Dave Hardisty

Let's, you know, the Warriors are obviously an outlier, but go back to those years.

Would you have spent those assets to get someone who wasn't going to impact the team that much, trying to contend early in that Warriors dynasty?

Or would you have rather had those assets at the time where James Harden was in his prime and you have Chris Paul and you truly could make a dent on a team like that?

I do think the one, not only is OGC really good, it's always a bit unrealistic to expect.

And I do not agree with Stone saying outright, coming in public and saying, hey, you know, perhaps this is not our year.

I don't think that's a good message to put across, especially for the player.

I just think he made a mistake communication-wise there.

But if we're being brutally honest, this team going into the season fully healthy was expected to be, you know, a little bit below the thunder going into the season, right?

Now they have lost two starters, two key starters that bring skill sets that we don't have on the team, rather than Leighton and Steven Adams.

Yeah, 40 million in cap is my next point.

40 million in cap, and that is now basically dead cap for this season.

Is any version of this team with 40 million in cap markets and two starters actually going to contend, or actually going to put up that big of a fight against a Thunder that it's worth further investing on?

Rather than, and not doing anything is still investing, you're just investing instead of investing assets on someone to play for the team and be better immediately.

You're still investing, but you're just investing minutes instead of assets.

At some point, you've got to be pragmatic.

You were not favored to beat the Thunder coming into the season.

You now have two less starters, 40 million less in cap space.

Pragmatically, do you still believe that you're going to be able to beat the Thunder?

And that's the job of the GM.

The job of the GM is not to listen to social media or to go on whims on a game-by-game basis, playing poorly, or because everybody on national media is saying that they need the point card.