Want Poole to still be a Warrior?

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00:00But real quick, over the next 10 minutes, if you want to answer that question, 888-957-9570

00:07right now, do you wish Jordan Poole was still on this team?

00:10How would you answer it?

00:11I would answer it no, but I do look at this team and think about a guy who can get you

00:1620 on the regular, and yes, it's a 20 that might be 5 of 17 one night, and it might be

00:2411 of 23.

00:27His points definitely come with a certain amount of gravity, because he needs the ball,

00:33he has the ball, and he doesn't often share the ball, and when he does share it, it's

00:37usually to the other team, so I do understand everything that comes with Jordan Poole, but

00:42I do also believe that a lot of fans out there look at this team and think, if you only had

00:47Jordan Poole as a No. 2 bucket getter, because he will get you 20, he'll get you a 16, to

00:5434, he can score, and so yes, I do think that the conversation, for me anyway, is much

01:01more of a straight line, forget like all of the other machinations about like, well, Kamingo

01:06would be gone, and I do think you're right, because if you had Poole at this number, and

01:11you've got Draymond and Steph and Wiggins, that right there next year would be about

01:16140 million.

01:17Well, and I don't know that you would have been able to do what they did this year and

01:20get under the apron.

01:21I don't know that they would have been able to do that.

01:23Well, you would have been able to do it, but you wouldn't have Melton or Slomore or

01:28Buddy Heal.

01:29Even that, yeah, even that, I don't know that that adds up to 32, even on its own.

01:33I think it's more of a clean question just in terms of, like, would you like Jordan Poole

01:38to still be on this team?

01:39Steph and Draymond and Jordan Poole and Wiggins as your core four.

01:43I hear you, but here's what, like I'll ask you, is it fair that I think that what I hear

01:49is unfair?

01:51Is it fair to say this?

01:52I hear a lot of that the last four weeks.

01:57Could have had Jordan Poole, Jordan Poole would fit on this team.

02:01Here's my problem.

02:03The last four weeks are the first time I've heard that.

02:06Where was that opinion over the last year and a half?

02:09It's a little bit last year when Clay was going through what he was going through.

02:12Yeah, but not, I didn't hear it much.

02:15Last year Jordan was awful.

02:16Right, right.

02:17Awful.

02:18And this year he's been good?

02:21He's better.

02:22He's definitely better.

02:23Yeah.

02:24I still don't know exactly, I don't know how to quantify things with individual players

02:29when the team's won eight games and it's late January.

02:31Well, I mentioned it yesterday that he's, I think, 103rd among qualified players in

02:36field goal percentage.

02:37Yeah, like, I mean, he's shooting the ball better.

02:39Better than last year.

02:41I haven't watched a ton of Washington Wizards games to tell you if his decision making has

02:45gotten any better or what have you.

02:48Still not an incredibly efficient player.

02:50My point is, is I think the opinion of a lot of Warrior fans is a little circumstantial.

02:56Suddenly we're like, wait a minute, down the stretch of basketball games, the Warriors

03:00are having a hard time scoring, now I'm going to adjust my opinion and say that they should

03:06have kept Jordan Poole.

03:07Well, no, I'm sorry, personally I don't feel like you get to do that.

03:12You needed to have that opinion all along.

03:14You can't show up two years later and say that, that's what I thought, well, I didn't

03:19hear anybody say that.

03:20If you've thought that the whole time, then great, you're in the minority and you get

03:24to think that.

03:26But I also, I think those who are really being analytical about the Warriors' problems realize

03:34that it's not as simple as they need another scorer.

03:38It's not that simple.

03:39The Warriors don't need another guard.

03:42That's not my opinion.

03:44The Warriors don't need another guard.

03:48Melton was a good player, terrible what happened to him.

03:52Dennis Schroeder is a good player.

03:54I think he's still getting used to a new style of offense.

03:57It's starting to look better to me.

03:59I think it's going to look even better a month from now than it does in this moment.

04:04I think everybody who I've talked to who's close to this team and really understands

04:09the way the Warriors operate all sort of feels the same way Bob Fitzgerald said it to us

04:14yesterday.

04:15They need somebody who, A, can help Draymond Green not have to defend all of the centers

04:22on the defensive end of the floor, and on the offensive end of the floor, they need

04:27somebody who will space it better so that the middle is not so clogged up.

04:31And I'm describing the same person on both ends of the floor.

04:35Even though he's not a great defender.

04:36He's a bad defender.

04:37He's a bad defender, but he's a big body and he can at least do some work in that spot.

04:44And it's Nikola Vucevic.

04:46And even if it's not Nikola Vucevic, pick someone else.

04:49But it needs to be a big.

04:52The Warriors need a floor-spacing big.

04:55We can have this conversation in three ways.

04:57We can make it about Jordan, we can make it about a star, or we can make it about the

05:02actual characteristics I think that would help the Warriors right now, which is a floor-spacing

05:07five.

05:08Yes, and I agree with you offensively.

05:10Defensively though, Vucevic is not going to help you, and I know you read the Ramona

05:14Shelburne piece today on ESPN about Jimmy Butler and Miami, and I thought that it was

05:19a fascinating look, and Ramona had a lot of sourced quotes from people who didn't want

05:25to be named, and a lot of the takeaways that I had were, you think it's bad now?

05:32You just wait until Jimmy goes into full defiance mode.

05:36And so the whole idea about Jimmy Butler for me, for the Warriors, or for any team

05:41really is so toxic, because Jimmy is a guy who is really good at blowing things up, and

05:49he's blowing it up in Miami, and what's to say that he won't go to his new team and also

05:53blow it up?

05:54So I do think you're right about what the Warriors actually need, but I'm just struck

06:00by Jordan Poole coming back, and the amount of people who I'm hearing are saying, if we

06:06only had Jordan Poole, our offensive problems wouldn't be here.

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