Welcome Back to the Bay Jason Richardson and Matt Barnes!
by Atma Brother ONE on Feb 4, 2009 9:27 AM PST
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22 + 23 = Sunny times for the Dubs
Jump like J-Rich at a Slam Dunk contest for some quotes...
Recalling when everyone believed [SFGate]:
J-Rich on the We Suck:
"It's crazy what's going on, stuff with the front office and with Monta (Ellis') situation. It's like, man, what happened? Just two years ago we were up and climbing, and now they're starting from the bottom again. I can just imagine what the fans are going through, going from bottom of the cellar for 10 years to finally making the playoffs and having a really good year last year."
You can never take We Believe away from us:
And no matter what, they'll always have "We Believe."
"That was history," Barnes said. "Everyone says your team is your family, but at Golden State, that was really the truth. We all loved each other, and it was hard because they broke it up so fast."
"We both talk about it like, 'What if they just had that whole team for a whole other year?' " Richardson added.
"I mean, we know the money situation with Monta and with Baron (Davis), but if they could have just put it aside to give our team one more chance, if we would have had a whole season with everybody healthy, playing together the way we played, it would have been amazing to see the things we would've done."
More Reminiscing with J-Rich and Matt Barnes [SFGate]
JR still follows the Dubs:
'I definitely kept in touch with them last year. Last year, I was just cheering for them. All of them guys were like brothers, everybody. They're struggling, but you still have Steve there, Monta there, Andris, and the fans are great."
Matt says We Believe was fam:
"That year we made the run, that was history. We talk about it every once in a while. We really had a family there. Everyone says your team is your family, but at Golden State, that was really the truth. We all love it each other, and it was hard because they broke it up so fast. But we also talk about how great the fans are there, how loyal they are. I see the games on TV and it still looks full."
If you don't know, you better read this and click every single link in it:
Unbelievable, Unforgettable, and Unstoppable Baby! [The W Column]
Chris Cohan, Robert Rowell, Chris Mullin, and Don Nelson- Way to break up the family. Way to break up the most unbelievable thing that hit this sorry franchise since 1994. Way to break up something we all believed in, so that we could get back to suck.
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While everyone is whining at Fanposts
good preview Atma. Though its barely focused on the actual game. But Jrich and MBarnes recognizing that “We Believe” is always ours is awesome. I still believe damn it.
i just shed a tear reading those quotes...
im just gonna be a statue tonight watching jrich and matty hitting 3s and dunking all over maggette crawford and randolph.
more than being good players, these were good people. thats what really sucks about losing them.
warriors dont fish they hunt!
by VonteegoCummings on Feb 4, 2009 9:53 AM PST reply actions
I don't know about "good people"
But they certainly radiated warmth and charisma. Hoops is entertainment, after all, and that counts for a lot. I voted YES for these qualities alone, though I think in terms of on-court production they’re both pretty replaceable (even if they were a total joy to watch).
As for their “goodness,” in a moral sense: only their closest friends, relatives, and/or significant others know for sure…
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
dunno sleepy
not that i have some xmen/heroes/push superpowers but i just know and feel that these 2 are, as ive said good people. I mean a full page AD apologizing for not making the playoffs? even our goddamn joke of an owner would or could not do that. but yes, you are right only those in their inner sanctums can truly know how ’good" these two really are.
warriors dont fish they hunt!
by VonteegoCummings on Feb 4, 2009 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
"Dunno"
Is kind of the key word. Neither of us knows. I mean, it’s natural to have gut feelings about people we don’t know, and It’s even natural to share these with friends in casual conversation. But I think the internet — yes, even posts on a silly sports blog — requires a higher a degree of rigor and objectivity. Or at least when posters really want to pass conjecture about the moral character of total strangers (“JRich = good, Monta = bad, Bynum = evil”, e.g.)) — I think they need to make an effort to present it as such.
In other words:
more than being good players, these were good people.
would go down much better as
more than being good players, these were good people, imo.
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
agreed
but would you also agree to the following:
1. we truly do suck
2. cabrakapa > tsikitisvili
3. redtube/xhamster > warrior loss
warriors dont fish they hunt!
by VonteegoCummings on Feb 4, 2009 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
although
the fact that this is an internet blog, is it necessary for the writer to explicitly say IMO, when it is in fact IMO.
warriors dont fish they hunt!
by VonteegoCummings on Feb 4, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
I hope not
I’d have to start every sentence I write with “IMHO”.
Ya’ll would hate my lack of sentence variety. Maybe I could mix it up with IMHCO (in my honest crazy opinion) or IMHCOTNOL (in my honest crazy opinion that no one likes).
by Atma Brother ONE on Feb 4, 2009 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
Yes
Good point. Often the “imo” is implied, hence unnecessary.
Maybe better than
more than being good players, these were good people, imo.
would be
more than being good players, these seemed like good people
?
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
these seemed like good people
They seemed like my kinda people.
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
They kinda seemed like my kinda people. IMHCOTNOL.
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
Anyone remember this Jrich+Barnes= Helter skelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLavoaV0b68
Ah the good times……..
