Second-round pick Nico Mannion isn’t discouraged by the slow start to his NBA career, writes Alex Espinoza of NBC Sports Bay Area. After the Warriors took him with the 48th selection, Mannion signed a two-way contract that allows him to appear in 50 NBA games this season. He hasn’t played yet or even suited up to be on the active roster, but Mannion believes his time is coming.
“I can see myself out there on the floor,” he said. “I think I fit that style, just the quick decision-making.”
Mannion will have to earn playing time on a team that currently has five guards getting regular rotation minutes. He said he’s been making improvements in practice and is determined to be prepared when his opportunity arrives.
“They just told me to be ready,” Mannion said of the coaching staff. “If someone goes down, I’ll be there. Just trying to adjust and learn as much as I can right now. Trying to see it as a glass half full right now that I get some more time to prepare. That’s kind of how I’m looking at it.”
There’s more on the Warriors:
- Stephen Curry is adjusting to defenses focused primarily on stopping him now that he’s not surrounded by All-Star teammates, observes Ethan Strauss of The Athletic. Teams are using variations of the box-and-one strategy that Toronto’s Nick Nurse employed during the 2019 NBA Finals. Part of the reason those defenses have been effective is that Kelly Oubre is shooting just 4.0% (1-for-25) from three-point range.
- The Warriors are encouraging injured guard Klay Thompson to spend as much time as possible with the team, according to Connor Letourneau of The San Francisco Chronicle. Thompson is in the early part of rehab after having surgery last month for his torn right Achilles tendon. “It’s important for all of us, as well as Klay himself, that he’s around this season,” coach Steve Kerr said. “Because of last year’s absence and the pandemic, and just the whole bizarre year and a half it’s been for him and our franchise, I would love to have him up here as much as possible … I want our young players to feel his presence, and I want Klay here working with our training staff and getting on the court with our team as soon as he can. I think that will be important.”
- James Wiseman is an easy choice as the league’s best rookie so far, writes Josh Schrock of NBC Sports Bay Area. The No. 2 pick is averaging 11.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in his first five NBA games.
Using that TPE on Oubre isn’t working out very well for the Warriors so far, is it?
It’s ridiculous to think he could ever replace Thompson, he’s not even close.
Not sure who else was available? He came in as a talented wing and they need to adjust to his skills and not try to turn him into Klay Thompson the jump shooter. They’ll figure this out. They’ve already helped Wiggins, Oubre is next.
It’s more ridiculous for you to think Oubre will show 4% from 3 all year along, even after shooting 40% in preseason.
4%. No missing numbers there. FOUR PER CENT.
This is you: “He’s going to keep shooting 4% forever! GSW made bad move!”
Such a pointless, hate-filled poster. You don’t stop do you? I hope you find peace.
oops “shoot 4%” not “show 4%”
Oubre is bad and factoring in how much they are paying him, he is terrible. No sympathy for that org.
Marty McRae what did he say that was hate-filled? Might need to read the definition of hate. You act as if no one can have an opinion outside of yours, chill. Btw warriors still aren’t very good as most of us non warriors homers said, curry isn’t a transcendent player you think he is
He bashes any team that’s won a title in recent years because “his” team hasn’t won anything. Bashed CP3 because he stayed healthy. Bashes Westbrook as soon as he got traded. Everything this kid posts is hate filled. Everyone can see it. Except the mods.
@tatsumaki What happened to your Lakers?? I thought you said they would dominate? They have one of the weakest first half schedules so if they don’t have a 6 game lead in the west its a failure on their part.
@arc89 almost as weak as warriors schedule, lakers are in a 3 way tie for 2nd where are the warriors? 2-3 playing some of the worst teams in the league lololololol you still have time to change your stance that warriors are a championship contender
@tatsumaki lakers have a easy schedule the first half. the easiest schedule of all western conference teams. Another easy team with their best player out. SMH lakers are more lucky than good. they are the Ohio State of NBA playing easy schedules.
Ohio State dismantled Clemson, hardly their first playoff win, and will be playing for the title soon. Feel free to ignore the college playoffs since a West coast team is rarely involved.
Can’t blame him Marty. I’m a kings fan I know that I enjoy my teams games more than any Rockets fan enjoys Houston basketball
Steph Curry is your MVP of the league THIS season.
Curry won’t even rank.
With the penalties the warriors are paying, oubre is costing way more than they are paying him..they should’ve waited it out for someone better
No one cares, especially the Warriors. Pick another topic to nit pick.
He has to make 17 out his next 25 (68%) to be a league average 3 pt shooter.
The season isn’t 10 games long..
The Warriors haters talk out both sides of their mouths. Anything good it’s, “They’ve only played five games!” Anything bad and the Warriors are stupid, talentless trash.
