Warriors to sign Jeremy Lin to two year deal

I’m only comparing myself to him as a basketball fan, not an actual player. I meant to say that Jeremy Lin on the Warriors would be like any of us as basketball fans getting to play for our favorite team. Not sure if that makes sense.

Sweet. A nice depth pickup, at worse. He seems pretty unlikely to sniff the production of CJ or Morrow, but I doubt that’s what the brass is expecting. You can’t really go wrong committing half a mil with a team option. I’d guess there’s still another biggish move in the offing, but what do I know.

So … what’s the latest on the “offing,” o wise Mr. Streetballer? Any tidbits you can impart? I’m still smarting over the loss of CJ and Morrow, but if we could swing this deal, I’d recover pretty quickly. Seems like pretty compelling move for all parties — particularly Philly, who rid themselves of $20-25M of financial burden, build around Holiday/Turner and load up on enough expirings to make a serious offseason run at Melo, Yao or Oden.

Strange that ol’ Lou Williams hasn’t been mentioned as a possible Curry/Monta/Reggie backup. With Holiday and Turner in place, it’s unlikely the ‘6ers are that excited about his 3/$17M contract (and everything I’ve read indicates as much). In terms of production and game, Lou is basically Monta with better passing / ball stewardship.

Curry 38 / LWilliams 8 / Lin 2
RWilliams 20 / LWilliams 10 / Iguodala 14 / Lin 4
Iguodala 24 / DWright 24
Lee 30 / BWright 18
Biedrins 28 / Lee 8 / Temporary Udoh replacement (Hunter?) 12

Get GuberLacob on the horn!

Melo does not seem like a sure fire"sliced bread" deal to me either. I dont quite see him as the superstar that he may view himself.

Truth be told I still havent gotten over how Sac got Cousins and Whiteside and we got 6th pick after enduring the nightmare of that bizzare year…..the only silver lining was to watch Udoh surprise everyone and kill summer leaque…oh did someone say he’s….INJURED!

and Misaka looks creeped out, i would be too if i was asian in utah in the 40’s

thanks! thought he couldnt be full. Lin is the first since him (I think).

If that is the case, then Rex Walters must be handsome, intelligent, successful and very popular among the ladies.

Mike Dunnleavy Jr. has over a dozen pictures that could rightly award him that distinction.

the ringer. terrible, just terrible, but funny

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I just think he listened to the fans

a lot of warriors fans have been talking about jeremy. that e-mail could have caused lacob to do some research on lin and helped him realize how much this player would be liked in golden state.

He’ll only consider the fans’ if what they say actually makes sense.

With the Lin signing. He can play, he’s cheap, and it will help for ticket sales. I’m sure Lacob looked into all of that before making a decision on going for Lin.

would be AWESOME

forealz…my bro’s 5’10" and im 5’11" almost 6’ and its hard for anyone to believe that we’re Filipino haha

Somebody like Arroyo or Williams will deliver something like 2-3 wins a season in that role – about what CJ would have delivered.

Somebody like Lin, well, we don’t know. He might deliver no wins. He might be a negative.

And yes, we could miss the playoffs by two games. So it could matter.

but I think Curry has a very very good chance to be better than Nash.

Suggesting we sign A.I. and Shaq, while saving cap room for Yao and Melo while keeping Biedrins and all of our other players. Your act is old.

If only this thought occurred to you earlier lol

After that whole “Do you remember the Vietnam War?” from years ago, plus the fact he is looking to stay near family and it didn’t go to well a few years back when he tried moving back West to play for the Clips.

I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if Skip to My Lou shows up. I remember they cut him once summer like 8 years ago but he did once have interest playing in Oakland.

either way, I don’t see how this affects making another move.

and yes it is centered around the guarantee. By the way, I must admit I am shocked by the fact it is a team option on that second year.

If he gets the playing time like Curry did, is it too early to suggest ROY consideration?

Yes. Yes it is entiretly too “any time in the history of the universe” to suggest ROY consideration.

if he’s probably not even gonna be a 2nd string player?

