Golden State Warriors: Power Ranking Who Takes the Last Shot Next Season

April 3rd, 2012 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »
How many Achilles' heels can one team actually have?

For the Golden State Warriors, the real problem may be finding enough fingers to point for the blame of this season's failures.

There's the rookie coach (Mark Jackson) asked to lead a talent-deprived roster to just the franchise's second playoff berth in nearly 20 years. Jackson was in over his head before being handcuffed with a severely restricted training camp and a hectic 66-game season.

There's the general manager (Larry Riley) who failed to find enough physical players to fit Jackson's defensive schemes, swung wildly and missed at free-agent centers, then sent the team's top two players (Monta Ellis and Ekpe Udoh) for one (Andrew Bogut) who they knew would never suit up this season.

There's Joe Lacob who paid a not-quite-so ludicrous $450 million (thanks to Magic Johnson and company) for a franchise lacking in talent, but bursting with optimism. Lacob fueled the fire with not just playoff talks, but championship talks. Then he wasted the team's amnesty clause on Charlie Bell's expiring $4 million contract despite his team holding one of the league's worst contracts (Andris Biedrin ...

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