[Andrews] Kerr says there’s “no hiding” that the incident between Draymond Green and Jordan Poole at the start of the year impacted their season. “There was some trust lost … we have to get back to what made us successful, which is a trusting environment.”
Kerr says there’s “no hiding” that the incident between Draymond Green and Jordan Poole at the start of the year impacted their season.
“There was some trust lost … we have to get back to what made us successful, which is a trusting environment.”
— Kendra Andrews (@kendra__andrews) May 16, 2023
by NokCha_
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Anyone with two eyes who watched this season could have guessed that. The question really is how do you get back to a trusting environment?
Have to move one to fix the situation. No other way. Moving Draymond basically closes the door on extending the dynasty. Moving Poole could bring back a piece that helps prolong the dynasty. Pretty easy decision.
It was the same answer when the incident first happen and clearly evident throught the season. Nothing new here imo.
If this shit is still a problem, it’s feeling like one of the two would need to be moved. Maybe an off-season fixes it, maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know if it’s worth the risk, guess it doesn’t hurt to hold off till the mid-season trade deadline.
Either that or stranding them on a desert island, maybe give Dray a camera and a couple mics so he can sell it to TNT
Kerr might as well had said that Poole needs to pack his bags. There are certain things you can’t comeback from. Dray was his vet and he damn near knocked him out. The video leaking was salt on the wound. Those two cannot coexist in a healthy locker room and the vets have chosen Dray. We need move on from Poole.
best solution is to move poole bec 1. for his comfort 2. to stop the toxicity within the GSW.
I think he’ll play even better once he’s moved to a different team.
“And if that means that Poole needs to be traded to the Guan-Dong tigers this offseason, so be it”
Steve Kerr, probably.
I think this is what he meant by the leak being worse than the punch itself. Of course the punch is bad, and a problem all on it’s own that must be fixed, but the fact that the video of it got leaked probably made it feel like the team facilities were no longer a safe space.
I think everyone’s gonna say ship Poole, which would fix that specific problem. The bigger problem is trust with all the other young guys.
Imagine you’re a second year player on the warriors. In your two years you saw the organization give the core 3 anything they want, you saw wiseman get benched immediately after any mistakes and eventually shipped (supposed to be the post Steph generation), you saw Jordan Poole get his head knocked off, and now it looks like he’s gonna get traded (supposed to be the post Steph generation). That’s just stuff the fans are aware of.
Then Kuminga (supposed to be the post Steph generation) gets no playing time in what appear to be advantageous playoff matchups for him, and benched for any mistake. You see two way players who are not very good eating up all the rookies playing and developmental times.
Imagine you’re a rookie (post Steph generation) coming into this environment. How does anyone succeed when you’re not allowed to make any mistakes, but you’re sitting there watching lamb and jmg making similar mistakes and they’re mid ass two way players??
Pretty sure one of them has to go… I don’t know if this can be fixed
Sit them down in a room and give them ayahuasca ?
Maybe it’ll reset their mindset
Steph backed Poole up;
Steve said w/o Dray, it’s not a champ contender;
So…
Either they think they can fix those 2, which is impossible after watching this entire year of bullshit.
Or, you need to send at least one of them out…
Sending JP out, basically tells young guy that: hey you don’t fuck with Dray/Klay/Steph. Eat the shit. Given how young guys performance this season, you might just pack JP+JK together. Because there is no way JK gonna play hard for the team. Try to use young top picks to trade some vets and gamble everything on Steph’s final 1-2 years and rebuild afterwards when cores retired, Bob left, even Steve left. I don’t think Jacob wants this…this is not his way of doing business.
Sending Dray out…you pretty much start rebuilding process. You need at least one season to rebuild the offense/defense system because Dray was the core piece of it (you like it or not). Yeah, we can go to Steph hard PnR, but he is getting another one year older and his 3pt is at his lowest during Prime…
Or…sending both them out…cleaning the house and started again, which might even resulting Steph’s decision.
2 poisons Warriors have to choose. I don’t know if there would be a correct answer. Rather, it’s gonna be a lesser evil one.
Draymond really did punch the talent out of poole
I will say that klays personality doesn’t make him seem like a good team mate. He’s very introverted and to himself. I never see him coaching others like Steph and he’s very selfish with the ball. I think it’s more than Draymond
Not happening. Dray crossed a line that can’t be fixed with an apology. He embarrassed Poole to the entire basketball world and its fans. I don’t blame Poole one bit for holding a grudge, and applaud him for as professional as he’s been.
If we’re being honest, a large part of this falls onto Kerr and the coaching staff. Draymond is allowed to run wild like he’s a fucking child king, without recourse. It should surprise no one that Dray is unprofessional to the point of physically assaulting his coworkers, he’s never been reprimanded by this staff and has consistently placed his ego over the team. How many times in the playoffs did we see Dray bark at refs, begging for a technical in a game where points mean everything. He regularly put this entire team at risk, and for what? So he could feel big and bad about himself. It’s clown shit and he isn’t good enough of a player **anymore** to keep that shit up.
Well it looks like we have to trade one of the two it the vibes continue to be bad, can’t bring it to the next season with the championship window closing.
Let Poole stab draymond. Balance must be restored
-An open comment to Steve Kerr-
Dear Mr. Kerr:
Thank you for confirming what I and many others in this sub have been suggesting over the entire season in the face of others’ claims that “they are professionals” and “they have moved past it, why can’t you?”
-Macktologist
I think if Draymond had squared up and then swung on Poole it would have been completely different. The Superman punch shows zero regard or care.
instead of hating on the players, hate on the idiot who leaked it.
you had the once in a lifetime chance to be in the gym with these guys day in and day out and you ruined it by videotaping a practice.
If the plan is to keep Klay and Dray then Poole is the only contract useful to improve the team.
And this, along with several other reasons, is why Bob Myers is thinking about calling it quits. He doesn’t want to be the guy that tells Draymond and Klay, two guys he’s good friends with …hey you need to take a pay cut.”
A bit late for that, isn’t it? The team should have rallied around Poole and shown him support and made it clear that Draymond either had to do really make things right and fix his relationship with Poole or he would be traded.
I’m sure people get into fights at NBA practices all the time. But wasn’t two players getting into a fight. This was one guy sucker punching with another with all of his weight behind it. The Warriors as a team mishandled the situation from the start and I’m not really sure it can be fixed.
And the solution was to keep feeding him minutes, no matter how poor his play was?
Very interesting was to ‘rebuild trust’…
Is it possible ownership/management intervened?
Bruh