SB Nation User Blog: VonteegoCummings

would you help a nemesis to help yourself?

VonteegoCummings — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:15:08 -0000

Yes that nemesis would be the hated LA lakers, and no we're not getting Kobe Bryant. Instead we're sending them 3 Los Angelenos: Corey Maggette, Ronny Turiaf and Marcus Williams.

With Bynum's injury the Lakers are obviously in need of someone to patrol the middle and for a team with Championship aspirations, they need to fill in that void quick, and who better fill that role but with someone who is familiar on how things are done over in LA, Ronny Turiaf.

Who are we getting? Well how about the prototype Nellie all everything player: Lamar Odom. Can you imagine this guy playing for Nellie? He would be a beast unleashed! And this is where Maggette comes into play. He fills the starting small forward slot for Los Angeles.

As for Williams? well maybe he could carry Kobe's jock or if he's not worthy maybe The Machine's jock instead?

By the way, were also getting one of the original we believers Josh Powell and just for everyone who's salivating for an Asian here in the Asian rich population of the Bay Area, how about some Sun Yue?

Warriors recieve:

Lamar Odom

Josh Powell

Sun Yue

LA Lakers recieve:

Corey Maggette

Ronny Turiaf (sigh)

Marcus Williams

Obviously its a bitch to lose Turiaf but if he is what it takes to get rid of that monster of a contract Maggette possesses, so be it. And if Lamar doesnt pan out? well he is an expiring contract and that alone should be worth it.

Now let the flame wars begin!

Harrington sings karaoke: "Please release me...let me go"

VonteegoCummings — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:35:39 -0000

This is a repost from a previous fanpost that was deleted (accidentally?). Anyway, Marcus Thompson has confirmed Tim Kawakami's report that TMNT has FORMALLY requested a trade since he can't stand Don Nelson.

We've seen this before, this happens everyday in sports, disgruntled player asks for a trade, then team with the disgruntled player well of course...gets screwed.

This only adds to the domino effect of the off season, it would be interesting on how the rest of this drama unfolds....So what if Jack doesnt get his? would he request for a trade too? Monta comes back 75% of his old self? what happens? The Warriors void his contract? Do the kids get their options picked up?

Bring back those 42.00 lower bowl seats!!!!

UP in the rafters

VonteegoCummings — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:55:28 -0000

Just got done reading the whole Jrich brouhaha and whoa! Anyway just to lessen the agitation and hatred amongst all of us, let me share something that I was discussing with a buddy of mine a few weeks ago.

Whose number should be next to be retired up in the rafters of Oracle? Here's some candidates...

17 Mullin

10 Hardaway

23 Richmond

13 Marciuilonis (can u retire 13 twice?)

20 Sleepy Floyd

Don Nelson

Frank Mieuli

Jim Barnett (microphone)

Active players

5 Davis

23 Richardson

8 Ellis

15 Biedrins

Mullin should be the next one, followed by former owner Mieuli (sp?) everyone else is up for debate, especially BD. Hopefully Monta and Biedrins would somewhat live up to their massive contracts and have a productive career with the warriors (whew that was hard to spit out). Who's next? anyone else?

now what?

VonteegoCummings — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:21:47 -0000

(let me begin this by saying that rather than signing maggette, i wouldve rather liked to see the warriors free up some more money to go further below the cap to try to sign deron williams next year (different discussion altogether on how and why)

Anyway since Mullin has decided to save face and appease the season ticket holders and gsomers (who wouldve burned him in effigy if he didnt do anything after losing baron) and stick to being a fringe 7-9 seed in the West, let us figure out who else is out there that the Warriors can get to solidify this 8th seed (hopefully).

If someone could give an estimate on how much money do we have left to sign other free agents after re signing Monta and Andris it would be helpful for this discussion.

