Want some fourth-hand dirt on what Borchardt thinks of this year's draft?

A longtime, non-BS poster on a Warriors board posted this:

So one of my friends just was haning out with Curtis Borchardt.

A little background first: I go to stanford grad school and my friends and I all live in that area. Curtis is somehow a family friend of my friend's friend. Clear? The other day he was over at their house and Curtis was there and they apparently had a long talk about lots of draft things. Here are the cool things that Curtis was saying:

- He had a horrible workout for the clippers and doesn't want to play for them or think he'll be picked by thme.

- Pat Riley told him that he will take him IF Woods is gone. Riley said "I'm going to be straight with you. If Woods is there we'll pick him, but if he's not, we'll pick you." (Or something to that effect).

- Said the workout process is a joke. Said there is very little basketball played but rather a TON of interviews and physical examinations. Said every team gave his foot an MRI or whatever and everyone asked him a million quesitons about his foot (often aggresively, like "Has it been hurting at all recently, AND DON'T LIE TO US!.")

- As for players he's seen working out: He says Nene is absolutely HUGE. Nothing we didn't know, but he says Hilario has an insanely muscular huge body frame. Massive wingspan, totaly cut, totally huge.

- Said that Wagner is scary good. Said he was very very impressed by him and he has insane moves.

- Finally, he said everyone in the draft (the players I mean) are pissed off at Dunleavy. Well, maybe more jealous. Because Dunleavy played his cards so that he didn't have to do any workouts. Apparently workouts are a big drag and Dunleavy with his whole 'Am I in am I out' thing basically avoided having to do any workouts.

Anyway, I thought it was neat to get some inside perspective. This also boosts my opinion on Wagner. If he can be a PG and if his game really is as scary good as Curtis says, a Wagner-Richardson backcourt could be sick.

 

Dunleavy is the consensus guess out here, too, but management did a good job keeping their lust for Jason Richardson a secret last year, so it's possible they could surprise everyone (including Peter Vecsey ) again next week.

All Dunleavy staying in the draft means is that whatever the Warriors' intention is, he's cool with it -- which could mean he's happy to be drafted by GS, or that GS has agreed to let him slide to Memphis (Jerry West is a longtime family friend, having hired Dunleavy's dad to his first pro coaching job), or that Dunleavy's going to be traded to some mutually agreeable team.

The clinching factor in why the Warriors may draft and keep Dunleavy, though, is their PG situation. GS has (and likes) Arenas, but Gilbert has zero experience/instincts for running a halfcourt offense.

Dunleavy, though, was a PG in high school & has a very high hoops IQ (being the son of a pro player/coach helps). So theoretically Arenas could start at PG and push the ball upcourt, then let Dunleavy run the halfcourt offense if there's no fast break.

Jamison at PF will be a defensive problem, but it's not really much worse than having Fortson there -- both are too short to succeed, but at least Jamison will try to rotate when someone penetrates. (Fortson, I believe, led the league in dunks or layups watched passively from 2' away.)

If the Dunleavy/Arenas part of the equation works, though, moving Jamison to the 4 will inevitably lead (IMO) to him being traded in a couple of years for a legit-sized PF.