Chris Porter's Hair wrote:CDM_Stats wrote:Chris Porter's Hair wrote:Yes. It would have been slightly beneficial financially if we'd found a way to unload Wiseman prior to the season and matched GP2 at his current salary. But not hugely so, and this approach gave us another half a season to try to figure out if we could make Wiseman work. Just because we decided the answer was 'no' doesn't make it a bad plan, in my mind.
What made it a bad plan was picking up an option on a guy they had little interest in developing. And I know people are fawning over Kuminga and all that, but its the same plan (and will go the same route, as I'm sure people are noticing). Its the Poole plan. The Looney plan. The Klay plan. The Moody plan. Develop if you can, but no extra effort is going into it. Its just not sustainable, unless the team specifically targets extremely high BBIQ players in the draft, exclusively. But as you can see with Moody, even that isnt without risk because even high BBIQ players need to play to their strengths
Team has always been built to cater to Steph and Draymond. Rightly so for their primes. But their primes are over, and the Warriors core is in the sunset days and the team has not adjusted as they barrel towards the treadmill. This trade - which is coated with all the feelgoods of bringing in a successful and impactful role player from last year (and personal note, A+ dude) but is exactly part of the problem. Its a last gasp in a suddenly loaded West that shows the whole '2 timelines' thing only works if you know when to make the pivot. And the fact that they havent changed their development strategy in the past decade shows to me that they didnt know when to pivot
W's have played the hand they were dealt so so well for so long, but eventually you have to come out of autopilot. Now the hope needs to be that another young raw player in Kuminga doesnt get the same treatment, or else it will end similarly
It amazes me how violently this board swung from, "Wiseman is the worst player in the history of the world and you'd have to be crazy to let him touch the floor" to "I can't believe we aren't playing him and developing him!" The team got to see a lot of him that we didn't. They got to see him in practice. They got to see how he reacted to feedback. They got to talk to doctors about his health. It is entirely possible they wanted to "develop him", but concluded he really wasn't ready to play more minutes yet. In addition, this team isn't where any of us thought they'd be right now. If we were cruising along in the 1-3 seed, they might have felt they had more leeway to give him chances, or more garbage time to play him in. Even in your post, we have, "The Warriors shouldn't have drafted a player that needed development and then not developed him, but also the Warriors aren't adjusting to changing conditions."
Not sure why I'm being held to other people's takes, but sure, you can say they wanted to develop him.. but where? How? He was never a rim runner, he was a halfcourt player that primarily stayed in the paint for HS and 'college'. And they said, OK, you can do those things, can you do all these other things that youve never done before? (Mitch Hedberg: "can you farm??"). What was changed at all to help a high value asset develop? Nothing? And the result was bad? It shouldnt be that shocking. Its a systemic problem thats going to become more and more obvious as the vets sunset. Words <<<< actions, and the actions havent been there
The expectation was that they understood this because everything has gone so well the past 10 years, but they don't. And thats not a guess, it's a trend. Where's Klay's BBIQ improvement in 10 years? Did Looney become smart, or did he learn a new position? Is Poole playing smarter? Warriors have effectively made one major systemic change the past 10 years, and it came from Ron Adams transitioning out of the defensive QB role and abandoning Bogut/Ezeli/Zaza's drop defense which helped Dray more than anyone. Again, catering to the big 2 here. And thats worked out great for a decade. But the era is almost over and if there's any hope of the 2 timelines thing succeeding, they need to change something. You can make it all about Wiseman if you want, but this is how they've 'developed' everyone. And that future now looks like a max level combo guard who's a huge defensive liability, a combo forward that needs to be POA or is a huge problem defensively (nevermind rebounding/offense), and - most likely their best bet going forward - a Channing Frye type. You can't develop a foundation that way, and now they've traded a high upside big - someone who was always going to have trouble fitting into timeline 1 - for a rotational player trying to extend that window.
So the two timelines thing is really just 1, with the hopes that we stumble into 2. And thats not really a great plan
