Warriors done Right

AP press release Oct 1 2010 San Francisco CA
Ladies and Gentlemen as the new ownership group managed by Chris Lacob, we are pleased to announce the new general manager of the Golden State Warriors. Ed Colson is renowned as a man who played some junior high basketball and is now a largely disinterested fan. However he does have an engineering and mathematical background that includes an extensive use of statistics, and he can balance his checkbook. This is important, because we will be dumping salary initially like the New Orleans Hornets...

Excerpt from Ed Colson's personal blog, Unruly Mob.
So I was talking to Mick, the new head of the scouting department, about the team and I said, "To be brutally honest we have a good point guard, a good shooting guard, a glut of crappy small forwards, a jump shooting power forward who makes too much money, a Center who rebounds and makes too much money, all without playing much defense. To add to that, we have a crappy bench with only one descent prospect, a jump shooting power forward who doesn't play defense."

Times are not good in Warrior land. Time to trade away salary. I got the owners to let me keep the two guards, but the rest...

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Ok, so I have a tentative deal with the Bucks, Bogut, Delfino, Boykins and Milwakee's second round pick for David Lee and Bedrins and next year's first round pick.

This trade cuts Bedrins salary from my books after this year with the expiring contracts of Delfino and Boykins.

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I've sent a fax to the other GM's around the league, it's a sign that says 'Yard Sale', so as i'm done soliciting trades, I will remain open to other trades as the season progresses.

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So I get a call from Billy King, he offers me Tony Battle, two second round picks and Jodie Meeks for Earl Boykins and Reggie Williams. I of course accept this trade proposal.

I plan on putting having Nellie put Jodie through extensive shooting drills to help his shooting regain the form it had at Kentucky.

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So Billy must have known something. Battie tore his MCL in his first game as a Warrior, and is out for the season. At this point we are 6-11 and only 8.5 games back on the lakers...

AP 2010

The Warriors announced the sining of Marvin Owens a NBA D-league player to the active roster. In unrelated news the team cut Carlos Delfino.

Blog Excerpt: Feb 5
So Monta Ellis is out for 4 weeks forcing even more holes into the starting lineup. Now Jodie Meeks and Charlie Bell join Steph Curry, Victor Radmanovich and Bogut in the starting lineup.

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A view from the deadline: the team is preforming better than expected at 26 and 29. Unfortunately we may play ourselves out of contention for the top draft pick...

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WOW!!! We've made the playoffs with Radmonivich starting 82 games... Needless to say In the playoffs we're going to start the ROY candidate Ekpe Udoh in the power forward slot. He has slowly earned minutes away from Vlad, but we feel that he has earned the ability to start in the playoffs along with Curry, Ellis (back in time for the playoffs, barely) Meeks, and Bogut. We're going 8 deep for the playoffs. Wish us luck against the Lakers.

Game 1:
Bryant 43
Will Bynum 34
Gasol 21
Andrew Bynum 17
Artest 12
Ouch entire laker starting lineup goes for over 10 pts...
only Ellis and bogut get more than 10

Game 2:
Just as bad... Bryant continues to eat Meek's Lunch

Game 3:
Bogut's stat line
27 pts, 15 reb, 3 ast, 11 blk triple dub for the Gut!
Ellis and Curry ad 20+ each
Udoh, 2pts, 14 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl, 11 blk, 0 to

Game 4:
Double double by Gut and Bryant held to 9 of 42 on fg attempts

Game 5:
Curry and Gut both get double doubles (reb and pts) and Ellis adds 17pts and 7 ast. Unfortunately the team shoots poorly and loses.

Game 6:
Curry with the triple double 24pts, 10 reb and 12 ast
Bogut 18, 6, 8 blk

Game 7:
Kobe stops jacking around and drops 50 on 20-27 shooting
Golden State is eliminated

Spurs over Celtics Championship Ginobili is the MVP

NEXT YEAR

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Kept the Coaching staff together after the playoff run. I figure if Nellie can win with Victor, he can win with anyone...

Warriors have the 15th pick in the draft, the 14, 15 and 18th picks in the second round

I accepted a trade from the Nets of thier 2;3 Johan Petro for 2;14 and Charlie Bell

I accepted a trade from the Mavericks of Brandon Rush and James Posey for Johan Petro, Guy Gale (2;18) and Dorell Wright.

In the new tradition of goofy unathletic 7' white centers, We've signed Nenad Krstic.

Will do a write up of the entire team top to bottom in the morning...

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Breakdown of the 2012 Warriors:

Monta Ellis
Good shoot first shootiing guard
Descent athlete, can handle point guard duties in a pinch.
Defense has improved to a reasonable level.

Stephen Curry
Great shooter for a point guard. Good on the outside shot and drive. Good rebounder for a point guard and can crash the boards. Good team leader and captain. Plays good defense and tries hard.

Andrew Bogut (Gut)
Unathletic 7' white center.
Good shooter, great post defender and great rebounder. Franchise cornerstone at center.

Ekpe Udoh
Athletic power forward with a great midrange shot and can drive. Has a limited back to basket game. OK defender and good rebounder. Tries hard. Can guard SF as well.

Clarence Rush (rookie SF) (starter)
Good 3pt shooter. Also Drives to the basket (both kick out and finish at the rim). Unselfish. Good defender. Good athlete. Not a rebounder.

Michael Wilkins (Rookie PF) (6th man?)
Athletic, undersized 4/5. Ok defense, good jumpshot. Good rebounder. Some back to the basket game.

James Posey
Tall 2/3 3pt specialist. Plays good defense. ROLE PLAYER.

Brandon Rush
3pt specialist. Plays some D

Marvin Owens (signed from D league last year but did not play)
Can shoot, Athletic, ok defense.

Jodie Meeks
3pt specialist. Good defender (though got eaten alive by Kobe). Ok athlete.

Nenad Krstic
7' tall white center. UNATHLETIC. Some B2B game. Ok defense. Ok rebound. signed to 5yrs 8.24m deal.

Jannero Pargo
Ok backup pointguard. Shoots too much, but not a terrible shot. Ok Defense, Ok handling.

Rasheed Fuller (second, second round pick. PG)
Ok shot. Ok defense, ok handling. Ok athlete. Toast end of bench pg. Uninspiring.