Dont get me wrong Stephen Jackson was a key piece of the Warriors franchise for the past few years, but how he dominated the ball while he was with the warriors could have been holding Monta back from more performance like last night vs the Blazers.  Now with Jackson gone it seems so far that Monta does to a certain extent feel that the wins and loses for this team derectly come back to him because he is the best player on the team and it is now his team.  For example, when Jackson was on the team people on the team saw him as the leader and when you leader stays on the offensive end complaining about a call and the other team has a 4 on 5 cause Jackson doesnt come back to the defensive end, the rest of the players do not put as much emphasis on defense. IT STARTS WITH THE BEST PLAYER.

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Yahoo sports reports that sources tell them that the Golden State Warriors are going to send Marco Belinelli to the Raptors for Devin George.(Dont think its complete yet)


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i was just wondering out of all the games this year during the warriors game what one play stands out to you the most.

Some highlights:

Belinelli over the backboard horse shot   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDHRbY4Y4k&feature=related

Buike on Kamen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrYRfk9aww

Belinelli crosser Ridnaur then dish to CJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBY1cbW7YLs

Crawford crosses ray allen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKAx7hZ1Fw&feature=related

OR any of them from the top ten dunks on Warriors Weekly(randolph on yao, maggette dunks, biedrens on nene, ect. )

When it comes to next years team this offseason will probably be just as important as last years offseason.  I think there is a chance that most of the bench could be an entirely different next year.

People staying: Monta, Randolph, Biedrens, Maggette, Turiaf, Morrow, Azibuike, Jackson

Players that need to get moved: Wright (will never get a good chance will Randolph there) and Belinelli (too much of a team player for the Warriors, passes the ball to everyone but never gets passed to), Crawford (if he dont opt out him and monta cant coexist he needs the ball too much,nice guy though)

Players dont need to resign: CJ Watson, Kurz, Davidson

Free Agents to get: Brandon Bass and Jay Kidd

Players to Draft: Best player available perferably a Big Man or Point Guard.

Maybe Thabeet or a guard that kidd could mentor to play along with monta.

2009-2010 Possible Line Up

PG Kidd

SG Monta

SF Jackson

PF Randolph

C  Biedrens

Bench: Maggette, Morrow, Bass, Turiaf, Azibuike

The rest of it could fill with either trades or free agency like a back PG

What direction do you guys think that the warriors will go next year?

Im sure you guys have all noticed, during this time where nelson is suppose to be developing the young guns belinelli has never played over 20 minutes except for last game.  Since Belinellis return from injury nelson has been looking for any little mistake he makes to pull him right away. For example in chicago last night when he did not realize the shot clock was winding down and passed it to crawford for almost a half court shot, and nellie pulled him right away.  Then soon enough a few possessions later the same thing happend with jack and nellie did not say anything.

The last few games he has started really good, against the timberwolves had 11 at half being the leading scorer and nelson plays only 3 min. in the second half. And then Chicago started off sharp and then when he made that one mistake that was the end of the night for him.

If all warriors got pulled for little mistakes then people would be comming in an out every second.  The wierd thing is Belinelli actually is one that plays good defense and he always gets pulled while morrow cant really gaurd nobody and cj has defensive trouble and crawford dont try on defense yet belinelli gets pulled for stupid things.

I was wondering if you guys think that Belinelli will ever be able to flourish under Don Nelson.?

After watching the portland game last night the rebounding problem has to be solved. There is no way they can win consistantly with other teams getting that many second chance points. So sine they are stacked with gaurds on the warriors, why not get rid of one of the guards for a quality rebounder to help Biedrens. Out of all the guards Crawford would make the most sense to get rid of since he's a volume shooter that shoots a low percentage on a team that has other players that demand the ball as well. Before Maggette's return i would have though he would have been the guy but latley he has fit in well.

Although Crawfords contract is not very attractive, with Belinelli's game improving and showing the ability to play both PG and SG, he is a good canidate to play alongside monta, being he could run the point but guard the SG because of his size. With monta in the lineup we dont need another gaurd who looks to shoot first instead of pass, while belinelli finds the open man. Not to mention CJ is shooting a high percentage and has a better shot seletion. Basically we need a rebounder for a gaurd and carwfords seems to be the one that is the least efficent.

Then i was looking at trade rumers and saw the article about Kaman, and that he could be out by the trade deadline.

http://www.prosportsdaily.com/comments/chris-kaman-is-probably-out-through-allstar-break-191312.html

A deal involving Crawford for Kaman would greatly help the team. Its a little too late this year but that would put them in a great position to make the playoffs next year. This is what their lineup could look like. Much deeper, better rebounding, still can put up points, better defensivley.

PG Monta      

SG Belinelli

SF Jackson

PF Kaman

C  Biedrens

Bench

Maggette, Turiaf, Azibuike, Wright, Randolph, Watson, Morrow                                                                                                                                

What do you guys think of this move?

Could we see a few of our warrior players at all star weekend in the rookie vs sophmore game?

If Belinelli keeps up his play that he has been doing latley up until the all star break he should get consideration to play on the sophmore team. I mean if it were not for the limited minutes he had early in the season where he had games on where he scored 2, 4, or even sometimes 0 his average would be up around 10ppg right now.

Also Brandon Wright but Nelson will never play him consistant minutes where he could shine.

Along with Belinelli, I think morrow will defenatly get consideration to make the rookie team because a lot of people around the league know about his story and two great games he had. Not to mention he is still averaging around 10ppg. If he could get around 12ppg I think he would get in for sure.

Here are some canidates for the upcomming game from this website:  http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5700027997:

-----------Rookies : --------------------------------Sophomores : --------------
C : Marc Gasol - 7'1" 265lbs-------------C : Spencer Hawes 7'0" 245lbs
PF : Michael Beasley - 6'9" 245lbs------PF : Al Thornton 6'8 220lbs
SF : Rudy Fernandez - 6'6" 185lbs-----SF : Wilson Chandler 6'8" 220
SG : O.J. Mayo - 6'4" 210lbs-------------SG : Kevin Durant 6'9" 215lbs
PG : Derrick Rose - 6'3" 190lbs----------PG : Ramon Session 6'3" 190lbs

2C : Brook Lopez 7'0" 260lbs------------2C : Al Horford 6'10 245lbs
2PF : Jason Thompson 6'11" 250lbs----2PF :Jeff Green 6'9 235lbs
2SF : Luc Mbah a Moute 6'8" 230lbs----2SF : Thaddeus Young 6'8" 220lbs
2SG : Russell Westbrook 6'3" 187lbs---2SG : Nick Young 6'6" 200 lbs
2PG : D.J. Augustin 6'0 180lbs-----------2PG : Aaron Brooks 6'0 160lbs

So what do you guys think about some of our youngsters chances.