   Haha, you gotta be the most basketball challenged person I’ve ever seen?

Are you suggesting you’d rather have Lin than Cuz? Are you crazy?

Also no way in heck he gets ROY consideration ahead of Cuz, Wall, Griff and ET.

Seriously guys, Lin is not that good. There is a reason he was undrafted. Rarely do undrafted players make it and when they do they are really good at 1 thing. He isn’t , I’d be surprised if he played more than 5 minutes a night

hes not going to win rookie of the year haha

If he gets the playing time like Curry did, is it too early to suggest ROY consideration?

Yes, way too early. There’s no evidence whatsoever to believe that he’s going to sniff the floor. There will be rookies who play major minutes for their teams this year. What are the odds Lin ever seens anything but garbage-time minutes?

Yes bick you are truly a wise one. You should do a post about this and enlighten us more. Perhaps you should team up with monta4president !

Spending $ 250,000 guarantee on Lin for good PR is almost an absolute must business move.

Luckily for Lacob, Lin’s ability and other teams going after Lin gives the signing credibility.

Hopefully he surprises people. It would be a great start for the Lacob – Guber era.

I would have to think they are going to bring another point guard in before it’s all said and done.

I would say best case scenario, he becomes a homeless man’s Tony Parker. Lin is a slasher.

talking about starters. He would get eaten alive by NBA backups right now. Do you remember Baylor’s bigs shutting him down and making him life very difficult in that game? 15 pts on 17 shots after averaging over 30 in the previous two games. He has some work to do before he will make a roster.

time to change your name huh haha

 Just staying healthy would add 15 wins to last years total which would just bring us up to barely sucking territory.

Azuibuike basically didn’t play last year. So it’s not like we’re really “-Azuibike” this year – he didn’t add anything last year. Randolph added very little.

Going by Wins Produced:
Players: WP
Azuibuike 1.11
Randolph 2.54
Turiaf 1.64
Watson 4.1
Morrow 3.53
Total outgoing: 12.92

Lee: 17.3
Wright: 5.2
Total incoming: 22.5

Net difference: + 9.58 wins.

If you add in the loss of Maggette (4.25 wins) we’re down to 5.33 wins improvement over last year, although bear in mind that our team WP from last year is 31.74 – almost identical to our pythagorian w-l from last year. In other words, if we ran the same team out there again, with the same injuries, we’d expect to do about six wins better.

So assuming we play at the pythagorean level, the moves we’ve made thus far put us around 37 wins.

The question then becomes, where do we get more wins from?
Fortunately, it’s not too hard to imagine this team finding some more wins.
For example, Monta’s best year had him in the ballpark of 10 wins. THis last year he was about two. It’s there optimistic, but not unreasonable, to think that he might get to the ballpark of 7 wins. So that’s five more.

Gets us to 42 wins.

Andris produced 3 wins last year. His best year was around 13. Again, optimistic but not unreasonable to say he adds 10, total, so 7 more.

Gets us to 49 wins.

Reggie Williams was a solidly above-average player when he was on the floor, but only played for the last third of the season. Assuming his production tails off a little bit, but he plays substantially more minutes would double his total production, and adds 2 wins.

51 wins.

Two years ago Brandan Wright contributed 2 wins in very limited minutes. Assuming his production tails off a bit but he plays many more minutes should be good for at least two more wins.

53 wins.

Curry should be better this season than he was last. Even if he just plays at the level he was playing at the end of last season, for the whole year that should be something special. He was worth almost 10 wins last year. So, maybe 13 this year? Again, optimistic, but not unreasonable.

56 wins.

That covers all our primary rotation players except for a backup PG. Somebody like Arroyo is worth about 2 wins in that role, maybe a smidge more. Somebody like Lin might be negative. Let’s leave this out for the time being.

So there are a LOT of optimistic assumptions in all that, most particularly about health (and this team clearly has problems is Beidrins doesn’t come back) and Monta Ellis, but that strikes me as a pretty reasonable upper bound for this team.