Tank, Warriors Tank!

I know it's the Golden State Warriors' first year in their new Ozone Arena, or whatever, I mean the Chase Center, in San Francisco. BUT ... since Steph Curry officially needs surgery for his broken hand and will be out three months? (And that's a minimum; he'll be "reassessed" at that time.)

It is totally the right decision.

Yeah, coach Steve Kerr may not like it, but he was a GM in a previous incarnation, and he knows it's right, too. Whether the fans in the West Bay accept it or not? Well, the Dubs rolled the dice on leaving Oakland.

Anyway, it's right.

Klay Thompson may be out the full year. Kevon Looney is out for how long with his neuropathy, and how effective when he gets back? D'Angelo Russell, in the short sample size of this year, isn't fitting in well. In the same short sample size, Draymond Green is bricking threes and actually playing fewer minutes per game than last year. (And, he injured a finger Friday night. Warriors are waiting to see how bad this one is.) We'll see if he has more in the tank as a leading producer and not a complementary player with Klay out, now Steph out, too, and KD and Iggy both gone, along with Shaun Livingston.

When you're expecting Willie Cauley-Stein to be some sort of boost with Looney out? You're not a playoff team. You've got the third-worst plus-minus in the league so far.

Tank now, let the rest of the West beat you up, and get near the top of the lottery draw.

The Warriors scoffed Thursday, after Curry's injury was known, but before the need for surgery was.

And contra a semi-conspiratorial Twitter correspondent who said he could heal much faster, Red Satan's Stefania Bell says no — assuming a plate or other hardware had to be implanted — three months is not unreasonable, especially when rehab, not just for the hand in general, but for basketball-specific activities, is included.

(Update on that, Nov. 11: Kerr said he expects Curry to play sometime this season, which could be seen as both an indication that the Dubs weren't overselling the severity of the injury AND that they're more open to tanking. Given that he won't even have the pins removed for another month, yeah, San Francisco dumb fuck, it's a real three-month injury. I mean, the Celts have ruled out Gordon Hayward for six weeks with just a single broken bone in his left hand.)

I took the Dubs at face value, and since my Yahoo fantasy league doesn't have an IR setting, since the NBA doesn't, I dropped him.

Plus, per Brian Windhorst, you can tank under the guise of "checking out the youngsters." You can also trade Russell to a non-tanking team who might have dire need of him.