Half way through the season and...

[Ben_Dover]

So here we are officially more than half way through the season, so i thought it was a good time to look at a few things and appreciate where our team is right now.

First let's not forget this team basically lost JRich (their 2nd go to guy) for a future prospect before the season started.
As far as how that affects this season, it pretty much says let's take your 20 point scorer and replace him with a guy who will sit on the bench all year and watch. (F U Nelly! lol...) Still the Warriors have worked past that and come out better for it now and most likely much better in the future when Wright starts to get into the mix.

Also nobody will forget how we started the season 0-6. Looking just horrible and how we have still played pretty bad on many occasions during the season. At times shocking me how they pulled out wins time after time while playing like complete cr@p.

Yet.. Even with all the negatives working against this team......


Warriors have a better record than Utah and Houston at the moment

Warriors are only a 1/2 a game behind the Nuggets

ONLY 2 games back of the Spurs

AND just 4 games away from the best record in the Western Conference
nobody would have guessed that.

And to think all this and they're about to have their easiest stretch of games of the season AND they play every game at home in Feb. except for one game.

IT"S ON B!TCH3S!!! GO WARRIORS!!!

[capmanj]

and with all that we still are in the last slot for playoffs...

[FNQ]

On a scale of 1-10, Warriors have an 11 in resiliency...

[crzy]

Believe it or not, I still think we're capable of more. We're 25-17, with Barnes and Pietrus as our 7 and 8 guys. As we showed against Chicago, we have a very thin team. If we can make a trade to bring in a rotation player that can make a significant contribution, we'll be even more successful.

[Ben_Dover]

and with all that we still are in the last slot for playoffs...

true. because the western conference is filled with great teams.
look at Houston, they're 21-19 and in the 10th spot. ouch!

anyways we're still only a 1/2 a game out of the 6th spot.

[sanddude909]

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true. because the western conference is filled with great teams.
look at Houston, they're 21-19 and in the 10th spot. ouch!

anyways we're still only a 1/2 a game out of the 6th spot.

Yeah, the West is insane this year. There might be TWO teams with more than 45 wins that don't make the playoffs. There might be 7 (or even) 8 50 (!) win teams in the West this year.

That's just insane.

[JimmyTD3]

25-11 when Stack Jack plays.

For the sake of not being a homer let's say we go 2-4 when we did have him.

That makes us 27-15, 5th best record in the West.

[Sid the Squid]

25-11 when Stack Jack plays.

For the sake of not being a homer let's say we go 2-4 when we did have him.

That makes us 27-15, 5th best record in the West.

Injuries and suspensions all being equal this season..the GS warriors would have about a 500 record..maybe one or two games over..The warriors have had incrdible luck so far..We get the clips without Brand...The spurs without Duncan...This list would go on and on..All the time Baron plays every game..It's been great...

This team is the toughest minded team in the league..It's truly amazing that theyre coming into Feb with a winning record despite a goofy coach who won't play our bigs.

[GSWbandwagon]

i don't think that we're particularly lucky w/ injuries this year. i think that its largely will and desire that's keeping the guys from the ir.

back in the dark days (between nellie coaching stints) we were consistently among the league leaders in games missed due to injury. i think we led the league 2 or 3 straight years early in the jamison era. a part of that was just that our players didn't care and felt no urge to get back to playing. they didn't want to be there and would have 8 week hangnail injuries. sometimes we'd even disguise suspensions as injuries to keep the player paid and thus not bitching to the media (either that or danny fortson really did have an 82 game flu).

these days the only way to keep our guys from playing is to suspend them or accidentally leave them off the active list. steven jackson can barely jog and is supposed to be out at least 2 games, but plays anyway. baron davis hasn't had his legs in a month and is wearing more armor than barry bonds. normally, baron would've shut it down for at least a couple weeks to get healthy. but this year he's gutting it out (and not chucking too, which is even more remarkable as normally he'd be taking the easy way out when he did tough it out and play). barnes' mother dies and his fingers are all messed up and he continues to play. andris gets banged up and can't move much (and there's clearly something going on with his hands) but he keeps playing.

this may be more of a football thing, but players are asked "are you hurt or are you injured?" the difference is that a hurt player can opt to keep playing while an injured once can't go. in years past we'd have guys saying they're injured. this year guys say they're just hurt and go out there and bust their ass.

