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Very Far Away (Warriors 75, Raptors 83)

The most infuriating part of Chris Cohan’s ownership — even more infuriating than all the losing — was being relentlessly told that very bad teams weren’t actually that bad.  It was insulting to the...

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The Trade Deadline: Nothing Left to Say

With less than 72 hours before the NBA trade deadline, I sat down to pound out a few hundred words on the Warriors at yet another potential inflection point.  When Joe Lacob and company bought the...

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Ellis for Bogut First Impressions: a PR Loss and a Basketball Win

If you want change, you need to change things.  The Warriors just changed a lot of things by trading Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh and Kwame Brown for Andrew Bogut and Stephen Jackson — not the least of which...

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Thank You, Chris Mullin (Warriors 93, Wolves 97)

Back before all the losing, there was Chris Mullin.  Back before Cohan, before Webber, before Nelson I, Nelson II or the endless string of coaches between, before We Believe and before Joe Lacob, there...

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In Defense of Tanking (Warriors 100, Nets 102)

Sun Tzu once observed that “[a]ll men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”  The Warriors won’t be conquering anything this...

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The Best Loss (Warriors 101, Spurs 107)

In going to ridiculous lengths to lose the season finale Thursday night, the Warriors’ post-Cohan management gave the clearest indication yet of its commitment to winning.  The Warriors started five...

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Genealogy of a Rebuilding

“A basketball team is only as good as its players.”  Other than “the team that scores the most points wins,” it’s hard to find a more fundamental basketball truism.  Of course, that didn’t stop the...

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Warriors Arena Update: Seeking Supporters and Prepping Numbers

Frederich Schiller once observed that “appearance rules the world.”  Now that the pomp and circumstance of tightly controlled press releases and photo ops of the Warriors’ arena announcement have...

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Mark Jackson: Now or Never?

Last season, Mark Jackson promised the playoffs and no-excuse basketball.  The Warriors missed the playoffs and relied on the usual excuses (injuries, youth, vengeful basketball gods) to explain away...

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The Past, Progress and The Playoffs (Warriors 105, Wolves 89)

Oscar Wilde once observed that “Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”  Or a basketball team.  When you pull back from the game-to-game ups and downs of the 2012-13...

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The 2013-14 Warriors — Redefining Success

Albert Einstein once laid out his simple formula for success: “You have to learn the rules of the game.  And then you have to play better than anyone else.”  When the Warriors escaped the perpetually...

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The $800 Million Question

Forget real estate and IPOs — the most intriguing potential bubble in the Bay Area last week was of a basketball variety.  Vivek Ranadive’s sale of his Warriors shares to venture capitalist Mark...

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The Next Step (Warriors 112, Wizards 96)

The Warriors are the hottest team in the NBA.  They’ve set their sights on a historic road trip.  They’ve won games during this streak in nearly every way imaginable, with blistering offense and...

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The Ghost of 2007-08: High Expectations and Squandered Opportunities

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner once observed.  ”It’s not even past.”  On Thursday, when the trade deadline passes, the Warriors will make a gamble on their future.  Whether they make a...

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Steve Blake Trade: Warriors Aim to Meet Expectations, Not Raise Them

The Warriors’ 101-92 victory Wednesday night over the short-handed Kings was good news.  The Kings are a team the Warriors should beat, and the Warriors took care of business despite missing Andrew...

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Playoffs—Open Thread (Warriors 112, Lakers 95)

I’m on the road myself now—and won’t have time to do a game-wrap of the Lakers’ game. But that’s OK. I doubt any of us really want a game-wrap anyway. What we want is a crib-sheet for the playoffs....

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On Coaching and Perfection

Vince Lombardi once conceded that "Perfection is not obtainable.  But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."  Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is famous for demanding perfection from everyone on...

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Love, Thompson, and the Risk-Filled Calculus of Building a Contender

The Warriors' first-round loss to the Clippers exposed their two greatest on-court needs: (1) a second consistent scorer capable of sharing the offensive load with Stephen Curry and (2) a bench that...

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Draft Day Open Thread

In a testament to the strength of the Western Conference, the Warriors won 51 games last season, but came within 3 losses of missing the playoffs.  If the rumors swirling around draft day are any...

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Addressing the Obvious: Warriors Sign Shaun Livingston

There was a remarkable moment during Jerry West's introductory press conference when he referenced, in his typical matter-of-fact manner, that it's nearly impossible to play good defense in the modern...

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