Chapter 8 The Salted Fish That Can't Turn Over

The 1998-1999 season is definitely the most difficult season in the history of the team for the Warriors, before the start of this season, Sprewell, who ranked in the top three points per game last season, Jim Jackson and Joe Smith have all left the team, and after the season, there are only three players on the team who average more than 10 points per game, and the highest average score per game is John Starks, who sent Sprewell to the Knicks in exchange. He's averaging just 13.8 points per game, and he's not even as good as some teams off the bench. In this shrinking season, the Warriors won 21-29 and missed the playoffs, but they did not have no gains, in the 1998 NBA draft, the Warriors selected Vince Carter, who was extremely physical, with the fifth pick, but they did not keep Carter, but chose to trade upwards and swap owners with No. 4 rookie Antoine Jamison. Antoine Jamison's honors in the NCAA are no less than Carter's, Carter's physical fitness is better than Jamison's, but Jamison's skills are slightly better than Carter's, especially the skills of back-to-back singles and mid-range shots are more prominent, before Carmelo Anthony was born in 2003, Jamison was recognized as the league's strongest back-to-back singles swing man, Jamison scored 20,000 career points, many fans didn't even know that there was such a person in the league, Because Jamison has a relatively low-key personality, those paparazzi rarely go to Jamison, which also makes Jamison's exposure a lot less, all in all, Antoine Jamison is a player whose strength is greater than his fame.

Because P-J Calesimo doesn't like to use newcomers, Jamison has a very rich resume and honors in the NCAA, but in the first season of the Warriors, he started from the sixth man, averaging 9.6 points and 6.4 rebounds in 22.5 minutes per game, it is worth mentioning that in this season, Golden State also used the shortest player in NBA history, 160 cm tall Tini Boggs, who is known as the "little bug", he played 59 games for the Warriors, 31 of which were starts, He averaged 5.8 points and 5.5 assists per game.

The 1999-2000 season of the Warriors showed no signs of recovery, the team members are mostly some retired uncles or hairy young men who have just entered the league for less than three years, Larry Hughes, who was traded from the Philadelphia 76ers, became the team's scoring champion, averaging 22.7 points per game, but shooting only 38.9%, Antoine Jamison only played 43 games this season because of a leg injury, Averaged 19.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, but it is worth mentioning that in this season, after Rick Barry's second son Joan Barry played for the Warriors, his third son Drew Barry also wore the Warriors' jersey, but Drew Barry is not as mixed as Joan Barry, the former only officially played 8 games, averaging 2.8 points per game. In the first 27 games of the season, the Warriors won only 6 of them, Callesimo was fired, and Gary Saint-Jean, the head coach who had coached the Kings for five seasons, took over the coaching whip, but only let the Warriors win 13 of the last 55 games, and the Warriors only won 19 games in the whole season, ranking third from the bottom of the league.

In the 2000-2001 season, Antoine Jamison played in 82 games, averaging 24.9 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Danny Fortson, who was traded from Boston, played fantastic numbers in the first six games for the Warriors. Avaging 16.7 points and 16.3 rebounds per game, you must know that no one in the NBA has been able to increase the number of rebounds per game to 16 since Rodman left, but the madness of the little beast came to an end in the summer of Game 6, his right foot was diagnosed with a compression fracture, the season was reimbursed, and the Warriors' interior line was once again vacant, and they recalled from Europe the center Mark Jackson, who was selected in 1997 (he is not the head coach who used to coach the Warriors, that is the guard, this is the center, the two are just the same name), the latter averages 13.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per game is also eye-catchingLarry Hughes only played 50 games due to injury, averaging 16.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, and the shooting percentage was also only 40%, and the Warriors have taken a step back this season compared to last season, playing 19 wins last season, 17 wins this season, third from the bottom of the league last season, and second from the bottom of the league this season...... Don't talk about it, it's all tears if you talk too much...... In addition, the head coach of this season is Dave Cowens, a former Celtics Hall of Fame player who has won two championship rings, but such a god-level player still can't lead this weak Warriors team.

On June 27, 2001, the Warriors selected three players in the NBA Draft, and these three players became the hope of the Warriors' recovery, selecting Jason Richardson from the University of Michigan with the fifth pick in the first round, all-around center Troy Murphy with the fourteenth pick in the first round, and Gilbert Arenas from the University of Arizona with the second pick in the second round.

Arenas was a very self-respecting kid at the time, he thought he would be selected in the lottery before the draft, but unfortunately, no team pronounced his name until the end of the first round, and he ended up in second place in the second round, and when he got home, Arenas burst into tears, threw all his jewelry on the street, and vowed that he would start in the first year of his career, and he did!

