06 Mock Draft
This years mock draft results as compiled by recording secretary Statsman.
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Clubber Lang |
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gsw_hoops |
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loozballs |
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durrem |
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johnfree |
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blunder |
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Fed-Up |
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Epileptik |
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sign-arenas.20fr.com |
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Hoop |
Clubber wins a pair of my season tickets to a game this coming season.
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Warriors Playoff News
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Written by BackSeatGM
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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Want to share some things before I read anything. For all you young guys, this is what 1975 felt like. Nobody expected us to be more than a minor irritation
for the Bullets. A friend bet me a couple 6-packs that we wouldn't last
to game 6. After we won game 2 the rest of the world was like, OK,
these guys might be better than we thought. The way I felt last night
was the way I felt after that 2nd game. We had taken their best punch
right on the nose and instead of folding we punched right back, and we
kept punching til they finally backed up a step. I felt exactly the
same way last night.
The Mavs had turned the tables on us and finally dictated tempo and
style. They were getting good shots and making them, they were avoiding
our swarming stlye defense and the turnovers we'd been creating with
it, and, on the other end, they made us settle for deep shots that we
weren't making. Like the announcers were saying, the 67-win team had
finally shown up. Thank God we had the secret weapon. Even though we
were being outplayed, Baron wouldn't let us accept failure. I mean, the
only other Warrior that didn't have a sub-par 1st half was MP (big
props to him) and yet we were tied at the half. And again at the end of
the 3rd. Fell behind again in the 4th. It just seemed like playing from
behind was just taking too much of a toll.
Then we did the thing that's
going to gain us more respect than all of the chaotic, small ball,
mismatch exploiting nonsense we'd been throwing at them in the first 3
games. We became a good team. We dug deep and pulled out a tough win
against a formidable foe. We made the plays at both ends, we hit the
clutch shots, forced the turnovers. We did what good teams do. We took
the game. We didn't resort to gimmicks. We didn't rely on luck. We fed
off the home crowd and closed out the game. We popped them in the nose
enough times that we made them blink and by the time they gained their
senses it was too late. The last couple punches they threw, Dirk's two
3s (pretty ballsy shots, I might add), were too little, too late.
This series has made me happy to be a Warrior fan, last night's game made me proud to be one
. Good stuff.
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Written by Flashfire
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
It's Monday, the last day of April, and the Golden State Warriors will be playing basketball games in May. Imagine that.
What seemed so unlikely not quite two months ago - a playoff berth - was already made a reality. The reward? A first round meeting with the Dallas Mavericks, a team that finished 67-15, not only 6 games better than any other team in the league but 25 ahead of the Warriors.
Head-to-head, the Warriors went 3-0. The first game was won in Dallas before The Trade. The second was a demolition of a team that came to Oakland having won 17 in a row. The last was a night before the Warriors clinched, when Dallas sat four of their regulars. It was almost as if they were conceding the probability of the Warriors making the playoffs, setting up the matchup we have now. Talk was of how they didn't care who they faced in the first round. They had their sights set on the championship. How quickly things change.
After Friday night's win put the Warriors up 2-1 in the series, I wrote that the Oracle Arena rocked like it had never rocked before. It only took two days for that night to be surpassed, and it took the kind of game we were treated to to do it.
Dallas came out strong and finally looked like the best team in the league for much of the game, but here's the thing: the Warriors never went away. The Mavs had a solid first quarter but they ended it only up six.
Advantage: Warriors, sort of.
Behind a superb first half by Josh Howard, Dallas continued to play well in the second and looked like they'd be heading into the break with some momentum after Dirk Nowitzki scored with a second left and got fouled. His free throw put them up by three. Then Baron Davis banked in a buzzer-beater from halfcourt that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
Advantage: Warriors, definitely.
