This topic has actually been written many times, and I will talk about it systematically today.
In fact, the management has already made a statement during the vacation period:
The Warriors won't easily send away a few youngsters;
If you see the kind of star who can help the Warriors win the championship, the Warriors will shoot.
"How many stars can help the Warriors win the championship"?
Do not consider the feasibility first, there are only a few candidates who can be considered, because the amount of a "ball star" transaction is bound to be not low, and in the case that the "three elders" cannot move, the large amount of the combination is only Wiggins. Considering the compatibility of the position, the additional assets and the cost of running-in, the sending away wiggins in exchange for a star who is one notch better than him, preferably a striker - do you think such a striker will be traded?
The ones who are paid less, can match with Wiseman's contract, and can help the Warriors are Sabonis and Turner. It is precisely because of the Rebuilding of the Pacers that the Warriors have seen realistic goals in the market. Regarding the situation of these two people, as I have written in previous articles, it is difficult to rely on Wiseman's contract alone to match. The minimum contract amount for Matching Sosa is about 15.5 million, the minimum contract amount for Matching Turner is 13 million, and Wiseman's contract amount is only 9.2 million, and to fill this difference, it needs to add contracts, and the Warriors' contracts with a little amount are only:
Cumminga, 5.5 million;
Looney, 5.2 million;
First of all, Cuminga is not a for sale, who is in favor and who is against?
Second, the Warriors originally lacked the inside line, Wiseman + Looney two for one, okay, or lack of interior line. Considering that the vacuum strength is small Sa and Turner strong, but the system is Looney mature, the strongest small Sa here has a ball conflict with Green, after two for one, it is likely to have limited improvement;
Third, what the Pacers think is, we both send one inside to solve the compatibility problem, and you send me two more? The opposite side of this transaction does not agree;
Fourth, even in the way wiseman 's +2 to 3 base salary, it's still difficult. The Pacers don't want a collapsed rebuild, they can't accept a deal package with Wiseman as the main body, so they have to pull a third party, which makes the trade more difficult, and the Warriors have to lose blood on the draft picks. The Warriors exchanged 3 players for 1, had to make up 1 more person, and increased the luxury tax.
In fact, even if it is 2 for 1, it is still necessary to increase the luxury tax, because meeting the minimum matching requirement does not equal the salary parity, and the Warriors still increased the salary by at least 5 million. With the Warriors' current range beyond the luxury tax line, this 5 million salary can increase the luxury tax of more than 32 million, which is equivalent to the Warriors adding another top salary player.
In other words, even players like Sa and Turner, who seem to be close to the Warriors, are still far away from the Warriors. In fact, this deal is more suitable for Wiggins + Wiseman + draft picks as the main body, to exchange Turner + Barnes / Grant such a plan to appear. But it's only to think about it at the beginning of the season, and as the season progresses, the Warriors don't have to and can't move Wiggins' contract.
So, you have to look down.
In recent times, two names have appeared in the eyes of Warriors fans:
The Blazers demolished the house, Nurkic may be able to pursue;
The Knicks said they could trade any player other than Barrett, so Mitchell Robinson could also consider it.
If the Warriors really want to pursue these two people, relatively good matching, the key is that they can't afford to continue, both of which are expired contracts. To be sure, the Warriors will never have less than 1 worth of first round — what is a valuable first round? The 29th pick in '22 certainly wasn't. Lacob has planned the core of the team for the next 10 years, and dare to burn money, if I am another team manager, and make a deal with the Warriors, I will think that all the first rounds that the Warriors can trade are worthless, and you have to give a few more.
If you paid a huge price to get an expired contract, you might not renew it? Nurkic's starting salary for his next contract is 6 million higher than Wiseman's next season's contract, right? Mitchell Robinson's next contract starts at The starting salary of Holmes, which is also jumping more than 10 million on the payroll out of thin air. The Warriors didn't have a big contract expiring in the summer, they simply couldn't free up space, the luxury tax increase was too terrible, and the future would be even more unsustainable for Wiggins, Poole and Dream chaser.
So, this is also impossible.
The only thing the Warriors can consider is the base salary center. But the Warriors' style is placed here, the type of interior line demand is very special, and it is difficult to find a base salary center to contribute to the playoffs, and it may not be better than the effectiveness of the Warriors' existing personnel. The Suns picked up Biyongbo as a special case, and you still can't take Biyongbo to the Warriors - a center who is known for his career turnover rate, you let him play under Kerr's hands?
The Warriors do need a center now, to be a firefighter before he returns from his dream, and looney himself is too hard, and it will be very troublesome for him to fall into a foul crisis. If you are just looking for a recent firefighter, you may not necessarily rely on trading, but also on buying out the market. I think it's necessary for the Warriors to focus on Robin and Millsap in the buyout market.
If the Warriors do nothing just because they don't want to spoil the atmosphere on the bench, increasing defensive pressure is secondary, and the point is that it will put too much pressure on Wiseman. Public opinion will think that the Warriors paid too much for Wiseman, and the Warriors did not get a good result last time waiting for a center to return (Cousins). Once the Warriors can't win the championship this season, then the regurgitation of public opinion will be pressed on Wiseman's shoulders, which is certainly not a good thing for a young man.
In summary, I think it's reasonable for the Warriors to not move before the trade deadline. It is debatable if there is inaction in the buyout market, the outcome of which is not yet known, so it is difficult to criticize management.
