This Warriors Situation Doesn’t Look Good…

This Warriors Situation Doesn’t Look Good…

the Golden State Warriors are the defining team of the last decade in the NBA so many iconic teams so many iconic players they’ve won four titles at a seven-year Gap in between titles which is just not supposed to happen but now it’s kind of just over which is weird because they won the title in 2022 which is not very long ago at all but last year they were the 10 seed in the west they didn’t even make the playoffs and now their team is just getting worse which makes me wonder what exactly is the plan where do the Warriors go from here cuz if you look at the last two off seasons for Golden State they’re basically just getting rid of guys to save money you go back to last year they trade Away Jordan pool and a first round pick by the way to get back Chris Paul in a move that at the time seemed like okay Chris Paul is going to help this team he still has something less to give but really it was just about saving money it was getting out of the Jordan pool contract that they signed a year before and then this offseason they just cut Chris Paul for nothing they explored trade options nobody wanted him nobody wanted the expiring contract so they just cut him once again to save money and they just lose Klay Thompson for basically nothing so in a span of 12 months they lose Jordan Paul Chris Paul and Klay Thompson for like a couple of second round picks which if you’re a team that’s trying to win the title is just not what you do you don’t just lose players for the sake of saving money or I should say that isn’t what teams used to do now they absolutely do the Nuggets lose cavius calwell Pope for nothing they just lose him in free agency the Clippers just let Paul George walk because teams are worried about the second apron and they’re worried about massive pay roll spending and the Warriors after years of being the most expensive roster in the entire league after winning the title in 2022 and extending Jordan P extending Andrew Wiggins have now made a decision to go in the opposite direction and then you look at their offseason this year and it’s just weird they lose Clay on a contract that wasn’t even that big you can look at the list of guys that are making more than Klay Thompson next season in terms of average annual value and then they go out and get Kyle Anderson DeAnthony Melton they’re sign and trading for Buddy hee and they’re doing all that they’re saving money by getting of pool CP3 and clay in the span of a year but then they’re also bringing in guys like Kyle Anderson to be what the the ninth 10th best team in a in an absolutely loaded Western Conference and it just puts them in a weird spot I don’t think people realize Steph Curry is 36 years old he’s a 2026 free agent and obviously they want to continue to put a good team around him they don’t want Steph to go anywhere else they’re going to try and put at least a decent team around him for the last few years of his career but at this point given the moves that they’ve made since winning the title in 2022 they’ve basically just committed to being something that they’ve never really been and that is just a completely forgettable team and all these moves are extremely easy to criticize they could have just paid clay they could have kept Chris Paul they could have tried to make all these moves they’ve tried to trade for Paul George they’ve tried to trade for Lowry marinin and they were unsuccessful and it’s very easy to be critical of those moves but the real answer to why this is happening why their future looks the way that it does is that this isn’t supposed to happen you’re not supposed to be the San Antonio Spurs that are good for over two decades and bridge the gap between a title in 2000 and then still competing for titles in the mid-2010s like that’s just not the way the NBA works you get expensive you get old and then you reset and that’s especially true in this new era of the NBA that we’re in with all these new rules with the second apron it’s going to be so much more difficult to have sustained periods of success and for the Warriors a team that is just never going to get rid of Steph and they shouldn’t by the way it makes them just an average team by default and it’s strange because they won the title just two years ago and at the time it seemed like they were going to continue to be good they resigned Jordan pool they resigned Andrew Wiggins they brought back Draymond last year and they could have brought back clay this year and if they bring back all of those guys that’s the team that won the title in 2022 but it almost seems like the league has passed the Warriors by and obviously the Warriors and their fans would always take winning the title in 2022 you would never take that back but if they don’t win that title if they lose in the second round of the playoffs do they bring back Jordan P do they bring back Andrew Wiggins do they sign those guys to massive contracts and if they don’t are they able to retain someone like Klay Thompson this offseason and at least keep that core together and so now you look at the future of the team you look at the payroll sheet you look at the players that they have and there are some promising pieces Jonathan kaminga is very good they’re still very high in Moses Moody psky is going to be a really good player for them they’ve done well in the draft last year and then a few years prior in the kaminga draft but they’ve done just well enough that there’s no real clear path forward for them there’s a couple of options they could just kind of take this year as a gap year be average and then try and shed some salary maybe add some guys maybe there’s a new version of the Paul George trade for them next year not specifically with Paul George but with somebody where they’re able to add another guy alongside Steph maybe they trade away Andrew Wiggins in a year maybe they trade away Draymond in a year and they completely reset but the problem with all of this and I think the point that people continue to miss about the Warriors about their future about what’s next is they’re never getting rid of Steph he’s never asking out and he’s it’s not like he’s 32 years old he’s 36 years old and at this point we’ve seen it with LeBron as he gets close to the 40 it’s just going to be unbelievably difficult to build the kind of team around someone like Steph that you’re going to need to in order to build a championship Contender when the guy is approaching 40 years old and he’s making 50 to $60 million a year and so I say all this to say as much as people are going to be critical of golden state they’re going to say well they could have made this move they shouldn’t have resigned pool they shouldn’t have sign Wiggins this is where they’re at now they’ve had one of the most successful decade long runs that the NBA has ever seen and you’re just simply not supposed to be able to sustain that even before this new CBA even before the second apron there’s no team other than the Spurs basically that have ever been able to maintain a more than two decade long run of success of Championship level success in NBA history it just does not happen it doesn’t matter how good your players are you get old you get expensive and you can’t replace the talent and this Warriors team has done as good of a job as most teams ever could they were helped by the Kevin Duran thing they were helped by the salary cap Spike but then they they even proved all of that stuff wrong by managing to win the title in 2022 as well a seven-year gap between between titles four titles in 10 years is just not supposed to happen what is supposed to happen is what is happening right now to Golden State so be critical of what they’re doing if you want say that the future is sad as I’ve said in this video but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is the Warriors fault there are moves that they could have made there are things that they could have done better but there’s nothing that you can say that is going to take away anything for the last 10 years of Warriors basketball and so as weird as it is the rest of Steph’s career unless something changes dramatically is just going to be him being on pretty good teams if he stays in Golden state they’re not going to be contenders they’re not going to be anything close to that they’re going to be the ninth or 10th best team in the conference and until he gets frustrated with that which feels unlikely this is just his Destiny now it’s the way that it’s supposed to go and in an era of star players requesting trades and constantly trying to go to better situations Steph is just different in that way and he has been different in that way throughout his career and it’s going to create a very strange ending to his career But ultimately this is just what happens and I think we forget that sometimes there’s so much pressure on these guys to be in contention to be winning titles there’s so much pressure on these franchises to put the best players in the league which Steph certainly still is up there in position to win titles all the time if you’re a top 10 a top 15 guy you’re supposed to be pushing for a title that’s just the way things are and we forget that that isn’t how it used to be players used to go out like this they used to go out on teams that weren’t very good they didn’t request trades to all these random teams they didn’t push their way to somewhere else to try and get one more title when they’re 35 years old and maybe Steph will do that maybe in a year or two he’ll be on a different team which would be unbelievably strange but everything that we know about the guy tells us that that is not going to happen and I think You could argue that that’s actually a better way a more admirable way for his career to end and you can call it a dynasty you can call it whatever you want to but this is truly the end of an era for Golden State

The Golden State Warriors have lost Klay Thompson, Chris Paul, and Jordan Poole in the last 12 months… and their future is just looking sad.

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