Golden State Warriors Roundtable: A Reflection On The Young 2008-2009 Season

To tell you the truth I would take just about any $10 million contract, with the exception of Curry, to unload Harrington.  I think the best thing the Warriors would be able to get for Harrington is a veteran comfortable coming off of the bench; as opposed to looking for another "very good player" to try and force into Nelson's rotation ahead of his already patient youth.  As long as the contract acquired is gone, productive or negligible in the next two off seasons then everything should be fine.  The last thing the Warriors need during their development is self important players in the locker room (Bye Bye Baron, Pietrus). 

Harrington has continued to support his team, but in this case we can say that intentions speak louder than words, and Harrington is clearly disgruntled.  Who will that contract be that sweeps Harrington out of here?  I have no idea, but I'd like to stay away from Curry, Tinsley, and Andre Miller.  I'll give Maggette a couple months to see if he can get his act together, but if not I wouldn't be opposed to packaging him and Harrington in a 2-3 team trade.  

The Dallas Mavericks might let go of Josh Howard, but that may be WAY too much youth for Don Nelson to handle.  The only back injury Harrington suffers from is the spot where Don Nelson's ego stabbed Harrington's ego in the back, not that Harrington didn't have it coming when he publicly put his minutes and his future contracts ahead of the team.  Even when Al couldn't get it done on the floor. Harrington may be a good teammate on the court, but he is bad for the team.

 

Yama Hazheer

Don Nelson has not handled the young and inexperienced core well, but is improving. He is a type of coach that will play his starters numerous minutes, which is why his teams usually don't do that well come playoff time. If Nellie played some of the youngsters such as Marco Belinelli and Brandan Wright more last season, they would be much better players today and could help out others like Anthony Randolph. Without Corey Maggette and Harrington, he hasn't had a choice but to play them more these past few games. Despite some of them having bad games, it gives them more experience which will be valuable, not only them, but the starters who will be rested and not heavily relied on as much.

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