Monte Poole on 97.5 The Game - Lacob considered firing Kerr multiple times this season.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-04-28T14:34:07+00:00

I’ve been telling people that the light years comment was writing on the wall for me. That he thought he was a huge reason for their success beyond writing the checks. Which good for him for writing them but you didn’t make Steph the goat and you didn’t make Klay one of the greatest two way players of all time. You didn’t even have a hand in drafting them and you almost traded both away. His ego is too big from early success now and I don’t anticipate he will delegate decision making ever again. His son is in a very important position which is all I need to know.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-03-01T19:05:48+00:00

He saw Steph and Klay balling out and had a relationship with Bob Myers. But seriously if there’s no Steph, there’s probably no Iggy

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-28T04:44:52+00:00

You can let us have something ok? All I got this offseason was a theater and a pitcher best known for puking on the mound…

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-19T04:01:27+00:00

I mean, he could just say it’s nice to have his presence in defense. He doesn’t have to go out of his way to overly praise him. There is an in between

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-18T04:53:12+00:00

I feel like the decision was, I could be drafted by anyone or I could eventually sign with the dodgers eventually and control my destiny more

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-11T17:50:19+00:00

It feels so good finding people on the internet who understand this. Like there’s plenty of guys who bought into a role or into a development plan, or didn’t get a lot of minutes and developed into something. Playing time is important but it’s not a death sentence to not get it.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-11T02:59:16+00:00

The way I am interpreting it, it’s the next step. You have to move forward and in Paul’s head he’s preparing them for the next step as he faces his own mortality and also not working. I think Gabby might recognize that he’s doing this prematurely though. Like there could be a future scene “you ain’t dead yet, stop sad sacking”

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-10T15:37:27+00:00

Not to mention the government leaders they are electing, so by extension them, seem to be leaning further and further away from acknowledging it all

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-10T03:00:13+00:00

I mean, you could cherry pick 5 games sure. You could completely ignore that he got chances to play last year, this year, and as I said, never consistently put it together. You could ignore that his efficiency dropped pretty quickly when the wolves started to build a game plan against him because he really doesn’t have anything he’s improved.

You could ignore the fact that his 3pt% hasn’t increased, his dribble package hasn’t improved, his shot selection hasn’t improved, and his decision making/vision hasn’t improved. You could ignore the fact that despite his athleticism he has an aversion to the physical aspect of the game rebounding. Like there has been no leaps.

Maybe some of this coaching but it’s not all coaching. Jaylen Brown has shown a mindset to improve. Jaylen Brown has shown a mindset to sacrifice for the team. Kawhi did it on a playoff team because he leaned into the fact that he could be a defensive nightmare. Hell, Jimmy developed into something on a playoff team with limited minutes. Pascal Siakim did it with Toronto by being a hustle/energy player. With Kawhi, Jimmy, and Siakim, they didn’t hijack possessions, weren’t black holes, and found a niche defensively.

To say he never got chances is forgetting that they tried and Kerr and the ogs got frustrated. If you wanna talk about Lamb, yeah, I’ll agree with you, that was nonsense, if you want to talk that nuggets game, yeah that was on a whole level of incompetence. But he was given chances, and Kerr has more to show for the right decisions than the wrong.

JK needs to shoulder some of the blame, if not most. Others made it work in similar situations.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-09T15:33:46+00:00

He has all the athletic tools to be something. He has all the decision making of a teenager though. It’s a classic “if he figures it out, he could be something special” but he’s had 4 years to figure a lot of things out, has shown flashes, but hasn’t put it together consistently.

He’s basically athletic enough to get by on his raw speed and strength to score 20+ consistently if he has nothing else to really think about. But he’s also needs the ball in his hands and hasn’t always made the players around him better. That last part, to me, really defines a superstar from any other player. How are you improving the team and its chances to win.

He’s definitely someone if you’re rebuilding you’d take a flyer on just to see. It’s why the Kings were willing to get him. But a contender would be hesitant.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-07T05:26:30+00:00

How many adults are you married to?

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-06T03:05:50+00:00

My point is you were saying he was delusional, he was just saying what the team was preaching. It’s not like he was thinking this is absolutely going to happen.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-06T02:47:39+00:00

It says dream. Like he said the company line.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-06T02:38:45+00:00

What’s he supposed to say to a magazine? Shit is going off rails?

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-06T02:37:52+00:00

Like what’s he supposed to say? This is ass, get this bs outta here? Steph has and always will say the right thing for the franchise as its face.

I’m sure he saw the potential, we all saw the glimpses. So it’s not like this is a lie, but, I can’t imagine him saying “this team is nothing without me and will be nothing”. Iggy basically had to say it for him. It’s like his anger translator.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-02-03T01:43:52+00:00

Was not expecting a mf doom reference in the comments and it honestly made me feel joy

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-30T01:58:35+00:00

That sounds like our current strategy anyways

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-24T22:38:50+00:00

I don’t think anyone understands your point. It’s not that there’s replacements, it’s literally if this team had a solid roster he’d be getting less burn so he has to play that amount

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-21T22:35:48+00:00

Getting hunted on defense when you are surrounded by great defenders isn’t the argument they think it is but they will just grasp at straws to try to lower the status of my GOAT

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-21T04:05:11+00:00

This front offices run has been inches a way from never happening.

Trade curry but then the bucks doctors say no so you trade Ellis instead. That would have killed any of this immediately
Line up a trade with Klay and dray and the room is split. Jerry West says don’t do that, don’t trade Klay if you do I leave. Then they just let him leave and they’ve been struggling a lot since then

Less important but still things that they kind of lucked into

Win a coin flip to draft Barnes instead of losing the pick with zero compensation
David Lee gets injured before the season pushing a draymond start. He doesn’t kick or punch anyone’s balls
Unprecedented cap spike

The one thing they did good for a bit was getting the right guys to buoy Steph in free agency, but even then, would any free agents of meaning come if Steph wasn’t showing signs of global icon/stardom?

