SB Nation User Blog: IQofaWarrior

Watson taking Warriors' point guard adds in stride

IQofaWarrior — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:53:56 -0000

Watson taking Warriors' point guard adds in stride

(By Marcus Thompson II) There's already a fanshot about CJ Watson. Well... here's another one!

Curry helps Warriors create small army

IQofaWarrior — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:46:24 -0000

Curry helps Warriors create small army

(By Ray Yocke) - A fun speculation on how Curry and Monta might complement each other on offense and how Nellie might play around their defense.

Interview with Pat Washington - Anthony Randolph's High School Coach

IQofaWarrior — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:28 -0000

Interview with Pat Washington - Anthony Randolph's High School Coach

I don't know about you guys, but all this talk about Amare vs Biedrins the past few days has me Amare-ed out. So here's something completely different, an interview with AR's HS coach.

(By Rasheed @ warriorsworld.net) Coach Washington talks about AR in high school, going into the NBA, his rookie season, and his future. He gave some great coaching advice to AR on dealing with Nellie's benching, and also losing in practice to Kurz.

Also, this section jumped out at me: "The rules of the game were simple, if you play, you can never stop running no matter what. If your ball is stolen then you have to run back and defend, if you stop or get tired, we sub you out no questions asked, if your not hustling on defense or if the other team scores they get the ball again." This made me think about how BWright indecisively stands around when rebounding while AR jumps out of the building to get a rebound. AR has it ingrained himself to never stop. I don't think BWright had that in him, so he got yanked.

Warriors Summer League schedule

IQofaWarrior — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:34:55 -0000

Warriors Summer League schedule

With the 2009 Draft done, next on the menu is Summer League. Marcus Thompson lists the Warriors 5 games on his blog. Rosters will come out later. I'm rooting for Randolph, Morrow, and Davidson to be out there and "destroying people", as Randolph put it in his interview.

Also worth bookmarking, nba.com's 2009 Summer League page

Warriors Season Wrap up with Matt Steinmetz

IQofaWarrior — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:19:21 -0000

Warriors Season Wrap up with Matt Steinmetz

By Rasheed @ warriorsworld.net

Monta interview KNBR (mp3, 6/18/2009)

IQofaWarrior — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:06:08 -0000

Monta interview KNBR (mp3, 6/18/2009)

Direct link to mp3, so right click -> save as. Interviewed by Fitz and Brooks.

Quick Hits with Anthony Morrow

IQofaWarrior — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:53:07 -0000

Quick Hits with Anthony Morrow

(By WarriorsWorld.net's Rasheed) Nice to hear from Anthony Morrow during the offseason. October can't come fast enough!

Warriors PR director confirms he authored anonymous blog comment

IQofaWarrior — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:12:28 -0000

Warriors PR director confirms he authored anonymous blog comment

Normally I wouldn't post anything by Tim Kawakami, but this one looks valid. Tim discovered that public relations Raymond Ridder was the author of several anonymous comments at WarriorsWorld.net defending Warriors management.

Warriors have more questions than answers

IQofaWarrior — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:39:59 -0000

Warriors have more questions than answers

(Marcus Thompson II) Marcus' take on what the Warriors need to work on.

What surprised me what how he classified BWright and Marco as unsettled/unhappy players. It won't surprise me if these two get traded during the summer.

Yet for all the electrifying blocks and thunderous dunks he's delivered this season, Randolph says...

IQofaWarrior — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:36:01 -0000

Yet for all the electrifying blocks and thunderous dunks he's delivered this season, Randolph says he's most proud of something he didn't do this year: Go south after getting iced out by Nelson and the coaching staff.

"I could've handled it a lot of different ways, and it could've ended up way worse than it was." said Randolph, who cited communication as the biggest key to his turnaround.

"You tell me what to do, I'll do it, like you're seeing toward the end of the season. All I needed was somebody to tell me what I had to do, what not to do, or what to work up to."
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I think this has been mentioned by Bob and Jim on the broadcasts a few times. This was the first time Randolph had been "coached", having someone tell him how he should and should not play. And you have to give credit to Randolph for WANTING to be coached.

(Janny Hu) Fittingly, Warriors lose finale