Y'all are a bunch of kids. My irrationally good feeling was draft night 1995, Joe Smith. He was gonna be the one that launched Golden State to the title.
Funny, I remember watching that NCAA tournament and then the Warriors go with Joe and I was thinking wtf did I miss watching his college games that would make him a #1 pick, was he really that highly thought of in NBA circles? He was a quick second jump guy but was more of a lunch pail effort guy than a potential star.
In discussing the various trades, it's important to realize that the value of draft picks is not just determined by the quality of player drafted, but also the fact that, in a relative sense, those players will have a reasonably low salary compared with other stars and will be under team control. All this talk about swapping picks for someone like Vucevic makes me uncomfortable - if we want to keep the dynasty, we need good young players at bargain salaries that might be getting max contracts in the future once the playing days of our three homegrown stars run out.
What would make me much more uncomfortable is choosing not to go after stars, holding onto picks in the hopes they pan out, and turning into the Rockets - good but not quite good enough, falling short short year-after-year until our generational superstar runs out of time.
Hard to compare situations. Back then, we didn't already have a Steph, Klay, and Dray in the second half of their careers whose windows we wanted to maximize.
I was really hoping that Omari Spellman could become more than he did. Nice kid who got messed up in his head a bit and the Dubs were the perfect place to start over. He started slowly, then quickly showed some good stuff and just as quickly regressed until he wasn't even getting minutes on the team we had last year [which says a bit] before he was traded. Not sure what happened there but I feel bad for the kid.
I thought Omri Caspi was going to be a great fit for the Dubs. And he might have been - if he had kept on shooting 3s. Jonas Jerebko I liked a lot too - seemed like a super nice guy. The Swedish Larry Bird played pretty well at times - just not well enough... Another one was Ian Clark, who would have been great if he were a couple of inches taller with a bit more weight.
I also liked GRIII a lot and just discovered earlier today that the Kings released him a month ago. I would not mind a 2nd go-round with him at all. He was pretty good off the bench.
I really thought Omri Casspi was gonna be a super important bench piece. That shootout in Sacramento really impressed me. I thought Jonas Jerebko was a sneaky good signing. There was a time I thought Anthony Morrow was a better shooter than Steph. On the success side of the ledger, Seth Curry and Jeremy Lin were both low minute guys I thought could be successful given more minutes.
Mar 22, 2021Liked by Eric Apricot, punk basketball, Daniel Hardee
I’ve been having IRRATIONAL GOOD FEELING GUYS for a very long time lmao!
Draymond Green: Enough said. As you can tell by Green/McAdoo/Boucher/Jerebko, I’ve always had a fascination with versatile PF/C’s since I fell in love with Kevin Garnett. I was always looking for someone who could replicate that skillset.
James McAdoo: I thought he had the physical profile/skillset to become a really productive player. He was athletic, could handle the ball for a big, and was flashing some shooting
prowess + ability to defend on the perimeter. But he never really developed!
Chris Boucher: I thought he was really skinny, but with a NBA diet/training regimen I thought he could develop into a very nice player once he gained some strength. His shoot + handle combined with excellent shot blocking instincts made him a steal in my opinion. I think I was right here since I’ve heard he’s been doing well for other teams.
Jonas Jerebko: I thought he was going to be an absolute steal as a player who could shoot, made excellent decisions, and was versatile defensively even if he wasn’t good at it. I thought he was going to have a far bigger impact than he did.
Javale Mcgee: I loved the dude from the second he walked in and he was fantastic for us. I was always calling for him to get far more minutes than he did, but it seems like he showed in the Lakers that while he deserved slightly more minutes than he got from us, he wasn’t a 30+ minute starter like I thought he was for us.
Jordan Poole: I just liked his skillset in college and thought if he could just have better shot selection + play more off-ball like Klay then he would be a good player for us.
Looking at this list, it may seem like I'm some amazing GM, but its more that I'm a lot more cautious who I start paying attention to and start rooting for. For example, I didn't care much about Poole until his 14 game run last year. So yeah, I don't hop on the bandwagon as fast as some of you people, which explains why so many of my irrational good feeling guys panning out.
I think its more that I got lucky. Like I said above, ever since Garnett I was always looking for versatile PF/C's with guard like skills (passing, shooting, dribbling) that could also play defense.
By sheer luck that I'd fallen in love with Garnett's play, I happened upon the next wave of basketball bigs that Draymond brought with him. But hey, sometimes its better to be lucky than good!!
