Early returns on the Warriors offseason

Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty ImagesThe Golden State Warriors are 18 games into the 2023-24 NBA season, which isn’t enough for us to determine much. But what we can determine is that the Warriors have been fairly disappointing in those 18 games, having lost 10 of them while sporting a mildly below-average net rating.

I recognize that I’m in the minority here among Warriors fans, who have, admittedly, been screaming about the sky falling for the last decade even as ... you know ... all those trophies and parades happened ... but feel quite optimistic about the team’s prospects. They’ve shown flashes of playing at an elite level — such as in the first half of Tuesday’s heartbreaking…