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Time for my favorite player on the Dubs this year, Stephen Jackson.

Brought along with Al Harrington, in what we here at GSoM consider the heist of the century, Jack was once considered a risky risky player to bring to the bay.  He was a big part of the whole Ron Artest ordeal and best known for firing a gun outside of an Indiana strip club.  He had a ring with the Spurs, but who really cared when he first came to the bay?  Looked like a trouble soul and a guy that just needed to get his head up out of his you know what.  Expectations were low - the hope was that he just wouldn't screw things up too much.  We had DUNLEAVY before him, how much worse could it get?

Oh Stephen, how you proved everyone so so very wrong.

More after the jump!

Hit your thoughts, predictions, and grades in the comments!

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Al Harrington is up. It was his first full year as a Warrior after coming over from Indiana the previous January. He's still one of my favorite guys on the team, but there always seems to be something missing from his game. He never quite fills the role or the expectations.

Hit the jump for the recap and prediction. Leave your thoughts, grades, and predictions in the comments.

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GSOM Night 5 is 2 days away.  GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! 

But alas, back to business.  Just a few more player recaps and predictions.  Just a few more left, and with this one, we figured we should do a special edition on the Three-Headed Monster that is soon to become our starting PG...

  Call that my Throwback to Hash.  But maybe I should just leave the art to Tony...

Anyway, hit up the jump for recaps, predictions, and grades.  Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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Just a few more days until opening night aka GSOM Night 5 (did you get your tickets yet?) so we'll continue to finish up these player recaps and predictions. There's just a few more left. Up next is the guy who is most famous for being the guy we traded Jason Richardson (JRich!) for - Braces aka Brandan Wright.

On a side note, what will it take and how long will it take for people to forget that Wright was traded for JRich? (yea, yea, yea until GSOM stops reminding you haha).

Hit the jump for the recap and prediction. Leave your thoughts, grades, and predictions in the comments.

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We're at about the midpoint of the Warriors 2007-2008 season. The good news is that if the regular season ended today the Warriors would be playoff bound for the second year in a row and are only 5.5 games out of the prestigious #1 seed in the mighty Western Conference. The bad news is that they are clinging to only a 0.5 game lead over the Utah Jazz for the right to not count ping pong balls in May.

At last season's midpoint Fantasy Junkie hit you with a fun auto-centric midterm report card. Since it's beyond frigid right now in this brutal Bay Area winter I thought I'd bring the heat for you all in this year's Warriors 2k7-2k8 Midterm Report Cards using the NBA Hotspots feature on NBA.com. Hotspots is presented by NBA Live 08 from the same people who brought you those nice outdoor hoops courts in Redwood City, EA Sports. I'm a big fan of information visualization and thought it'd be cool to go Edward Tufte on you in this piece.

Make the jump to see what's IN THE GAME!

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Even during that dark, dark 12 year stretch (see The Dirty Dozen: 1 | 2 | 3) no matter how bad the Warriors were I always felt proud of the in arena entertainment offerings and personnel. From the supafly Warrior Girls, to the Balco friendly Thunder, to the always hype Franco Finn, to the show-stopping Jr. Jam Squad, to the wheeling and pizza dealing Hoop Troop, to the GTOe bands, to the dope drummers in the playoffs, to the super duper hyphy GS Lightning- these guys were simply UNSTOPPABLE BABY!

Ain't

no

party

like

a

Roaracle

party!
(Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

After the jump... IT'S A GREAT TIME OUT!

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What a difference a year makes. After last year's dismal campaign with Coach Mike Montgomery at the helm, Baron Davis fairly or unfairly took a lot of the blame. When it rains it pours.

This past season however when the Warriors became the darling of the sports world Boom Dizzle won the hearts of many not just those of the good people in the Bay. When it's sunny it's eye-blindingly bright.

Another ReDirkulous highlight!

You can always celebrate his Boomness over at the excellent Fear the Beard (some real good folks!) and even at his own new blog.

3 of the NBA's Most Wanted: Boom Dizzle, Snoop Dizzle, and J Rizzle.

Make the jump for another BOOMing GSoM Report Card!

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If you thought we had fun putting together Mike Dunleavy's very last GSoM report card, then strap on your seat belts for this one. Up next is the one, the only...

People in Indiana can't stand the man. The Charmin soft fans in Dallas can't stand the man. The refs can't stand the man. The NBA's vanilla fanbase can't stand the man. David Stern and the NBA's PR department can't stand the man.

But us?

This is our man.

He's like that crazy cousin everyone has who's always on the verge of doing something absolutely nuts, but always, always, always has your back. He'll go down swinging with you even if you're outnumbered 2 to 12- he's just down for the cause. Thankfully with Jackson and the Roaracle We Believers it was exactly the opposite as it was 20,000 on 5 (just ask Cuban's crew). Like Tim Duncan, I'll take this man on my team any day of the week.

It's funny how things come back to full circle. The last time the Warriors made the playoffs Nellie was at the helm. As you know Nellie's return last season meant a return to the playoffs. The last time the Dubs were in the West's elite 8 CWebb and Spree were clowning Charles Barkley. This time around Jax filled the void that had been absent since those two were chillin' at the barbershop by clowning none other than the Chuckster on national TV. I'll never forget Jax joking around about Barkley on TNT not having a ring and saying that Dwyane Wade could never make it into his TMobile Fav 5 because it was already filled up by the likes of Mickey D's, Dominos, Burger King, Cinnabon, and Krispy Kreme. (Check out Barkley Does the Bay -- Readers' Photoshop Creations from the C.W. Nevius SFGate blog for a good laugh.)

After a decade plus of a culture of losing fostered by Chris Cohan's countless blunders, the only thing that could overcome it was heart and the "I just don't give a..." attitude. Enter stage right Stephen Jackson...

Steve Kerr: "And when I said Stephen Jackson doesn't care,
I meant it in the best possible way."
[LeTZGoHeaT]

Thank you Indy!

• Trade: Dun, Murphy, Diogu, McLeod for Harrington, S. Jackson, Jasikevicius
• The Warriors & Pacers Blockbuster Trade: Throwing Up W's and L's
• Basketball Obituaries -- Mike Dunleavy Jr. 2002-2007
• Dad's got my back!
• Warriors Head Coach Don Nelson Talks about the Blockbuster Trade
• Warriors-Pacers Blockbuster Trade Linkfest
• A Little Pacer Perspective on the Blockbuster Trade
• New Warrior Al Harrington Talks about the Trade
• Everyone's Talking About the Trade!
• GSoM Q&A with Matt Steinmetz - 01/18/07 (Part 1 of 2)
• A Reality Check on the Blockbuster Trade between the Warriors and Pacers
• GSoM Q&A with Marcus Thompson II - 01/30/07 (Part 1 of 2)
• Jon Barry on the Warriors and Pacers Trade
• Simulation Analysis of the Warriors-Pacers Blockbuster Trade

Make jump for a report card with some guaranteed Action!

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