I thought Adonal Foyle would really break out after Dampier was gone and out of his way for the starting center job. I just really loved the guy, his personality, off court work and stuff, so I rooted for it to happen. Great shot blocker, and yeah, thought he’d get to show something much more with the starting job/minutes.
Mar 22, 2021Liked by Eric Apricot, punk basketball
Oh man, I had an irrationally good feeling about Patrick McCaw before he had an irrationally bad feeling about the Warriors. Was seriously thinking about getting #0 jersey for a while (thankfully never did).
He's not even a Warrior, but Lonzo Ball is another guy I kind of irrationally like. He does a lot of important NBA things things at a sneaky high level. Only problem is, his scoring is... well, let's just say, he's in his 4th season in the NBA and the teams he's played a lot of minutes for have never been even remotely good. I'm coming to terms with the fact that his own shortcomings have to be a factor in that.
I *don't* think it's irrational to be optimistic about Mannion. He shows a lot of maturity and good instincts, his weaknesses look fixable, and being an NBA player runs in his family. Plus he's barely 20 and a rookie. He certainly could end up looking like a steal at 48th overall pick.
Especially since Mannion was expected to go higher than 20 before his shooting at Arizona all but disappeared. A VERY lucky tumble to 48 for us.
A LOT LOT LOT of you guys had an irrationally good feeling about McCaw before the holdout season. And so far only one of you has had the balls to admit it. LOL
Did I miss it, or no one had mr potato head as a d-league IGF?
Reggie Williams - 6' 6", pure shooter (or so I thought,) feet sculpted from pure cinderblocks, iirc.
Thunder are supposed to not be - but they keep winning. Beat Twolves by 9 tonight.
Good win for the pick (assuming we want the Wolves to bottom out). Thunder pick up two games on the Wolves, now lead them by 9 games.
OT If the Rockets beat the Raptors, Kyle Lowry is going to be finding a new home, feeding into Sleepy Freud's "diabolical" plan.
Rockets win by 18. Stranger things... I think the Raptors losing streak is now up to 9.
Haha. What was my plan again? (I honestly don’t remember...)
I think it was something like Lowry comes crawling to us for a job.
Ha. Genius! :-)
OMARI SPELLMAN...i love him...but he was so lost on defense lol
i tough he could be the strech five that we always wanted....
Y'all are a bunch of kids. My irrationally good feeling was draft night 1995, Joe Smith. He was gonna be the one that launched Golden State to the title.
Funny, I remember watching that NCAA tournament and then the Warriors go with Joe and I was thinking wtf did I miss watching his college games that would make him a #1 pick, was he really that highly thought of in NBA circles? He was a quick second jump guy but was more of a lunch pail effort guy than a potential star.
Was a weak draft
Yeah looking back that was a pretty brutal draft to have the #1 pick.
Especially since we had lost Webber a few years before
Chris Webber
Brandon Rush!
Is there still time to climb on the the Irrational Jordan Poole bandwagon? Or am I too late?
A week too late.
OT just ran across this w/an Oubre trade I don't hate.
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/2021-nba-trade-deadline-four-bold-predictions-including-warriors-surprise
Not bad. I wonder if this has been offered up? I can’t but think these potential trading partners are holding out, asking for our MIN pick.
Barf
Lonzo is better then kelly
Joe Smith. Always wanted more from the number one pick
Anthony Randolph.
In discussing the various trades, it's important to realize that the value of draft picks is not just determined by the quality of player drafted, but also the fact that, in a relative sense, those players will have a reasonably low salary compared with other stars and will be under team control. All this talk about swapping picks for someone like Vucevic makes me uncomfortable - if we want to keep the dynasty, we need good young players at bargain salaries that might be getting max contracts in the future once the playing days of our three homegrown stars run out.
What would make me much more uncomfortable is choosing not to go after stars, holding onto picks in the hopes they pan out, and turning into the Rockets - good but not quite good enough, falling short short year-after-year until our generational superstar runs out of time.
Sure glad the Dubs didn't trade the picks that became Steph, Klay, and Dray
Hard to compare situations. Back then, we didn't already have a Steph, Klay, and Dray in the second half of their careers whose windows we wanted to maximize.
I was really hoping that Omari Spellman could become more than he did. Nice kid who got messed up in his head a bit and the Dubs were the perfect place to start over. He started slowly, then quickly showed some good stuff and just as quickly regressed until he wasn't even getting minutes on the team we had last year [which says a bit] before he was traded. Not sure what happened there but I feel bad for the kid.
