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Just brilliant team building 

Post#1 » by guest81 » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:15 am

You have your young core of proven players under 25 locked up for the long-term who all get along in NAZ-Jaden-Ant

You have plenty of young players who show promise in Dilly- Clark- TSJ

You drafted a potential stud center who has time to develop learning under Rudy

If everything kinda stays the same, they should have a lot of cap space in 2 years

You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

I would only put the Thunder ahead of the Wolves as far as best team situation
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Post#2 » by KGdaBom » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:25 am

guest81 wrote:You have your young core of proven players under 25 locked up for the long-term who all get along in NAZ-Jaden-Ant

You have plenty of young players who show promise in Dilly- Clark- TSJ

You drafted a potential stud center who has time to develop learning under Rudy

If everything kinda stays the same, they should have a lot of cap space in 2 years

You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

I would only put the Thunder ahead of the Wolves as far as best team situation

I hate Lore and A Roid. Other than the admiration for those con artists good post.
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Post#3 » by shangrila » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:34 am

Beringer could amount to nothing. We're a far cry from teams like San Antonio or Houston.

On the other hand there's a lot of doom and gloom in this fandom and that, given our situation, is ridiculous. So I agree with your sentiment.

EDIT: Removed the comment about Naz, hadn't seen the news
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Post#4 » by younggunsmn » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:36 am

guest81 wrote:You have your young core of proven players under 25 locked up for the long-term who all get along in NAZ-Jaden-Ant

You have plenty of young players who show promise in Dilly- Clark- TSJ

You drafted a potential stud center who has time to develop learning under Rudy

If everything kinda stays the same, they should have a lot of cap space in 2 years

You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

I would only put the Thunder ahead of the Wolves as far as best team situation


Spurs say hello.

I would caution we lack the 2nd big time scorer and shot creator to go with Ant and finding that is going to be the thing that makes or breaks us.
Julius Randle is not it but he may be what we are stuck with right now.

And those 4 young players still have a long long ways to go but its great they dont have to carry the load right now.

I'm more excited about Rocco than Beringer honestly.
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Post#5 » by guest81 » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:37 am

shangrila wrote:Beringer could amount to nothing. We're a far cry from teams like San Antonio or Houston.

On the other hand there's a lot of doom and gloom in this fandom and that, given our situation, is ridiculous. So I agree with your sentiment.

EDIT: Removed the comment about Naz, hadn't seen the news


Spurs and Rockets haven't done anything to be considered ahead of the Wolves
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Post#6 » by Neeva » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:39 am

I find castle/Harper to be overrated for the Spurs.
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Post#7 » by Klomp » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:40 am

younggunsmn wrote:Spurs say hello.

A team that has peaked so far with 38 wins despite having the supposed next GOAT?
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Post#8 » by guest81 » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:41 am

younggunsmn wrote:
guest81 wrote:You have your young core of proven players under 25 locked up for the long-term who all get along in NAZ-Jaden-Ant

You have plenty of young players who show promise in Dilly- Clark- TSJ

You drafted a potential stud center who has time to develop learning under Rudy

If everything kinda stays the same, they should have a lot of cap space in 2 years

You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

I would only put the Thunder ahead of the Wolves as far as best team situation


Spurs say hello.

I would caution we lack the 2nd big time scorer and shot creator to go with Ant and finding that is going to be the thing that makes or breaks us.
Julius Randle is not it but he may be what we are stuck with right now.

And those 4 young players still have a long long ways to go but its great they dont have to carry the load right now.

I'm more excited about Rocco than Beringer honestly.


Spurs haven't done anything. At worst Wolves are bringing back a team that went to back to back WCF
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Post#9 » by younggunsmn » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:47 am

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younggunsmn wrote:Spurs say hello.

A team that has peaked so far with 38 wins despite having the supposed next GOAT?


He's played like a whole 5 games in his career with another All-Star quality player.

They haven't done anything yet but most teams in the league would trade places with their position in about 5 seconds.
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Post#10 » by guest81 » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:49 am

younggunsmn wrote:
Klomp wrote:
younggunsmn wrote:Spurs say hello.

A team that has peaked so far with 38 wins despite having the supposed next GOAT?


He's played like a whole 5 games in his career with another All-Star quality player.

They haven't done anything yet but most teams in the league would trade places with their position in about 5 seconds.


