Fun: Compile your wishlist

They’ll dish off Iggy for expirings cos Turner can grow. This will mean Vladman & Bell for Iguodala. IMAGINE!

Biedrins | Boone(?)
Lee | Wright | Udoh
Iggy | Wright
Ellis | Reggie
Curry | Lin

Yes please, this will happen before trade deadline and we’ll make another amazing playoff run, then get BEAT LA!

You said wish, right? :)

another with local ties, he’d be a good fit here.

I’m only going to use players available to trade for, so this doesn’t count players like Mike Miller. I’m also doing this assuming that we’re keeping our main 4 (Curry, Monta, Lee and Biedrins), so I’m not going to include players like Igoudala, whom we would have to give up one of our stars to get. not saying these are players we could actually trade for, just dont want to get into TOO many hypotheticals, so….

1) Shane Battier. As you said, greatest perimeter defender of this decade, as well as the most diverse defender (can guard 1-4, equally good on or off the ball). Selfless, does all the dirty work and intangibles, and is a SF, which is the only position we don’t have a solidified starter at.

2) Anderson Varejao. starter talent but used to coming off the bench. much needed energy boost. does what turiaf did, except that he rebounds as well. one of the best defenders in the league.

3) Shawn Marion. He’s had a falling out, and could probably be taken away pretty easily. Fantastic defender. great rebounder. very athletic. competant scorer who is more than happy not scoring. fits in as our 3 perfectly.

4) Shaq. I know, this is a really weird choice. But few teams have shown interest in shaq, and if that continues, he’s going to have to accept a role as a 6th man if he wants to continue in this league. I think he would make a great guy to split minutes with Biedrins. He’s still a very good rebounder (especially on the offensive end), defender, and gives us great size. He could take the grunt of the minutes when we play a team like the Magic or the Lakers, and Beans could take more when we play the Hawks or Blazers. Most importantly, Shaq would give us A) attitude, B) style and flair, C) leadership 4) experience winning. No one on our roster has anything close to a winning record for their careers.
plus, combined with beans, we’d have the greatest ft shooting center combination to ever play.

5) Marcin Gortat. decent defender and rebounder. bigger than biedrins. surprisingly good on offense. plays like he has something to prove.

6) Dahntay Jones. Great athleticism and defensive abilities. a little small to be our 3, but we could have him our 3 in a small ball line-up, or an SG of the bench. Reminds me of shannon brown, except that he’s better than Brown in every category (minus age and dunking).

7) Darko Milicic. I know, this is absolutely ridiculous, but hear me out. Darko has talent in him. He was drafted second in a deep draft for a reason (and don’t pull the “Kwame Brown” card on me…Kwame was drafted because he was huge and athletic. darko was drafted on his talent alone). For all his suckiness, the man has incredible footwork, and great outlet passes. I read an interview with him, and he wanted to go back to Europe because the teams he had played for in the NBA were mean and made the game less fun. As someone who struggled in HS bball when the coach would get too mad at me, I really think that if Darko gets a chance somewhere where he can play balls-to-the-walls basketball, he will erupt like Harrington, Monta and Azubuike did with Nelly. If we could make the game fun for Darko, I think he could be a 10, 5 and 3 6th man, and only go up from there.

8) Allen Iverson. Maybe it’s how late it is (it’s really not that late, actually). maybe it’s the fact that i’m sick. but for some reason, my list is getting really crazy. but again, hear me out. AI is getting no bites in FA. while he didn’t accept a 6th man role this year because he thought he was going to be a starter, he should know, if he chooses to join a team this year, that he will be coming off the bench. If he can accept that, he can obviously still contribute. what better way than to back up monta and curry with an explosive, fiery, balls-to-the-walls (sorry for using that expression twice in one post. tool!), fearless maniac? feel like going small ball? throw him in there WITH monta and curry. it would be fun. I strongly believe that every good teams needs to have 2 out of these 3 on their bench: energy guy, great defender, and capable of scoring 25 on any given night guy. the celtics had all 3 (davis, trick-or-treat tony, nate rob, respectively). if you give me a scorer like iverson, and an energy guy like varejao, i don’t care who else is on our bench.

9) Tony Allen. defense, can play SF, has a ring. enough said.

10) me. for obvious reasons. I probably wouldn’t contribute that much. but I would really love it if they signed me.

D Wright makes the need to pursue a lot of those names unnecessary. I’d love to see an up and coming player on another team come to the warriors to blossom – just to flip the script for a change.
If this happens, and Reggie is a serviceable backup to Monta at the 2 spot, we can get a cheaper three mid season (another buike from the D league?) and save our money trade exception to make a move for another big down the road

Iggy, Verajao, Marion, Gortat, AK47, and Scola should be out of the equation for salary/age reasons. We need to make sure not to handcuff ourselves financially going into the 2011-2012 season because if we have a solid year this season we will be a desired destination come 2011 offseason.

Players that we should be considering to add depth now are as follows….
Chuck Hayes
Wilson Chandler
Corey Brewer
Ersan Ilyasova
JJ Hickson
Aaron Afflalo
Jordan Hill
Luc Mbah a Moute
Easch player in that group is under 4mill this upcoming season with only 1 or 2 years left on contracts and would provide useful/cheap bench help for this season.

A bit more expensive but still useful….
Marvin Williams
Birdman
Battier
J. Jeffries
B. Bass
M. Gortat
R. Sessions
This group is all over 4 mill next season and some have longer contracts but would be very useful if able to get as part of a Radman or Gadzuric trade.

Let me know if i missed any other legit options.

Anderson Varejao helps with the big ? mark in the middle. Could become the starter.

I think trading Monta to Houston for Battier and Hayes, while trading a second round pick for Fernandez would be great. It allows us to get an experienced back up for Wright at the three and allows Rudy and Reggie to fight it out for the two spot. If there is any way to get Battier and Hayes without giving up Monta I would prefer that, I just couldn’t think of it because both Chuck Hayes and Shane Battier are expiring contracts. Also with Portland just signing Matthews we could probably get Rudy for a second round pick.