I thought Omri Caspi was going to be a great fit for the Dubs. And he might have been - if he had kept on shooting 3s. Jonas Jerebko I liked a lot too - seemed like a super nice guy. The Swedish Larry Bird played pretty well at times - just not well enough... Another one was Ian Clark, who would have been great if he were a couple of inches taller with a bit more weight.
I also liked GRIII a lot and just discovered earlier today that the Kings released him a month ago. I would not mind a 2nd go-round with him at all. He was pretty good off the bench.
We don’t really have room, but a bet min contract for him would be tempting
If you're released from the Kings, I don't think you can reasonably expect more than the vet minimum.
I really thought Omri Casspi was gonna be a super important bench piece. That shootout in Sacramento really impressed me. I thought Jonas Jerebko was a sneaky good signing. There was a time I thought Anthony Morrow was a better shooter than Steph. On the success side of the ledger, Seth Curry and Jeremy Lin were both low minute guys I thought could be successful given more minutes.
I’ve been having IRRATIONAL GOOD FEELING GUYS for a very long time lmao!
Draymond Green: Enough said. As you can tell by Green/McAdoo/Boucher/Jerebko, I’ve always had a fascination with versatile PF/C’s since I fell in love with Kevin Garnett. I was always looking for someone who could replicate that skillset.
James McAdoo: I thought he had the physical profile/skillset to become a really productive player. He was athletic, could handle the ball for a big, and was flashing some shooting
prowess + ability to defend on the perimeter. But he never really developed!
Chris Boucher: I thought he was really skinny, but with a NBA diet/training regimen I thought he could develop into a very nice player once he gained some strength. His shoot + handle combined with excellent shot blocking instincts made him a steal in my opinion. I think I was right here since I’ve heard he’s been doing well for other teams.
Jonas Jerebko: I thought he was going to be an absolute steal as a player who could shoot, made excellent decisions, and was versatile defensively even if he wasn’t good at it. I thought he was going to have a far bigger impact than he did.
Javale Mcgee: I loved the dude from the second he walked in and he was fantastic for us. I was always calling for him to get far more minutes than he did, but it seems like he showed in the Lakers that while he deserved slightly more minutes than he got from us, he wasn’t a 30+ minute starter like I thought he was for us.
Jordan Poole: I just liked his skillset in college and thought if he could just have better shot selection + play more off-ball like Klay then he would be a good player for us.
Looking at this list, it may seem like I'm some amazing GM, but its more that I'm a lot more cautious who I start paying attention to and start rooting for. For example, I didn't care much about Poole until his 14 game run last year. So yeah, I don't hop on the bandwagon as fast as some of you people, which explains why so many of my irrational good feeling guys panning out.
> cautious who I start paying attention to
So, more like RATIONAL GOOD FEELING then? Haha
I think its more that I got lucky. Like I said above, ever since Garnett I was always looking for versatile PF/C's with guard like skills (passing, shooting, dribbling) that could also play defense.
By sheer luck that I'd fallen in love with Garnett's play, I happened upon the next wave of basketball bigs that Draymond brought with him. But hey, sometimes its better to be lucky than good!!
I thought Adonal Foyle would really break out after Dampier was gone and out of his way for the starting center job. I just really loved the guy, his personality, off court work and stuff, so I rooted for it to happen. Great shot blocker, and yeah, thought he’d get to show something much more with the starting job/minutes.
Oh man, I had an irrationally good feeling about Patrick McCaw before he had an irrationally bad feeling about the Warriors. Was seriously thinking about getting #0 jersey for a while (thankfully never did).
He's not even a Warrior, but Lonzo Ball is another guy I kind of irrationally like. He does a lot of important NBA things things at a sneaky high level. Only problem is, his scoring is... well, let's just say, he's in his 4th season in the NBA and the teams he's played a lot of minutes for have never been even remotely good. I'm coming to terms with the fact that his own shortcomings have to be a factor in that.
I *don't* think it's irrational to be optimistic about Mannion. He shows a lot of maturity and good instincts, his weaknesses look fixable, and being an NBA player runs in his family. Plus he's barely 20 and a rookie. He certainly could end up looking like a steal at 48th overall pick.
Yea, I had a good feeling about Slaw before he blew it up in my face. That's still a WTF
Especially since Mannion was expected to go higher than 20 before his shooting at Arizona all but disappeared. A VERY lucky tumble to 48 for us.
A LOT LOT LOT of you guys had an irrationally good feeling about McCaw before the holdout season. And so far only one of you has had the balls to admit it. LOL