In the 2001-2002 season, Dave Cowens was fired after only 8 wins in the first 23 games, and the bearded Brian Winters took over again. Antoine Jamison averaged 19.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, Richardson averaged 14.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game as the starting three, Danny Fortson averaged 11.2 points and 11.7 rebounds per game after returning from injury, the Warriors had a player who could rank in the top five in the league in rebounds per game for the first time since Larry Smith, Troy Murphy averaged 5.9 points and 3.9 rebounds per game as a substitute, Arenas successfully promoted to the starting team in the second half of the season after experiencing multiple role transitions of untrusted-dragon player-role player-sixth man in his first season in the NBAIn the end, he played a total of 47 games this season, averaging 10.9 points and 3.7 assists per game, although the Warriors this season have only won 21 games at the bottom of the West because of their youth and experience, but no one can deny the future of this team, as long as the team's management is not a group of people who are drunk and eat bags, this team will definitely be able to go to victory.

In the summer of 2002, the Warriors hired Eric Musselman as the new head coach, did you find the Warriors' selection criteria, the Warriors never like to find those successful historical coaches, just like the coaching qualifications are only a piece of paper thin newcomers, because such a coach is easy to manage, dare not have any disagreement with the management, the Warriors were able to mix up like this at that time, the management contributed a lot, they ate the bowl and looked at the pot and looked at the jar, and had to look at other people's bowls, Not only did they have to pay attention to the team's selection and trades, but also the team's development and tactical system, which didn't improve until 2010, when the Warriors brought in a new owner, and in 2011, when the Warriors invited the retired Jerry West to return to the general manager's position.

When the 2002-2003 season was about to begin, Danny Fortson, the little beast on the inside, missed three preseason games and three regular season games because of the death of his father. The bench was dissatisfied with the head coach and the team, which was manifested in scolding teammates, refusing to play, and insulting the referees, and was finally banned by the Warriors, banned, and banned again, Fortson only played 17 games throughout the season, and Troy Murphy took advantage of the situation, played 79 games, started every game, averaged 11.7 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, and successfully played his value.

In the 2002 NBA Draft, the Warriors selected Mike Dunleavy, the son of the famous man, in the third place, Dunleavy has average physical fitness and ball handling ability, and needs to be paired with a teammate with strong breakthrough ability, in his attack area, more than half of the shots are outside the three-point line, and the assist ability is also very strong, when the opponent flies to make up for the defense, Dunleavy can quickly transfer the ball to players who are in the open position, and he mainly played for Jason Williams as a bench in his first season, He averaged 5.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per game and shot 34.7% from three-point range. And Jason Richardson can average the second-highest 18.3 points per game on the team, in addition to 4.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists, Antoine Jamison is as stable as ever, 82 games full attendance, averaging 22.2 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, the biggest discovery of the Warriors this season is Gilbert Arenas, who has averaged 18.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, a standard All-Star point guard, such a performance also made him win the year's best improvement award, Eric Dampier has experienced an injury-comeback in recent seasons, after the drama of returning from injuryThe Warriors have won 38 games this season, 17 more than last season, and if the roster is stable, next season, we will be able to see Jiang on the playoff stage, a young team with unlimited potential.

The majority of Warriors fans don't get excited, don't get excited, what I'm talking about is if, just when the Warriors are in a good situation, the management of the Warriors has successfully acted as a roadblock for the team, doesn't it say that Danny Fortson has been hidden by the team, as soon as the season ended, he was dumped to the Mavericks immediately, you say trade it, what do you just do with Antoine Jamison, look at the chips that came from the trade, Nick Van Exel...... Nicknamed "Fan Maniac", the Lakers' boss in the early stage of the "OK" combination, is recognized as the ancestor of "XJBD", only the basket in his eyes, but the shooting rate is less than forty percent of the indiscriminate shooting king, the signature action is to turn around 360 degrees for a layup, some people turn - dodge blocks, no one also turns - play handsome, more importantly, this season is the last third season of Van Exel's career, no matter how much he changes careers, he can't jump for a few years...... In fact, in addition to involving Van Exel and Jamison, this deal also involved six other players, but basically these six players are all dragons, and it has no impact on the team, and more importantly, when the two teams reached an agreement on August 18, 2003, to send the trade plan to the NBA league review team, the United States and eastern Canada actually - power outage - ! The office could not work, which caused the deal to be delayed again and again, in fact, to put it bluntly, the old man did not agree to this deal! But there is no way, no one can save you by killing yourself......