Anthony Slater explains why Warriors could still add to roster with trades

Over the last few days, the Warriors — via Draymond Green, Steph Curry and Steve Kerr — have made clear that they don't think it's responsible for the team to make a major trade this season.

The Athletic's Anthony Slater joined the Morning Roast Wednesday morning to break down those comments and assess how the Warriors might handle business heading into the trade deadline.

Slater said Golden State may not just stand pat.

"I do think Steph's [answer] was taken too much as like a don't make a trade at all [statement]," Slater said. "And same with, you talk to Steve, you talk to other people behind the scenes, they're still gonna be active going up until to the deadline. They're still gonna try to get rotation players, particularly guys who help the offense, which is 21st ranked, but they're not gonna panic, and we've talked about it last week, right? They're not gonna suddenly panic today and go today and go we need Nikola Vucevic so bad, here's a first rounder, Chicago."

Slater went on to lay out the fact that many of the teams around the Warriors, who he said are "tumbling right now," are doing the same. The bottom of the West is a mess, and the Warriors may leverage some second-round draft capital to make a move.

"There is a path to really kind of maybe overpower yourself into the seven and eight side of the play-in, or maybe the six," Slater said. "And part of that path is maybe use some second-round draft capital. Maybe a protected first go get you a Vucevic, maybe a Cam Johnson, maybe his price tag goes down. Or maybe there's a surprising name out there.

"But to answer your question, what's out there? It's helpful rotation guys that are not going to take this team into the contending stratosphere. They're not heading towards Boston and Oklahoma City and and some of those teams. That isn't out there, and it's fine to go after the other stuff, and they're probably going to, but the two steps back is they're not just going to overpay for it, and that's kind of what what their their veterans and coach are saying."

Slater also addressed whether the Warriors could potentially move Dennis Schroder after his lackluster start to his Warriors career.

Listen to the full interview with Anthony Slater above.