The offensive burden on Stephen Curry is greater than ever, Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic writes. The Warriors currently don’t have a steady No. 2 scoring option and they’re 18-20 this season when Curry scores fewer than 30 points.
“We can’t expect to just ride Steph game after game after game,” coach Steve Kerr said, adding, “… We’ve put the burden of this franchise on his shoulders for 15 years.”
We have more on the Warriors:
- In a subscriber-only story, Kerr tells The Indianapolis Star’s Dustin Dopirak how former Indiana University star Trayce Jackson-Davis has impacted the team in his first season. “Trayce is just incredibly mature for a rookie,” Kerr said. “He’s a little bit like the bigs who came into the league way back when I came in. Lots of college experience. Already grounded in the fundamentals of the game. It’s easy to throw stuff at him, sort of NBA stuff that he hasn’t seen before and expect him to pick up on it because he’s got this great fundamental base.” The second-rounder is averaging 7.4 points and 4.5 rebounds in 14.9 minutes through 57 games. He missed Tuesday’s game in Miami due to knee soreness, Anthony Slater of The Athletic tweets.
- Kevon Looney said he learned valuable lessons from Dejan Milojevic, the assistant who died suddenly in January. “Deki was a great coach. He was brutally honest, but he always had a smile on his face,” Looney told Hoops Hype’s Sam Yip. “He’s always joyful. He made coming into work that much better, and that much more fun. I had the best years of my career learning from him, learning different footwork, learning the different nuances of offensive rebounding, and learning how to finish. He wasn’t the biggest guy, but he scored a lot of points overseas, he was one of the best scorers in his league, and he was undersized. So he taught me different things about leverage, pump-fakes, angles, and different things like that.”
- While the Warriors haven’t given up this season, they may be looking at next season to make one last push for another championship with this core group, Tim Kawakami of The Athletic opines.
Warriors season is pretty much over. Even if they get the 8th spot after winning in the play in its a match up with nuggets who they can not beat. This season is the most frustrating in a long time. Just please don’t resign any of the old guys that are not good anymore and use the money saved on getting a big man in the offseason. Small ball doesn’t win anymore.
Warriors are #1 in rebounding. Please let go of this small ball bs. They don’t have a true #2 behind Curry. That’s the issue.
Rebounds means you gave up a lot of shots to the other team not about being bigger than the other team.
No that’s not what that means. Every team in the league gives up a lot of shots
Look at their record against bigger teams. If you don’t think they have a problem you have not been watching.
Arc they can beat any team. And if they’re lucky they can beat any team 4 games.
They’re not done. They’re probably an underdog.., but they’re not “done.” Anything can happen.
I don’t see them winning this year. They lost so many games that they should have closed out. There is too many holes in the defense.
Yeah I’m not saying you’re wrong.., I just have hope.
They need to get bigger for defensive purposes. Our defense is not good. There is a reason every team has record nights against us
I hear what you’re saying but it’s funny everyone has been saying it all season long but for some reason the Warriors don’t subscribe to that. For some reason they continue to believe athletic wings are more important than lumbering bigfellas.
I think the problem is that their roster doesn’t really have a lot of diversity in what they can apply, defensively. Looney and Draymond can guard bigger guys, but they can’t stop *great* bigs, and that’s been proven whenever they face guys like Jokic or AD, physically stronger players like Zion, or 2-big frontcourts. Their best teams in the dynasty era had guys like Bogut or Zaza, who they could go to when they needed size and physical strength to slow down bigger frontcourts. They don’t have that currently, and it’s cost them. Even in 2022 they had the option to use Bjelica, who at 6’10” 240 lbs could use his size and strength to slow down bigs, but was also a very efficient offensive player, consistently, even without a large volume. Saric is more of an oversized wing, a stretch 4-5, and doesn’t have the physicality. TJD has the physicality, but not the efficiency or ability to create his own opportunities, mostly due to inexperience (and he’s currently injured). Looney and Draymond are too offensively inefficient, as well, to play together for significant minutes. They need another option they can use, and they don’t have one.
One last push next season? Ha! Time to sell off and rebuild. The whole two timeline thing was a complete failure. Management should have traded those top picks for solid pieces long ago. Durant…gone. Iggy….gone. Bogut….gone. Klay and draymond old af. Curry has been shooting below 40% for weeks. It’s over.
You must have missed last night’s game.
Where is Kenny Smith?
IT’S OVER!