Let's just assume for argument's sake that we have another 6-7 million to spend after the signing of Maggette (ho-hum) and Turiaf (barf), plus the impending departure of Al Harrington (maybe) for 8 mil? and also the Mid level exception who else is out there? Here's some interesting names out there:

In no particular order:

Daniel Gibson (shooting pt guard with a horrible nickname)

Eddie House (hayward's pride CAN shoot)

Earl Boykins (gulp)

Delonte West (developing point and being funny does help)

Tyronn Lue (ugh)

Juan Dixon (combo guard)

Carl Landry (wouldve preferred this guy over Turiaf)

Shaun Livingston (buyer beware)

Ryan Gomes (undersized hardworker)

Sebastian Telfair (enigma)

Jannero Pargo (only one who had the cajones to shoot vs the spurs)

Bonzi Wells (combustible talent)

Carlos Arroyo (vet guard that can handle a press)

Keyon Dooling (TALL enough to pair with monta)

Louis Williams (monta 2.0)

James Jones (shooter nellie covets)

Anthony Johnson (big enough to pair with monta, 150 yrs old)

Brent Barry (only Barry not to play with the Ws)

relax....dont do it

VonteegoCummings — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:02:53 -0000

all i gotta say about signing Elton Brand, Josh Smith Andre Igoudala is this.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90

Lets stay put, renounce every free agent we have right now, sign vets to one year minimum deals and then go for the perfect point guard to replace Baron with or without Nellie as coach.....

DERON WILLIAMS

This is the guy we should be shooting for just like how the nets are maneuvering to snag Lebron James from the Cavs. If a season of 12-70 is the price of getting Deron, why the heck not. Im no capologist by any stretch of imagination but can they really pay Williams when they have Boozer, Okur, Kirilenko, Harpring to enormous contracts? They also have to pay Millsap something.... What we should do is trade Utah some of our pieces to severely handcuff them thus increasing the odds of them having the cap space of re-signing Williams. Why would Williams sign with us? Who wants to live in Utah anyway?? That alone should give us a fighting chance.

Dont's (and a few do's) of the NBA draft

VonteegoCummings — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:23:01 -0000

Sure, every prospect has been scrutinized, poked, questioned, analyzed, badgered like a piece of meat for sale in the wet markets of Manila by every scout. GM, coach, or every tom, dick and harry who cares enough about basketball. But still, year after year theres always those that never pans out and unfortunately for us warrior fans, it always seem to be those who get picked by those braniacs who has offices in the Oakland Alameda Arena.

With these few dos and dont's hopefully the chances of us landing the next Todd Fuller would be minimized to an absolute zero.. (sure there are exceptions but are you willing to risk it?)

- Don't draft anyone whose last name consists of more than 9 letters, cannot be spelled by an indian kid in the scripps spelling bee, or has more vowels than consonants. See: Olowokandi Michael, Podkolzkikinin Pavel, Bargnani Andrea, (a double no-no with a girls name to boot), Tsikitsvilllllli Skita, Jaskiveciicicicius, Andruiskevicicicus etc etc.

- Don't draft anyone whose name resembles that of a cartoon, (Speedy), a combination of crappy cars, (vonteego) or something derogatory (bimbo). Note: misspelled first names are ok though such as Antawn, Bryon (russell) or Jerryd.

-Keeping with the NBA marketing theme of There can only be one...........THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE KOSTA PER TEAM.

- Don't draft anyone who checks the box "white" on census forms or job application forms 1-2 or 3. See: Dunleavy Mike, Ferry Danny, Morrison Adam, Laettner Christian

- Although important, don't give too much weight on character issues, a bigger red flag should be those prospects who score 1000000000 on their SAT's or has a 4.0 GPA. This only means one did not work on getting to the NBA but NASA. See: Fuller Todd, Foyle Adonal

-Don't draft anyone who likes to go to, or can point to a map Bakersfield, California. Enough Said.

- Don't draft a coach, executive, gm, or former player's kid. More often than not, all the good basketball genes were all given to the father, and the kid only has some miniscule remnant of it. See: Barry Kids, Ferry Danny,(again) Walton Luke, Dunleavy MIke (again!), Karl Coby. Noteable exception of course is Chokey Bryant.