If you didn’t have such an erection for the Warriors playing poorly, we could take you seriously. Unfortunately we’re like all your exes, who could never take your erection seriously.
Judging by last season and this season you don’t watch warriors games. Terrible basketball
Fully aware, having been a Warriors fan dating back to when Winston Garland was running the point.
You, however, seem to be watching them lose and wanking over their poor play. And that? It’s effing weird, champ.
@Toddybaseball – finally someone said it.
He wasn’t supposed to replace Klay. Nobody, not even Steph, would be able to. He was supposed to hold it down while Klay was out. Oubre just started slow, that’s all
Wiseman is rookie Chris Bosh
Rookie Bosh Stats
12, 7, 1, 1, 1
It’s not fair, it’s just 5 games. Bosh’s stats in his first 5 games: 5’8, 4’4, 0’2, 0’6, 1’2.
Bosh also didn’t start shooting 3’s until like his 9th yr in the league. You should know that Mr Stats Bot, its not a great comparison.
I am a big fan of Wiseman, & I can say that everyone can see very easily how Wiseman & LaMelo are by far the 2 best players of the draft, no doubt about that, right?
But so far I would say Wiseman is just the 4th best rookie right now, behind Halliburton, LaMelo & Avdija… so Josh, is Wiseman so far easily the best rookie of the year… No mon!!!
GSW needs to cut Poole and replace him with Mannion, because GSW is lacking high IQ players right now. Oubre is actually playing well outside of shooting, he should only be slashing and dunking until he gets his form back. He’s not a low IQ player.
Jordan Poole is the worst player in the NBA by far. He should not be in the NBA, maybe in G league, but he’s beyond the dumbest player ever. I watched his “routes” which were just running one direction then standing still – but also, that’s on Kerr.
The only thing that’s been “exposed” about GSW is how overrated Kerr was all along, and his disrespect of Steph is literally going to get him fired. I mean, we knew it after seeing Walton coach them better, but his utter cluelessness in figuring out a gameplan to fit his new, NBA-level pieces and constant talking about how he doesnt like working anymore, really proves he doesn’t even want to be there anymore.
GSW just needs a better coach who will finally use Curry like the GOAT he is. Kerr thinks Curry is a slightly better JJ Reddick. He’s an absolute moron who needs to get fired asap. Watch any Curry game from 2013-2018 and he’s dominant and the best player the court has ever seen. None of you haters will ever actually do that though, because you got so fed up with losing to GSW you started to care more about stat chasing guys who barely sniff the playoffs.
Woah bruh hyperbole is strong with you. Mj, Kobe, lebron better basketball players just to name a few. Best shooter, yes, best all time mover off ball, probably, Reggie Miller was good at that too. Steph is an all time great 2 time mvp 3 time nba champion but best player the court has ever seen just shows your a fanboy.
Hahaha you are out of your mind about Kerr. “Walton coached them better” lol. Kerr put in the foundation for their style of play so that Luke could just stand there for 44 games while Steve was out.
You must also be forgetting that Kerr took a roster that won 51 games with Mark Jackson and won 67 and a championship the following year and a record 73 the year after. He also opened up the offense to help Steph win 2 MVPs and become the first unanimous.
This years team flat out cannot shoot the ball in a time where 3 point shooting is more important than ever so you can’t put that all on Kerr. Plus a lot of these guys are shooting well below their average (through just 5 games) so we need to give them time to figure things out before we jump to conclusions.
Watch a game for once in your life and tell me why Im seeing all these extraordinarily complex plays that were created for KD and Klay (high IQ players) being failed by Wiggins and Poole.
You wont because you cant understand how badly kerr has actually hurt this team. Yes, they would have had 5 rings with any other coach. Kerr is mids at best.
I watched pretty close tonight. That curry dude makes Steve look real good
Kerr owes his GSW portion of his career ENTIRELY to Steph and he hates it.
You need to quit bashing Steve Kerr. The man built the offense that Mark Jackson couldn’t and they’ve won championships. You can’t win championships accidentally with a crappy coach. Can’t be done. Just ask the Lakers before Phil Jackson or ask the Bulls before Phil Jackson.
The stat that pops out to anyone who knows the NBA is the fact curry has lead the warriors in the top 3 stats. Only once in all 5 games Curry did not lead in the top 3 stats was rebounding in 1 game. If Curry is your leading rebounder the team other players are not doing their job. Not one of the other players has stepped up in scoring but Wiseman for 1 game. Curry is also being double teamed while on the court. So what other teams are saying the other players can’t beat us.
@arc89 sound take, but as someone who I assumed has watched all the minutes so far, how can you not pin this terrible, shoddy gameplay directly on Kerr and no one else?
