Warriors starting lineup

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AC Transit

AC Transit

Sicc OG
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So i'm reading a contra costa times article in todays paper and they mention ellis and richardson as starters. Does this mean the line up will be as follows:

pg Baron Davis
sg Monta Ellis
sf Jason Richardson
pf Mike Dunleavy
c Troy Murphy

If it is, this is easily the worst defensive/rebounding team in the league. They better run with this lineup cause any half court play would be pretty ugly.
 
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Mickey Fallon
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u think theyre gonna change? dunleavy blows fucking balls. murphys good but plays exactly like a small forward. hes gonna pushed around. point blank period, theyre just gonna play like a high school and take 3's all game. shooting 3's = playing decent but sloppy ball for the first quarter, then completely shitty the last.
 
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3VID3NC3

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OAKLAND - In November of 1991, Don Nelson acquired from the Sacramento Kings what many people thought would be the prototypical power forward for his up-tempo scheme. Billy Owens was a 6-foot-8, 220-pounder who was supposed to be able to handle like a point guard but rebound and defend with the best of the NBA's big men.

Longtime Warriors fans know how that worked out: Owens spent three seasons in a Golden State uniform, earning his keep but never quite living up to the advance billing and, most damningly, failing to lift the club out of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.

Meanwhile, Mitch Richmond -- the player who was shipped out in exchange for Owens -- collected six All-Star berths as a King, prompting Nelson to dub the trade "the dumbest move I ever made."

Fifteen years later, Nelson may have finally found the player he had hoped Owens would be. And that couldn't have happened a moment too soon for Mike Dunleavy.

Last October, Dunleavy began his fourth NBA season on the high of signing a five-year, $45 million contract extension and ended it on the low of being booed by Arena fans for his inability to be the single-minded shooter Mike Montgomery wanted.

Having grown up as a point guard -- until his height dictated a move to the frontcourt -- Dunleavy has always felt he could run an offense. And at Monday's media day, he didn't exactly spare the feelings of either Montgomery or Eric Musselman, saying of his two previous pro coaches that, "I never really felt like I was being used the right way, plain and simple."

Nelson, on the other hand, "sees the type of player I am and the way I play, the way I think."

Dunleavy spent much of last season trolling along the perimeter and waiting to take a jumper off a kick-out pass from a teammate. The only problem: Dunleavy converted only 28.5 percent of his attempts from behind the 3-point line, the worst figure of his four-year NBA career.

"The only thing I've been disappointed in is that I haven't been making as many open shots as I'd like to, because that's where they were putting me, in a position to spread the floor and shoot 3-pointers," Dunleavy said. "But I need to do other things, because when those shots aren't falling, it's just one-dimensional. To be able to handle the ball a little bit more and be more involved would be good."

Dunleavy should have no qualms about his level of involvement with the Warriors offense this year. With Troy Murphy moving to center, the Warriors' other options at power forward -- Zarko Cabarkapa and Ike Diogu -- don't offer nearly the kind of versatility that Nelson and executive vice president Chris Mullin envision getting from Dunleavy, who will initiate the offense on at least a part-time basis.

"I think Dunleavy's going to do really well in our system," Nelson said. "I'll be surprised if he doesn't. ... That's a unique ability, to play a point guard at a power forward position. I don't know who's ever done that. I've never had a guy who can do that."

Said point guard Baron Davis: "Mike Dunleavy, I believe in him, and I think that Coach Nelson is the guy that's going to push him over the top."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/sports/15693673.htm

Im hoping Dunleavy has a breakout year...atliest that would raise his trade value.
 
AC Transit

AC Transit

Sicc OG
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Chris Porter played a lot of minor league ball mostly in the CBA and I think won a championship with Dakota. I'm not sure if he ever got a shot at the NBA again.
 
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RUN AND GUN !!! WAGNER IS THE "STEAL" SAYS NELLIE !!!!
PIETRUS IS GONNA GO BACK TO HIS DEFENSE AND LOCKING PEOPLE DOWN !!! HE'S A BEAST !! CAN'T WAIT FOR NOV. 1 V.S. THE FAKERS, IT'S GONNA BE BANANANANANAS AT THE ARENAAAAAA........
 
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