lines what I suspect is that he (and many other GMs in the league) feel that the Warriors are virtually untouchable so it's better to maintain long-term flexibility so that they can make big moves when the Warriors decline than it is to leverage that flexibility in a futile attempt to catch the Warriors now. We've seen this exact thing play out in the East. For a decade or more, teams perpetually circled the drain in the East. This last season we saw multiple teams make big moves. LeBron going to the West had a big impact.