Rocky is upset about everything, always.

He was also great in the local community!

Fanpost of the year? In what way? There is 0 substance to this fanpost. The closest to substance it has is the stats Jack put up last year – unfortunately, it uses the wrong stats, so we can’t even count that.

While Belinelli was just starting to show signs of being a strong player for the Warriors especially on the defensive end. Crawford though defensively inept was always a capable scorer as well and did much more in his NBA career than Law and Speedy Claxton who also came over in the deal.

Belinelli was a marginal NBA player. There’s a reason he’s averaging only 17 mpg on a team that loves no rebounding, white Europeans that can shoot and not do much else. We had many better wings than him. Just not a big deal at all. Crawford is not a capable scorer. Capable scorers don’t need to shoot as often as Crawford to score the points he does. Simply put, most NBA players would score more points than Crawford if they simply shot it as often as he does. Not to mention he’s god awful defensively and rebounds like a 10 year old girl. And I don’t mean a 10 year old on the A team, I’m talking town rec league here. The Raptors bought Belinelli off us, and we got out of Crawford’s contract. Those are positives.

As for the Jack trade – it’s about more than just matching salaries. It’s about getting rid of guaranteed contracts. Jack still had 3 years left on his deal. We got out of that. That is a good thing.

You’ve had to pull this image out a lot this week eh, Sam?

Calling the Warriors a poorly run franchise since Cohan took over is stating the obvious. Everyone knows this, nobody disputes it. Your argument is simply “move made by bad franchise, so it means franchise is bad”. Circular argument with nothing to back it up whatsoever, and frankly doesn’t add much to the discussion. Yes, the Warriors are a disappointing franchise. We know. How does this trade make them worse off? Jack was a malcontent, he’s also not nearly as good as “just under 21 points per game, averaged 6.5 assists per game, and 5 rebounds” suggests. He gets his points through volume shooting – he’s not efficient about it, suggesting if some other average offensive player took those shots instead of him, we’d end up with at least as many, and maybe more, points than if he took those shots. That doesn’t help the team win. He does distribute well, at times, but he also distributes poorly at times and consistently turns the ball over at a high rate. He’s a very poor rebounder, once you take pace, position and minutes played into account, there is no other conclusion you can come to other than he’s extremely bad at rebounding. He has some defensive ability, but rarely shows the necessary effort on that end, and is not as good defensively as his on ball defense would make you believe. His contract was terrible, and a hindrance to the franchise long term.

So instead, we get out of his contract and ditch a player that was unhappy. He didn’t have much trade value – the fact that we didn’t take a bad contract in return is a good thing. The Warriors are in a better position right now than when I woke up this morning, for these reasons.