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 11:18 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Good times indeed, your going green.
Sure, I JRich and Barnes, they were fun exciting players. But its not like I am exactly pining for them to be back on the team.
We will probably need to be patient and let this season play out.
-warriorsvictim
by warriorsscore110 on Feb 4, 2009 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
Haha
All except for #3 — the latter gets us more ping pong balls, while the former only gets me cranky looks from my wife (that is, whenever I forget to “clear history” in Safari…) XD
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
Haha
By “my wife,” of course I meant “my inflatable doll ‘Jessica’ who lives with me and my Star Wars action figures in my parents’ basement”…
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by Sleepy Freud on Feb 4, 2009 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
True
The great thing about the We Believe playoff run was that they had fun. No one was being selfish, and all the pieces fit in beautifully. I thought many of those guys had career years, and we ran into a Dallas team that thought they could slow us down. I miss that squad, but good things don’t always last.
so we play the suns tonight in OAKLAND, then friday in PHOENIX and thats on ESPN. The best part about the warriors is the Oracle, why are all our broadcast games, away.
that's what I was thinking
why the hell would the NBA put our away games on national tv instead of our home games? everyone knows that Oracle Arena is crazy as hell and always entertaining. I eventually just came to the conclusion that they televise our road games because they want those home teams that we’re playing against to win, and that playing the Warriors would make their win an exciting win.
I’m not sure if I really said that clearly. It’s like, the Warriors would almost be a guarantee to lose on the road, but at the same time their style of play makes it a fun competitive game which in the end makes the home team come out with an entertaining win.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:12 PM PST up reply actions
Will shaq play or sit out?
They’ve been sitting him out every so often.
Of course slow shaq = fast breaks for us in theory.
Trade jamal for jrich?
Ill bed there wearing my J-Rich jersey with pride...
San Jose Sabercats. 2009 Arena Football Champions........Oh wait a second.
predictions:
-Warriors get down by 12 in the first half…
-in the third quarter we make a comeback, and get up by 15!
-in the beggining of the fourth Bob Fitz will informs us that “There’s an upset in progress”
-Warriors lose by 19
Someone needs to call on fitz's show and tell him
To stop jinxing us with “There’s an upset in progress”.
btw, on 2k9, I just traded mwill for barnes. We should soo do that.
a rookie Warrior fan
Too bad Atma can’t put the rookie posters on the bench for a couple years till they learn to not make stupid trade proposals?
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
seriously
how the hell could someone not miss a WINNING Warriors team and be content with how much we suck right now? lol.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
I predict Matt Barnes
will have a horrible game, because he’ll be clouded with emotions from the place that revived his career.
+1
and plus he still had the tatoo on is arm that say “we believe” that will feel a burning sensation whenever he shoot those 3
i predict he at least once accidentaly walks towards the warriors bench after a timeout
by 123707THIZZ on Feb 4, 2009 1:24 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
that's pretty deep
I would shed a tear if I saw that. corny, but i remember those Warriors making all those crazy plays and then walking to the bench during timeouts with smiles on their faces and laughing.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
hope we get to see some morrow, especially if JC's shot aint falling.
at least morrow has SOME D, is Crawford not the smallest 6’5 player to play the game!? I always forget he’s that tall, cause ive never seen him play like it. I want to see J-rich and A-mo light up the threes tonight….and barnes with a couple corners.
mann...
i remember i went to the opening game of the we believe season against the lakers.. me and my boys were just like.. who the hell is this crackhead lookin guy matt barnes..
Dunleavy's #1 Fan !!!
hahahah
forreal.
We got blown out didn’t we? I remember Matt was playing in garbage time and I just had a weird reaction watching him, it just felt like he was the type that would eventually end up with a great story. He was out there in garbage time playing his heart out and motivating his fellow bench players to play hard, I was thinking to myself that he has something special in him that the team will eventually value.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:18 PM PST up reply actions
If you're going to the game...
Show Matt Barnes and J-Rich some love!! Damn i wish we had the “we believe” warriors still!!
Tight pants are for girls only!!
by ItsDatFriscoSwag415 on Feb 4, 2009 1:28 PM PST reply actions
I wonder if the Warriors will do a tribue to Matt Barnes
probably not, since he hasn’t been with the Warriors all that long. But it would have been nice.
who the hell voted NO??
Idiots!
Tight pants are for girls only!!
by ItsDatFriscoSwag415 on Feb 4, 2009 1:31 PM PST reply actions
IM sure
J Rich was willing to take a pay cut, and Matt Barnes was up to playing a little better then suck like he did last year.
Its fun to reminisce on a season where they snuck up on everyone, and in the playoffs they played a team that their coach built from the ground up, and knew evry single tendency, INCLUDING the Coach of their team who he TUTORED and handed the job too.
It was fun, but it was exactly what it was, a 1 time thing. We didnt make the playoffs the following year with the same team minus J-Rich ( yes we were better without J-Rich and Monta in the lineup instead ).
So how can you argue with management? Because you got some bromance going on with the thought of the season? Its a business first.
