Bornstellar wrote:fpzark wrote:The youth they tried to bring up while the core winds down has all been really disappointing. Kuminga might be good? Poole's a chucker
For real. For being "light years ahead" of everyone, they have been pretty meh at drafting for awhile.
Imagine if instead of Wiseman, they drafted Ball (Or Haliburton, Bane, Vassell) in 2020. And it's even worse in 2021. They had 2 picks and could have had two of Wagner, Sengun, Murphy, Mann, or Grimes instead of Kuminga/Moody.
Haliburton/Poole
Curry/DiVincenzo
Klay/Murphy III
Wiggins/Wagner
Green/Looney
That team would be so much better than the current Warriors. Glad they mucked up their drafts
Obviously better choices could have been made if you look in retrospect, after all. But I still like the picks (even Wiseman, who I still think will turn out an above average starter in time).
The problem is mainly Kerr, IMO.
He played Kuminga a lot after the All-Star break and he had very nice splits...
check it out, 13/4/2 in 24 mins, 57% FG, 44% 3pt.
Then the playoffs start and he's buried to the bench.
He barely played Moody during the season, preferring Lamb/Jerome, then gives him minutes in the 4th quarter of a game 7... well, you understand the pattern.
Kerr simply hardly will play the rookies. You can have a good coaching staff, you can spend on good resources in their day to day activities... he simply won't budge.
If he plays them, it's basically to prove a point that they don't fit his "vision" (you may call it "system"...).
In the past I thought that this "dual timeline" argument could be workable under Kerr's system... nowadays I just think it would be best served if they traded all the future picks, and they won't play regularly and their development will not happen in normal circumstances.