They came out and hit a couple quick 3-pointers to open the second half and Dallas took a quick timeout. Next thing you know, Howard was disappearing but Jerry Stackhouse picked up the slack as he helped lead the Mavs on a 21-7 run that put them up by eight. Yet again, the Warriors fought back and after Davis stole an inbounds pass with a handful of seconds left and dunked, it was tied again.
Advantage: Warriors, clearly.
Twelve more minutes would determine which team would have the edge. Would the Warriors maintain home court advantage and improbably go to Dallas up 3-1, or would the Mavs balance out their Game 1 loss and head back to the Lone Star State having evened the series?
As before, Dallas took the lead and nursed it for
much of the quarter. Then, finally, the effect of the relentless Warriors
and the hungry, noisy crowd finally made the difference in the last few
minutes. Stephen Jackson made a huge triple from the right
corner. Once again, it was Davis who came up big with a layup that gave
the Warriors the lead. Then Davis made a perfect pass from the
3-point line in close to Andris Biedrins for a dunk as the Mavs defense was late
to recover. The capper was a dish by one unsung hero to another as Jackson
fed Matt Barnes for a back-breaking three with 23 seconds to go.
While Nowitzki made a pair of 3-pointers of his own to force the Warriors to make a few free throws to maintain their lead, it wasn't enough. Fittingly, after having no impact on the first three games, Mickael Pietrus played a key role in the win and cemented the outcome by stealing the inbounds pass at the end. A few moments later the final buzzer sounded, the Warriors had a very difficult 103-99 victory that was by far the closest game of the series, and they knew they'd be going back to Dallas with a chance to move on.
From a fan's perspective, we are witnessing something magical here. I've been a fan of this team since my first game in the mid-80s, so I've seen Run TMC and I've been through all the craptastic years since their last playoff berth in 1994. Last year they were "supposed" to make the playoffs but they crashed and burned again. It was the same old story, the same old Warriors.
It was happening again this season, then all of a sudden they turned it around and caught lightning in a bottle, as the saying goes. Now they're a game away from pulling off what would be widely considered as one of the biggest upsets in NBA playoff history, even if they'd already shown they were a team that could give Dallas a few fits. But it was the regular season, people said. The postseason is an entirely different beast. Dallas has been there. The Warriors haven't.
Yet here we are, the Mavericks a loss away from going home, the Warriors a win away from shocking the NBA. Scratch that. They've already done that much, but the fourth win would really top it off. There's talk of Nowitzki having to come back from an early vacation to accept the MVP award after a series in which he's done very little. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine the Warriors taking 12 years of suck and tossing it aside like it was nothing? Believe it because it's true. I'm already as happy as I've ever been as a Warriors fan and being able to attend these last two games is something I'll never forget, but I'm going to be greedy now.
It's time to step on the throats of the Mavericks and finish this. Yes, the Warriors are happy to be there while getting some great experience out of this. Yes, no matter what happens, the buzz is back and people outside the Bay Area are paying attention to this team. Hell, Charles Barkley is on TNT cutting down the Warriors and the Bay Area and I love it because it's funny, it's entertaining, and it sure as hell beats only being mentioned when someone's talking about how pathetic this team has been. Now is the time to go out and take that big step and advance to the next round. The fourth win is the hardest, but these guys are ready for it. They stood toe to toe with the best team in the league on a night when they finally played with a sense of urgency, and look who won.
The Golden State Warriors.
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Written by Flashfire
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
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For twelve long and usually painful seasons, the only times Warriors
fans have been able to utter those two words probably had to do with one of a
few different scenarios:
* reminiscing about the last time the Warriors
weren’t already talking about ways to improve next year, usually with a new
coach, while sixteen other teams knocked each other off until one was left
standing in November or whenever the NBA Playoffs actually end now
* talking about some other game going on as other teams played meaningful
games in late April while the Warriors went golfing, or in the case of many of
today's athletes, sitting at home playing video games
* sadly wondering if the Warriors would ever break the curse and we’d
have a reason to go wild again
If the 8th-seed clincher last week in Portland or the Game 1 win in
Dallas on Sunday weren’t already enough, Warriors fans both new and old came out
to Oracle Arena in full force last night to rock it in ways it has
never been rocked before as the arena played host to its first playoff game
since 1994.
