Steph Lost A Splash Brother, But Gained A Splash Buddy - The Golden State Warriors 2024-25 Season Thread

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How are Klay and Draymond "solid?" They are shells of themselves. Draymond's good defensively but a zero on offense; Klay isn't good anywhere.
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idk honestly

draymond gets the excuse of being the connector and communicator on defense, even though his offense has been declining for going on 7 years now. Klay just has been mediocre
 
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I'll say this: the light years thing got ridiculed, but Bob Myers in reality was right: the problem is that to execute it you have to be willing to look like an a$$hole.

You draft Kuminga, Moody, Wiseman, you win a ring. Great! However,

The mistakes are gonna come with tryna keep certain guys just for the sake of keeping the band together. The NBA is less conducive to that now more than ever. Klay, when you draft a Moody and a BP, to make it worth your while, you have to say goodbye to Klay. If Kuminga's gonna ever be what he can be, then Wiggins long term couldn't be in the picture. The only time they ever made a concrete decision was essentially picking Looney over Wiseman and it took Wiseman missing a year and looking so out of place when he did play to make that decision academic.

At the end of the day, as much as you love Draymond and Klay, Steph is the only who really gets to determine how his career winds down. If Klay reaches a point where he's hurting you out there, gotta ride for the team over him and realize that at the end of the day, everybody can't have that storybook ending.
 
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tremonthustler1 said:
I'll say this: the light years thing got ridiculed, but Bob Myers in reality was right: the problem is that to execute it you have to be willing to look like an a$$hole.

You draft Kuminga, Moody, Wiseman, you win a ring. Great! However,

The mistakes are gonna come with tryna keep certain guys just for the sake of keeping the band together. The NBA is less conducive to that now more than ever. Klay, when you draft a Moody and a BP, to make it worth your while, you have to say goodbye to Klay. If Kuminga's gonna ever be what he can be, then Wiggins long term couldn't be in the picture. The only time they ever made a concrete decision was essentially picking Looney over Wiseman and it took Wiseman missing a year and looking so out of place when he did play to make that decision academic.

At the end of the day, as much as you love Draymond and Klay, Steph is the only who really gets to determine how his career winds down. If Klay reaches a point where he's hurting you out there, gotta ride for the team over him and realize that at the end of the day, everybody can't have that storybook ending.
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Like I said, lack of organizational leadership from the top down. :yeshrug:
 
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What a clown.

Whenever I'm critical of GS, most of you guys shyt on me but I'm gonna spill my thoughts again. That Draymond punch and the aftermath exposed Golden State's lack of leadership all throughout the organization.

On the Draymond front, they've never checked him so he runs around doing and saying whatever he wants because he knows there will never be any consequences for his actions.

All last season, almost any mistake by the young guys (Poole, Moody and Kuminga) landed them on the bench for Lamb/Jerome and in Kerr's doghouse. Meanwhile, Klay and Draymond were allowed to operate with impunity, regardless of if it was hurting the team. So now, you've got a team that's hostile to young players. Klay shot them out of the series with my Lakers by himself.

They could have addressed this stuff in the offseason. For that, Bob Meyers chose to leave instead of doing his job and making tough decisions. That led to Poole getting jettisoned, Draymond getting his big contract and still taking his victory lap, constantly talking about their improved team chemistry and Klay in limbo, probably upset he doesn't have a new deal (he doesn't deserve).

Knowing they can't bring non-established players into the system, they traded Poole for a 38 year old point guard and nothing else.

So you're stuck with a team where Kerr won't develop guys or hold any of the vets accountable, the highest payroll in the league and basically no assets to improve the team besides your future firsts (I think they can trade three of them). Kuminga and Moody are fringe rotation players, so nobody's giving up anything valuable for them. Wiggins looks completely disinterested but maybe someone would take a chance on him because of his 2022 run.

This leaves Steph wasting his remaining prime years carrying a trash heap with almost no hope to contend again barring a miracle.
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Straight facts

The overwhelming majority of the fan base are allergic to the truth.
 
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Regular_P said:
What a clown.

Whenever I'm critical of GS, most of you guys shyt on me but I'm gonna spill my thoughts again. That Draymond punch and the aftermath exposed Golden State's lack of leadership all throughout the organization.

On the Draymond front, they've never checked him so he runs around doing and saying whatever he wants because he knows there will never be any consequences for his actions.

All last season, almost any mistake by the young guys (Poole, Moody and Kuminga) landed them on the bench for Lamb/Jerome and in Kerr's doghouse. Meanwhile, Klay and Draymond were allowed to operate with impunity, regardless of if it was hurting the team. So now, you've got a team that's hostile to young players. Klay shot them out of the series with my Lakers by himself.

They could have addressed this stuff in the offseason. For that, Bob Meyers chose to leave instead of doing his job and making tough decisions. That led to Poole getting jettisoned, Draymond getting his big contract and still taking his victory lap, constantly talking about their improved team chemistry and Klay in limbo, probably upset he doesn't have a new deal (he doesn't deserve).

Knowing they can't bring non-established players into the system, they traded Poole for a 38 year old point guard and nothing else.

So you're stuck with a team where Kerr won't develop guys or hold any of the vets accountable, the highest payroll in the league and basically no assets to improve the team besides your future firsts (I think they can trade three of them). Kuminga and Moody are fringe rotation players, so nobody's giving up anything valuable for them. Wiggins looks completely disinterested but maybe someone would take a chance on him because of his 2022 run.

This leaves Steph wasting his remaining prime years carrying a trash heap with almost no hope to contend again barring a miracle.
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The fukk are you talking about? Man shut yo ass up you wasn’t saying that shyt in 22 when the dubs won a chip with largely the same fukkin players.
 
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