amare rental would leave the W’s with the long term deals of Monta, Jack, Maggette along with Turiaf & Randolph. Mikki, Claxton & Law as FA. CJ & Morrow as RFA and about as much cap room as when Baron left (rough guess is somewhere around 16 mill minus (their 2010 1st round pick’s salary? &) the cap hold of Morrow & CJ.

WS wise even with Amare, you’re looking at an estimated (based on history) 31 to 44 wins depending on how good Amare & Monta play. So even at their best, the statistics put them at a 9-10 seed in the current west. And based on how they’ve played so far this yr, their WS (assuming the current pace) would put the team around 30 wins (this is b/c, unbelievably, Monta’s WS is worse than Curry’s).

Hinrich’s so bad these days that getting him might have doomed the dubs for the next 3 yrs. after peaking in 06-07, he’s steadily been getting worse. His asst-tov ratio gets worse every year as does his rebounding rate and he’s shooting 34%, 29% & 68% from the stripe this yr.

I think the Nets have that honor, no?

The Ws wouldn’t be nearly as sad as they look right now if we had even two of Biedrins, Wright, Turiaf and Kelenna. I think the Kelenna injury was a much bigger blow than people recognize: he was our second best perimeter shooter (more daylight for Monta, Morrow, and Curry), second best slasher (more breathers for Monta), and best perimeter defender. In a small sample size, he also seemed before the injury to have stepped up his game a notch — possibly rebounding well enough to be a legit 30-35 minute starting small forward. Plus, like Biedrins and Turiaf, he provided a maturity and a positive energy that seems to be lacking right now.

Yeah, the injuries don’t affect the Cohan/Rowell/Nelson circus at the top, but I find it highly unlikely that without the injuries the team would be anywhere close to as “laughable” as it is now. If you want to argue that trading for Amare would have forestalled the injuries … well, more power to you.