Patrick O'Bryant recalled to Golden State Warriors

[Da Coach]

Mike- there is good news for Patrick, even better than a trade, because in a few days, he will be an unrestricted free agent. I have no doubt he will get offers from several teams, and be able to pick the situation and contract that is best suited to him.

[mike radigan]

Mike- there is good news for Patrick, even better than a trade, because in a few days, he will be an unrestricted free agent. I have no doubt he will get offers from several teams, and be able to pick the situation and contract that is best suited to him.

I knew that when I typed it, just too lazy to put down all his options. Regardless, there are many options for Patrick.

[mike radigan]

ESPN has been discussing how Whoa Nellie sat Baron Davis the entire 2nd half of last night's game. The talking heads concluded that one of them has to go as a result and it will probably be Nellie.

[real fan]

You canT blame him for his decision to leave early but does anyone think now that it really was a good one as he would have played and practiced a heck of a lot more which could have turned him into a better player had he stayed at BU.

[Chico]

Real fan, I've been saying that since the day he left, but all everyone has to say is look at the money he got for leaving. He wasn't ready. He knew it, IMO the coaches knew it and most BU fans knew it.

[TRIMAN]

Real fan, I've been saying that since the day he left, but all everyone has to say is look at the money he got for leaving. He wasn't ready. He knew it, IMO the coaches knew it and most BU fans knew it.

Players get a ton more money on the 2nd contract than they do with their rookie deal. He should be getting a pay cut on his next deal. It's impossible to say that he would be doing better if he had stayed in school as there's always the risk of injury (or being exposed like Roy Hibbert). Guaranteed money, particularly in the millions, would be difficult for anyone to turn down.

[VeveJones007]

Players get a ton more money on the 2nd contract than they do with their rookie deal. He should be getting a pay cut on his next deal. It's impossible to say that he would be doing better if he had stayed in school as there's always the risk of injury (or being exposed like Roy Hibbert). Guaranteed money, particularly in the millions, would be difficult for anyone to turn down.

It would have helped both sides if the Warriors had signed Nellie before the draft. Then the Warriors never would have drafted him and he could have ended up somewhere that would have developed him better.

[Da Coach]

Funny how the media's opinion of POB has changed. For the first year they beat on POB as a bust. Now they blame Don Nelson for his failure to develop.
See the couple paragraphs just below the ad in the middle of the article--

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_8942720

[Braves4Life]

Funny how the media's opinion of POB has changed. For the first year they beat on POB as a bust. Now they blame Don Nelson for his failure to develop.
See the couple paragraphs just below the ad in the middle of the article--

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_8942720

It's funny how when Nellie was winning Cali and the media sold their soul and proclaimed him "world's greatest coach". (What do you call them Mac? Drive-by media types? )

Now that he's losing he's just an out-of-touch, obstinate, stubborn, over-the-hill (should I go on? ) dip$h!t.

[Chico]

Posters on this board have been blaming Nelson for POB's lack of success since day 1, so it's nothing new. I've seen GS play several times and if POB can't play ahead of their other centers, he belongs on another team. So lets hope he gets another opportunity.

[tornado]

No news on POB, but his team, the Warriors, just established a new standard,
as the best team ever to miss the playoffs. They finished 48-34, and yet won't
be playing in the postseason, even though in the East, Atlanta finished 37-45
and get into the playoffs.

Coach Don Nelson, who now has plenty of time on his hands, is making the
rounds of all the west coast radio and TV talk shows trying to explain what
went wrong and how they missed the playoffs when just a few weeks ago it
seemed a certainty.

So...guess who Don Nelson blames..........seems he blames a lot of people but Patrick O'Bryant appears to be among them,
even though you can hardly blame a guy who isn't even on the roster most of the year, can you?
"Don doesn’t play BIG young players, and often doesn’t want to play ANY BIG players at all...
(Nelson)... trashed Patrick O’Bryant–OK, not at all a Nellie player–and now POB will probably go and be a decent back-up C elsewhere. While the Warriors could use a back-up C."
(some of the responses at the bottom show how little people think of POB with Nelson running the show)

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/kawakami/2008/04/17/don-nelsons-season-ending-knbr-interview-time-to-stop-feeling-sorry-for-yourself-don/

One other report:
"Warriors career might be best described as "two years of his life he'll never get back."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/warriors/ci_8970511

...I would agree, POB needs to get out of that system.

[SFP]

Nellie's system is not bad but you need to play everyone the whole year because towards the end of the season your main players are drained and banged up. On POB, he needs to go somewhere that will let him play. I still say there is a lack of good big men in the league who can post up and when doubled up make the right pass.

[Chico]

Now, it's 2 years of his life he'll never get back. All I've read on this board is "look at the money he got."
Hard to feel sorry for him, he got all that money didn't he? IMO his story is similar to the kid who went to Pitt. They listened to way too many people. Only difference, so far, is POB "got all that money."

[thefish7]

If by the kid who went to Pitt you mean Aaron Gray, he's an example of why POB was right to go. His stock was lower as a senior than it was as a sophomore.

[Chico]

Fish, I was referring to Cassin Diggs, the kid who is leaving Pitt.