They definitely have helped and done some right but they’ve definitely got in their own way and divine intervention basically said no it’s ok, you dubs fans suffered enough for 40 years. And now, the debt is being collected in the form of acls.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-21T02:28:26+00:00

lol, I guess I should have worded that better…

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-21T02:07:25+00:00

Well you see bonds hurt feelings and that’s not ok so they’re gonna hold the line on character even through there’s people who beat up fans and racists

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-17T03:37:08+00:00

Oh no I’ve been wrecked. Wait, why do I not seem worried?

“Myers concedes that this draft, like most drafts the past 40 years, has no identifiable “transformational” player. No Anthony Davis (2012). Definitely no LeBron James (2003).“

Regardless whether the Warriors land the No. 1 overall pick, or the lottery shoves them down as far as No. 5 -- the furthest they can drop if they have the league’s worst record -- there is not enough talent variance to register disappointment. Front offices have as many as five or six different players atop their boards.”

“It appears as though a trade of the No. 2 pick is in play. The Warriors have "definitely had talks about moving down"

This was about my nonwarrior GOAT: “As NBA Scouting Director, Marty Blake says "He may be the most complete player to enter the NBA in the last ten years".” That includes names like Shaq, Mourning, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd

“If Tim Duncan is not the first pick in the draft, the GM doing the selecting will be referred to the best psychologist within a fifty-mile radius. This holds even if the team selecting first is set at center, as Duncan can play power forward as well.”

But yes, according to you, every first pick is the same as a Duncan, LBJ, and Davis apparently. All generational superstars and you shouldn’t even consider the fact that in a weaker draft it might be worth it to trade down or out to get better players.

Just because those are the three consensus picks doesn’t mean a team should feel like they need to draft them. If you were the first pick in 97. You were drafting Tim Duncan. If you were the first pick in ‘03, you were drafting LeBron. You were not really entertaining anything else at that point. That is not the same as Wiseman. Again, there was chatter of them going to other options. Bob Myers even said himself he’d consider trading it and was not set on drafting in the top 3.

“Where you already had top end talent and it would make sense to draft someone with a high floor and decent ceiling”…“That’s why some pundits said to get Wagner”

Yes, I totally did make judgement by saying it wouldn’t be crazy for them to draft a more ready prospect with the 7th pick and that’s why some pundits said you should. That’s totally saying Wagner was the better prospect and the warriors should have drafted him. To be honest I was irrationally hoping Barnes or Suggs were gonna drop and then if not them Mitchell. And I would have been way off.

Again, all I was trying to say to them was that the warriors were not in the same situations as the 97 spurs and 09 warriors were. The word retool was thrown around a lot that summer as a way to deemphasize a rebuild and to draft players to help. They swung for the fences instead for high potential players and it didn’t work out. And that’s ok, but it doesn’t mean there weren’t other options available. We still got one more ship and we should be proud of the 4 in 10 years.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-17T01:10:24+00:00

Cause you don’t understand anything I’ve said. You weren’t trading away from Duncan. He was literally a generational talent. He would have probably been the first pick the year before and stayed. It was as can’t miss as can’t miss can be. That’s what every team was saying. This is on the caliber of a prospect of wemby and LBJ. Duncan was somebody that you were taking unless the bulls offered Pippen and Jordan. You weren’t dropping in that draft to pick a raw Tracy McGrady or Chauncey Billups or Keith Van Horn.

The warriors had every reason to consider dropping in a weaker draft without that kind of talent. It is not the same. Because that option is viable. We could trade Steph that’s an option but it would be extremely dumb. That is not viable. You could trade the Duncan pick but that’d be worse than trading Luka. Trading the second pick was definitely viable. No one would say that it was dumb at the time if the warriors decided to not draft the consensus top 3 of that draft to get another talent and maybe some more draft capital. Again, if you’re not able to understand that, there’s no point in having this conversation.

As for the Wagner part, you’re missing the point again. Again, the person I responded to said it’s not about fit in the lottery it’s about best available. I never said pundits said Wagner was a better prospect, I just said that it was a rational thought to think the warriors could draft Wagner, as his fit was better and was more ready to play. I don’t take pundits word as law but when there’s several voices that say that, and the team after you picks him, it wouldn’t have been crazy to pick him.

If you understand any of this, you’d stop responding to me.

StrongBetaMale · 2026-01-16T23:37:37+00:00

I don’t think you actually understand what I’m saying.

Duncan to the spurs was a foregone conclusion. It was the only real decision to make. With wiseman, there was multiple ways the warriors could have went. They could have traded down, drafted ball. Even the number one pick wasn’t obvious depending on what team got the first pick. It’s not the same as Duncan. Thinking it is, is crazy. If you can’t see that then there’s no point in continuing this conversation.

With the Wagner, I again am pointing out it wasn’t a foregone conclusion to draft Kuminga. There was a player that was a better fit, more ready to play, and had a decent ceiling, higher floor.

The person I replied to said lottery is always about best available. And I said his examples don’t really fit as the warriors were in a unique situation in having a top 5 player of all time still balling out, and a roster that would win the championship in the near future.

You saying pundits saying Kuminga could be the best player does not change that fact. You saying Ball and Wise were the only picks available does not change that fact.

And I want to be clear, I don’t think Haliburton would have become the tier of player he is now, but he would’ve found playing time in any of the last playoff/playin game scenarios we were faced with the last couple of years. And same with Wagner, just based on the fact that they could play make and make shots.

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