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Originally Posted by seafox
Who?
You aren't one of those jump on the bandwago kind of guys, are you JB?
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Been a die-hard Warriors fan for 20 years, and it sure hasn't been easy. Went into this season with great hopes, based on the team's big turnaround perfomance last year in the latter part of the season after trading for Baron Davis. But he's injury-prone, always pulling his hamstring, and had a bad knee this year, as well.
Honestly, I had given up on them this winter. They got off to a real good start the first 20 games or so, then they tanked when Baron's knee acted up. It seemed like they had given up themselves when they dumped Mike Dunleavy and Troy Murphy, although it was clear that Murphy had to go, and Dunleavy never lived up to his "3rd pick in the draft" potential. Al Harrington had to be an improvement over Murphy, but I didn't know much about Stephen Jackson, except he had the troublemaker label on him, and wasn't getting much playing time in Indiana. I figured they wanted Harrington, wanted to get rid of Murphy, and were willing to throw in Dunleavy to accomplish that and unload some big contracts, since although Dunleavy is a talented player, he is a role player, not dominant, and therefore not worth the big money they gave him on a contract extension.
So, anyhow, there I was in LOS, checking the scores everyday, and the addition of Harrington didn't seem to help as they were still losing most of their games. By the time I got to Phuket, I didn't have a reliable wifi connection, and wrote the Warriors season off(they were 26-35), as it looked like another year of high hopes that came to nothing. Just another typical Warrior season!
Then I get back to California, am riding in my car, turn on the sports channel and hear, "the Warriors control their fate, if they win their remaining games, they are in the playoffs." Playoffs!! It sounded unbelievable! But they won their last 5 games, 9 of the last 10, and 16 or the last 21 / Baron got healthy, and the team finally jelled, when Harrington and Jackson got used to playing with the other guys.