i have something to say about the offs THE 2016 NBA PLAYOFFS

barnes best thing seems to be defensive versatility

durant will be a decent upgrade on barnes

lmao curry thompson iggy durant draymond, try scoring on or stopping that lineup

kd going to the dubs wld be genuinely apocalyptic like i def cldnt look away but itd be terrifying and at the end everyone dies

would be super weird.

it would be ridiculous

anyways i don't think kd is going to gsw

i think it would have been written in stone had they lost last night's game but now i'm not so sure

theyve got as good a shot as anyone outside of OKC imo

idk there are lessons to be learned from "the decision" but i guess those lessons are conflicting. you might get bad press and criticism for a corny ring-chasing move but you will also get rings. maybe he would be viewed differently though, he is just a more chill and low-key persona than lebron and okc is not his hometown the way cleveland/akron is for lebron so the drama is reduced

he wld def pick up some haters cld be offset by the benefits of being on the first undefeated team tho

i think the "decision" parallels are overblown. KD is not at the same level of stardom or popularity as lebron was in 2009. and he's not gonna do a TV special

and he learned from it, and no one outside of OKC (which contains no one) cares if he leaves.

ppl will def be mad, good chance professional sports yellers work themselves into a froth over it

kd soft, kd cldnt win one on his own, kd not alpha etc

yeah he'll get some hate for sure, but it'll be from the same dorky local fans who have bad sports opinions on everything. and winning 3 straight titles will soften the blow a bit i'd think

i just don't see how they make the money work once Steph has to get paid

cap is going up to like 110M in a couple of years iirc

if they want it to happen it can happen

lebron was a 1 in a million situation

i also think him going to the heat made it ok for stars to switch teams, nobody has cared about that happening since then

by the time steph needs to get paid iggy & bogut will be off the books right? i think people have written about how their contract situation is uniquely structured so that they can give out big contracts in the coming years w/o any one year being partic overburdened

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/1/26/7906527/golden-state-warriors-can-become-a-new-nba-dynasty

klay and dray are gonna be making 18 and 16.5 million in 2018, LOL. give curry and durant 30 apiece and they have like 16 million left over for other dudes

think about how good dray is and then realize he's gonna be making less than 15% of the cap in 4 years

guys like wilbon will always be like Jordan Won On His Own (he didn't) and Players Used To Hate Each Other (kinda? but also like... the dream team happened?) and Now These Guys Wanna Team Up Like A Bunch Of Millennials (?) but like idk those dudes will be dead soon whatever

feel like its not nothing and an unstoppable dubs machine will alienate some ppl, it just seems unfair, but also they wld be hella legendary and tons of non basketball fan wld prob jump on that bandwagon

i wld prob route against them which wld be so futile lol

i dunno if maintaining curry klay durant draymond is feasible even with the new cap, they could have it for a year or 2 maybe

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/golden_state_warriors/

they could definitely do it until 2019, by which time KD and steph are in their 30s anyway

kind of crazy how steph is already 28 it always seems like he's 25 or 26

yeah i got sad on his birthday this year realizing this was peak curry

I actually don't think the dubs would be so much better with kd I mean huge upgrade at their weakest position but afaict it would require gutting their depth- im sure they would utterly destroy a lot of nights but I'd live in mortal fear of just a routine miss-2-weeks muscle strain to any of their big...4?

Well now that I think about it maybe you can be fine missing steph for a month with dray-kd-klay and some garbage

Don't get me wrong I think that team could win 75 games but uhhhh they just won 73

yeah they'll obvs be fine going forward if they stand pat but if you have the option to either max out durant or harrison barnes that's not a tough decision

yeah i maintain my opinion from january

getting durant doesn't seem like a very efficient use of resources for the warriors unless they score so many points that they unlock multi-ball

― ciderpress, Tuesday, January 5, 2016 6:46 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dubs take a lot of shots, maybe of them by players who arent that good of shooters, u guys are over thinking this, when u have a chance to add and mvp in his prime u do it

durant is an all around great player too

Yeah it's probably that simple and kd seems like the type who would just slot right in both basketball and personality wise but I believe just a smidge in sports karma taking mild vengeance on superteams

they'd have to sacrifice depth which prob means more reg season losses but by the time the offs start just pare it down to 6-7 dudes and they'd be untouchable.

maybe get some weirdos like david west to play for free too

also the dubs had problems while steph sat this year, kd can help w that

Heh in retrospect I understand the decision much more as just Lebron went to Riley College, just most valedictorians don't go on national tv and tell their hometown to get bent when they move thousands of miles away

durant would have to shake some bad habits from such horrible coaching his whole career.

another good argument for it is that its an enormous insurance policy against steph's puny ankles

ah yeah you got it alrdy

durant would have to shake some bad habits from such horrible coaching his whole career.

― Spottie, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:23 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont think he actually has any which is weird

Like...taking too many shots? I dunno man feel like Kerr could break him of that in a day of practice

Also there's almost no such thing as too many kd shots except if the other option is the greatest shooter ever

KD seems like he'd be pretty amenable to being on a great team. he doesn't give off prima donna vibes 2 me

having steph-kd-klay wld be so nuts theres never been anything close to that shooting wise