I think he’ll do well with the raptors
Over at their blog there are talking about how he’s going to be their next starter and everything, i dont know about all that…
but i think he’ll end up being a decent player,
especially on a team with an actual offense, i feel like he needed more structure to play.
I definitely agree that he looked lost on the court, and i feel that a change in systems will do him a lot of good.
Hope he does well.

Doesn’t matter much. You can even argue that there’s some type of chemistry benefit in dumping a guy who’d agitate for minutes and wouldn’t get them.

I think the biggest downside to the trade is that Marco might’ve been useful in a bigger package, as a low-risk lottery ticket for a team that liked his style. The Raptors are one of the only teams that have made signals about having interest in Marco, but even with them, it might’ve been better to keep Marco as part of a possible Bosh package in February than toss him over for dreck now. We certainly weren’t going to get less value for Marco than this… at worst, he’s an expiring contract with some upside. We got the worse package here, which never feels great.

Still and all, this just amounts to jettisoning a guy we didn’t have room for. Verdict: doesn’t matter much.

I don’t care what there damm excuse is, the GM should be fired, no trade should be one sided.

We could have gotten a 1st rounder for Marco + or used him as a chip to try to get the big man we needed.

This move disrespects the fans of Golden State and is just another in a long list of foolish personal moves that hurt the teams long chances of improving.

Don let MWilliams go for nothing after giving up a first round pick for him, traded Al for Crawford only to give him away for some cap space later:

The Warrior fans were under the impression that the Crawford trade was going to lead to a block buster deal, but nothing came of it.

I hate to bring this up but it needs to be said because this is the kind of bull s—- this leadership has been responsible for since the team unraveled under Don Nelson is the CWebb fiasco.

First of all Don Nelson got his ego bruised by Webber and couldn’t bring himself to make amends before the renegotiations of Webbers one year opt out deal, which was a big mistake to begin with.

That led to over a decade of missing the playoffs and the dismantling of a team that was on the verge of NBA history.

I’m not going to explain it if you don’t already know, but the way CWebb was treaded lead to a complete disruption of the teams chemistry, Spree, Billy O,and others were very upset that the team was broke up, that lead to people like Hardway and Spree and having hard feelings, Tim was a company man and Spree was upset he lost Webber, so the new owner who demanded he take over the team right at the time this was being worked out with Webber got his wish and took over, the first thing he did was side with Nelson and that was the unraveling, that lead to Webber being traded, then Timmy being traded to appease Spree, the team went downhill and lead to Don resigning, later Spree choked the new coach and we lost him, it was a disaster of mega proportions.

Don Nelson is more trouble than he’s worth, he’s a mixed bag but his act has gotten old, now we have his drinking buddy as the new GM and he’s nothing more than Don’s pawn, Cohan and Rowell don’t know jack diddle about running a basketball franchises so there depending on Don and he’s over the hill and out of touch, were very lucky this maniac didn’t get rid of AR last year, the guys ego is so big he would get rid of LBJ if he rubbed him the wrong way.

I have been high on Curry but mostly everyone had him going in the top 4 or 5 spots, so that was a no brainier as far as taking him at 7, that also gave us a false sense of security with management:

Now here we find ourselves again, watching every marquee free agent being signed by others teams without ever hearing our names mentioned as a possible suitor, were told by management that were looking for a PF to bolster the front court, and what the hell are they doing? Waiting till every last free agent is signed hoping they can get the last one for a nickel on the dollar, but what’s going to happen is these drunken idiots are going to wake up and find that they blew it and then have to either pay more than a players worth or wind up with nothing, these dumb clucks have sat on their fat asses and done absolutely nothing, and now they’re getting desperate and giving their players away, these are the dumbest idiots in the NBA by far. They make the Clippers look like Einstein;

a possible big trade?? freeing up money here w/ the raptors paying George’s contract AND freeing up minutes. i mean, really people… how valuable do can bellinelli possibly have been? especially with d-league talent overshadowing him

and CJ become key alongside Barnes and Pietrus at Orlando…

Trade was evident…but for Devean George? slaps knee

We’ll miss you Rambo…not by much…but we’ll miss you!
Can’t wait to see you rainbow shoot on us and see Ronny confused whether or not he should hyphy-cheer for that.

He has shown inconsistency, he has shown that he gets mad if you dont play him (he threatened to go back to Italy multiple times)

Also, the Warriors have too many guards, he wasnt going to get any playing time anytime soon, so why keep him? Bring in an expiring contract, veteran that can play right away.

Marco was a failed project. You will soon see this after the All-No Defense team they are building in Toronto gets him, and he sits on the bench as well.