Not the Wolves
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Post#11 » by Klomp » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:50 am

Remember how two years ago, the discussion was that part of why the team was playing so well together was that no one was worried about their next payday because everyone was under contract? The only player without guaranteed 2026-27 money is Mike Conley (will be retiring likely), unless Julius Randle picks up his player option. The rest of the guys are locked in for multiple years or are on cheap rookie deals with team control.
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Post#12 » by Wolves21 » Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:03 am

Agreed with the team building moves and being in a position to win now and in the future.He's keeping the core together in Edwards/McDaniels/Reid which is awesome.Say what you want about those three players but in that group you got without question a current top ten player in the NBA(could maybe argue top five) and all defensive 1st or 2nd team player and former 6th man of the year all just in there mid 20s. Then the likes of Clarke,Shannon,Dillingham and the recent draft picks that have promise(yes truly don't know what they have until they see real playing time so in theory could turn out to be busts) and have the ability via trade or letting deals for Randle,Gobert,Conley,DDV..ect in the next few season to expire to grab another all-star caliber player in there primes to go along side our core.

Absolute worst case and everything blows up we still have a few young piece and now both McDaniels & Reid on great deals to package to get that fellow all-star caliber player to pair with Edwards moving forward in any possible major retool or rebuild.
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Post#13 » by shrink » Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:23 am

guest81 wrote:You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

Sorry, this was Rosas and Taylor.

Finch, Ant, Jaden and Naz were all brought in before Connelly, ARod and Lore.
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Post#14 » by KGdaBom » Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:41 am

younggunsmn wrote:
guest81 wrote:You have your young core of proven players under 25 locked up for the long-term who all get along in NAZ-Jaden-Ant

You have plenty of young players who show promise in Dilly- Clark- TSJ

You drafted a potential stud center who has time to develop learning under Rudy

If everything kinda stays the same, they should have a lot of cap space in 2 years

You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

I would only put the Thunder ahead of the Wolves as far as best team situation


Spurs say hello.

I would caution we lack the 2nd big time scorer and shot creator to go with Ant and finding that is going to be the thing that makes or breaks us.
Julius Randle is not it but he may be what we are stuck with right now.

And those 4 young players still have a long long ways to go but its great they dont have to carry the load right now.

I'm more excited about Rocco than Beringer honestly.

I believe in 1 year 2 at the most you will have flipped on that opinion.
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Post#15 » by Klomp » Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:17 am

shrink wrote:
guest81 wrote:You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

Sorry, this was Rosas and Taylor.

Finch, Ant, Jaden and Naz were all brought in before Connelly, ARod and Lore.

Why does this continue to matter so much? The Warriors owner wasn't around when Curry was drafted, so does that make all of their team success invalid as a result?

We are talking about the present day. The fact that they came in and took over a losing culture and developed a winning one should be celebrated.

Yes, Gersson Rosas hired Chris Finch. He also hired Ryan Saunders. Same thing with Glen Taylor.
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Post#16 » by younggunsmn » Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:45 am

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shrink wrote:
guest81 wrote:You have a top coach and front office that have established a winning positive culture, getting rid of the stink of the Taylor led Wolves.

Just brilliant work by Conley, and gotta give Lore and Arod a lot of credit. They have been huge at changing the culture.

Sorry, this was Rosas and Taylor.

Finch, Ant, Jaden and Naz were all brought in before Connelly, ARod and Lore.

Why does this continue to matter so much? The Warriors owner wasn't around when Curry was drafted, so does that make all of their team success invalid as a result?

We are talking about the present day. The fact that they came in and took over a losing culture and developed a winning one should be celebrated.

Yes, Gersson Rosas hired Chris Finch. He also hired Ryan Saunders. Same thing with Glen Taylor.



Lore and Arod have held a controlling interest for all of a few days.

Yes it is important to note things like they had absolutely no hand in big things like hiring our coach or drafting/developing our core players, which is the foundation everything else is built upon.
We were on the upswing when they bought into the team.
Heck thats a big part of why Glen wanted to sell when he did.
They have effectively been nothing but well dressed cheerleaders.
Glen Taylor had final say on every last decision up to a few days ago.

Their clock starts now not 3 years ago.

Tim Connelly subtracted KAT and DeAngelo Russell and a boatload of future draft picks.
He has added Mike Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Donte Divencenzo, and a bunch of unproven young players with varying amounts of potential.
Those are all supporting pieces.
Lets see what he does with Randle this offseason and if Rob and TJ are ready to step into the hole NAW will leave.
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Post#17 » by m2002brian » Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:03 am

younggunsmn wrote:
Klomp wrote:
shrink wrote:Sorry, this was Rosas and Taylor.