[The_Believer]

I'm pretty amazed at how durable this team has been so far. *knocks on wood

[killacalijatt]

/\/\/\/\/\ Thanks for Jinxing it
Let me on jinx it
Against Minny Baron gets his usuall mid season injury
Sjax goes crazy

[mudnug]

I don't mind being 8th seed as long as the Suns are first.

It will probably go down as one of the most entertaining first rounds ever.

[warrioratbirth]

i don't think that we're particularly lucky w/ injuries this year. i think that its largely will and desire that's keeping the guys from the ir.

back in the dark days (between nellie coaching stints) we were consistently among the league leaders in games missed due to injury. i think we led the league 2 or 3 straight years early in the jamison era. a part of that was just that our players didn't care and felt no urge to get back to playing. they didn't want to be there and would have 8 week hangnail injuries. sometimes we'd even disguise suspensions as injuries to keep the player paid and thus not bitching to the media (either that or danny fortson really did have an 82 game flu).

these days the only way to keep our guys from playing is to suspend them or accidentally leave them off the active list. steven jackson can barely jog and is supposed to be out at least 2 games, but plays anyway. baron davis hasn't had his legs in a month and is wearing more armor than barry bonds. normally, baron would've shut it down for at least a couple weeks to get healthy. but this year he's gutting it out (and not chucking too, which is even more remarkable as normally he'd be taking the easy way out when he did tough it out and play). barnes' mother dies and his fingers are all messed up and he continues to play. andris gets banged up and can't move much (and there's clearly something going on with his hands) but he keeps playing.

this may be more of a football thing, but players are asked "are you hurt or are you injured?" the difference is that a hurt player can opt to keep playing while an injured once can't go. in years past we'd have guys saying they're injured. this year guys say they're just hurt and go out there and bust their ass.

Didn't SJax have a messed up big toe, but he wouldn't let them bench him?

[GSWhoopfan]

were playing good...but we could have been much better.

losing to Indy was just down right terrible. Indy is a good team, but we are even better. The Clippers, Cleveland losses were terrible because we are much better than LA and slightly better than the Cavs. As good as we are playing weve squandered too many opportunities and that might hurt us. This is the West where you have 0 wasted opportunities to blow. We've blown a number of them. We arent elite. We are playing well, but we have to keep our focus even against teams like Minny and Seattle.

[Sid the Squid]

These starters play right to the max of their potential...They play over their heads...Not under..

[ILOVEIT]

These starters play right to the max of their potential...They play over their heads...Not under..

Agree. The Warriors starters have played HEAVY minutes...Baron has had a great season so far....AB looks totally gassed....Monta has generally played very well in games....Harrington has been a little hit and miss.

I still maintain that there might be 4 teams in the league that can beat the Warriors in the last 2 minutes IF the starting 5 for the Warriors is well rested...especially Baron. The losses have been mostly due to a very tired finishing group...

[old rem]

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Injuries and suspensions all being equal this season..the GS warriors would have about a 500 record..maybe one or two games over..The warriors have had incrdible luck so far..We get the clips without Brand...The spurs without Duncan...This list would go on and on..All the time Baron plays every game..It's been great...

This team is the toughest minded team in the league..It's truly amazing that theyre coming into Feb with a winning record despite a goofy coach who won't play our bigs.

what a tease..huh?

That we squeeze the best from half the team is great. The getting zero from the other half drives me nuts when the "Plan" is that we don't seem to CARE if 5-6 guys are wasted and forgotten.

It's as if they had a fat lady ride Secretariat in a horse race.....Wow....he finished 5th with a fat lady as a jockey! How amazing.

Uh......but he WINS if he has a NORMAL jockey.

[old rem]

were playing good...but we could have been much better.

losing to Indy was just down right terrible. Indy is a good team, but we are even better. The Clippers, Cleveland losses were terrible because we are much better than LA and slightly better than the Cavs. As good as we are playing weve squandered too many opportunities and that might hurt us. This is the West where you have 0 wasted opportunities to blow. We've blown a number of them. We arent elite. We are playing well, but we have to keep our focus even against teams like Minny and Seattle.

Overachieving with what assets we use...missed opportunities in terms of Win Now or Build For More....

That's pretty much the big plan.

I hold some shreds of hope Nelly-Mully get there priorities straight sooner than later.

In ANY big league sport...the teams that do NOT waste opportunity are the ones who are at the top.