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There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it?

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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#101 » by Warriorfan » Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:31 pm

Curry gets hurt what happens to the blueprint. JK steps up and more iso scoring or just keep spamming 3's. W/O Curry gravity Hield 3s aren't ad open
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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#102 » by WarriorGM » Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:32 pm

Warriorfan wrote:Curry gets hurt what happens to the blueprint. JK steps up and more iso scoring or just keep spamming 3's. W/O Curry gravity Hield 3s aren't ad open


The blueprint framework is basically a deconstruction of the Warriors winning teams of the past. Winning like this hasn't really happened before to my knowledge. Others may have tried to recreate the conditions but none have succeeded yet. I presume Curry is sine qua non. That said it is the Kerr system. Maybe we can look to the 2016 first and second rounds when Klay was the leading scorer while Steph was injured for ideas. On the other hand Hield is as close as you're probably going to get as a Curry copycat so maybe shifting him over to the Steph role and getting Waters in the Klay role might be an inspired take for the strategy.
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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#103 » by WarriorGM » Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:45 am

Called it. Blueprint +1. The blueprint showing its usefulness.
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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#104 » by SinceGatlingWasARookie » Mon Nov 4, 2024 3:16 pm

If Kuminga is going to play like like an all-star and the depth is real, and Curry is going to play like Curry then the warriors have the answer to everything but size and therefore the Warriors are real contenders.

Zubac and Jokic are the problems. Warririrs krytonite is size.
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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#105 » by Scoots1994 » Mon Nov 4, 2024 4:11 pm

SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:If Kuminga is going to play like like an all-star and the depth is real, and Curry is going to play like Curry then the warriors have the answer to everything but size and therefore the Warriors are real contenders.

Zubac and Jokic are the problems. Warririrs krytonite is size.


It would actually be nice to have Gatling on this team.
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Re: There's a proven blueprint for success. So why didn't the Dubs follow it? 

Post#106 » by watch1958 » Mon May 5, 2025 3:57 am

WarriorGM wrote:During the Dubs championship years, they had a proven blueprint for success if you look at their roster construction.

You had Steph, Klay, and Draymond. Then you had Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut or Barnes and Iguodala. They were so lethal they were called the Death Lineup.

Then you had the years with KD and they were just overwhelming.

But then after KD left the team rebuilt and found success with a lineup of Steph, Klay and Draymond with the addition of Wiggins and Looney or in the finals against the Celtics Otto Porter Jr. in place of Looney.

Now compare the above lineups to the main lineups the Dubs were trotting out in the playoffs this year. Does anything stick out to anyone else? In place of Looney or Porter Jr. the Dubs were putting in JaMychal Green and GPII against the Lakers. Did anyone really think that would be an improvement?

In hindsight I would say the JaMychal Green signing was pretty fatal for the team's chances this year because he was ineffective as a substitute for Looney in that lineup. Wiseman was a distraction. Kuminga or Lamb had to fill in but they were either unready or Kerr wouldn't play them. GPII was simply out of place and Donte unfortunately looked better than he really was. That's 5 players that couldn't really fill in that the team desperately needed to fill the hole.
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