Long story short, the Warriors have developed 0 use for Marco Bellinelli, hopefully someone else can use him

Thanks for giving us someone who will actually contribute to our Raptors team instead of the old guy who probably didn’t want to even be in Toronto anyway. Marco probably didn’t thrive because of Nelson’s system and maybe his lack of the Italian language. Toronto has set themselves up for on and off the court chemistry and CHEMISTRY is what it takes to succeed. So whoever wrote that article which is irrelevant anyway, just keep track of the Raps. Fire ur GM and ur Coach and start over. This trade only benefits Toronto.

It is pretty obvious this trade was not made for basketball reasons given that George won’t play at all. Doesn’t it appear as if we are stockpiling expirings in order to make some kind of package deal happen? I am personally pretty excited. I do realize that Beli will now turn into the second coming of Larry Bird, but good things could come from this.

Marco is not a loss to GSW, other than trading away a young player with potential for an aging vet coming off knee surgery IS STUPID. But I guess it solves a bit of the problem of having way too many overpaid wings on a team and no place for a young player to develop their game. Might miss him though when SJ and CM go down in January for a month or two?

Taking the positive, Don did Marco a big favor by giving him a chance to play this year.

geez, dummies, you’re missing the point..he was traded for GEORGE! (ie NOTHING!) For the Raptors it’s a great trade….and if you think Bosh will ever play for GSW, you are sadly deluded. He will either be re-signed or signed and traded for max money (only Toronto can give him that) and GSW have no hope on either of those fronts…but don’t worry, he’s one of the most overrated players in the league (except by teams that don’t play defense). The Bellinelli trade might mean nothing for GSW, but it’s a great CHEAP trade for Toronto.

First of all, I can’t believe this guy wrote a 20 page essay on a trade that he is COMPLETLY meaningless, at least for the side he’s writing on the behalf of. The raptors pay Georges contract… what, 1.5 million? For a giantic upgrade? ZOMG WE’RE OVERPAYING MORE EUROS!!! THE COMBINED 3.6 MILLION FOR HIS CONTRACT AND BUYING OUT GEORGE’S IS GONNA LEAD TO OWNERSHIPS BANKRUPTCY!!! Man, there are A LOT of sour GS fans in here looking for closure on this trade. Was Belinelli’s 1.6 million really burning that deep a hole in your pocket? Give this guy GM of the year award for saving you 1.6 million, yeah, awsome trade guys. You guys are making too much of what Belinelli means to the raptors. He is not the future. He is gonna fight for playing time here as he did in GS. He will not start. He will not be the first guard off the bench. He will not even be the first wing to come off the bench. Antoine Wright is definatly ahead of him, I assume Derozen is as well, and we still may get Deflinfo. Belinelli will come in and play 10-12 minutes a game and be asked to play his mediocre defense and hit a couple of 3’s. Hey… GS… what’s Devan George gonna do for you?

Devean Geroge = The “beef” that our FO has been searching for.

You guys that are saying this is a meaningless trade don’t know what the hell your talking about.

Listen up, every trade has meaning, you either make a good trade or a bad trade, and this trade is a jack ass trade and were the one’s saying he haw he haw.

These idiots don’t have a plan or the abilty to make a good trade, We gave Al away for a guy that we couldn’t;t wait to get rid of, this is the kind of crap that losing teams do because there run by morons.

Brian Colangelo was in love with this guy from the begginning. You could have at least held out for Antoine Wright… we might have even given you guys Patrick O’bryant back. LOL.

You talk like one of the morons that make the trade ?

Next they will give BWright away for a future 2nd rounder, or a little cash, thius is pure BS

The trade hasn’t happened officially, give it some time.

Since it looks like the magic aren’t going to be able to get him.

Marco was an interesting player, but I have to agree that he wouldn’t have had much playing time this season.

yeh that makes it offical, and it’s in the news there genius =)

You can downplay the signficence of this bone head move if you like, it only shows how duped you are.

For one thing marco has not been used right because of this maniac of a coacht is retarded, and needs to hit the road, I’ve had it with the Don the dumbell.

He almost got rid of AR last year? have you already forgotten? the kid went outside the Warriors to get council and was lucky for us to have been told to hang in there.

Don is a brain dead, he’s running on his old reputation nothing more.

are going to be really good this year. Marco might be a starting guard and he will show everyone, including the Warriors, that he is the real deal.

I agree with you there, but that don’t justify these kind of moronic moves. the fact that our 12th best player is staring on there team is a joke, but they still get one over on us for our stupidity

http://www.ibabuzz.com/warriors/2009/07/30/more-on-marco-trade/

Either nellie has an amazing plan to use George or he’s our new kurz

I will not buy a single Warriors ticket or piece of merchandise until Chris Cohan sells the team.

