Details of Croshere's contract were unavailable, although as a 10-year veteran, he must receive a minimum of $1.22 million. If the contract is for one year only, the team would receive about $450,000 back from the league, thanks to regulations meant to keep veteran free agents from becoming prohibitively expensive when rounding out a roster.

that could be us

What the hell is going on in the warriors front office, besides them settling for garbage vets. I'm confused.

This white boy has no skills!! The third Dunmurphy sister will reveal herself...

why would Mulson want Austin

out of 15. That includes Pietris but not Lasne, and Barnes.  Barnes fired Fegan this last week and is looking for a three year deal.  Bets are that Pietris will be off loaded with another 1 or 2 players for a Warrior "need" leaving room for Barnes and others.  The Warriors are NOT done yet.

Croshere, maybe MulliNelliAlJax knows how to set this guy up for 10/10 a night, or just a banger that likes to mix it up with with Boozer??

has a lot of heart.  Besides, Mullin knows Austin from his days in Indiana.  I'm sure Mullin knows a thing or two about his game.  There were times in the Dallas series when he'd come in and be the only guy giving energy.  I'd be willing to accept anybody who stands up to BD (including AK47).

Welcome Croshere!

I am absolutely convinced that this has some under-the-table Mullin/Duffy stuff written all over it. Duffy is also Biedrins' agent--could this be some sort of appeasement to guarantee that Duffy doesn't play hardball next summer?

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Croschere at the vet's minimum doesn't mean jack since it's one year- his body eating up a roster space bugs me more.

Kosta, well, everywhere i've read, he's sucked. But if spending $5M on him saves us, say $2M/year for a 5 year extension on Biedrins, then we've already come out at head. Thank you Bill Duffy? Biedrins was easily looking at $50m/5 years; if we get him for, say, $40m/5 years, we got a steal.

It very well might have to do with the fact that Mullin & Croshere were teammates, especially the season where Croshere just overachieved (and that's not saying much) during the Pacers run to the Finals.  The thing that worries me is he is a weak rebounder, doesn't run, and has an inconsistent shot.  I'd much rather look around the world for Keith Van Horn before giving this guy a contract... but he's being signed before Matt Barnes and Pietrus... both of whom are better than Croshere... maybe its a cost/benefit thing (Barnes and Pietrus does command more money than Croshere) but the benefits looks to be really slim... I hope its not the beer causing Nellin/Mulson to make this decision ...

i think signing croshere is a great move for us. he gets to play in a system that loves shooting big men. he will be comfortable knowing that the men who signed him have full confidence in him, plus he'll be playing with a lot of players we know.

i'm going to go out on a limb and say croshere has a brian cardinal-type season. even though this is the best case scenario, i think he can do it.

and im still disgusted if we really signed this guy instead of tryna resign barnes or mp, why don't we try to swing jason williams from the Heat, they got Smush Parker now, or lets try to get boykins back i mean this is just plain stupidity to sign this guy, unless Jax and Al are vouching for him, and he lost some weight cause he looked almost as big as Al. which reminds me I hope Al lost some weight.

http://www.euroleague.net/news/interviews/i/9489/179/euroleague-net-interview-kosta-perovic-partizan ?smid=181

http://www.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=BFG

I'm sure there are more.

I was (and I guess still partially) a Pacers fan back when Reggie was killin' the Knicks. Even so after he retired. I was actually looking forward to JO and Al Harrington make something out of that team. (Sucks for Jon Bender). And back then, I was actually fairly impressed by Austin Croshere. To the point where I wondered why he didn't get as much PT as I thought he should have. I always thought he was a decent offensive threat who could pull big men away from the basket.

. . .but that was back then. This signing to me isn't making any kind of sense right now. Hopefully Mullin can show us the light.

We've got damn near a full roster right now, but I'm sure we all feel like we're missing something BIG. Hopefully a big sign and trade deal comes through for Pietrus.

at the minimum seems like a  decent move but I don't get the Kosta move.  To much guaranteed money for a guy who could turn out to be another big stiff on the bench

We already have POB and Foyle to cover big men who will never play and I am not sure I am buying the same agent argument.  AB is no dummy.  If his agent is playing around like this he needs a new one

it was nice knowing ya

I still hope they can pull of a deal to unload Cabbage and POB and hopefully take back only one guy in return

a big deal done within a weak. Be prepared.

Well then, I want to know who Croshere's agent is- the same as Kobe's, is his agent Dick Cheney, the Mafia, god ? Why the hell would we give him even the minimum? HE'S DEAD WEIGHT aaahhhhhhhh!!

is on Fegan's list...who knows now,

http://www.hoopshype.com/agents/dan_fegan.htm

is soft.  i hate everything about him from his pasty ass face to his pasty ass face to his pasty ass.....face.  plus he is a bia.  this pansy better not prevent us from signing barnes cuz that is a real player, a true warrior.  not somebody who's gonna come in and be a bia bia like clothesherr.  and yes, i'm staking claim to that name so yall need to remember where u heard it first.  

i'd rather have kieth van horn than this scrub.  but it's really a lose lose situation.  what is mulson smoking and where can i get it?

Croshere was a senior at Crossroads when Baron went there and I think they played together for at least a year. Are these two guys friends?

Croshere is better then POB, Powell, and Foyle.

We need a big to give us a few minutes off the bench and he can do that.

Paying him around 700k for one year is f'in nothing, stop being such babies because we arent making a HUGE move.

Guess what? 95% of the league isnt making big moves, why are we suppose to be any different?

A question about the original entry, now modified by OZ.  Is our moderator responsible only for the link to Croshere's stats, or for the text below it (starting 'not too shabby') as well?  It was my understanding that the role of moderator was to cut down on abusive postings and spurious and/or duplicative diaries.  

Overall, I think that some sort of moderation is a good idea, but I'd suggest going light on actually editing anyone's posting.  It's a peculiar situation when a moderator is also a heavy-traffic poster.  Modification of someone's post to include editorial commentary on the subject matter seems above and beyond the point of moderation.  

We have WAY too many players on this team that are "decent" players. I doubt Mulson and company are going to sit on this....Im with most of the people on here, something big is going to happen. But whats still out there? Who is still looking to be dealt?

By the way....is it me, or is Josh Powell better then Austin Croshere?

http://media.knbr.com/knbr/0802rowell1.mp3

http://media.knbr.com/knbr/0802rowell2.mp3

I posted a brief line or two in some diary yesterday??  but here you go.  

I always refer to him as "crotch hair"

its as low risk as could be. if nellie doesnt like him, he wont play him. simple as that. its only 1 year for the minimum. maybe he'll win us a game or 2 by accident. guys who play their heart out are worth at least something

it hit nba.com; i was hoping it was a hoax

http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/Warriors_Sign_PerovicAndCroshere.html  

So basically we have a scrub whose best days were 7 years ago plus and 14 feet (adding PoB) of useless "potential?"

Someone hit the 'reset' button.  These signings went terribly wrong

is Austin Flowers, pretty self exaplanitory