I don't quite follow your point on Josh Giddey. I had him as one of the three guys I wouldn't mind the Warriors picking with that #7--Giddey, Wagner or Kuminga--but he was picked at #6, making me scratch my head here.
I appreciate the comments on comparing podz and gui to giddey and bruzi vert, as well as the uptick of pick and pop w this version of our stephless dubbs. When we hit 3s and win, we don't question this system. When we lose, we blame it. I can see why Kerr thinks 3 chucking is the best chance we have w this squad. Its just painful to watch when the shots aren't falling enough to win. We play hard every night and its easy to route for our guys. But the talent and athleticism gap is so large that I really find it hard to understand why we are not outright tanking. With steph and jimmy healthy we were the 8th seed in the west with 5 tanking teams, effectively making us 8th out of 10 teams actually trying to win. That seed has not changed since jimmy then steph were injured. Getting to 6 is doable, but to what end? What do people think about outright tanking? This purgatory seems directionless. When steph was out that year w Dangelo Russel we didnt question our direction and goal for that season. See how players develop and tank. I think we are in a similar situation now but we are just not willing to confront it or name it. Pop and the spurs tanked and drafted wonderfully. If The Great Pop can do it, why can't we? Playing Sochan as the point was clearly a tanking move by the spurs IMO. I just want to see the Dubs get the best chance at improving, and I dont see a better way than the draft.
As craptastic as things are now, it would be very tough to fall out of the play-in.
So, not a bad time to be bad, really. Twould have been nice to be the 8 seed, but we probably weren't making it out of the play-in anyway.
So, 10 seed and (perhaps) a healthy Steph and KP going into a play-in game is a reasonable outcome, even if we may be watching some bad basketball the last four weeks.
I don't quite follow your point on Josh Giddey. I had him as one of the three guys I wouldn't mind the Warriors picking with that #7--Giddey, Wagner or Kuminga--but he was picked at #6, making me scratch my head here.
I appreciate the comments on comparing podz and gui to giddey and bruzi vert, as well as the uptick of pick and pop w this version of our stephless dubbs. When we hit 3s and win, we don't question this system. When we lose, we blame it. I can see why Kerr thinks 3 chucking is the best chance we have w this squad. Its just painful to watch when the shots aren't falling enough to win. We play hard every night and its easy to route for our guys. But the talent and athleticism gap is so large that I really find it hard to understand why we are not outright tanking. With steph and jimmy healthy we were the 8th seed in the west with 5 tanking teams, effectively making us 8th out of 10 teams actually trying to win. That seed has not changed since jimmy then steph were injured. Getting to 6 is doable, but to what end? What do people think about outright tanking? This purgatory seems directionless. When steph was out that year w Dangelo Russel we didnt question our direction and goal for that season. See how players develop and tank. I think we are in a similar situation now but we are just not willing to confront it or name it. Pop and the spurs tanked and drafted wonderfully. If The Great Pop can do it, why can't we? Playing Sochan as the point was clearly a tanking move by the spurs IMO. I just want to see the Dubs get the best chance at improving, and I dont see a better way than the draft.
I agree that tanking is the logical move, but as long as you have a top-10 all-time player on the roster, tanking is out of the question.
And, trading him is, too (though you might think otherwise). Lacob will never do that.
1. What specific “tanking moves” are you proposing?
2. Even if the Warriors run out five trained seals for the remainder of the season, they’re not slipping below Memphis and out of the play-in.
3. The Warriors weren’t actually tanking in 2020 — they were just that bad. But remind me what their reward for “tanking” that season was?
As craptastic as things are now, it would be very tough to fall out of the play-in.
So, not a bad time to be bad, really. Twould have been nice to be the 8 seed, but we probably weren't making it out of the play-in anyway.
So, 10 seed and (perhaps) a healthy Steph and KP going into a play-in game is a reasonable outcome, even if we may be watching some bad basketball the last four weeks.