Quit supporting an owner who has no commitment to winning and open contempt for the fans who line his pockets. This is not part of a bigger trade, Cohan needs money and is lining his pockets with his savings. repeat teh mantra:

I will not buy a single Warriors ticket or piece of merchandise until Chris Cohan sells the team.

marco and c.j watson will tear up the league

and as for Fitz doesnt he remind any of you… of the guy in gulliver ( the negative guy who say were never going to make it or we cant do it).
 I can’t tell you how many times i turned down the sound or yelled for him to shut up when the warriors were playing because Fitz drove me crazy with his negativity about the warriors and his gloating of other teams players.
 And by the way…… didnt Fitz go behind his EX- friend Greg Papa and steal his job right from underneath him? Greg Papa was twice the annoucer Fitz is!

As for Marco here is your break…. make the best of it ….we will be rooting for you!

Marco got the break he needed….it’s tough to play for Nellie because the young players are always looking over their shoulder when they make a mistake because he has a quick trigger.
look at Randolph last year he plays hard plays great and one mistake and your on the bench. But if your one of his pets make all the mistakes you want and no penalty(ala Stephen Jackson) who i love as a player but needs to get a grip on his emotions.
Same thing happened to Marco plays great and 1 mistake to the bench for 2 weeks. He’s the only warrior that bothered Kobe and played him tough and of course we trade him. Chris Bosh just got an early Christmas present.

I was very, very surprised about the trade. I didn’t even know Devean George was still in the league.

does this benefit the warriors in ANY way at all? is devean george more attractive to other gms, even just as a throw in, than marco? really?

if you have 2 equally bad players, i’ll take the younger one thanks.

At one time, wasn’t Devean George considered a good defender? and decent 3point shooter?

I’d probably prefer they just release him and make room for minutes for Morrow and Buike, but maybe that was their thinking.

seems like Belli could have capture more the George’s expiring contract.

Of the little he showed as a W, he did show great floor vision and passing skills and a lethal J. He showed promise.

He also showed he has lead feet – i think he was slower than Mullie even.

The poll is kind’ve misleading to me. Does it mean meaningless like “why in hell would they do this trade?” or meaningless like “it doesn’t matter that we lost Belinelli.” Maybe a simpler ‘was this a good trade’ would’ve been better. I tend to think that if that question was posed that the overwhelming majority (like 95%) would agree that the Warriors got screwed. Heck, a retarded dead and dumb could see that the Warriors got majorly f’d in the buttox.

athletic knucklehead. Didn’t we just get rid of one in Jamal Crawford and we still have one in Corey Magette. Just added another player with no brains and no ability to deliver when its on the line. WTF???? This ain’t going to help us.

I just want to check in on Atma’s totally unfair smear on Mullin’s legacy:

1. Parading out all Mullin’s 2nd round picks as evidence that he was a stupid GM. You can’t really call second round picks busts bc they almost never pan out. To be a bust something has to be expected of you. They are gambles at best. If you get one Monta in 4-5 years of second rounders you’ve done more than enough. Mullin got Monta so his 2nd round record is solid. Almost every gm in the league gets his share of Lasmes and Tafts.

2. Not giving Mullin credit for Randolph. Everything I remember reading around the draft was that Mullin really liked AR and wanted him so even if he was a “lame duck” he was still the GM at the draft and Randolph should be up there.

3. Not looking at the picks in context. Mullin took chances on raw big men or big men with perceived flaws bc that’s the only way to get an impact guy drafting where he was drafting. Obviously there will be some misses. O’Bryant may be a bust but I can’t call him a terrible pick bc when you look at what was availabe in that awful draft taking a chance on a long 7 footer with some upside was not the worst thing you could do. Immediately after POB the picks were Saer Sene, JJ Reddick and Hilton Armstrong. If you look at Mullin’s lottery picks counting the Wright deal as a pick- Biedrins, Diogu, POB, Wright, Randolph- and two or three of these guys anchor your front line and one turns into an all-star or near all-star you’ve done a solid job. If Randolph is as good as a lot of people think he will be Mullin’s grade will be even higher.

4. Mullin gets a lot of flack considering he made all the moves that brought the Warriors from being a joke to two winning seasons in a row and one playoff series victory. If the Ws rebound from last year as seems likely it will be largely bc of the Mullin picks of Monta, Biedreins and Randolph. None of the new moves by Nelson-Riley look promising with the possible exception of the Curry pick, which as someone posted, was something of a no-brainer.

Over the past 2 weeks, there has been plenty of NBA activity: trades, free agent signings, players moving around the league. And while the rich have gotten richer (the most improved teams are the perennially deep-into-the-playoffs teams), the league has divided into “haves and have-nots”and our beloved Ws have been watching from the sidelines.

But not to worry, the team website counters. They say, and I kid you not, as I quote verbatim:

      “It may be July, but the Warriors have been plenty busy…from the 2009 NBA draft… [Drum roll, please – its worth waiting for this one] to Warrior Girl Tryouts, the organization has experienced a bevy of activity.”

No, please, pick yourself off the floor, stop laughing and catch your breath.

