We only looked for big man and we got them.
Too bad our big man, are still young and they are still raw.
They should be good in the futur, but they wont help us next year.

Uninspiring.  You don't draft for need.  You draft talent.  Ask Sam Bowie all about that one.

And the guy was an mediocre player until he blew up in the tournament.  THAT'S SCARY.  

I'm liable to give this one a D on that alone now.

The warriors dont need two more projects. That was the
last thing they need. Its been to long since they made
the Playoffs. This team needed a SF and Carney was
still there when the 9th pick was made. Also, Mullin
should have tried to trade This draft was uncreative
and Terrible for the Warriors.

Let me add I know are biggest need is a true big men, But Im tired of these soft ones.

But only because there weren't any significantly better options at #9 and I'm pretending the second round of the NBA draft didn't really happen.  

Positives:
O'Bryant may be able to fill an immediate shot blocking need.  The way we play perimeter defense that need is intensified compared to teams that, you know, defend.  He looked good against some stiffs in the NCAA tourney and will see plenty of those in the NBA as there are only a handful of legit players at the 5 position.  His mobility will be a welcome change from Foyle/Biendrins.

Negatives:
His upside is probably a less athletic Samuel Dalambert.  It will be two years before he is productive and the Warriors could use some help immediatly to keep fan interest high.  Does he really add any interior toughness to the league's softest team?

Completely uninspired effort from the Warriors... I'd have been much happier had Golden State been able to make a trade similar to Houston's in which they shed a semi-bad contract and the pick to acquire Shane Battier, a favorite of many around here.

I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect O'Bryant will be a stiff.  However, this draft was pretty weak after Roy and Rudy Gay were selected.  I would have preferred the Warriors to draft Carney, but once Gay and Roy were gone, I doubt any pick was going to excite me.

I'm not that excited by a 7'0'' project whose dream is to be a chef and whose favorite movie is Finding Nemo, but I don't know who else they should've taken. They don't need an athletic wing who can't shoot like Carney or Brewer. I can only hope they have a trade in the works (a la Murf and Pietrus for Chandler) so the opening day roster is not last year's trash + Bradley.

We got nothing. O'Bryant is a big man, yes, but like everyone else has said, he is a project. What we're gonna do is develop him, and once he actually gets decent...he'll probably end up helping another team, kinda like Hughes, Arenas, and Jamison. He might be like our good friend Erick Dampier. No one really gives a shit about the other dude...hopefully we're wrong about him too. I'm pretty sure we will have some sort of roster shake-up soon though...there's no way that Mullin is satisfied with our current roster, and if he doesn't want to lose his job, he'll make a move, and a good one.

I think Mully was planning for the future!  With absolutely terrible picks like these the Warriors are primed for a #1 lottery pick in 2007 which they can use as a bargaining chip to land Alan Iverson AND Kevin Garnett!  Actually, I'm so disgusted being a W fan right now I can't help being sarcastic.

Steve Kerr gave the Warriors a D- which is quite generous:

Warriors D- The NBA is undergoing a transformation and is being dominated by quick, versatile swingmen. Why go with 7-footer Patrick O'Bryant when guys like Ronnie Brewer, Rodney Carney, Thabo Sefalosha and J.J. Redick are available? This was a "need" pick for the Warriors, as was second-round center Kosta Perovic, but to me, there's not that much need for 7-foot projects these days. The game is too fast.

Using 2 draft picks on 2 unproven centers is pretty pathetic i think. I watched videos on o'bryant and i dont see anything special in him. Or i guess im sick of bring in a lottery pick as projects when Bay Area fans want to win now and be close to a championship in the near future. Also if there were all these trades going down how come they couldnt trade up 2 spots and land Brandon Rookie of the Year(ROY). Also the 2nd round pick that might have gone lottery a couple years ago went into the 2nd round for that reason. Projected late 2nd round going as 38th pick is pretty pathetic when they could have gotten Dee Brown or someone else besides another big. Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic.
Hopefully we land Harrington or AI

The Warriors are in some weird space between mediocrity and playoff bound.  They're not sucky enough to snag a first round pick, but stock pile what look like at best good role players at the 9 to 11 lottery spot.  Picking on 'potential' is the last thing the Warriors need.  Perhaps the goal is to tank it, trade baron and jrich over the summer, become completely horrible, and then snag the #1 pick next year!  

Does anyone really think Patrick O'Bryant will be an impact player? A lanky center from, of all places, Bradley? And does anyone else even think Kosta will ever step on the court as a Warrior?

Mullin went with the pick that would give him the least amount of immediate flack at 9, and completely wasted his second rounder.

The only reason I stave from giving him an F is because O'Bryant does, at the very least, look like he has the makings of a passable backup center. Those come in handy, especially when they prevent you from doling out 30 million+ deals to Adonal Foyle.

So in a draft with no (that we know of) LeBron or Shaq types people are upset that the Warriors couldn't find a way to find such an impact player. I don't get it. If last season proved anything is that the Warriors are talented but not one player away from the playoffs.  We tried to move up nobody was going to bite on the pu-puu platter of role players with bad contracts Mullin was offering. So the team was more or less stuck at 9. He's skinny but I think O'Bryant can contribute on the defensive end a lot more quickly than most expect and in Perovic the Warriors had a once lottery bound player in the second round.

Is it sexy? No. But the Warriors did about as well as anyone has a right to expect given the constraints that they were in.

I could have lived with the "potential" of POB, but Kosta Perovic is a complete waste. I guess we did too well in last years 2nd round, so we balanced it with a god-awful one. As for POB, I would've taken Brewer over him, but thats just me. POB is a project, and we'll just have to see how he does. I'll put money on Carney or Brewer making an All Star Game before him though.