I would rather have Ellis playing with Bosh as opposed to Biedrins since we do have Wright, Randolph, and Turiaf on the interior. Ellis is the star of the future in the backcourt, so that’s why I’d keep him instead of Biedrins in this situation.

send away biedrins….but it be said to see biedrins go because we’ve all grown to love him, but on the upside a monta-bosh-randolph future combo is sick, and if we do get bosh i say we keep crawford

Skill and talent wise, i say keep Monta….

BUT,

Great, fun, friendly teammate, I say keep Biedrins….

If Biedrins go, I’ll sure miss his bench cheering and his good vibes to the team.

If we do this deal in the offseason will there be a possibility of of including a Bosh extension?

I’m pretty sure there would be, and if so that changes how much I’d be willing to give up. I wonder if that may have been the deal-breaker at the trade deadline.

Is to trade Monta. Hate to say it, but he probably has the most value. A trade of Monta would free up the 1 and 2 positions which will make S-Jax be able to slide to the 2 and possibly AR to the 3. The best trade partner would be with the Toronto Raptors:

We will get:
Bosh
Kapono/Bargnani

Raptors get:
Ellis
C-Mag
Wright

Warriors get their big man and either C/PF depth or Swingman depth. Raptors get a new Franchise player in Ellis, a PF starter replacement, and a starter or 6th man in C-Mag. All are long term players.

In the draft with our 1st rounder pick at 1-3 or 7-9 we will draft the best PG available and we choose from Teague, Jennings, Holiday, and Lawson. Lawson or Jennings are my picks primarily because of their speed and fast break skills.

We will also have some money to sign some bench players or a starter at SF (Odom?). MLE should be available too.

This puts us at:

PG: Jennings/Lawson/Crawford (Opt Out)
SG: S-Jax
SF: Buike or Randolph
PF: Bosh
C: Biedrins
Reserves: Turiaf, Watson, Marco, Bargnani/Kapono, Kurz, Davidson, Morrow

Come 2010 Free Agency. With C-Mag’s, Bosh, and Crawford’s contracts off the books we’ll have about 30$ Million to spend on Free Agents. We can re-sign Bosh or go for other Marquee players.

I hate how we wait until we suck to start trying to make big moves for a legit big man. We should have gotten active like this during the offseason right after the We Belive run.

Some type of line-up of:

PG: Baron Davis
SG: Monta Ellis
SF: Stephen Jackson
PF: Al Harrington
C: Chris Bosh

or

PG: Baron Davis
SG: Stephen Jackson
SF: Al Harrington
PF: Chris Bosh
C: Andris Biedrins

One of those type of line-ups would have been a good place to start in trying to build a contender. The Warriors were amazing in 2007 and the only thing that PREVENTED them from going further in the offseason was their lack of inside scoring and rebounding. That’s basically it.

Of course, the line-ups wouldn’t exactly be like the ones like the two above, but it would look something like that. A couple more extra offseason moves would have added some more depth and we could have been a WCF team by now on the verge of taking it to the next level.

Just ask yourself this, “When are the Warriors going to win their next championship?”.

When you think about it, it seems like we’re never going to win a championship with the way we keep handling our rosters. It’s like the management makes moves for shits and giggles. We always work our way towards getting younger all the time. We kept a core of J-Rich/Dunleavy/Murphy for years, but then when we actually have a core that wins (Baron/Jackson/J-Rich etc) we only keep them for 2 months.

But yeah enough of the mini rant. Where we are now is still pretty good, though. Chris Bosh is still young, so he can fit well with our youth movement. Hopefully we see something like Monta Ellis, Chris Bosh, Brandan Wright and Anthony Randolph owning the league in a couple years.

Would Toronto have much interest in Monta? I know Colangelo might be using the Phoenix plan for building an entertaining and competitive team up there and Calderon/Monta could be his new version or Nash/Barbosa, but could that backcourt really be on the floor together for most of the game? I doubt it. I think Biedrins makes more sense for them.
Also they have a ton of money coming off the books this year with Parker and Marion’s expiring deals. I don’t know if they’d be willing to take back one or both of Crawford and Maggette’s contracts, but they do have big holes at the wings and there are a whole lot of free agent options this offseason so I think its plausible they might exchange the smaller, but still bad contracts of Banks and Kapono for Crawford and Maggette in a large multi player deal.
The best deal for us that I could see both teams agreeing to would be:
Biedrins+Crawford+Maggette+Belinelli+Wright+pick(7)
for
Bosh+Kapono+Banks+pick(8)
leaving us with
Monta/Banks
Jacks/Kapono
Buike/Morrow
Bosh/Randolph
Turiaf/????
-I think that leaves us at least 1 rotational big man, a PG off the bench and possibly another wing player away from being a very good team. We’d have some cap room cleared via the trade (roughly 6 million I believe) the MLE?(not sure if we’d still have the MLE if we clear cap room) and the draft pick to fill those spots. Guys like Ty Lawson, BJ Mullens, DeJuan Blair, and Jrue Holiday would be options who could probably step in and contribute something immediately at those spots. Guys like Stomile Swift, Rasho Nesterovic, Anderson Varejao, Brandon Bass, Kwame Brown, Etan Thomas, Jason Kidd, Chris Quinn, Bobby Jackson, Mike James and Brevin Knight are all relatively cheap free agent options.

If the Warriors somehow land Bosh in Golden State, I will for sure renew season tickets

bosh could play center

I’m kinda shocked more people voted Biedrins than Ellis. I bet if this poll had occurred 2 weeks ago the results would be very different. Who says GSoM is fickle?

and build around these 4 guys. I like Bosh but look at the Raptors this year, they have about 25 wins in the weak east.