golden state warriors thread

Ron Adams sighting! Showing these young guns how it’s done on the free throw line. pic.twitter.com/MfWqywSvzu

— Kerith Burke (@KerithBurke) March 15, 2022

sick

Warriors have plenty of fun players for watching but Poole has climbed the ranks this season

RT if you can see Jordan Pooles potential pic.twitter.com/5n7TkDCYYH

— DEVINTHELAB (@InTheLabBrand) March 16, 2022

Wiseman thing is not good

Jfc the dubs just can’t shoot anymore. Magic just letting them hoist.

its ugly. weird season since the hot start. wiggins gave it 1/2 a good season.

i think klay just needs to keep shooting until he gets his timing locked in and consistent. gonna be tough that the preferred playoff rotation hasnt been available for even one game this season. hard to predict what this team looks like once the playoffs start. im losing confidence tho

I saw Poole limp off, which is the last thing they need.

yeah too many injuries a lot of things need to line up, not impossible tho

Didn’t see the game but only scoring 90 vs Orlando not great. Think Wiggins hit his life goal before the All-Star break and now is just shrug

One of the worst losses of the season. They can’t just win a game with one good quarter like the good ol days.

Steve Kerr: "...we have to learn how to win, and right now we don't know how to win."

— TheWarriorsTalk (@TheWarriorsTalk) March 23, 2022

guess they dont care where they end up in the seeding huh

The Warriors are resting Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Otto Porter Jr. tonight in Miami. Second night of a back-to-back.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 23, 2022

looks like the heat might be resting butler & herro too

everyone jockeying for playoff positioning got to love it baby

it's sort of weird given how important seedings can be in the playoffs how many teams are willingly resting players right now. the sixers sat embiid the other night and have been resting harden, the bucks sat giannis the other night and middleton last night. i guess in the east those teams might be trying to dodge the 2 seed but i feel like these teams get too testosteroney confident and don't want to admit that trying to set yourself up for a weaker path is smarter

it reminds me of last season when the heat were like "yeah we're not scared of the bucks bring it on" and then got nuked off the face of the earth when if they had won literally one more game in the regular season they would've had the knicks in round 1

yeah i would be trying to get the 1 seed personally

it's sort of weird given how important seedings can be in the playoffs how many teams are willingly resting players right now. the sixers sat embiid the other night and have been resting harden, the bucks sat giannis the other night and middleton last night. i guess in the east those teams might be trying to dodge the 2 seed but i feel like these teams get too testosteroney confident and don't want to admit that trying to set yourself up for a weaker path is smarter

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, March 23, 2022 11:55 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah the warriors avoiding the suns until the wcf should be top priority but maybe they are more worried about the grizz idk. at this point they just need to be getting reps in with klay on the team so it just seems dumb. or at least stagger those guys... or play them against the BETTER team and let the role players try to beat the magic. idk.

ESPN Sources: Golden State Warriors center James Wiseman has been ruled out for the rest of the season and will continue rehabilitating his right knee. Wiseman has been recovering from a meniscus repair last April, and the team has been cautious to protect him for the long-term.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 25, 2022

dubs not getting a back up big was a very poor choice

very hubris

wasted roster spot with chiozza makes no sense that they didnt upgrade to a big

Warriors stink yuck

they are in serious need of a karma reset. or mean reversion.

I don't understand why Kuminga is on such a short leash and Moody is DNP while Lee is getting so much run.

I don’t think Kerr sees either of them being in the playoff rotation. Maybe Kuminga in some games and if he’s contributing they’ll let him go but a couple mistakes and he’ll be yanked.

Biggest prob is Dray doesn’t look like playoff Dray. He started the season as the best version of himself and he’s just coming back and getting into shape. But that injury could affect him for a while. I still believe in this roster but the margin for error is thin and they’re gonna have a lot to figure out on the fly.

