What Dubs-related hot-take will get you this reaction?
I have 2. First is more of a general thinking. 2nd is the hot take
1. Front office should do everything to get Steph his 5th ring, EVERYTHING.
Motto should be Trade everyone not named Steph, or trade him to a team that will actually have a shot, no other choice.
FO owes him everything, because of Steph, Dubs became a big market team.
Also, I don’t want to see Steph have a Kobe/Dirk like twilight years where he spends it fighting to get into the last playoffs spots or in the lotto. (Dirk last playoff was 2014, retired 2019. Kobe was 2013, retired 2016)
2. JK is not a superstar, his trajectory is still AG and ceilling is Shawn Marion.
JK-stans will come for me, but it is what it is. He’s not on a superstar trajectory. He might get 1-2 Allstar but that’s it.
But AG and The Matrix are both hell of a player respectively.
What are your hot takes?
by coco_copagana
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agree on 2, i was really happy about jk for a few stretches (particularly after his haircut) but i’m still not like completely convinced. i feel like i’d want to see at least a season or two of consistency before i can say i’m fully on the jk train, cause i feel like everyone else is sooooo high on him 😭
1. The exact opposite, I think we should trade him off to a team that can get him a ring. I think if we’re just going into the rebuild direction might as well go all the way. trade Steph and draymond. Open salary cap, and get hella first round picks from these two. We’d have generational talent for years to come if we did this. I think this is a win for the org and Steph/draymond to not waste potentially their final prime years.
Since you already stole all my good ones: **At this point in time, you can argue that Draymond Green is equally or even more important to the team’s success than Stephen Curry.**
While neither’s absence is a particularly good thing, with how awful our defense has been particularly over the last two seasons, we immediately perform massively worse whenever Draymond is unavailable. Over the last three seasons we are a game below .500 for both (25-27 vs. 35-37), and when you look at the net rating for those periods, our defense takes an immediate hit larger than the one the offense takes when Steph is down.
I actually agree with both, I don’t think kuminga will ever be more than a third choice offensively on a championship team and I don’t think he’ll have the desire to become an elite two way player.
As for Steph all I can really hope is that a superstar on an expiring contract demands a trade before FA and even then we’d have to send basically every young player and picks. It doesn’t look good
why the fuck why we did not trade for deni avdija? washington got peanuts for him.
trade podz while his value is high. Unathletic guards don’t age well.
I think it’s unlikely JK turns into a superstar, but to me, star is likely. JK is a better scorer right now at 21 years old than AG ever was. The better comparison is Siakam imo.
My hot take: Trading Steph in 2025 – for a haul (if 2024 season is another dud), is the right move for the long term health of the franchise. Not only that, it’s the right thing to do for Steph.
Steph leaving in 7 months if we don’t pick up a #2 option.
My hot takes:
The Dubs are actually gonna be good this year.
I think there’s more than enough talent and chemistry on the team if Kerr handles minutes correctly.
With no major injuries, maybe a ~55-win team.
I think Klay was a problem and his minutes going elsewhere will help.
I think TJD is way better than people realize.
Pretty much sticking with the same theme as the rest of yall.
This Warriors team is a 25 win team and the worst team in the league without Steph. why are we so hesitant to trade anyone from this roster?
Trading Poole was a terrible mistake and I would’ve preferred to keep him rather than Draymond
Literally everyone agrees with #1. However, trading away all of your young talent for a #2 option doesn’t always necessarily make the team better. So many fans act like there’s always a trade to be had. In today’s NBA, the amount of talent it takes to land a superstar is insane. For example, Ainge wanting Podz included in the Lauri deal. That in all likely hood may have jeopardized Steph resigning.
My hot take is this the Warriors were a better team in 2015/2016 than 2016/2017 if Bogut was healthy.
Draymond is the reason we don’t have like 3 more championships. Don’t get me wrong, he’s is a huge reason we have the last 4.