Late September brings many subtle joys: Indian summer in the City, kids clearing the streets to return to school, and my irrational enthusiasm about the Warriors’ chances for the upcoming season. Granted, this year it’ll be tough to work up a crackpot theory under which the Warriors remain competitive, let alone relevant. Davis is gone, [...]
With NBA basketball news slowing to a trickle during the hot days of August, there are still lots of questions circling around the Warriors. I’d argue, however, that some of the most repeated questions aren’t that important at all and mask the real issues facing this team next year. For example:
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I’ll admit it. Chris Mullin’s July spent handing out contracts like free pizzas at the Arena has me excited. And much like those who lose their mind over the free pizzas, it probably shouldn’t have me so wound up. There are enough questions around all our new additions to keep us blogging [...]
When the Boston Celtics looked at their roster last summer, they saw one veteran around which they wanted to build the team. Paul Pierce, who had ridden out ups and downs as a career Celtic, became the cornerstone around which a championship squad was built. The Celtics made a decisive moves to abandon very promising [...]
Sydney Harris once wrote “A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” When it comes to free agent signings, Warriors fans have learned plenty of bitter lessons. Mullin’s track record of Foyle, Fisher, Murphy and Dunleavy provides plenty of fuel [...]
Chris Mullin has already promised changes for the off-season. Only time will tell whether his statement turns out to be this year’s version of “I’m not trading Jason Richardson.” Ultimately, however, change for change’s sake does nothing, particularly if it’s just rearranging pieces in the back third of the roster (as we saw [...]
The story of Sisyphus is one of both accomplishment and failure. In the Greek myth, a king spends eternity rolling a boulder up a mountain, only to collapse at the end of the day in exhaustion and watch the rock tumble down to the bottom. There’s the taste of victory in his struggle, as he [...]
After the most demoralizing extended road trip of the year, the Warriors looked very happy to find a depleted Kings squad waiting for them in the friendly confines of Oracle Arena. From the first series of possessions to the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, the Warriors hit the Kings with consistent energy. [...]
The Warriors’ playoff chase isn’t over. They’ve shocked us enough times that to write them off completely now would be foolish, particularly with Denver still finding ways to give away games. That said, the past four games have made it perfectly clear that Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson will not be carrying us [...]
We should have expected this. Just when the Warriors looked like they had run out of ways to make us believe, they manage a few sparks to rekindle the faithful. Memphis is one of the league’s worst, so the mere fact that the Ws got a win isn’t much to celebrate (although we [...]