Andre makes it sound like there was another reasonable plan…but that can’t be right pic.twitter.com/IUWnSjLJst

— fakelogic (@fakelogic) March 28, 2022

It disrespects the former era? Lol go dust your wine collection you old goat

its funny but also maybe a little telling about how the vets feel about the situation?

it is true that they could have just gone with one timeline

cut him and sign a center, problem solved

"disrespectful" is a dumb word choice but "choosing not to maximize the changes of a championship," yeah absolutley

it is kind of disrespectful not of iggy but of steph which prob is what he was saying

yeah

not sure what else we would expect from silicon valley billionaires who think theyre light years ahead cause some stuff broke their way

if u move fast and break things stuff breaks worth noting

it is kind of disrespectful not of iggy but of steph which prob is what he was saying

― lag∞n, Monday, March 28, 2022 12:55 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes this is it. and iggy is stephs mouthpiece in some ways.

What's the move or the moves they should have made? Trade Wiseman for Thad Young or something? Who is the 10-mil player that couldn't have created a more respectful situation?

could've

three high draft picks in the last two years

it's kind of a pointless way of talking about it to say that i know what moves could/should have been made but usually the 2nd and 7th picks can be exchanged for present value.

idk who they woulda or coulda got but theyve had assets to trade and havent done it. wiseman for sure, one of the picks from last year, this years pick, future picks. whatever. its not like they have to go full a vet team but carrying three rookies and another young guy that needs time to develop (poole) just shows they are more concerned (or at least equally concerned) with the future as they are with winning now and over the next couple years. and you gotta think the vets are a little hmmm about it all.

trying to not rebuild after winning a title is very difficult but the allure of it is pretty obvious -- it's the best of both worlds! -- and of course most front offices let alone one as successful as the warriors will think they'll be the ones who can pull it off. in all likelihood the warriors will not accomplish the twin goals of winning a title now and also setting themselves up to win a title in the future, i feel like you kind of have to accept that as a fan. but then again most teams are also currently neither going to win a title or set themselves up to win one in the future so it's not that unusual. the spurs tried to hang on after duncan retired and ended up in the rebuilding phase anyway. it's totally understandable why steph, iggy etc want them to trade everything to go all in this year, also understandable why the front office has a longer term view. i don't think anyone is really in the wrong here, just competing perspectives and priorities.

personally i have real doubts about whether wiseman had any value at the trade deadline, he was (is) hurt and hasn't played all year and wasn't that good when he did play. i'm sure teams were trying to buy low on him but the idea that the warriors could have acquired a game changing player w/ him as anything more than a secondary piece, i don't see it. i haven't seen much of moody personally, but i understand why they don't want to trade kuminga. he looks like he could help them in this year's playoffs while providing all the possible upside that comes after it.

also when you look at who actually moved over the deadline, i don't see anyone the warriors could have or should have been in on. caris lavert? sabonis? cj mccollum? norm powell? josh hart? we talked about sabonis previously and even if you think that fit made sense for them (i don't) i find it hard to believe they could've outbid the kings putting halliburton on the table. what the warrios could use imo is more wing players but the fact that guys like barnes and jerami grant didn't move seems like an indication that nobody in the NBA valued those guys at what those teams were asking for than any deficiency in the warriors plans.

tsk tsk jordan, that's "kind of a pointless way of talking about it"

it's totally understandable why steph, iggy etc want them to trade everything to go all in this year, also understandable why the front office has a longer term view. i don't think anyone is really in the wrong here, just competing perspectives and priorities.

i dont think this is the ask. theres a happy medium between having 4 babies to babysit vs having say... 2.

wiseman doesnt have trade value now which is why they shoulda traded the pick before draft night.

kuminga and poole are obviously keepers now. moody is good but could fetch something nice with a pick attached and some filler salary. wiseman the ship sailed so now you have to wait til he plays again.

Which filler salary? The rooks ARE the filler salaries.

wiggins

I think they might have gotten sued if they'd traded Wiggins while he was an antivax holdout.

I suppose they could've traded him at the deadline, around the time he was starting in the ASG. That would've been a great sell-high moment.

not sure anyone was convinced wiggins was a real all-star starter caliber player around then so much as we was a maybe slightly above average guy making way too much money

yeah if wiggins is your salary match you're prob throwing in so many assets to balance it out that unless you were getting a true all star player i'm not sure how much you're upgrading in the end