Holy Cannoli! We’re On The Strive For Five! The Dynasty Rolls On! Golden State Warriors 2022-23 Season Thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Can you imagine the amount of time, energy, focus, and "vibes" spent avoiding and tiptoing around the elephant in the room for an entire season?

That time and energy that should've been used to address and adjust from the myriad of ON THE COURT problems this team had, that we've listed time and time in here.

IMO, it wasn't The Punch itself that killed team chemistry. It was the Org's handling of Dray's super light "punishment", and lack of accountability, that divided the team.

Apparently irreparably. At least for an entire season.

It's a red herring.

All this wouldn't have mattered if they actually fixed the roster.

We've seen this squad go through much greater turmoil before and come out the other side as victors (2018), so I'm not putting a whole lot stock into this incident being their demise. Even if it didn't occur, the season still plays out exactly as it did with them faltering against a team with more talent/depth. Whatever divide there was in the lockerroom wasn't the reason for them not having a championship roster. We saw the resolve and alchemy they had to come from 0-2 against one of the best teams in the league to win out in a Game 7. That wouldn't have happened, hell, they wouldn't have lasted five games if The Punch had this snowball effect.

All this focus on this distracts from the real reason this season was a failure.

 

[Don Homer]

Most important off-season in Warriors history, and Bob out here doing podcasts and thinking about if he wants to be back. Nah, Ross from Friends gotta go. Get David Schwimmer outta here

 

[tremonthustler1]

Dunleavy Jr. taking over huh

@ David Schwimmer

 

[idonttouchgrass]

Dunleavy Jr. taking over huh

 

[FAH1223]

Most important off-season in Warriors history, and Bob out here doing podcasts and thinking about if he wants to be back. Nah, Ross from Friends gotta go. Get David Schwimmer outta here

He doesn’t even seem like he wants to run basketball operations anymore

 

[King Eros]

It's a red herring.

All this wouldn't have mattered if they actually fixed the roster.

We've seen this squad go through much greater turmoil before and come out the other side as victors (2018), so I'm not putting a whole lot stock into this incident being their demise. Even if it didn't occur, the season still plays out exactly as it did with them faltering against a team with more talent/depth. Whatever divide there was in the lockerroom wasn't the reason for them not having a championship roster. We saw the resolve and alchemy they had to come from 0-2 against one of the best teams in the league to win out in a Game 7. That wouldn't have happened, hell, they wouldn't have lasted five games if The Punch had this snowball effect.

All this focus on this distracts from the real reason this season was a failure.

Draymond and Kerr publicly disagree with you.


And I wouldn't call it a Red Herring. It's more like a meta point.

No doubt roster construction was a problem. So was team chemistry/culture.

Both need to be fixed. The chicken, and the egg.

 

[King Eros]

Most important off-season in Warriors history, and Bob out here doing podcasts and thinking about if he wants to be back. Nah, Ross from Friends gotta go. Get David Schwimmer outta here

Bob is bullshytting cuz he doesn't want to be the bad guy to make these hard decisions.

They might have to bring in outside consultants to do the dirty work.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Draymond and Kerr publicly disagree with you.


And I wouldn't call it a Red Herring. It's more like a meta point.

No doubt roster construction was a problem. So was team chemistry/culture.

Both need to be fixed. The chicken, and the egg.

I don't think it's necessarily about them disagreeing with me, but more so that it's more of a talking point than anything else is, because it's centered around drama.

It's definitely not a chicken or the egg scenario.

They won playing through much greater turmoil in 2018, not only with Dray and KD, but KD sabotaging the offense to prove a point. The chemistry was as bad as it ever was that season and they still came out with a championship. This Poole incident is nothing compared to that. It barely even registers. The Wiseman experiment had a much greater effect on them losing this season, but since it's not sensationalism it's not going to get 1/100th the amount of coverage.

You know cotdamn well if they went all in on maximizing the OG core's window by making the necessary moves we wouldn't even be talking about this rn.

 

[Don Homer]

Bob is bullshytting cuz he doesn't want to be the bad guy to make these hard decisions.

They might have to bring in outside consultants to do the dirty work.

He doesn’t even seem like he wants to run basketball operations anymore

Cac has absolutely no dawg in him. MInimal dog detected

 

[Don Homer]

 

[King Eros]

Cac has absolutely no dawg in him. MInimal dog detected

Him and Kerr.

Ever listen to Kerr talk about Draymond l, Wigs, and others?

It's "love" this. "Relationship" that. "Bonds". "We missed him".

I get having affinity for your players and coworkers but these nikkas take it too far.

 

[King Eros]

I don't think it's necessarily about them disagreeing with me, but more so that it's more of a talking point than anything else is, because it's centered around drama.

It's definitely not a chicken or the egg scenario.

They won playing through much greater turmoil in 2018, not only with Dray and KD, but KD sabotaging the offense to prove a point. The chemistry was as bad as it ever was that season and they still came out with a championship. This Poole incident is nothing compared to that. It barely even registers. The Wiseman experiment had a much greater effect on them losing this season, but since it's not sensationalism it's not going to get 1/100th the amount of coverage.

You know cotdamn well if they went all in on maximizing the OG core's window by making the necessary moves we wouldn't even be talking about this rn.

Agree to disagree.

 

[King Eros]

Dubs are WAYYYY too touchy-feely as an organization.

Ever notice how most our best players are emotional head cases? Klay, JP, Dray, Wigs are for sure. I'll leave the younger guys out, even tho Moses is rock solid.

This is why all the fallout from The Punch didn't just affect JP, it affected the whole team. On an emotional level.

The famous "joy" that the Dubs used to play with was greatly reduced this year.

 

[Don Homer]

this nikka has been wild, untamable trash since Schlenk and Jerry West left. IDK how u even justify being this bad at the actual GM aspect of your job

 

[OaklandCertified]

Make it happen
Trade everybody