Bold guess: Will Cole continue to coach the Warriors after Curry retires?

Recently, Warriors coach Steve Cole talked about the team's future on the "Tom Tolbert".

Cole said: "When your team is built around three 36-year-old and 37-year-old players (Stephen Curry 37, Jimmy Butler 36, Draymond Green 35), can you imagine the scene of trading in the next seven draft picks? That doesn't make sense. In recent years, it has proved that it is difficult to find the next cornerstone player. When your players are 37 years old, you will definitely not give out 4 first-round draft picks and 3 swaps to trade."

From these words, we can understand that Cole is opposed to the Warriors' management overdrawing the future to win in the present.

At the same time, it also makes us realize that Curry is already 37 years old and his career is about to end.

A very interesting guess is: Will Cole continue to coach the Warriors after Curry retires?

Cole officially became the head coach of the Warriors on May 19, 2014. As of 2025, he has coached the Warriors for 11 seasons. During this period, as the head coach, he led the team to win a total of four championships, with a cumulative regular season wins and 308 losses, with a winning rate of 64.8%. It is worth mentioning that the Warriors achieved an impressive record of 73 wins and 9 losses in the 2015-16 season, breaking the best regular season record in NBA history. In terms of tactics, the pass-cut system created by Cole emphasizes unball running, fast passing and space utilization, combining the liquidity of Princeton offense, the tactical level of triangular offense and the collaboration concept of Spurs team basketball, leading the trend of the small ball era.

Overall, Cole is one of the most successful head coaches in NBA history.

However, I think Cole will also resign from the position of head coach of the Warriors after Curry retires.

There is no doubt that the Warriors team in Curry and Cole's era was brilliant, but the more brilliant it was, the more lonely Curry would be after retirement.

Cole himself also said in the interview that it is difficult for the Warriors to find the next cornerstone player, which means that the Warriors will have to go through a long period of dormant after Curry retires until they find the next Curry-like cornerstone player.

And will Cole or should he accompany the Warriors through a trough? I think there is a high probability that it won't.

On the one hand, it is better to accompany Curry to retreat bravely, and it is better to go home to work or coach other teams.

On the other hand, Cole's pass-and-cut system cannot be played without superstars or with restraint like Curry, because the core of the pass-and-cut system is to rely on Curry to attract the defensive attention of many people, and other teammates form local more and play less to complete the end.

Curry was injured in 2020. Cole's record of handing over the West with Green as the core is the best proof. Of course, you can say that Green's personal ability is average, but its essence is not that Cole's pass-cut system cannot play beautiful basketball without Curry?

So, no matter how you look at it, after Curry retired, Cole resigned from the Warriors' coaching position, is a better choice.

Curry's jersey will eventually be hung on the retirement wall, Cole's tactical board will eventually be included in the archives, and an era will eventually end.

All we can do is cherish their last time - when Cole's tactical board is still glowing, when Curry's jersey is still burning.