Post#4 » by ElectricMayhem » Sat May 13, 2023 11:34 am
I'm curious as to whether Golden State fans want to keep Bob Myers are get a new shot caller. The team had already drafted Curry when Myers came aboard. He had been assistant general manager for a couple months when the team drafted Klay Thompson and had been the general manager a couple months when they drafted Draymond Green (albeit after Ezeli). He was the guy who signed Durant. So he definitely had a hand in putting together one of the best cores in league history. He was also the GM who fired Mark Jackson for Steve Kerr.
However, it also feels like there's been some opportunity cost and their run could have been even greater. A lot of people assumed Golden State would trade the pick to shore up some areas, but they ended up taking Wiseman who was far from ready for the NBA game. It was a weak draft at the top, and nobody can blame him for not taking talented guys that went lower (Haliburton, Ball, and Maxey would've been nice pieces - hell, Tillman at 2 would've been crazy but would've given them far more production). They let GPII go only to trade the aforementioned Wiseman to get him back. He also has to be responsible for that mess of a Poole contract that will severely limit what they can do in the future.
Overall, he was given one of the greatest starter ingredients possible and he made a magnificent dish with it. Are complaints that he could've done even better valid? Looking at opportunity cost can be an unfair way to judge a GM. GMs rarely take the best player remaining with any particular draft pick. Pretty much all GMs have made bad signings. There are a million different ways a GM could've given Curry a worse career than he had. If I were a Warriors fan, I wouldn't be afraid of moving on from Myers if there was someone they really believed in that they could sign. They could do worse if they look elsewhere, though.
Regarding the team, it seems like they are trying to resign Draymond to a multi-year deal. If they want to extend the run, they need to do this. There was a graphic in one of the threads I saw today that showed all playoff players' offensive and defensive contributions to the team (I think it was a thread burying Ayton for his awful play). Draymond was THE top defender. Even if his offense has taken a backseat (like the far back seats in a minivan) these past few years, he's still got it on defense. Without him, they're not a danger to any contending team. If they could move off of Poole's contract for something slightly more palatable and do whatever they can to red paperclip that into a little more cap space and a little more valuable player, that will go far towards breathing new life into the team. It feels like we've just witnessed Golden State's last gasp, but there's still a sliver of a chance that they can do something to prolong it.
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