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The Golden State Warriors have been pretty mediocre
The Golden State Warriors haven’t exactly been a team you’d classify as mediocre in quite some time. Especially not in the last five or six years when he’s in top form. The same can be said for the Warriors before and after the arrival of Kevin Durant.
Durant is out and in Brooklyn looking as amazing as ever and Klay Thompson will miss a second season in a row due to a leg injury, the Warriors look as mediocre as a team can seem. Even with a healthy Stephen Curry on the court, the Warriors have struggled earlier this season. Draymond Green has yet to make his season debut without the first four games of the season so far with a foot injury.
Simply put, the Warriors simply don’t have the artillery needed for battle.
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From what Green has done on the court over the years for this team, he’s not the scoring threat the Warriors seem to currently lack. Management has high hopes for Andrew Wiggins and even switched to Kelly Oubre Jr. once the team learned that Thompson would be out for the entire season. Across four games, neither of them seems to be consistent enough alongside Curry to make this team a threat in the West, even once Green returns from injury.
The Warriors returned to .500 (2-2) after beating the hapless Detroit Pistons 116-106 in Detroit on Tuesday night. The Warriors’ two victories so far this season have come against below-average teams that are almost guaranteed to miss the playoffs at the Pistons and Chicago Bulls. They beat these teams by 11 combined points in consecutive games.
The first two games of the season were losses to the Brooklyn Nets on opening night and the Milwaukee Bucks on Christmas Day. And this is where the real discrepancy between lack of talent and mediocrity shines the most. The Warriors lost these two games by 65 points combined.
These season-opening losses were against two of the top three teams in the Eastern Conference, but it shows how quickly the mighty have fallen.
Green’s return to the starting lineup should help, but the Warriors need another consistent scorer to complement Curry, and so far, it just doesn’t seem like Wiggins and Oubre Jr. are that compliment.
The news also broke Tuesday about a possible trade the Warriors could be interested in once Green returns to the court. This was mentioned by Yahoo! Sports NBA Insider Chris Haynes on his podcast, Posted with Christ Haynes.
“I’ll say this: if when Draymond comes back, they don’t do well, we could see a scenario where Draymond will go on the market to trade bait,” Haynes explained. “We could see that, the way this franchise is going.
“I know a team that, oh my gosh, I know a team that would salivate if that was the case,” Haynes added. “I’m not going to mention that … I know a team that would be salivating.”
Sounds like juicy little information Haynes is choosing to hold onto for the moment. If true, this news makes Green’s return even more interesting once he’s finally back with the team.
Green will turn 31 in March and many in the league already wonder if his best days are behind him. Similar to that of the Warriors dynasty.
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