Warriors Winner Over Thunder Adds Questions About Trade Line

On January 30, 2025By Littum

Warriors played thunder and caught lightning in a bottle.

Is it enough to run the team for the rest of the season?

The best team in the NBA came to San Francisco to play dubs playing the second game in a back-to-back. Oklahoma City went into the game as a 9.5-point road favorite.

And despite a 52-point performance from MVP-FroneTrunner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City lost by seven.

Wednesday’s 116-109 Warriors victory was arguably Dubbs’ best victory for the campaign. It even resulted in a festive water bottle after the game for head coach Steve Kerr.

“We need some feel-good energy around here. You can’t forget to celebrate the little winner, no matter what the standards have been, ”said Steph Curry.

Yes, with a well-executed game plan picked from the playoff series with the Southwestern Division enemies past, lots of pace and space, some hard made shots down the stretch-inclusive a pair (staging yourself) Mid-range shot and forgive the pun, one Thundering thunder, the victory is Dubbs’ second on so many days and only puts the Golden State back from No. 5 seeds in the western conference and four behind in the home-ground advantage in the first round.

After a campaign that has become incoherent in concept and execution, Warriors can do the case with victories on Tuesday and especially Wednesday that they are actually “to find out” as Steph Curry Bad fans (specifically “Twitter -Fingers”) to make two weeks back.

Or maybe it was just a one-game blip, just like Dubs’ victory over Timberwolves that preceded Curry’s comments.

We have played this game many times before with dubs, but this team has not won three since November.

So if Warriors want to take a step, it’s now or never.

And no, I’m not talking about a trade. At least not yet.

I’m talking about a push up the position – a push toward the respectability that has avoided them all season.

Without Daymond Green and Jonathan Kuminga, it will be anything but easy, but Wednesday’s victory gives some hope.

What dangerous thing it is.

“This group (s) is capable of. What we saw early in the year was not a mirage, ”Kerr said after Wednesday’s win.

But do we really know that this team is capable of? The 12-3 starting counts, but so does the 12-20 record since.

There is a week until the NBA’s trading deadline. Wednesday’s victory and the positive Vibber who followed can swing an already skittic front office to pump the breaks on a large, shaking Shaking deal, one should even be on the table.

Another victory Friday-the evasive third straight-to-cheat eliminating every chance of a Jimmy Butler, Zach Lavine or Nikola Vučević-Any player who would cost a first round of choices in a trade-there come to dubs.

And maybe it would be a smart decision. Why ruin a good thing, right?

Well, is this a good thing?

There are three matches between now and the deadline. Warriors can’t afford to still guess if their team is the 12-3 outfit or the lottery team we’ve seen since Thanksgiving.

They have to plant a flag – are they good enough as it is to do some of this season, or do they need reinforcements?

There is no middle ground because any meaningful trade that Warriors can do would require a serious shaker, with either several players or Andrew Wiggins going out of town.

It leaves Warriors – and fans – looking at a rorschach test. This team is so undefined and its supporting players so striped (Wiggins are an average of 20 points per game over its last nine games, similar to a viable # 2 about 2022) that it could really be something this season.

But if Warriors’ Front Office guesses in a way and turns out to be wrong in a few weeks, there will be no use of fixing the problem.

It is undoubtedly an inevitable situation. Which is worse, an error in commission or a failure of omission?

But a decision comes next Thursday afternoon in the form of a step or team.

And it looks like it will be discussed until the last moments.

Warriors have played the most “clutch” games in the NBA this season. 22 competitions have been within five points by five minutes or fewer to play.

So what is another down-to-wire finish for this team?