As a fan, I want the Warriors to be a little more arrogant and full of strength. After all, with Wiseman's level unknown and his dream-chasing health in doubt, even if the Warriors don't care about the follow-up games in the regular season, it is necessary to add more insurance to the playoffs.
But as a ball critic, to think from the perspective of management, these can make the Warriors better operation is limited to this season, and the team operation to take one step to see three steps, can not be like the fans, I am now happy, no matter how you are in the future.
In fact, many things, as long as you think about the problem from the perspective of the parties, you will find that it seems unreasonable, but in fact, it has a reason to talk about. As a team that has entered the peak of the core of the team, the Warriors should not spend time training rookies according to normal reasons, and more commonly, they will be replaced by immediate combat power before the draft rights are liquidated. But we have to understand that the correct strategic direction and the correct handling of specific issues are not necessarily consistent, and the Warriors have some difficulties that are not conducive to trading.
First of all, the Warriors were a dynasty team not long ago, with a contract that rewarded meritorious service (Thompson) and a contract that was worth more in the Warriors than on other teams (Green). The three points of system value, emotional value and contract value are all determined, and Tang Chai is naturally not within the scope of transaction considerations, let alone Curry.
Before Wiseman, Wiggins was the only contract the Warriors could use for a big deal. However, Wiggins' contract value on the exchange market is overvalued by home fans, and he has not turned the contract value into a positive asset until he blocks Downs and then goes all-Star this season. This led to the Warriors adding draft picks, with this big contract, can not be changed to a high-level star, need all the assets of Stud to do, not stud is equivalent to cleaning up the contract tax cut.
That's why, management says, "The Warriors' goal is the star who can really help the team win the championship," because the Warriors only have stud meaning. Such stars have not left in the past year, and Harden, the only one who has left, is not suitable for the Warriors.
After Wiggins, Wiseman and Oubre, two medium-sized contracts, lost their trading value. Wiseman's current entry into the market is the lowest point in the transaction value, far from the value of the eye-catching. Before last year's trade deadline, the Warriors tried to exchange the Oubre contract for something, and finally found that his expired contract was not worth much.
So, in a sense, the management really tried its best, and it was far more difficult than the opportunity.
The Warriors weren't without a championship, but the operation didn't happen this season — opening the Russell trade when Durant left, and then trading Russell for Wiggins and the Timberwolves in the first round. In the case of space locking, by maintaining a high salary, the team has added two major talents to the team's front line, Wiggins and Cumminga. Because the Warriors' 19-20 season was broken, the first round for the Nets became the second round, and Iguodala, who was sent away to clean up the space at the time, went out to scam for two years and came back, which is equivalent to the Warriors 1 first round + 1 second round + 2 years of loan Iguodala, get Wiggins + Cuminga, this is already a god operation. With this wave in motion, Miles's waist bar can be straight.
Lacob actually didn't have to go black, because he approved of Russell's deal, which also recognized that the Warriors would pay a terrible luxury tax in the future, which was angry with the Rockets next door. Although the money has been earned back, the boss has the courage that ordinary people do not have. It's incredible to change teams and get two more strikers for you in the case of a team with a total of more than 100 million in the three cores of the team - do you think the Jazz don't want to get Grant and Barnes? They really can't do it.
So, there's no need to blame bosses and managers, it's not that they don't want to reinforce, but they've already done their duty, just like you can't overly criticize a star who scored 40 points in the first three quarters and didn't score in the fourth quarter.
As a hardcore Curry fan, I very much want the Warriors stud, but I think it's more reasonable not to stud. In exchange for me I am Lacob, I am not studded, cool and has been cool, or clearly distinguished.
Finally, a few words about Curry.
Some people think that the Warriors did not rush in the end, is wasting curry's peak, let Curry grow up with young people, the good is only the Future of the Warriors rather than Curry's present, in a sense, it is sucking Curry's blood.
(From a technical and tactical point of view, the Warriors did rely too much on Curry and still did not solve the problem of Curry's launch after the game, resulting in a long rotation, Curry can not get enough rest.) It is rumored that the Warriors have a crush on Dragic in the buyout market, and I am afraid that they also think that the role of the backup point guard cannot be saved. ）
Between the star and the team, it is often in a state of cooperation and struggle, the star wants to grasp the peak period, and the team must consider the present and the future. After losing the play-offs, Curry and Green both expressed their hope that the team would bring in some veterans, indicating that they also had a desire to win in the moment.
But we can't take Curry's relationship with the Warriors as simple as that, and this is the only special relationship left in the league. Curry signed an early contract extension shortly after the market opened, rather than using the opportunity to pressure management to see if the team had really done enough to win in the current operation. This is not the best strategy from the point of view of maximizing the pursuit of historical status. Curry did this because he didn't want to make any waves in a rapport, and he knew that there was no better option.
The longest praise and glory a person has won must not be what he has won for himself, but what he has won for a group of people, for basketball, which is the special charm of one person and one city. If the Warriors' choice is in line with the team's long-term plan, Curry will not get less, and people will remember that Curry can compete for the passing of the hairy boys in the season when he is 33 and 34 years old, and this is the starting point of the next generation of Warriors. Curry and the Warriors are one, and that won't change no matter who wears the Warriors' robes in the future.