So how can you argue with management? Because you got some bromance going on with the thought of the season?
, Easy, just READ the Jrich quote
" but if they could have just put it aside to give our team one more chance, if we would have had a whole season with everybody healthy, playing together the way we played, it would have been amazing to see the things we would’ve done."
I trust Jason’s judgment on it and din’t Nellie later admit it was a mistake? I seem to recall him sayin something like we were a better team with Jrich that we are now?
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
Meh.
Utah is currently the #9 seed in the West, on the outside looking in. New Orleans loses CP3 for a week or two and suddenly they’re in a struggle for their playoff lives. That exact, reconstituted “We Believe” team — even assuming unrealistically that we would have been able to keep both Monta and AB — would be getting torn to shreds in this buzzsaw of a Conference.
Last year … yeah, probably, with our crazy synergy, and Monta as our killer 6th man, we may well have slipped into the playoffs as a 6th-8th seed. And been waxed by Utah, SA, or LAL.
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I don't even know
if the Warriors would have sustained the “We Believe” energy and style of play for the entire season last season, even with JRich in there. We probably would have run out of gas by the end of the season.
Damn
We lose to the Jazz in the playoffs and all of a sudden people doubt the team.
All we needed was a damn scorer inside the post that could rebound. Jeez, it’s like that 2007 team is getting more and more underrated as the years go on. Soon, people aren’t even going to give the Warriors credit for what they did in the playoffs, they’ll just say that the Warriors were lucky and the Mavericks sucked that bad to lose to an 8th seed.
whatever.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
they’ll just say that the Warriors were lucky and the Mavericks sucked that bad to lose to an 8th seed.
Now who would go and think a thing like that? ;-O
The Warriors gave up more points than they scored that season, and snuck into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth thanks to a complete end-of-season choke job by the Clips v. Portland. If not for that one game, we’d be working on playoff-less season #16 right now, and our cute li’l late-season surge would be even more of an amusing footnote in NBA history than it already is. Do you think anyone outside the Bay Area (and maybe Dallas.) thinks about that team anymore?
C’mon man, dream higher! And dream forward!
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That exact, reconstituted "We Believe" team — even assuming unrealistically that we would have been able to keep both Monta and AB — would be getting torn to shreds in this buzzsaw of a Conference.
No necessarily, we’d have to expect Boom and Jason to be healthy and playing hard for a ring if they were still here, Montay would not have gone on that scooter ride and Pietrus would still be our bird dog on defense. The downside to that trade was obvious at the time to anyone who paid attention to the playoffs, we were very close to the top and then bang there goes our heart?
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
So in this magical alternate universe
Baron’s glass jaw turns to adamantium? And Monta magically gains the wisdom the Solomon?Awesome. Do Biedrins and BWright both wake up with Shaq’s body, Russell’s D, Ray Allen’s jumper, and Hakeem’s Dream Shake?
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Do Biedrins and BWright both wake up with Shaq’s body, Russell’s D, Ray Allen’s jumper, and Hakeem’s Dream Shake?
No, we din’t get Wright, remember? and we traded montay and dris for DHo. We’re a lot better now, made the finals last year and planning to win it all this year.
Now wheres the rubbers? Whose got the rubbers?
I noticed there's so many of them
and there's really not that many of us.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 4, 2009 11:51 PM PST up reply actions
lol
That playoff team only played 21 games together in the regular season.
Remember, Baron was out for 3 weeks, J-Rich was out for 2 months. We had to put up with Dunleavy and Murphy for half the season. etc.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:20 PM PST up reply actions
wow...
almost shedded a tear reading jrich and barnes quotes. Those we believe days were the best. The most fun loving and dopest team ever. We should have won that jazz series a couple things go different and we could have been in the conference finals. Shame on the front office for breaking up all of our dogs….
what's really cool is
both Jrich and Barnes seem to miss being on the Dubs and that they loved it here. But I feel like crying myself to sleep right now….wah wah wah!!!
JR...An All-Time Warriors Favorite!
I can imagine..
That same We Believe team but this time, With TURIAF, man…
the crowd will go CARAZZY after a Turiaf block, then rebound by Barnes, then throws it down to Baron, then lobs it up for J rich, SLAM!
If only we can trade Jamal&Marcus Williams to the suns for J rich and Barnes back.
Pietrus…I think he’s happy he;s gone.
I miss them playing for the Warriors.
Damn the front office…Fans should overthrow them somehow and HIRE JIM BARNETT AS OUT GM!!! AND PRESIDENT WOULD BE BARNETT ALSO!
forreal
That 66 million spent on Monta could have easily landed us Turiaf and more inside players instead. If that happened, the Warrriors would have been an all around balanced team with strength at everything.
by Precise Films Productions on Feb 4, 2009 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
I said NO
only because I don’t miss Barnes. He sucked it up last year. I do miss J-Rich, although I’m not sure it hurt us in the long run to trade him. He had a HUGE contract for his skill level. Still, I do miss him for his fire, athleticism and for being a class act.
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