Finch, Ant, Jaden and Naz were all brought in before Connelly, ARod and Lore.

Why does this continue to matter so much? The Warriors owner wasn't around when Curry was drafted, so does that make all of their team success invalid as a result?

We are talking about the present day. The fact that they came in and took over a losing culture and developed a winning one should be celebrated.

Yes, Gersson Rosas hired Chris Finch. He also hired Ryan Saunders. Same thing with Glen Taylor.



Lore and Arod have held a controlling interest for all of a few days.

Yes it is important to note things like they had absolutely no hand in big things like hiring our coach or drafting/developing our core players, which is the foundation everything
Read on Twitter
is built upon.
We were on the upswing when they bought into the team.
Heck thats a big part of why Glen wanted to sell when he did.
They have effectively been nothing but well dressed cheerleaders.
Glen Taylor had final say on every last decision up to a few days ago.

Their clock starts now not 3 years ago.

Tim Connelly subtracted KAT and DeAngelo Russell and a boatload of future draft picks.
He has added Mike Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Donte Divencenzo, and a bunch of unproven young players with varying amounts of potential.
Those are all supporting pieces.
Lets see what he does with Randle this offseason and if Rob and TJ are ready to step into the hole NAW will leave.



I had been calling for the disbanding of the buddy bros before dslow was “let go”

The fact we got off both of them and then made the wcf is testament to the fact KAT was and is a stat lover. Dlo was just an idiot.
We have much better team iq and team equality (ball sharing) now than we did with the both of them.
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Post#18 » by Klomp » Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:41 am

younggunsmn wrote:Tim Connelly subtracted KAT and DeAngelo Russell and a boatload of future draft picks.
He has added Mike Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Donte Divencenzo, and a bunch of unproven young players with varying amounts of potential.
Those are all supporting pieces.
Lets see what he does with Randle this offseason and if Rob and TJ are ready to step into the hole NAW will leave.

How many playoff series wins was Gersson Rosas a part of?
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Post#19 » by younggunsmn » Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:45 am

m2002brian wrote:
younggunsmn wrote:
Klomp wrote:Why does this continue to matter so much? The Warriors owner wasn't around when Curry was drafted, so does that make all of their team success invalid as a result?

We are talking about the present day. The fact that they came in and took over a losing culture and developed a winning one should be celebrated.

Yes, Gersson Rosas hired Chris Finch. He also hired Ryan Saunders. Same thing with Glen Taylor.



Lore and Arod have held a controlling interest for all of a few days.

Yes it is important to note things like they had absolutely no hand in big things like hiring our coach or drafting/developing our core players, which is the foundation everything
Read on Twitter
is built upon.
We were on the upswing when they bought into the team.
Heck thats a big part of why Glen wanted to sell when he did.
They have effectively been nothing but well dressed cheerleaders.
Glen Taylor had final say on every last decision up to a few days ago.

Their clock starts now not 3 years ago.

Tim Connelly subtracted KAT and DeAngelo Russell and a boatload of future draft picks.
He has added Mike Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Donte Divencenzo, and a bunch of unproven young players with varying amounts of potential.
Those are all supporting pieces.
Lets see what he does with Randle this offseason and if Rob and TJ are ready to step into the hole NAW will leave.



I had been calling for the disbanding of the buddy bros before dslow was “let go”


The fact we got off both of them and then made the wcf is testament to the fact KAT was and is a stat lover. Dlo was just an idiot.
We have much better team iq and team equality (ball sharing) now than we did with the both of them.


I agree on Russell especially but you lost me at ball sharing.
TC traded KAT to bring in the PF version of Russell.
Pound the ball and play no defense.

And for all his flaws KAT went to the conference finals this year and was responsible for a couple of those wins with late game heroics.
The scorecard on that move is still way up in the air.
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Post#20 » by younggunsmn » Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:50 am

Klomp wrote:
younggunsmn wrote:Tim Connelly subtracted KAT and DeAngelo Russell and a boatload of future draft picks.
He has added Mike Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, Donte Divencenzo, and a bunch of unproven young players with varying amounts of potential.
Those are all supporting pieces.
Lets see what he does with Randle this offseason and if Rob and TJ are ready to step into the hole NAW will leave.

How many playoff series wins was Gersson Rosas a part of?


When Rosas teams were in the playoffs Ant couldnt even legally drink yet.
Rosas also inherited a sub 20 win team and an awful roster Thibs had shattered with terrible moves.
Not the one full of promise with a fully stocked draft pick cupboard that TC got.

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