Are these Warriors an elite team?

bill curley II · Post #21 » by **bill curley II** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 10:56 pm

BTW, did the playoff seedings change from last year? Does anyone know? Utah will win the Northwest, but probably have at best the 5th best record. Are they in the 3-6 or 4-5 matchup and what seed would they be?

ILOVEIT · Post #22 » by **ILOVEIT** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 10:59 pm

What's elite? Pistons? Spurs? Boston? Lakers?

I think after those two teams then everyone is in the mix including the Warriors....

Warriors are a top 10 team...and if Brandan Wright grows in his role we no longer are super week on the front line.....

Twinkie defense · Post #23 » by **Twinkie defense** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 6:16 am

I hope the Warriors meet Phil's quantitative description of "elite," just so a reporter can ask him about it and he'll have to say the Warriors are elite.

Phil and Nellie have got some bad history, going back to Red Auerbach.

old rem · Post #24 » by **old rem** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 8:58 pm

BooRadley wrote:I think we could actually beat Utah if Nellie opens up the rotation a bit. I mean we were only a couple possessions away from having a 3-0 lead last year. And we blew them out in Oracle during the regular season as well last year. So who knows? We basically didn't have Monta last playoffs.

My perpetual gripe is that Nellie limits his options. He's such an advocate of name brand "Nellieball" he loses sight of the priority..which is to get closer to a title. Putting in POB or Kosta-when they played a whole 8 min-combined-in a month won't help much. To beat the elite-we NEED every player on the roster to be a usable weapon in the battle. We need every possible tactical option-not just the now predictable...get tiny. We need our own Millsap. We need our 7 ft stranger to be tuned up enough to relieve Biedrins for 10 min-and not look like a guy who has been a forgotten shadow.

Of course-we will need everyone to be a plus on the boards. We need to NOT get 3 happy when we are not hitting.