Polling GSoM: Do you want Jamal Crawford to opt out of the final 2 years and 19+ million on his deal with the Warriors?

can go. beli is a better replacement.

beli doesnt take too many shots and since we will have jack and monta and maggs taking most of our shots thats helpful.

beli defends slightly better which is better.

beli can shoot the 3 pointer just as well.

I think he is a good scorer and would be a great 2 guard. He is not a point and we need a point. I really would like to see him opt out so we can pursue a better fit for our team.

However, no one should ever feel like they are unwanted. It is stuff like this that makes the Warriors an undesirable team to play for. Rowell, Cohan, Nellie, and everyone else needs to quit being so money driven and start playing closer attention to their current players.

You know Jackson hates to lose, Maggs is a competitor, Randolph exudes energy, Turiaff was on a perennial contender, and don’t even mention the Monta thing.

In essence your players have to know that management has their back and right now it seems like they are feeling like they are all next to be thrown under the bus.

So I like Crawford as a person and I feel like he doesn’t deserve that treatment. (if this story is true) But I think we need some new blood at PG. Oh and CJ can go too… sorry but his d is worse than JC.

Is that there are way too many shooting guards. Jamal Crawford is a shooting guard. Nellie plays him as the pointguard, but he hardly plays the part. This isn’t so much a knock against JC as it is a realization of the type of player he is.

With that said, I don’t mind if JC opts out. Yes he’s capable of scoring 50 points. But a healthy Monta is also capable of scoring 50. I don’t even think we need to find another pointguard (unless he’s really good of course). Marco has shown us VERY promising skills at handling the ball. He makes mistakes, yes, but I think as of right now that he is the best potential for a true point guard on this team.

All of this leaves no room for JC on the team in my opinion.

is that it’s mainly a dribble, dribble, fire a shot. Only rarely do I see him drive in to the hoop. It feels one-dimensional and it feels like he’s playing on an island to his own rhythm instead of with the team’s rhythm. A couple of times I remember the Warriors start to get warm on a scoring streak, then the ball gets to Crawford and then clang! it’s a missed shot, killing the momentum.

Now I know Crawford’s a nice guy and all, and I’m not hating on him at a personal level. But this isn’t about being nice or not nice. It’s about whether your skills benefit the current system. After all, companies aren’t going to keep me because I’m nice, but because I got skills that help them develop and/or test their products. If I can’t help them improve their product, I can’t cry if they hire someone else in my place. It’s work, it’s a job, it’s business.

It seems pretty likely now that Nellie had this conversation with Crawford. What we don’t know is if Nellie was professional about it to Crawford, or if Nellie roasted Crawford. It’s possible that Nellie was professional about it, and the newswriters wrapped it in a Hollywood drama filled script. If Nellie roasted Crawford, then that’s on Nellie for mishandling him. In either case however, Crawford opting out or getting traded is what I think to be better for the Warriors.

There is a tendency to treat these stories based on anonymous stories as fact. It’s a bad tendency. I don’t doubt that there was a conversation, but we have one version of the story based on a source friendly to Crawford (his agent) and fueled by two writers hostile to Nelson (Marcus and Mr. K). So, I think you have to figure whatever happened we are probably getting a pretty bent version designed to make Jamal look wrong. Seems to me there’s nothing wrong with Nelson telling Crawford he is not in their plans (for him to be in their plans with Monta would be a disaster) and that they will handle this in a way not to too hurt his averages. This stuff goes on in the NBA all the time. And my guess is if this happened with an agent friendly to Nelson, Marcus and Hedda Hopper would be playing tennis or something. But instead we have a big stink, polls, and more of the same. Anonymous sources speak anonymously not because they have a deep interest in serving the truth but because they can warp the story to their interests without having to take responsibility. Does anyone remember Woodward and Bernstein? Those guys required two sources to print a story. Marcus and Mr. K basically write gossip columns that smell up sports writing. This is a good site but it devotes way too much time and space to what is mostly their opinions rather than the conventions of journalism. There’s even a group of journalists concerned about this kind of crap—the Committee of Concerned Journalists. I don’t think Marcus and Mr.K are members. I am not even sure they could find the website. It’s way too balanced for them.

Anyone notice how seldom one of these rumors started by an anonymous source started in a class newspaper like the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Chicago Tribune (now that Sam the Man is gone). If these aggregators threw out their New York Post entries, the site would be cut in half. And if this site threw out its Timmy K stories and interviews, which have about the same weight, what would happen?

In my post above, it should read that the plant was “designed to make Jamal look wronged. "Wrong” is how he plays defense.

Crawford puts up solid numbers and I feel the only frown on him is his contract due to the economic situation. Either way he’s more productive than Larry Hughes or Corey Maggette making the same amount of money.