Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Perfect Warriors Game

Let me qualify this by saying that I'm a huge Golden State Warriors fan.... but the Warriors won last night and I'm pretty annoyed about that.

They've been having a season for the dumps (injuries, Monta getting hurt, trades, bad draft picks), which typically has one silver lining: a high draft pick. But by winning and getting a mediocre record, like the Warriors have a habit of doing, you do nothing for yourself and pretty much mire yourself to purgatory. Your team doesn't do well, and it doesn't really have a great chance at improving itself through the draft.

So my perfect Warriors game for this season has these elements:
-The younger players (especially Marco, Randolph and Morrow) getting plenty of run so they can contribute next year to when our core is better and healthy.
-An exciting game where we don't get blown out. For example, the Lakers game last week - it was high scoring and we were actually up in the 4th quarter, but we all knew it was inevitable that they would choke and end up losing by a hair. At least the Warriors are dependable in some regards.
-Monta shooting over 50% on his one ankle.
-Maggette doing well so we can showcase him to be traded.
-Most importantly, a nice check in the L column.

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