Chris Porter's Hair wrote:loserX wrote:Point #2: what Warriors fans support doesn't seem to have a lot of relevance in the real world, particularly when it comes to trades. So your objection is noted but it doesn't really change anything. I can't speak for anyone else, but I for one am more interested in trades the Warriors would do, even if their fans wouldn't.
The problem with this is that it leads to the trade board being flooded with threads like, "How about Golden State gets expiring deal X, and gives up (any combination of players with any amount of talent, just so their contracts add up). Why for Golden State? They want to cut salary, so this gives them expirings."
If that makes for a really fascinating trade board, go for it. But you can see how no Golden State fan is going to want to participate in such discussions. Even if our management is disasterous enough to start doing deals like that, and they might be, don't expect our fans to show up here saying, "Hey, that's a good one! I checked on the trade checker, and you're right; we really can legally screw ourselves in that way. The salaries work. Get 'er done!"
Also a fair point. After the Gasol-to-LA trade, there were certainly plenty of Grizzlies trades on this board stealing their players with the justification "sure this is bad for Memphis, but Memphis is stupid" as though that were a good enough reason for a deal. Everyone who proposes a trade should make sure it's as reasonable as possible instead of just playing the vulture.
The Warriors are in a pretty unique situation: I've never seen a fanbase so diametrically opposed to what their FO does. Ever. (And I can't blame them.) So there WILL be a lot of deals that the fans would not do, but the FO might, and vice-versa. We can't exclude the Warriors from trade proposals, so what can we do?
Is the point of the board to propose trades that the
fans would accept, or that the
team would accept? In most cases these positions are fairly closely aligned...but in the Warriors' case they have not been. I honestly don't know if there's an easy answer for that.
But I do know this: the fanbase bashing has to stop.