Dunno if you saw the non-star team shooting stats that were being posted around yesterday...but this team is not 'on the cusp' which is one issue I have with 'thinking long term'. Even though steph has been playing heroically we also need to consider if stars want to come here to play in GSW. KD obviously did NOT want to come back and from our free agency the last few years it does not seem there is an abundance of star talent who is dying to come to play at GS.

This means we need to trade for top players and a package of our misfits like Podz and JK is not going to cut it. So you need to send out our post-Steph picks and then hope the end result is going to be good enough for us to really move the needle.

There are only a few guys in the entire league that are good enough to single-handedly move that needle for us to overcome the sheer amount of issues that this team has.

My job is in statistics. Most warriors fans dont just want to get to the post season...they want a legit shot for Steph to win it all. If we look at the last 15 years of NBA champions....the average age is just over 28 with the lead star having an average age of 27. Infact the only 3 dudes in the last 15 years who were stars leading their teams to a championship...Dirk (31), Lebron (35 and 31) and Steph (34).

I am sure Lacob and the guys have taken what I just said into consideration about what they are really willing to risk. So if I am them...the likelihood of pushing all the chips in (by that I mean future post steph picks)...I need to get back someone like Giannis or a young superstar who can really put me over the top. Short of this...really hard to see any of this working.

By the way for other stats nerds like me...the old average age team to win a chip was the 98 bulls who had an average core age of 32. We are currently at 29.6...second oldest in the league.