It's BR, so obviously there will be arguments about the validity of it. Nothing new about the Dubs to anyone who has been paying attention, but I learned a few things about some of the other teams, and I was a bit surprised to see the Dubs ranked as high as #6. Of course most of our "assets" are things we'd prefer NOT to give away, but that's life. To get value, you have to give value.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10128984-ranking-every-nba-team-by-current-trade-assets
by Nessmuk58
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Surprised no one has responded to this topic yet, so I’ll take the plunge. I’m squarely on the side of not wanting a trade right now. I think the warriors have a really good front office, and I really like the moves they made in free agency.
De’Anthony Melton is going to be a real find for the warriors. If you look at career metrics, Melton is a better version of donte divincenzo when signed with the warriors: Melton is a better career defender, and a better career offensive player than Donte was prior to signing with the warriors. Melton and Divincenzo have the same knock on them: they’ve been injury prone. Divincenzo came to GS, played 72 games, was good on offense and really good on defense and parlayed that into a big pay day with the Knicks. Melton is probably looking for something similar, and Melton’s career numbers are better.
Anderson and Buddy Heild are also really good gets for the warriors, and I don’t see why warriors fans are posting seemingly 10 Lauri threads a day when the simple truth is he’s a fantastic offensive player who can’t defense well at all. Melton, Heild and Anderson are fantastic NBA role players who will come, immediately address a weakness with last year’s team, provide depth, but who will also let the young players grow and let Steph and Draymond run the team.
The part I have a particular problem with is:
>Near the end of Stephen Curry’s prime, the window for title contention might already be closed. But the Warriors might be able to kick it back open for one last run with a trade for a star like Lauri Markkanen.
Steph is not in end of his prime, he’s going to be 37 next march, he’s past his prime. They won a title 2 years ago because every single thing fell perfectly for them; that should not be considered the norm. Look at Steph’s numbers at his peak, the age 25-29 seasons and they were God-tier. Unanimous MVP Steph was one of the most dominant single season players of all-time, and was a force as a two-way player.
Part of making the most the end of Steph’s career is overcoming the deterioration of Steph as a ball-player. A Lauri Markkanen prying that back open is complete and total wishful thinking. I’m not going to give up on the end of Steph’s career yet, but it’s going to take something really unusual happening to get the warriors back in title contention in the next two years.