What choice do they have? Can they get a do over if they didn’t stand by the decision?
The time to worry about this stuff is before the draft, not after. Right now they should be discussing how they are gonna retain their draft pick this year and not worry about spilled noodles.

at least we didn’t pick aminu nor Wesley Johnson.

It’d be pretty stupid of them to come out and say they don’t stand by their decisions before Udoh’s rookie contract runs out.

I posted this in the game thread, but found this interesting since the Udoh vs Monroe debate raged on since draft night.

So I decided to track their match up. When they were matched up on on one, these were the outcomes:

Udoh playing defense, Monroe on offense: Udoh stopped Monroe from scoring twice, while Monroe scored on Udoh once.

Udoh playing offense, Monroe playing defense: Udoh scored on Monroe once, and Monroe stopped Ekpe from scoring once

I think both team’s got what they wanted out of the draft pick. Detroit, being offensively challenged, drafted Monroe to provide that scoring punch. GSW, as we all know, has had well documented trouble on defense, so they drafted Udoh, the best defender available. Fair or not, these two players will be compared next to each other by GSW fans for their whole careers. Monroe will always have the superior statistics, though, because Udoh’s contributions to his team’s success are not something that can be measured. All in all, hindsight is 20/20 and we’ve got Udoh while Detroit has Monroe. I guess we can make a judgment when all is said and done.

The real problem with this is that we were trying to get Lee and that influenced our decision to draft Udoh over Monroe. We coud be sitting here with Steph and Monroe as our core, instead of Steph and Lee. Had we not signed Lee, we would have had massive cap room to sign someone like Nene to play next to Monroe. Oh, well. Spilled milk now.

One thing glaringly obvious about Monroe’s game: he’s a horrendously bad defender. Like, disgustingly bad. I haven’t looked at numbers, but I don’t feel like I’m going out on a limb saying that he’s among the absolute worst starting Centers in the league, defensively.

If we’d have picked Monroe, I guarantee that a lot of us would be whining about Monroe’s “empty numbers” and how we needed defense but Riley grabbed Monroe instead, who didn’t fill that need at all.

But the reasons Golden State did not select Monroe still apply. He’s not the big body, physical big man they envision.
Greg Monroe is roughly of average size for an NBA center. We’ve covered this at DBB. He’s also YOUNG and will get bigger. Further, anyone who says Greg Monroe is not a physical player is a liar. A damn liar.

Being more of a power forward (or a high-post center), he clashes with David Lee’s skills a bit.
I’m not the only Pistons fans who would have LOVED to try and make this front-court work together.

The Warriors desperately need defense and Udoh provides it. He certainly did Sunday. His line: 27 minutes (season-high), 10 points, six rebounds, four blocks (season-high) and three steals. Udoh helped hold Monroe scoreless in the fourth quarter.

See? The one career game they have played against each other CLEARLY proves drafting Udoh over Monroe was not a mistake.

Riley said Udoh won’t be judged by Monroe. A couple team sources said they take solace in the fact that Udoh is still a good draft pick even if Monroe may have the sexier numbers.
Translation: We don’t judge Udoh by Monroe because it makes us look like complete idiots.

But Udoh, the Warriors hope, will develop his scoring and rebounding and make up the difference with his intangibles.
Ah, yes. The "intaginbles" argument. The fall-back argument of last resort.

This article is the literary equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "LALALALA" as loud as you can.