He is literally running the same plays as he ran for KD, Iggy and Livingston, but with Wiggins, Paschall and Poole. The combined IQ of that first group is like 600, and the second is 100. Why on earth would you assume Wiggins can pull off the Steph+Klay+Dray+KD plays???
Kerr just has to go. He got a pass for last year, but now the team went out and got him actual NBA players instead of all g-leaguers, he has no excuse not to simplify the plays or play Steph entirely on-ball. Hearing him say “I didnt do anything on new years eve” was infuriating. Maybe watch some tape and figure out how to get these guys to win, which almost any NBA professional coach can do?
You’re trippin lol
Kerr is getting these scrubs open shots left and right. They just can’t shoot, are low IQ players, don’t know how to position themselves on the court, defensively and offensively, and don’t know how to play with steph. this ain’t on Kerr, it’s just steph being surrounded with trash players. Except JTA. Draymond is obsolete on this team
“Im trippin” but then you basically repeated exactly what I said? These are good NBA players (not like last year) Kerr should have had them firing by now, but the fact that so many of them are just lost out there trying to run the high IQ plays created for the highest IQ player of all-time, KD, proves that Kerr has checked out and has been checked out ever since he came back from his back/neck problem. His lifetime refusal to put Steph on-ball is going to have to come to head shortly, its their only path to success.
The only high IQ guys on GSW are Curry, Green, Wiseman, Toscano and Mannion, with Oubre, Lee and Wanamaker being not low IQ guys, but not on the same level of that first group. Kyle Korver is still a FA. Why won’t they fix this.
the blame can go on Meyer more than Kerr. Meyer should never have gone after Russell. That was a big mistake. Now they have Wiggins bad contract. This handicap them in bringing in better players. $30 million on a guy who is average handicaps the entire team payroll.
Just that. It is deflating, but GM Myers’ Russell acquisition manuever just stuck GSW with an over-expensive gift that cannot be traded except for another overpay. Russell was not the diamond in the rough on the Nets, just the most solo and solipsistic. Russell led to Wiggins who is not bonus talent no matter how rich Lacob is.
Last I heard from Strike4, I mean Marty McRae, he was saying GSW would start 5-10 then turn it on. Guess he’s given up and started the blame game.
Marty blames Kerr for how dumb the players are, which is even dumber. Myer’s job, not Kerr’s. Kerr is expected to coach them the GSW way, not dumb things down to their level.
Not that imindless, I mean tatsumaki, is right about Steph Curry either.
You can’t blame Curry when he is double teamed all game and the other players are standing around. Kerr blame should be on how easy he is on some of these players. He should be yelling out those players standing around.
Well well well what do we have here? Kerr finally just put Steph on ball and he had 62 points. Just like we all had been screaming at him to do the last 6 years.
Kerr could have been doing this every year, but especially post-KD this should have been the gameplan from Day 1, but it wasn’t because, Kerr is not good at coaching a Steph Curry-led team.
Right S4, because Kerr doesn’t like shortish distance shooters. Leave Steph alone crazy boy.
Nobody is the best rookie after 6 gms. You can say who looks gd or who seems to fit well. Give it half a year before you start talking about who’s the best. It’s immature. Obrue has not looked gd. Bad move is starting him. He should be sixth man. His gm is same as Wiggins and both are having hard time fitting. Kerr needs to adjust offense a bit. They need time more than anything. Unfortunately their window might not let them use it. Their offense has issues. But their team D has been bad too. They need to work things out.
I mean dont dance around it “work things out”… they flat out stink! Wiseman looks good because hes getting touches while the rest of the team flops around and wonders where they are. Curry must hate his life right now…I honestly hope his mental game doesnt suffer too much. Not many miles left in the tank…if you ask me
They’re a new team basically. They’re not looking gd. But there is talent there. Dre makes them deeper. I’m pointed out real things that need to change. In their offense and defense. Not just calling player names. Curry is trying to do too much. But in their offense especially now. He needs to be good, he’s trying harder. No flow in the offense. That happens with new players. At some point you ask are they a fit for this system. Well give it 30 gms. You’ll see it then. Still wouldn’t hurt to tweet your offense a little. To accommodate new players. Warriors offense is built for shooters. Wiggins and Obrue who have to be big part of offense. Are more scorers than shooters. Wiseman is a great pick. But he too is not a shooter. Warriors have never had a C be a main focus of their team. These things take time.
Patrick Williams has been a revelation, but not getting the attention. He is very poised for a 19 year old, cool as a vet. This draft is going to look better than proposed in retrospect.
62 points and yall were calling him not the GOAT.
Curry, Wilt, MJ, Bron is the top 4 all-time IN ORDER.
In order of arenas that smell like rotten eggs shot out of a human’s butt, where they try to blame it on little kids…then yes