Report: Warriors believe analytics aid roster improvement originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The Warriors appear to be feeling good about their 2024-25 roster despite missing out on their top two targets this NBA offseason.
In fact, Golden State believes things have improved this summer, The Athletic’s Anthony Slater reported in his latest column Thursday, citing team sources and basing his assessment in part on internal numerical models that gave a “positive seal of approval” to the arrivals of new Warriors De’Anthony Melton, Kyle Anderson and Buddy Hield.
A few analytics-focused employees around the league agree, Slater added, noting that one rival team’s metric model predicts Golden State will finish the season fourth in the stacked Western Conference.
The Warriors won 46 games last season and the Los Angeles Clippers, who finished fifth in the West, won 51.
While Golden State failed to land Paul George and Lauri Markkanen, Warriors superstar point guard Steph Curry has not expressed panic over the team’s current roster makeup, Slater reported in his column, citing sources within the team.
While the panic button hasn’t gone off in the Chase Center ahead of the new season, there is consensus within the organization that the Warriors’ current roster cannot be considered complete if they want to compete for an NBA title.
But for now, Curry and co. are confident that they are on the right track, and the numbers apparently support them.
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