OPEN THREAD: Warriors Media Day 2009

 haha, yeah live spelling is the shitz

sounds like a veteran. not a “ron artest veteran tyep” so he doesn’t sound stupid.

It’s gonna be confusing watching Monta and Curry if they’re on the court together. They look so much alike.

“Why’d you pass it to Curry when you two were in the paint! You know he can’t score in hectic traffic that good!”

“But, I thought that was Monta who was in the paint!”.
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“Why’d you pass it to Monta when there was only 2 seconds left? You know he can’t shoot three’s!”

“I thought that was Steph out in the perimeter! I thought it was him that would make the game winning three!”
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true enough, he didn’t back away from his trade request one iota.

“Sure, I can start right now. I can do pre-game commentary with you and pauses Bob Fitzpatrick”. hahaha.

Hmmm… good nickname.

Isn’t it streaming live? I am watching Acie interview from it right now

can he not regret going into the stands??

I booed him last year and will continue this year

Chemistry goes south on Don Nelson every handful of years, and there isn’t anything anyone can do to stop it.

Between Jackson and Monta, the Warriors should maybe just try to purge all the bad mojo before things start up for real. Just wait for it, though — Nelly will fan the flames.

he said that you can’t have two guys on the floor play together like that because when the game slows down they’ll have difficulty gelling…

do honestly disagree with that…

i don’t think monta is saying it out of spite for curry…hes simply being realistic…i think he actually wants to win…go figure

Monta is being totally realistic. We cannot win with that lineup. Our defense would give up many more points that we already do. Neither Monta or Curry can stop PG’s from penetrating into the rim, forcing our bigs off their guys, leaving others open to shoot or rebound. Monta is simply being a voice of reason.

I’m not really saying the lineup can never work, there are situations where it will succeed, but over all their weaknesses in defense are too similar to play together.

 It can’t possibly be as bad as last year unless Montay’s new hobby is Skateboard Big Air Rail Jam?

It only seems like that because we don’t know what to expect.

Once the players get on the court, all they have to do is play ball. Everything else is put aside. They all want to win.

I can see us doing great this season if the team stays healthy. We get to start the season with Monta playing, unlike last season when he was out for 3 months. That alone is a big improvement, some people forget how good Monta really is.

We also got Anthony Randolph who could help carry the team if he gets his playing time. Anthony Morrow will probably be a deadly consistent shooter again, and Stephen Curry has the skills to duplicate that and add some versatility as well. Brandan Wright brings extra length and athleticism off of the bench, same goes with Buike, Turiaf, Maggette, etc.

If a lot of players do good, then I see Maggette doing well, too. He’ll be able to play his role instead of having to ballhog due to lack of healthy players and all that. He can help make the Warriors one of the best teams in the league at getting to the line, which is a big plus since we’re known to shoot more three’s than free throws.

  I’m gaining new respect for Montay the way he’s speaking out and showing he’s learned a lot about the game in the last couple of years.
    If he can handle the point I’ll be very happy for him and you’ll be eatin your words.

NBA teams have people who go to their next opponents’ games and watch their sets, their signals, their play calls, the whole thing….

There’s been talk about how the economy might cut into that sort of thing, causing teams that starve their scouting department to be at a competitive disadvantage. The status quo, though, is that teams know the stuff their opponents run, more or less. Barring big chess moves like a surprise small lineup, they know.