Dream Team 4: Golden State Warriors

[SmudgeHog]

Also, who fucking cares if a team is bought or not?

The issue is player cost. When you buy proven players, you pay a premium - and therefore you have less money for the rest of your team.

If you develop the talent yourself, and use the draft, you can suddenly have players who are worth 10x their salary, for a few years, and will have a golden period of being able to afford everyone, until their contracts balloon and you can only afford a few of them.

Therefore the ceiling for home-developed teams is much higher, longer, than for teams that buy proven talent, who will almost always have a big weakness somewhere, or at least someone willing to take almost nothing in salary to compensate for the high paid acquisitions at the other end. This leads to unbalanced teams, if you aren't very careful.

The warriors wont be able to keep the same salaries for their top 12 players for 5 years... in a couple of years they will need to give raises to the top level guys, and may need to become less deep of a team. Unless they trade Curry for four 1st round draft picks or something a la RGIII.

I mean, Tristan Thompson's salary is the same as Stephen Curry's and Harrison Barnes -combined-

 

[Rich]

No team that loses it's second and third best players to fluky injuries in the playoffs should be considered lucky.

Plus, this team drafted LeBron and Kyrie and traded a guy they drafted for Love. Yeah, they got LeBron back but he was their guy from the beginning.

Yes, their role players were traded for, but they were all re-signed in a town where they'd have never gotten these guys as Free Agents in the first place.

It's not like the Marlins where they bought a team that they broke up a year later.

Well I think the luck part comes in right here, with how many times we've managed to win the lottery. That's pretty lucky.

 

[Birdy89]

27/8 for Steph in the first half with 7/9 from 3. He's pretty good.

 

[FritzLn]

the title of this thread is barely sarcasm

 

[Randolphkeys]

Barnes can't put weight on his ankle!

Not that anyone here is rooting for another team to suffer an injury, but Barnes hurt his ankle and can't put weight on it!

 

[Birdy89]

Phoenix is shooting 51% from the field and 40% from 3 and they are down 19 late in the 3rd. Playing GS is a demoralizing experience it seems sometimes.

 

[NorthCoastBias]

Barnes can't put weight on his ankle!

Not that anyone here is rooting for another team to suffer an injury, but Barnes hurt his ankle and can't put weight on it!

Oh no. How unfortunate...

 

[Birdy89]

ESPN says it is just a sprain and he won't return tonight. Not sure whether true or not.

 

[Chris]

If the cavs are so insanely lucky, where the fuck is my championship ring?

 

[PedroFlu]

They are destroying a good time at their home without making a semblance of an effort on defense.

When Curry shoots like this, it's virtually impossible for them to lose a game. Their core 7 players is amazingly good. Even Barnes who seemed meh is having a very good year.

 

[Rich]

They are destroying a good time at their home without making a semblance of an effort on defense.

When Curry shoots like this, it's virtually impossible for them to lose a game. Their core 7 players is amazingly good. Even Barnes who seemed meh is having a very good year.

Yea they are quite literally putting forth zero effort on defense and they are turning the ball over at an extremely high right.

 

[FritzLn]

Phoenix is shooting 51% from the field and 40% from 3 and they are down 19 late in the 3rd. Playing GS is a demoralizing experience it seems sometimes.

they're ruining the experience of even discussing basketball

"so and so team is playing well... but the warriors ___"

"so and so player is playing well... but steph curry ___"

 

[Birdy89]

Curry likely done for the night with a huge lead. Only 31 minutes played. Their starters get very little wear and tear, which is what is making this run of theirs so much more sustainable.

 

[Birdy89]

Fucking Barbosa is 4-4 on 3's in just 14 minutes.

That is the kind of shit that drives me up a wall.

 

[Rob933]

I made a thread at the beginning of the month saying the west was watered down. Everyone thought i was crazy but when you watch these teams play i wasn't really wrong.