Just a fun hypothetical question. If Charlotte lands the #1 pick and wanted stephen curry, would you trade Stephen Curry for Anthony Davis?

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Our new owners need a good look in the mirror, a "coming to Jesus" so to speak. Do you guys know what I mean?

Here's the deal; typical new owners think they can just walk in the door. Put their own Midas touch on the controls and turn the franchise around. Now, they've done a lot of good things, particularly in the front office and I’ve been impressed with a lot of good things they have done but, we have the same problems we've always had.

WE CAN'T ATTRACT THE TOP TALENT!

The truth is, they just don't want to come here. The reason doesn't matter. I'm sick of reading post about our overpaid contacts. Do we realize that it cost us more than some teams to get free agents to sign here? It's the hard truth but we need to accept reality.

Now, I’ve been saying for years that we need to build through the draft. I've always been a big proponent for tanking. We should figure out who is a long term building block and who is not so that we can trade away the "short term" players for draft picks. At least until we find a Super Star in the draft. Cause let's face it, to compete for a championship, you've got to have at least ONE of the best players in the league. Sure, there has been exceptions to that rule along the way, it’s called an anomaly. Which is a long shot.

So I’d just like to hear a journalist ask Lacob what his philosophy is for building this team. The other option is to just accumulate assets until you find the right trade. Which I think is a great idea once you have that franchise player but we aren’t there yet.

Personally, I’d prefer tanking than spending 15million a year for a guy like chandler that doesn't really fit into to this young core. Either we need to keep the young guys and build with them by adding other young talent to our roster or trade them for guys in their prime; the "win now" philosophy. Why add some guy who's 30yrs old, maybe in his prime but about to start the tail end of his career with a talented group of young guys? Who, by the time they're ready to compete at any significant level, will be dragging an old, overpaid untradeable vet. That formula won’t work.

So here's my take. If we're going to offer a center a big contract let's amnesty Beidrins and throw a huge offer at Marc Gasol who is young, very talented, getting better and is someone you can build around. Chandler is too far down his career to build around. I know he’s no longer an option for us as he’s just signed with the NY Knicks but it was the original pursuit that bothers me. He's a player you add to an equation that already works and is missing that final piece which pushes your team over the edge. See Dallas Mavericks (2011).

Now I know that Memphis will match whatever offer we throw at Gasol, that’s okay. When Memphis matches our offer for Gasol we strike a trade for Rudy Gay. He's young, super talented, has improved every year and someone we could build a future contender with. If you think he's over paid, you’re wrong. What do you think he would get if he was a free agent this year? We would have had to pay him that contact to come here anyway.

So, once they match our offer for Gasol, we offer Monta for Gay. Memphis, desperate to save money, would probably jump at this. Monta makes significantly less money but still replace some of Gay’s scoring and star appeal. Monta's lives in Memphis, so they'll love him there. Plus Memphis upset the #1 seed last year without Gay. And, almost beat OKC (went 7 games).

For us, we get bigger. We trade a guy who's small for his position for a guy who is big for his position; making us a bigger team. Gay's a better player. He’s more well-rounded and efficient. I think he is more marketable and has more potential than Monta. He is a building block.

What do we do at SG? Well. The easiest position to find scoring is at the SCORING GUARD position. So I wouldn’t be worried about that but, I’d prefer if we went after a defensively talented SG to pair with Steph.

Anyways, these are my thoughts. I'm sure not everyone agrees with them. That's fine but what I really want to know is what you think about the front office. What is their plan? Cause from what I can see, it doesn't make any sense.

With all the talk about Biedrins there are a lot of people who want to replace him.  The problem is, who is better or might be better than he is even with his problems.  7 foot centers with talent aren't easy to find and even harder to take out of the hands of another team.   I don't know if we could get McGee from Washington but here's why i think he's a good fit for our team and what it would take at a minimum to make the call.

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Being a Warrior fan has led to love this time of year.  The NBA playoffs, the combine and the coming draft.  I cherish it less only to March Madness.  As a huge college basketball and fan I’ve spent considerable time watching the draft prospects play and know very well, most of their qualities off the top of my head.  I’ve recently watched every minute of the draft combine, read and contributed many post on this here site about who our W’s should draft with the #6 pick (assuming we keep it).  While there can be a case made for many players, I think this draft is a pretty simple choice for our front office.

It’s clearly a 5 player draft so we have to hold hope we get lucky again and our guy drops to us.  Who is that guy?  Apparently Curry said he wants Wes Johnson, end of discussion. Although, I’d be happy with any of the top five picks in our lap.  Assuming that doesn’t happen the W’s will most likely draft Greg Monroe. 

