WarriorGM wrote:michaelm wrote:WarriorGM wrote:
My impression with Kerr is that he is more concerned with Curry's limitations than his potential. It was observed in one article in 2016 that at the rate Curry was going back then that an offense based solely on him could theoretically achieve the highest offensive rating in history. I don't think that has really be put to the test even this year. Unless there are things going on behind the scenes we aren't aware of I haven't gotten the impression that Kerr has pushed the envelope with Curry.
There's that story of Larry Bird saying one day he'll just beat the opposing team with his left hand—and he went out and did it. Curry conceivably could do something even more audacious. Maybe he could beat a team exclusively doing pull-up jump shots from half court? There may be coaches who value experimentation that might be willing to put that to the test but one gets the feeling Kerr isn't one of them considering how quickly he pulls Curry from games when he's been on a hot streak and on course for breaking records. There is room for a coach and an organization who believes in Curry's special abilities to be more creative and get more out of him.
So Curry is 6’8” tall, 250 ibs and bulletproof is he ?. And another recent poster complains Kerr did not optimise the bench, so it would seem fairly hard for Kerr to do the right thing.
There was a coach who didn’t employ Curry optimally, his name was Mark Jackson.
As has been said to you many times, the current situation is a result of selling the farm to acquire Kevin Durant, perhaps a mistake if you consider 2 titles a poor return, but something with which Curry was presumably fully on board, given he was one of the Hamptons’ 5 recruiting party.
Just because Mark Jackson didn't use Curry well and Kerr has done better does not necessarily mean Curry has been employed optimally. Nash was on the Mavericks and looked perfectly serviceable but he reached another level with the Suns. Even then in hindsight Nash and many of Nash's supporters lament that he didn't shoot more.
I am also mystified by your insistence that the current situation is a result of getting Durant. I don't see that at all. Curry's, Klay's, and Draymond's higher salaries have as much to do with it and even then I don't see why the team couldn't look very different if the front office didn't prioritize getting younger so much. I was neutral on Oubre but looking back I am surprised someone like Danny Green who had more playoffs experience wasn't a target or maybe a higher IQ player like one of the Bogdanovics or as I've looked at before Aaron Gordon who was a higher draft pick. How did the Warriors end up with Oubre? Was he the only player left on the table? The guys former Warriors executive Travis Schlenk went after to build the Hawks were more in line with the names I was anticipating.
And Klay, proven to be a fantastic complementary player to Curry (it is hard to imagine a player could be designed in a lab who would be a better fit as an SG next to Curry) who also had been one of the most durable players in the NBA at the time he was signed to his latest contract went down for 2 seasons. Such things happen if you play the last game of the finals 5 years in a row, particularly if you elect to go all in on a win now team by signing KD. If he had stayed I think they would have been strong contenders this year, and KD or a healthy Klay let alone both would have attracted plenty of ring chasers.
I and others have conceded that Wiseman was something of an each way bet rather than a bet on prime Curry, and however good he might become it was unlikely he would be able to contribute significant starting quality minutes, let alone title winning starter quality minutes, in his first year, but again this was somewhat forced on them by an injury to Chriss, which I don’t think Kerr caused in any way.
Sure Oubre looks like a mistake now, but it wasn’t so obvious at the time that he didn’t have the mindset to fit with Curry, and his close to overnight signing was necessitated again because of Klay’s second injury, and demonstrated at least that the organisation was prepared to go into luxury tax/salary cap hell to support Curry.
You are preaching to a congregation mostly comprised of fanatical Curry fans, but even we recognise he has some limitations at 6 foot 3 and 185 lbs, particularly given that he is apparently so unfair that normal rules as far as defending him and scragging him off the ball don’t apply. As I have said I would pick him ahead of anyone to build a team around, but if you go the route chosen when they went with Durant you need one more of the most elite players in the NBA next to Curry, and you have foregone the chance to have an overall solid team like the 2011 Mavs or 2019 Raptors which one superstar can take over the top. Perhaps this year demonstrated Curry was more durable than previously appreciated, but that was after the fact, and previous assessments that he was somewhat fragile were hardly unreasonable.