I say this because our beloved front office crew proved yesterday they are after more than a better dance routine. While they sat idly while Vince Carter, Shawn Marion, Hedo Turkoglu, Shaq, Tyson Chandler, Andre Miller, Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva, Richard Jefferson, Sheed, Antonio McDyess, Brandon Bass, Mike Miller, Trevor Ariza, Ron Artest, Channing Frye all found new homes, the Ws showed they mean business on Wednesday. They made a trade.

They acquired Toronto’s hotly pursued Devean George. And all they had to give up was Marco Belinelli, the 18th overall ‘07 pick. And here comes the really good news: Toronto is picking up most of George’s $1.6mm salary next year.

Why, you might ask, is that really good news? Well, lets assume you own an NBA team in the Bay Area. And lets assume that you have well documented and publicly known IRS problems and personal cash flow issues. And lets say that there was a salary cap and luxury tax system in place where, if your NBA team is below the cap, you get your pro rata cash distribution of other owners’ luxury tax payments. Hmmm…

So you dump a player making $10mm a year for a couple of players who wont be on the team much longer. Really helpful. But you could use a little more. So you speak to the coach and your buddy, the team president, and ask: how can we trim the payroll more without scaring away the fans?

Well, you are told, we have a logjam at the 2 guard position, 6 guys who will fight for minutes – Jax, Morrow, Monta, Curry, Azebuke, Belinelli. Marco wont see a lot of playing time – he’s not in the coach’s fave 5. We can dump him and save a couple of scheckles. Lets find sometime who will take him and also eat the salary of the player we get in return.

Viola! Its done.

Never mind 2 years ago we were very high on our first round pick. Terrific shooter, can drive to the hoop, slick passer, great NBA potential, a vital piece of our future.

And we get to cement our position among the “have-nots.” All so easy.

Are we, the fans, disappointed? Well, the team still has alot of potential – Randolph is developing into a legit NBA star. Morrow is proving he belongs, can stretch the floor and perhaps lead the league in 3s shooting again. Monta and Jax are healthy. Curry might contribute, despite shooting 38% in the Vegas league against wannabes. And maybe this is the year Brandon Wright shows he is an NBA player deserving of 30+ minutes/game.

And, I believe the trading isnt done. Here is a prediction: In late August, when Speedy Claxton is available to be moved, The Ws trade for Carlos Boozer.

Whoa, you say. Wait just a cotton picking minute. This might make the team better. And Boozer is highly paid. How does that jive with the salary dumping, penny pinching Ws ownership? Its a short term / long term thing. Here’s the deal:

They give up Claxton, Andre Biedrins, maybe Brandon Wright, maybe a #1 pick.

Looks exciting. Is it good? For the Jazz, its terrific. They get rid of someone who is leaving in a year, carries a huge salary and already has a very promising replacement. In return, the Jazz get a legit low post center who is quick, can move, score and rebound, and fits well in their motion offense. He is signed long term. Maybe their missing piece to make a serious run at the championship.

The Ws? They get Boozer. A terrific player, no doubt, even if he is sometimes accused of not playing defense (and who on the Ws roster isnt in that boat?). But he is on loan for 1 year, and that’s the beauty for the ownership – Boozer’s $13mm salary comes off the books after this season, and the Ws ownership get out from under Biedrin’s 5 year, $50mm contract.

The Ws lose their only legit center and leading rebounder on a team starved for rebounding.

And, us? The fans? Tantalized for one more season of almost making the playoffs. Just a thought….

Until next time….

I love Marco Belinelli. People chanted Rocky!
remember all the hits he took from Garnet? He is like Rocky

anyway. good luck Marco!

How did they let you on this site. I write some game recaps for the A’s and I get them deleted, you write pure garbage and it gets kept on the site.

Larry Riley just showed what he’s going to be for the Warriors as a GM he’s incompetent as they come. Belinelli for a washed up Devean George. George who has never been a starter in his career, who hasn’t played more than 70 games since 2005-2006.

Yeah, the biggest joke is Riley! He practically gaver the Raptors Belinell and the Warriors could have gotten a lot more for Belinelli.

Belinelli is going to show this year with more playing time his abilities. Last year, before he sprained his ankle he showed he could make tough shots, that he was improving defensively, and also improved his court vision.

With the Raptors expect him to be scoring double digits either coming off the bench or starting. Either way Riley’s incompetence has just been proven and as the author of the post your post makes you look incompetent as well!

Just curious……..as to why Randolph wasn’t named summer league player of the league?
Blake Griffin? Randolphs numbers dwarfed his….. just shows how people perceive the warriors. Last year Morrow doesn’t get invited to the 3 pt shootout.

David Stern should wake up the Bay Area has the best fans in basketball with the worst owner management in sports…..when is the last time a Warrior has made the Allstar game.

 We get no Respect!