Golden State Warriors: Complete 2018 offseason grades

Overall

If this were a GPA, the Warriors’ final offseason grade would be 3.74, or an A-. That feels about right.

Bringing back Durant and Looney while adding Evans, Cousins and Jerebko is better than pretty much anyone could have anticipated the Warriors doing from a value standpoint. When you look at the guys who were replaced (Pachulia, McGee, West and Young), you have to conclude that the team improved. Being the best team in the league to begin with and getting better despite zero cap flexibility seems like enough to warrant an automatic “A,” averages be damned.

That’s giving Myers slightly too much credit, at least in a vacuum. The lack of cap space around the league, the inherent advantage that creates for the league’s best team and a draft that was so loaded with wings that a good one was bound to slip are all mitigating factors here.

If the Cousins move works out, this will be a pantheon offseason for a GM that already has two Executive of the Year awards. If Cousins flops, and the team doesn’t survive its lack of wing depth this time around, things will look quite different in the rearview.

We could frame the GPA approach as too harsh, or as too generous. In the end, it’s accurate.

Final Grade: A-