[The Lowe Post (feat. Goldsberry and Woo)] “In the 2023 playoffs, they were a positive team with Curry on the court and -17.7 when Curry sat. That was a caricature of a larger trend we’ve seen… For Jordan Poole and maybe a fake 1st, I don’t know what better win-now player they were gonna get.”
by BobRoss4Life
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Chris Paul as much as I hate him will run that second unit so much better he’ll slow things down and that should help Kuminga Moody etc.. the insane chaos and speed offense only works when Steph is on the court.
Lowe had a post-draft round up with Goldsberry and Woo. [Full podcast here](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goldsberry-and-woo/id986595124?i=1000618112602), talk about the Warriors for about 10-15min. Sorry for 2x speed, otherwise it would have been a crazy long video.
Hit on:
Chris Paul and his fit (stabilize the 2nd unit so they don’t bleed away leads… was a problem even when they were winning championships, less playing time will be good for him, fit kind of wonky but CP3 prides himself on being adaptable and has changed up his playstyle for other teams, elite bbiq, great screener, who will be his roll partner?)
Moving off Poole (makes some sense given the long-term salary and how the non-Curry minutes went, JP was sometimes off-rhythm with the rest of the team)
Podz (analytics love him, super competitive with a great work ethic, physically maxed out with a heavy reliance on crafty skills and shot making)
Draymond (didn’t link in the video, happens right after they wrap-up this conversation, just about the potential of him heading to the Kings)
Lowe basically saying fans could use “Fuck Chris Paul” as a cheer lmao
> Maybe ‘F Chris Paul’ could be turned into that (a term of endearment) for the Warriors… Whenever he does something nasty but it helps the Warriors, like a flop or whatever, everyone chants that. I think they should co-opt that.
This is on the moron Kerr.
Poole + DDV + JK without Steph was +10 per 100 possessions on the year. That was the key of the second unit. Stupid ass Kerr benched JK and lo and behold the second unit doesn’t work.
Kerr sabotaged the team through his stupidity.
Man his trade value was in the fucking dirt
I listened to the pod when it came out and, while I won’t claim you cherry-picked (might’ve just wanted to start a conversation), the excerpt makes it sounds like Lowe was like “Hellz yeahz!!”
But what he really said is it was a confusing trade – that CP3 has always been his best as a PnR guard and Kerr has always been oddly reluctant to run PnR and that, as much as CP3 says he can fit any system, his career doesn’t really bear that out – he’s always been far better in the PnR.
For me, as a guy who remembers those formative LAC GSW series, I loathe Paul and hated trading for a 39 yo.
But it is what it is now, and I’ll always be a front of the jersey > back of the jersey kinda guy so I’m trying to see it half full.
Half full, maybe a PnR offense with CP3 sees JK have an opportunity to take a massive leap – I’m all for that.
It’s winning time. Imo we either win 1 of the next 2 titles, or this iconic core caps out at 4 rings. Klay on his last legs, Dray hit or miss at times, Steph’s window is closing slowly. I really hope we can pull off one more because otherwise we kind of lost our future for dick all.
I fucking told yall lmao, got downvoted into an oblivion for pointing this out in the Kings series
EDIT: https://np.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/12ww75e/warriors_in_the_1575_steph_led_minutes45_warriors/
Sorry but the 17 year olds from Los Gatos on r/warriors have already claimed this as the worst trade ever and Dunleavy will hopefully be fired next week
Watched this whole ep yesterday on YouTube and it was a great one! Highly recommend it. Also I wish Goldsberry was a permanent guest/co-host. He and Lowe have a great rapport
Steph and Dray were clamoring for a proven veteran the year before, they wanted Avery Bradley instead of GP2. Now with CP3 the FO is trying to show Steph and Dray that they’re going all in with the core next year and now if you look at the bench there will be no “raw rookies”. Both draft picks have played at least 2 years in college and Moody and JK will now be in their 3rd year. I think this makes Draymond re-signing almost guaranteed.
Without grossly overpaying for someone I don’t see how we were gonna get anything for Poole