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Lacob is still stubborn, and injuries are also part of the game. Everyone has a clear mind in the draft

2:49pm, 20 May 2025【Basketball】

Unfortunately, although Jimmy Butler was traded before the trading deadline, he found a good helper for Curry. The team also boarded the last bus of the playoffs through the playoffs and asked the young Rockets to pay the tuition in the first round, the Golden State Warriors' good luck came to an abrupt end. With Curry suffering from a hamstring strain, Cole experienced four consecutive losses in his first series in his coaching career, and the Warriors failed in the second round. Recently, Warriors boss Rakob was interviewed. He has different views on the Warriors' performance this season and is still stubborn: First, Curry is not injured, the Warriors will definitely beat the Timberwolves; Second, the rookies selected by the Warriors failed to play beautiful data, but the draft vision and thinking are fine, and the draft work is carried out very well.

For the first point, although the Warriors won the first goal at the Timberwolves, Curry's unexpected injury made the good start of the series extremely bitter. In fact, injuries are also part of the game. A large part of the reason Curry was injured was caused by fatigue. The Warriors' dependence on him was self-evident. Look at the next four games, when Curry was not on the court, without the blessing of "Ku's gravity", how many Warriors players were revealed.

Let's go back and say that even if Curry is not injured, will the Warriors definitely win? The answer is no, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is still a gap in the book strength of the two teams. The Timberwolves' outside shooting cannot always be as bad as G1. Then in the talent competition, as the schedule deepens, the game curve between Butler and Edwards will only be one downward, but the other can still rise steadily; while in the inside game, Gobert is responsible for dealing with the Warriors' center, and if the Warriors choose to play five smalls, Randle and Reed cannot stop it. So, after all, the only strength of the Warriors is Curry, which is too passive.

As for the second point, facts have proved that the Warriors' draft strategy of "winning both in the present and in the future" in recent years has completely failed. But Van Lacob should not be so ambitious. He can find some immediate combat power to help Curry seize the peak tail and rush again, and he will not let the cute god be so tired. It is said that after three years of rookies, Wiseman, who was highly anticipated, has long been lost to everyone. Baldwin also sent him away for a flash in the pan. Moody is lukewarm, and Kumingga's attitude is about to leave the team. In the end, it's just a waste of money.

Regarding the performance of these rookies, Lacob is actually embarrassed to say that the Warriors' draft work is fine? How effective this work is? Everyone has a clear mind, and can only prove one truth. At that time, many decisions made, Bob Myers, the former general manager of the Warriors, really had no choice. They were all the boss's intentions. It was Rakob's confident excessive interference in the management team that laid the foreshadowing for the Warriors' death speed after winning the championship in 2022.

Of course, what Rakob said now doesn't matter. The key is whether he can wake up and stop interfering in management's decisions and let professionals do professional things. Kumingga's contract renewal issue, how to operate in the player market this summer depends on whether Dunleavy Jr. can turn the tide. Curry's fuel tank still has oil, so don't let him waste his time.