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Originally Posted by TheQuietAnarchist
i guess the way i feel about it as that i dont even see how this would be interesting as a GSW fan. the original 73 win team was amazing. built through the draft, they were talented and hard nosed. they could compete every year for years, even letting HB go, by just signing a few decent free agents.
and then durant comes.
again, maybe its just me, but as a celtics fan, i have no interest at all in having kawhi or lebron come. the team feels ours*, and a win would be sweet. coming up short would be bitter, but sweetly so. adding lebron to the team would make it completely uninteresting - id watch a few games for the novelty factor and then move on with my life.
if the celtics as constructed cant even have a competitive chance to win a title, thats a problem with the league, not the team, and im happy to watch them at least win the East but im not watching a sham finals - its just not sport. if y'all (GSW fans) enjoy it, good for you, but its clearly a negative for true fans of competitve basketball.
if the league wants to do something about it, theres really nothing about salary cap or maxes or mins, they just need to disallow top 10 players from joining good teams, either by vetoing particular moves (same way your fantasy basketball league might veto a trade by a doofus moving lebron for a couple nickels and dimes) or by creating a more holistic rule that prevents star players from moving franchises (something like once you get a certain size contract you are stuck on a team for a while unless they decide to trade you, or top X draft picks are locked into a team for 10 years, or whatever you could come up with in more than the 5 minutes ive thought about it).
* admittedly, our team as currently constructed pushes the limits of "organic", in that we swindled another franchise for draft picks and had multiple top 15-25 free agents sign (although the BRAD / hayward connection made it feel something like a home coming), and then the kyrie trade. but having anthony davis or lebron come over would just make the whole thing stupid.
I felt the same way when Durant came to warriors. I was not happy about it as I knew Warriors didn't need him and all gsw fans would hear is Durant saved the choking warriors. And it did feel like Durant decided if can't beat them join them. But it is what it is and now I embrace Durant as a warrior. Dude just trying to enjoy his basketball career so he went where it would be fun. He would win, he would play with unselfish players, basically it's just a fun party with good dudes in Gsw land. So good for him.
Now with Boogie I actually find it more exciting. I mean the dam has been broke when Durant came so now might as well put pieces in play that fill your needs. Warriors one need was a legit big man. And if he healthy is one of the best. And I always liked Boogie even as crazy as he can be sometimes. Like I think he's a good dude whose brain malfunctions dude to passion for the game and being challenged by his opponents to beast them. Like a Metta sorta. So I embrace him wholeheartedly and hope he beasts the league this year. Slight knock on Warriors was they weren't tough and more a talented outside finesse team. Let's see now. I want someone tell Boogie this team is soft lol. Him and Dray gonna be kicking some butt inside.
And I honestly don't think Boogie's one weakness(his own head) will be a problem on this team. Boogie's past issues seem to be when he didn't trust or respect his coach or teammates. Coming to gsw I think he will feel it's not his team and respect all the vet champions on the team. He just coming to improve his free agency stock next year, ring, and have fun with good dudes for one season. Sure there will be days where he says some crazy stuff but I think Warriors will just laugh it off saying that just Boogie being Boogie. Like Kobe did with Metta.
Last edited by DarkCheck; 07-03-2018 at 07:03 PM.
