The reason is that the Warriors’ draft vision in recent years has obviously been inaccurate. They selected Weisman at the second place and skipped the No. 3 overall pick LaMelo Ball, who had already become the Hornets’ top pick. Kuminga missed the Magic’s versatile forward Franz Wagner, who played earlier; the selected shooter Moody missed Alperen Sengun, who was able to serve as an inside answer and is now famous for the Rockets.
Except for Jonathan Kuminga’s attractive innate body, the growth curve of this group of lottery picks is not as good as expected. For example, Kuminga’s growth rate in the past few years was too slow, and it was not until these two seasons that he showed outstanding performance. Moses Moody was not even an important substitute who played a lot of time; Brandin Podziemski also hit a wall this season; not to mention James Wiseman, the former second overall pick, was abandoned long ago because he didn’t fit the system.
Because of this, the Warriors have always thought about looking for immediate reinforcements in the past few years, and even recruited stars to cooperate, hoping to compete for a championship at the peak of Curry’s career, but they have always been limited by salary space. Or they were unwilling to give up assets and the thunder was big but the rain was small, resulting in missing Paul George and Lauri Markkanen before the season.
The Warriors want to run two timelines, the present and the future, while maintaining competitiveness and cultivating successors. Now the experiment has failed, causing the team’s development to stagnate. It happens to be that they have been in the predicament of a 50% winning rate for the past two years. If the management could have made a decision two or three years earlier, and studied when it was time to study, perhaps we would not be in such a situation where we are neither improving nor inferior, and we don’t know where to start making changes. In the future, when Curry’s era officially comes to an end, the question of who can take over will be a headache for the Warriors’ senior management in the next five years.
