Chris Porter's Hair wrote:azwfan wrote:Chris Porter's Hair wrote:This was my first thought. It confuses the question a bit to act like Draymond and Klay are in the same boat. If we part ways with Draymond because of shenanigans, I could be fine with that, but I feel very confident we'd become a worse team and it would take a pretty significant rebuild to turn us into a different team that could win again. Klay on the other hand... I've loved the guy, and I appreciate all he's done. But if the nav broke in his car and he had just failed to show up for all our games, I'm not 100% confident we would have been worse last season. And even if we would have, I don't think it is at all out of the question we could have replaced him and rolled onward.
Even if there was a conscious decision that we were just going to ride these 3 guys into the sunset, knowing it would probably mean no more titles, I could live with that. But at this point, from a basketball perspective, Klay is a replaceable part. Draymond is a critical piece of how we do what we do, and not really replaceable. Crazy, but irreplaceable.
The dubs got bounced from the play-in as a relatively healthy team. Is maintaining how we do what we do really a priority? I think the dubs need to adjust at the core what they do.
Assuming the odds stay where they are, gsw will have their own pick next season, why not make the adjustment now? The worst that could happen is that they are a significantly worst team than the late lotto team they currently are.
I suppose if one believes theres a deal that can be made that vaults this team into contention, AND one thinks Draymond wont do what hes done the past 2 seasons, then i can see the logic in pushing in that direction. I just dont see it / believe it.
Really, we could do a lot of things, make a lot of choices, go in a lot of different directions. But if the choice is to try to build this team around a different system, I think it is extremely unlikely you work out the kinks and become competitive while Curry is still playing at this level. You could choose to do it anyway, it just depends what your overall goals are.
I think the days of Curry being the best player on a title team are over. Likely not even the best player on a contender. He’s just not consistent as he was.
So, if we can get someone better than Curry, sure lets do that. I just dont see that in the cards.
Watching the playoffs this weekend and it seemed to me that the dubs arent close to that level.
So since i dont see contention now as viable, I think its prudent to set our selves up for the future.
1) repair the culture (no more core players and living in the past)
2) adjust the system to not needing a phd in basketball iq in order to succeed.
3) acquire and develop more talent
That doesnt mean we NEED to slash and burn the old guard, but they definitely need a reality check. I simply dont trust Draymond to keep his emotions and ego in check long enough to not be a distraction and not be a poor influence on the guys hes supposed to be mentoring.