I know, I’m not in love with him either but I’m not convinced with anyone outside the top 5.  Good points have been made for Aminu, I think could also be made about Udoh (defense and rebounding, passing & ball handling) however, there is no sure thing.  After chewing away at all the pros and cons, Monroe makes the most sense to me for many reasons. 

First of all he’s big.  We desperately need big men.  If history is any indication we’ll have at least 2 of our current big men go down this year with injury.  We need to stock up.  Can we get a better big men than Monroe out side the draft, and if so, at what cost?  He’s a true 6’11” @ 250 pounds.  That’s similar size to Goose and Ronny and he’ll be a rookie.  Will he be able to add 20lbs of muscle to his frame?  If so, he’ll be pretty beasty.

Better yet, he could potentially play next to either of them.  Giving us a respectable front line (as far as size goes).  Playing with Beidrins, he’d compliment his rebounding with offense.  Ronny would compliment his offense, with defense.  We’d have 3 big men each with a different skill set and all pretty good at passing the rock.  Can you conceive Monroe on the high post feeding Beidrins on the low post or another player cutting to the hoop?  Offensively it should work very nicely.  We could use more passing on this team….hint to Ellis and Maggette.  The point is, he’s a versatile big man who has the size to play center or the skill to play PF.  This gives us a bigger, more adjustable front line and correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re more in need of a C/PF than another PF/SF or a SF/SG, right?  We’ll be better suited to adjust our line-up to our opponents.   If Sac takes Cousins, we’ll be facing him, Griffin, Gasol, Bynum, Thompson, Kaman, Amare, Oden, Aldridge, just to name a few, each 4 times a year.

Defensively he’s not going to stop any of those guys.  But, who is?  He’s probably not in this draft class but, he’s probably not any worse than what we have.  In fact, adding another big body should only help us in our efforts to control the paint.  He certainly can’t be worse than Beidrins defensively.

Consider this, when have we ever had the opportunity to draft a player his size with his skill?  Randolph was raw, Wrights is not near his size, Beidrins was a project, POB no comment, Diagu, Foyle, no, no, no.  Webber and Joe Smith were higher picks ……do you start to get the picture?  Sure he needs to improve but typically most draft prospects do, especially big men.  He already has a good start and he’s still young.  He exhibited significant improvement already from his freshmen to sophomore year.  He might just keep going.

I know he’s not the sexy pick.  I’m not thrilled about him.  But, don’t see myself getting too excited about anyone out of the top five.  It seems to be pot luck from 6-20.  There will be a lot of hit and misses so from the limited info we have I think we’d be foolish to pass on Monroe.  He’s not as athletic or spectacular as we’d like but, paired with a defensive, athletic PF and maybe it works.  Could Randolph be that guy?  We already have a couple athletic PF’s who can run and jump.  Will Monroe be dropping them dimes?  I think so.  Last year I drafted a post as to why the W’s will draft Steph Curry.  This year I’ll finish my post the same.  Like it our not, Monroe is probably our guy. 

I've over exhausted myself with this draft and this is my final word. I am locking in my final pick.... James Johnson and here's why;

1) he's a black belt and I love ninjas because they are sneaky good, confident and tough, we could use that.

2) If Monta's our PG and Jackson our Sg we need a SF and I think he can play that

3) he's a good passer, shot blocker, and can finish around the rim with both hands.

4) he's got beef.

5) he's pretty tall. Really 6'8" in shoes.

5) I think he'd be a great complement to Randolph**see more below.

5) yea I know I've done 3 fives now, but who cares, finally....it feels right and I haven't had that from anyone else in this draft.

5) Has a couple years at college so should be able to play soon

1) the real #1, if he ends up being great on another team......I'll be really, really upset.

Probably won't start this year but our future line up could be:

Ellis- 6'2"

Jackson - 6'8"

Johnson - 6'8"

Randolph - 6'-10"

Goose - 6'11"

As a compliment to Randolph: Johnson has the beef Randolph doesn't, appears to be able to play with back to basket and can finish with both hands (if that improves he'll be tough to guard in the same sense as Boozer is), can also shoot out side, although not a great 3pt shooter yet (30%) I think he'll improve it looks like he has good form, and can pass (I can really see Johson and AR playing great TEAM ball)

So sum, seems like everything we need and makes sense. Hill replicates what Ronny already does, if we don't go with a PG I hope they take Johnson.

PS. Earl Clark plays soft and nothing upsets me more that that.

Height, size, rebounding, defense, ball movement. Johnson does a little bit of everything and I think he's a great fit for this team. At SF we need a guy that can do a bit of everything.