golden state warriors thread

Reporting with @kendra__andrews: Golden State Warriors All-Star Andrew Wiggins has agreed to a four-year, $109 million extension, his agents Drew Morrison and Steven Heumann of CAA Sports tell ESPN. Wiggins is now tied to the Warriors for five-years, $143 million.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 15, 2022

looks like drays the odd man out

near future should be a fun time

He’s on for two more years if he opts in after this season

gotta think he looking for a longer deal than that one year opt in tho

That’s a team friendly deal for wiggs. Klay and Dray could follow suit and save the team some cash

I wonder if Dray wants to redeem his image and play for cheap

He’s always taken less than he could make I think

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2022/10/18/23410548/golden-state-warriors-punch-jordan-poole-draymond-green

“For [Poole] it’s hard, because you can’t tell somebody how to feel or tell nobody what to do in a situation like that,” Looney told me recently. “You have to let guys figure it out on their own. You just have to want to be there for them and let him vent to you, just be a support for him. And let him get through his thoughts himself, and make sure he feels good about basketball and off the court. And try to be there for him. We don’t even talk about it. You just want to be a friend.”

<3 Loon.

he and iggy are gonna have to work overtime this year

pretty cool idea by the nba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d89FaVZnoRg

Looney has to be a first ballot selection for the role player HOF.

otm

top ten huggable player

As expected, those second unit lineups with donte/poole/kuminga/JGreen/wiseman looked rough as hell last night, but JaMychal already seems like a perfect fit playing next to starters.

kuminga and wiseman prob shouldnt be playing together but theyre gonna be trying a lot of lineups out this season. donte also seems like a natural fit to mix in with the vets. they have a lot of good players that need time should be interesting to see how it shakes out in tighter games ie not the lakers

turns out klay not scrimmaging for 3 months was maybe not great. but i got no prob with them working their way into the season vs blowing the doors off from the start like last year. kerr has his work cut out w these rotations and balancing the two timelines

yeah thinks its prob good for them to chill give the youngsters some run let them figure things out

wiseman looks pretty good on offense but his defense is killing whatever lineup he's out there with.

moody will likely be a part of the playoff rotation. he looks great. kuminga, could be a hard season for him in and out of the rotation, he needs to be out there with shooters so he can cut. also needs reps with the starters to see if his defense can hold up against good teams when it matters like w loon or dray foul trouble and needing to go small.

jamychel and white donte are like B- versions of otto and gp2 so far.

yeah thinks its prob good for them to chill give the youngsters some run let them figure things out

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yeah unlike last season they actually need at least one of moody/wise/kuminga to be ready-ready come playoffs

they cld always do a trade tho, move a first for a guy or whatnot

yeah watching last night i was thinking this is prob not gonna be the roster at the end of this season

dubs are going to need a perimeter stopper for the post-season. post-injury klay doesn't yet look like he can regain that form. not sure if moody or donte are up to the task. not to exaggerate or extrapolate too much from the griz series last year, but without a perimeter stopper, it's going to be ja scoring a million points and fouling out the whole team

well wiggins can help there, but if does that then they need kuminga (or moody?) to step up and be an interior defender and rebounder w dray.

wiggins was awesome vs luka and jayson tatum. i don't recall how he did vs ja but as you point out, if it's wiggins on ja, then it creates other issues.

IIRC Ja did basically whatever he wanted till he got hurt no matter who guarded him (of course we didn't see GPII on him).

ja was cooking the dubs, altho was shooting like 60+% on 3s on like 10+ attempts til he got hurt, didnt seems sustainable for a series. wiggins couldnt stop him hes better on the longer more methodical dudes like taytum and luka

*voice coming from behind some bushes* tatum was injured tho

take it to the celtics thread

the splash bros are complete unicorns

In NBA history, most 30-point games with 3 or less free throw attempts

1. Stephen Curry (70)

2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (51)
3. Klay Thompson (47)

Steph last night: 33 PTS, 13-22 FG, 0 FTA

No flopping, just buckets.

— Antonin (@antonin_org) October 28, 2022

Maybe that ESPN prediction had something to it after all.

Too many young guys who need minutes.

man the wiseman eye test really lines up w/ him having one of the worst plus minuses in the league

there may still be some talent there but it really feels like he's on the wrong team

Still very early in his career but Wiseman is one of the more destructive performers (to his teams chances) in the NBA

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) November 2, 2022

he has really strong physical gifts but yeah so far not good at basketball

i gotta say... klay also looks done in a real way

idk hes obvs not the same player after the injuries but give him a lil time to fine a groove

if he isn't shooting a standstill catch and shoot three it just feels like he has no chance of scoring. averaging 12 ppg on 34/28 shooting and it looks that bad rn

yeah its bad but he also didnt hoop all summer

lmao poole approaching a ref after the buzzer and iggy appears out of nowhere to redirect him

it seems like the right time for klay to be cooked

he's still a good three point shooter if he's wide open and not moving. and the warriors can get him a handful of those looks per game. but it just doesn't feel to me like he has anything left to his game beyond that

every warriors starter tonight was +3 or better, every warriors bench player was -8 or worse including -23 for poole and -22 for jamychal green. no heat starter was above +2 tonight, every heat bench player was +7 or better including +29 for gabe vincent and +19 for duncan robinson

for what poole is getting paid he really needs to make hay on the second unit

he like many players is better with steph

Klay didn’t play for 3 months I’m not worried about him yet. Wiseman is unplayable. And they badly need white donte back so they don’t have to play 2way Ty all these games.

Moody looks like he’ll be a good fit and can be trusted tho. Feel bad for wiseman he really needs to be on a bad team getting 35 minutes per night, his body language is incredibly depressing. He’s got the three big no nos for a big: hates contact, bad instincts and has stone hands.

The refs called three Carries on Poole I’ve never seen anything like it.

that was crazy. they were all blatant though and there’s a certain way he dribbles

wiseman showed some skill & athleticism early in his rookie year but that was not a real warriors team. it’s entirely unclear to me how he’s supposed to succeed on this version of the team. he needs to be on the hornets or something

i didn’t realize klay sat the whole summer out. but he looks like the same guy he did when he came back last year. i think he’ll play a bit better, he doesn’t have his legs under him on a lot of jump shots, especially contested ones it felt like he was consistently short tonight. but he feels like a catch and shoot only player to me now & not one who is gonna consistently make shots when he’s moved off his spot. he gets so many easy looks in the warriors system that he’ll still have some nice runs… i think he scored 11 in the third quarter tonight. but outside of that he was pretty awful