- Yes you cant teach height but a stiff is a stiff is a stiff. See: O'Bryant Patrick.

- Do practice extreme caution in drafting foreign players, UNLESS its for Courtney Lee's teammate Japeth Aguilar

-Don't allow Michael Jordan to be within 100 miles of a team's draft room.

-Do trade the draft pick if for some reason Alcohol is flowing in the draft room where you have a beer guzzling coach and a recovered alcoholic for a GM.

my next years warriors

VonteegoCummings — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:58:47 -0000

Ok its my first post since the playoff hunt and before i get creamed here, let me remind everyone that its 2 04 am and i just had a diet coke and just watched Cherise Pempengco on you tube. Obviously her voice alone could give you a jolt that 100 cans of redbull can provide. Here I basically I traded Baron/Al + pick to chicago for hinrich, thomas and nocioni. They can draft beasley and team him up with baron and not get any flak for passing up on local boy Rose, then I went to memphis and traded Monta, Brandan, picks and cash for Miller, Lowry and the Custodian's horrible contract, a chance for the Memphis clown/gm to redeem himself of the gift of gasol (which I advocated trading for last year and of course was met with opposition calling him INJURED, GARBAGE, OVERRATED etc.) This composition of my warriors is obviously not championship ready but more of a transitionary team when we move to hire MARIO ELIE as the coach to suceed nellie, as opposed to Keith Smart who couldnt win with lebron. (Note: I love smart, he played with the gretaest basketball player in HUMANKIND: Ramon Fernandez of the San Miguel Beermen.) Oh and yeah, the trade machine is not working till sometime in July so zip it.

Yeah, kinda looks like W's circa 95-06.............. and crap just realized we have 4 white boys in the starting lineup, shades of dunmurphy although i dont think we can consider Nocioni as a dunmurphy clone.

PG Kirk Hinrich (third world country/poor man's steve nash)

SG Mike Miller

SF Stephen Jackson

PF Andres Nocioni (can bang with anyone including yo mama)

C Andris Biedrins

Tyrus Thomas

Kyle Lowry (baby baron)

Brian Cardinal

Kelenna Azubuike

Gerald Green (signed as a FA; minimum salary)

Marco Belinelli

Matt Barnes

Kosta Perovic

Thank you GSoM

VonteegoCummings — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:15:43 -0000

Something that's always overlooked is the hardwork that the guys who run this site do game after game, season after season. I posted this in the open thread, but felt the need to make a diary of this, just to properly acknowledge all of you.

Thank you for having this site as a venue for rabid W fans like me to interact and share the same tears, happiness, interesting banter etc with each other. I also would like to apologize for any and all of the garbage I post in here

See you guys at the draft lottery. Its been a wild ride these past 2 seasons.

"Ask not what your.....

VonteegoCummings — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:36:26 -0000

country can do for you but what you can do for your country..."

-John F. Kennedy
35th President and Warrior Fan

(5pm start time, another slap on the face of our Warriors. Utter disrespect. Why cant they ask the LA game to start early instead? The biggest regular season game in history, relegated to be the primer for the Staples game?)

As JFK's, famous line goes and with this 5pm start time, it makes me wonder what everybody had to go through to get home or be in the Oracle in time. The Warriors are (hopefully) going to give it their all, leave it all on the line. Thats what they are doing for our country, what are you gonna do?

I work till 8pm, 9 the latest, and today I just had to be home, I don't think I would miss this for the world. This is one of the busiest times at my work but I told my boss my son got into a fight in school and the principal needed to see me. Lied, sacrificed my daily wage just to be home on time.

DO IT WARRIORS!!!!

Ws catch a break?

VonteegoCummings — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:59:47 -0000

Hey there Warrior fans...here's something to prolong our agony, or what we Ws fans are familiar with....."THE TEASE"

Here's a link

http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080404-128298/NBA-suspends-Denvers-Marti n-for-blow-to-Diaws-face

hey maybe Denver would lose a game....Imma stretch my legs though to get the bandwagoners off it.