From the moment the Dallas Mavericks took the floor for pre-game warm-ups
to a healthy chorus of boos, the fans in attendance represented. The thunderous ovations morphed from the
“Let’s go Warriors!” chants that soon followed, to “DE-fense” almost every time
the Mavs had possession, to “Cuban sucks,” which the Dallas owner encouraged
like a conductor leading his orchestra, to finally being topped off with
“Barkley sucks,” an obvious reference to the one-time Round Mound of Rebound who
said on TNT that Dallas would go on to win the series in five games after taking
Game 2. Perhaps now, the Round
Mound of Loud Sound is a more apt description.
Whatever the case, the fans were more than ready for this one. How could they not be after so many
years without as much as a sniff of the postseason? The Oracle played host to a giant party
with 20,629 of your closest friends, most of which you’d never met before,
rocking and rolling with every great shot and play made by the home team. It was as good as any college
atmosphere, yet better in every way imaginable. ESPN’s
announcers repeatedly marveled both at the action on the court and the ovations
in the stands.
 
As much as has been said about the key roles played by Stephen Jackson
and Al Harrington following the January trade that brought them to the Warriors
as part of the eight-player deal with the Indiana Pacers, so much of the team’s
high level of play has been cemented by people like Baron Davis, Jason
Richardson, Monta Ellis, Andris Biedrins and even Matt Barnes. Warriors fans
know this already along with the job old-yet-new head coach Don Nelson has done;
there’s no need to go over it yet again here.
This one, this win, it was for the fans. As much as it can be possible, the fans
helped will this team to the playoffs by believing and supporting their
guys. They helped turn the Oracle
into a place opposing teams have an increasingly slimmer chance of winning
in. They helped give the Warriors
the extra energy they needed to make that playoff push after being nine games
under .500 prior to winning 16 of their last 21. After things went south in Game 2 in
Dallas, it was all erased even before the opening tip last night. There's
nothing like coming home to this.
After their 109-91 win, the Warriors now lead the best-of-7 series 2-1
and can advance if they simply ride out their home court
advantage. Not to get ahead of
things, but who’s to say Charles Barkley can’t be right about the series ending
in five, only in favor of the Warriors instead? Right now, the Mavericks have done very
little to foster much of a belief that they’ll take one in Oakland. While
it still remains they were the best team in the regular season, it’s a regular
season that means all of nothing at this point.
The Warriors may remain the underdog in the minds of most members of the
media, but they’re making great strides in proving everyone outside of the East
Bay wrong. They’re only halfway to
accomplishing the major upset, but they’ve already succeeded in one very
important area: bringing a winning,
playoff atmosphere back to the name of the Golden State Warriors. The remaining question is how much
longer they’ll continue delaying those talks of how to get even better next
year.
With the way the team is playing and the support what it is, Warriors
fans can once more be truly proud to say “Yes, I am a Warriors
fan!”
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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    Thanks to Obay for the beer, and Playmaker for the laughs. I have been to a Niners Superbowl, A Giants World Series Game, Multiple Sharks Playoff games, and never in all my life have I seen an arena as out of control as tonight in Oakland. If boos could kill, Dampier would be bleeding out his ears, if cheers could elevate players to the level of gods Baron and Monta could have thrown lightning. 13 years of pent up desire for success came to a head in Oakland tonight, and it was electric.
I don't know if you could tell at home watching on TV but no team would want to come into that building on this night and have to play.
In the photos above you have section 112 sporting the Mark Cuban crybaby signs. My friend B chilling before the game. Playmaker as whining Mark Cuban and Obay as Charles "The Warriors Won't Win Another Game" Barkely.
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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They Believe....Do You?
Also make your own Cuban Crying face
to bring to the game.
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