![]() And there are strong indications that Curry, Draymond and Klay need more production behind them - the Big Three can carry the team for a game or two, and maybe for a playoff series, but it’s not likely to happen consistently through a long season or a long playoff ride. 3: The Warriors just haven’t gotten enough production from the guys behind Curry, Draymond and Klay. We’ll get into almost every other factor you mention here in other answers, and they all matter, but I want to highlight Point No. A sub-par bench compared to previous years ( Anthony Lamb, JaMychal Green, Ryan Rollins, Ty Jerome, Patrick Baldwin Jr.).Ħ. Expectations that Wiseman and Moody would contribute more than they have.ģ. Aging core three (Steph, Klay Thompson, Draymond).Ģ. Here we go:Ĭan you rank the following in terms of explaining the Warriors’ poor season to date?ġ. Questions have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Mostly, I picked the questions I was already answering in my head as I was reading them, usually a sign of something to include in the mailbag. As usual, I tried to pick at least one question on topics that were frequently asked or questions that were “liked” the most. OK, after that long prologue, now to the Warriors questions and answers. That might help, but it’s unlikely to change the Warriors’ title odds, especially with the Curry question mark. But I don’t think that package would land anything more than a seventh or eighth man. Maybe the Warriors can do something at the margins if they’re willing to move Wiseman and/or Moody and maybe throw in the 2026 first-round pick with some protections. It’d defeat the title purpose to trade Draymond Green, but also, he can become a free agent next summer, which reduces his value to an acquiring team unless it believes it can re-sign him.Īgain: not a lot of trade chips. Oh, and this: The Warriors really, really, really don’t want to trade either Wiggins or Poole. They can’t trade Andrew Wiggins after signing him to an extension less than six months ago, and salary-cap rules make it very difficult to trade Jordan Poole because his new extension hasn’t even started yet. If you look at their extra pieces, James Wiseman and Moses Moody just don’t have a lot of trade value right now, and they’re basically all the Warriors have to trade. They also don’t have or can’t trade their second-round picks this year (to New Orleans to move up for Alen Smailagić in 2019), 2024 (to move up to select Eric Paschall in 2019), 2025 (included in the Kevin Durant/ D’Angelo Russell sign-and-trade with Brooklyn) and 2026 (to acquire Omari Spellman from the Hawks in 2019), all part of their necessary hyperactivity in the 2019 offseason after Durant’s departure and the need to restructure the roster. The present isn’t bright enough to sacrifice much of the future, and the young players the Warriors are counting on for the future probably aren’t valuable enough on the market right now to get you much for the present.įirst off, due to the 2019 Andre Iguodala salary dump and rules that prevent teams from trading back-to-back first-round picks, the Warriors can’t trade this year’s first-round pick, don’t have their pick in 2024 (to Memphis to take on Iguodala’s contract back then) and can’t trade their 2025 first-round pick. Or, if you’re coming from another point of view, they might be, simply, sort of stuck. So that could solidify the Warriors’ presumed plan to avoid doing anything crazy this week. Simply put, the Warriors would need to be ready to move a ton of value to make much of a difference to their title hopes with Curry in limbo, and I don’t see it right now. If you’re looking at Thursday’s trade deadline, the Warriors just don’t have a lot of tradeable assets in the cupboard to do anything of much significance, and I’ll now add that Curry’s injury could reduce the possibilities even more. That happened too recently to draw any specific questions about what the Warriors can do if Curry is out for a while, but let me get to one point I was going to mention even before this: Part 1 is Warriors issues only and Part 2 will include all the 49ers questions and other topics, posting in a few days.Īnd that was even before Stephen Curry suffered the leg injury Saturday night in the victory over Dallas that will likely keep him out at least through the All-Star break - five games starting Monday at Chase Center against Oklahoma City. So many good and meaty (and challenging, too, which I respect) Warriors questions landed on the docket, I decided to split this mailbag into two this week.
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