[Mick]

I coughed and spit out my tea when I read someone say he'd trade Curry for a couple of draft picks and some role players.  It's not personal (no appetite for flame wars!) but when I hear that sort of talk I wonder how long you've even BEEN a Warriors fan.  Long term fans know how the Warriors have used their first round picks and know they are legendary in a bad way.  A very, very bad way.  We've had year after year where we had the promise of lots of low first round picks and we've had a few years where we've been championship contenders.  I don't want to go back to the former.

Here's a partial list of Warriors first round misses in the high-pick 80s-90s-early 2000s wilderness years: Joe Barry Carroll (1), Ricky Brown (13), Lester Conner (14), Russell Cross (6), Chris Washburn (3), Tellis Frank (14), Chris Gatling (16), Latrell Sprewell (24) (Admittedly an all-star but ...), Joe Smith (1), Todd Fuller (11), Adonal Foyle (8), Jeff Foster (21), Mickael Pietrus (3), Andris Biedrins (11), Ike Diogu (9), Patrick O'Bryant (9), Marco Bellinelli (18), Anthony Randolph (14).

I've been a Warriors fan since the late 1960s. My father and father in law both played college basketball. It's my favorite spectator sport of the Big Four.  And yes, I'd trade Curry, Thompson and Draymond rather than watch them play .500 ball and show up for 2/3rds of the games.

And you know the people who drafted those terrible first round picks are gone, right?  And JBC averaged more than 20 ppg for the W's. No, I would have FAR preferred to have Parrish and McHale, obviously. But Todd Fuller and JBC don't belong in the same group.

[Mick]

I coughed and spit out my tea when I read someone say he'd trade Curry for a couple of draft picks and some role players.  It's not personal (no appetite for flame wars!) but when I hear that sort of talk I wonder how long you've even BEEN a Warriors fan.  Long term fans know how the Warriors have used their first round picks and know they are legendary in a bad way.  A very, very bad way.  We've had year after year where we had the promise of lots of low first round picks and we've had a few years where we've been championship contenders.  I don't want to go back to the former.

Here's a partial list of Warriors first round misses in the high-pick 80s-90s-early 2000s wilderness years: Joe Barry Carroll (1), Ricky Brown (13), Lester Conner (14), Russell Cross (6), Chris Washburn (3), Tellis Frank (14), Chris Gatling (16), Latrell Sprewell (24) (Admittedly an all-star but ...), Joe Smith (1), Todd Fuller (11), Adonal Foyle (8), Jeff Foster (21), Mickael Pietrus (3), Andris Biedrins (11), Ike Diogu (9), Patrick O'Bryant (9), Marco Bellinelli (18), Anthony Randolph (14).

I've been a Warriors fan since the late 1960s. My father and father in law both played college basketball. It's my favorite spectator sport of the Big Four.  And yes, I'd trade Curry, Thompson and Draymond rather than watch them play .500 ball and show up for 2/3rds of the games.

And you know the people who drafted those terrible first round picks are gone, right?  And JBC averaged more than 20 ppg for the W's. No, I would have FAR preferred to have Parrish and McHale, obviously. But Todd Fuller and JBC don't belong in the same group.