whatisacenter wrote:superunknown wrote:whatisacenter wrote:
How is that working out for the Lakers? They are one game ahead of the Warriors.
Curry has had plenty of talent next to him during this dynastic run....I don't feel like they have let down Curry and I'm sure the FO would have moved off of Dray and Klay if Curry had asked them to.
well, first of all last season the lakers eliminated the warriors and reached the WCF.
second, you're missing the point here. the point is the lakers (or the suns or the bucks, etc.) added a secon violin next to their superstar. it worked? it didn't work?
they tried at least to maximize their superstar's window. the warriors did not. in the last 3-4 years curry hasn't had that plenty of talent around him you refer to. he def never had a second star next to him since 2019. and the argument about curry having to ask to move this or that player is just lame. it's not his job.
They didn't?
They not only did but they won another title.
The FO took KD leaving for nothing and turned it into DLO which they turned into Wiggins and Kuminga.
The Warriors can't add a second star by free agency and they can only hope that a star would demand a trade to the Dubs like AD did with the Lakers. So far that has not happened so they were stuck paying their old second fiddle, Klay, who was at the height of his powers in 2019 when he suffered the first of two catastrophic injuries.
Thank you for screaming into the abyss, man. It's almost like people don't understand the basic facts about the NBA, CBA and the reality that other teams aren't going to give us all-stars because we'd want them to.
It's crazy how people "forgot" how the dubs maxed out the cap and other assets to get KD and go to 5 straight finals. Or how paying Klay after that raptors series was a no brainer. Or how KD wanting to leave in FA to 1 specific team magically became wigs and JK.
The best part? People talk about how the FO failed to maximize Curry's prime like they didn't win that 4th ring. Or didn't give Poole and Wiggins extensions to run that championship team back. I shudder to think what would have happened if JK, Moody and CP3 were moved with multiple picks for Siakam in order to "maximize this window"
No 2nd star next to Steph? Having a top 3 DPOY candidate next to him is clearly much less important than having another guy that can get 25 points. It's not like we have a history of winning with Steph leading the offense and Dray leading the defense.
I don't know what people watched before steph got here or what they've been watching since KD left but it's clearly not the same team I've seen.