usually, i’m a fan of your work around here. even when i disagree or when you voice an opinion that seems way off base, you know your stuff and are passionate about it. however, this post just seems lazy to me. it had nothing to do with the article itself, other than the superficial structure of “what you learned” and had nothing of substance to it.

if you want to post something without giving commentary on it, then go for it, but don’t just throw up a “w’s suck” with no reasoning given in the post. i’d have been happy with 5 reasons why the team is going nowhere in your commentary; i’d probably disagree (this team should get considerably better if healthy next year), but if they made sense and were actually argued, it would have been an improvement over this.

hell, even when you throw in totally unnecessary “biedrins is mediocre” or “wright is a bust” remarks to other posts, it’s sort of funny as a snide addition to a well-reasoned post about something entirely different. we know where you stand on these issues, so i don’t need to ask you why you think biedrins isn’t particularly good, i might want to argue the point, but i know about where you stand. that’s just you tossing in a dash of controversy, but this post didn’t say anything. you could have made your commentary “i miss j-rich” or “monta’s a liar” and it would have related just as much to the article, that is to say, it wouldn’t really relate much at all. write like you mean it, atma, because with stuff like this, i can’t be sure that you do.

and “examined” it a bit. You have to be painfully aware of the fact that the majority of the people here have a predisposition to ripping on you regardless of what you say. If you just throw out incomplete thoughts or haphazardly endorse a piece of uninformed garbage like this Examiner cud, you’re just hitting the reset button on the Anti-Atma machine.

Maybe that’s what you want, but I really think you are helping to perpetuate lazy thinking on this site by letting people make you an easy target. There’s no thinking involved, just “Atma=Negative Jerk, must react accordingly”.

Honestly, I disagree with you about J-Rich (mostly) and Andris (you are oh so very wrong about this) but I don’t really think your other basketball takes warrant such a backlash. In fact, you’re ahead of the curve (translated: we agree) on Nelson, Cohan and the lies perpetuated by the NBA and its owners about the distribution of wealth.

As far as bashing you for your perceived negativity goes, that’s just mob-mentality ignorance at its finest. Throwing up a fanshot like this, on the front page, just encourages that type of mindless bashing and that degrades the overall quality of the posts here IMO.

was a fair response to the Tafur season recap. The team has deep flaws and got its lousy record on merit. ellis’ injury actually obscured other equally serious deficiencies. (Tafur pretty accurately described the flaws in depending on ellis to make the team respectable) Two positive developments , Randolph and Morrow, would not have made the same progress if m’gette stayed healthy for more games and put it 30 min./gm., raising questions about next season, should he stay healthy. Atma-R-1’s projection isn’t a wild speculation, I’d give it a 30-40% chance of being accurate.

Funny. Lots of GSOM’s fans haven’t quite come to this realization yet. Still at a loss for words at how lopsided this poll is. Are we the best fans or the stupidest fans in the league? If you voted “no” in this poll, you’re in the latter. 75% of you did…

1. I was wrong about Baron Davis. I thought the Warriors should have rewarded him for what he did for the team the last two years and just pay him, never mind how old he was, what shape he was in or how many games he would miss or take off mentally. Well, he wound up getting paid by the Clippers … and he was dreadful. His body language was terrible, clearly mailing it in some nights, and he finished the season shooting 37 percent.

37 percent! That hurts my eyes just looking at the number, never mind the actual memory of the bad shots he jacked up. The 37 percent ranked 119th in the NBA, and that’s only because the NBA.com stat only went 119 guys deep.

So, if that was Bobby Rowell who vetoed the deal that Davis and Chris Mullin worked out, good job Bobby.

Baron Davis not in a Warrior uniform was my favorite part of this season.