Re: DC Jordan Poole hate
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:45 pm
CDM_Stats wrote:billinder33 wrote:CDM_Stats wrote:Funny thing is, Warriors used to be where you could take someone who wasnt very good, prop them up by putting them in an ideal role and plugging it into the system. We got solid to great years out of guys like Barbosa, Livingston, Speights, Looney, Zaza, Poole, OPJ.. but since Mike Malone, Alvin Gentry, and now Mike Brown left, its starting to trend the other way, or at least to neutral. Poole went from a great 6th man to worst player in one offseason and it continues. DDV is doing much better in NY than here. Wiggins was given a worse defensive role and he and the rest of the defense crumbled
Until we can prove otherwise, we're looking like any other team, just fumbling around and hoping to find a hidden gem. And thats not what the team was 2 years ago and beyond
Barbosa, Livingston, Speights, Zaza, and OPJ were legit, mature NBA things before they got here. Most of what's being plugged in now is young and homegrown... JK,GP, Podz, Q, Loon, TJD.
IDK if that's a change in GM'ing philosophy or salary cap driven, but I'm guessing the it's the latter. We had Steph, Klay, and Dray at deep discounts for a chunk of their prime, and it helped bring in the kind of solid vets we can't afford now.
David West was sort of the replacement for Speights. 2017 Warriors lead the NBA in shot blocking and old West having his best per minute shot blocking year was part of that.
I loved JaVale directing off the mark lob passes into the basket with one hand. I use playoff 2017 JaVale as my argument against the Winshares per per 48 stat. JaVale was good, better than Zaza but Winshares per 48 says JaVale was a superstar all time great better than Shaq Curry and Durant. JaVale scored at a very very very efficient rate at fairly high volumes and was rebounding and blocking shots. Opposing game plans were leaving Javale too open to deal with Steph, Durant and Klay. Javale was hurting defenses worse than KDand Curry were from an efficiency stand point but that was because defenses were making a wrong choices to take their chances with JaVale beating them.
Aside from Livingston, each of those was a minimum contract.. it does cost a bit more than young minimums, but it’s not something out of reach. Seems more like a choice
Edit: Zaza may have been a bi-annual exception, which was like half of the MLE