Whitey and Kyle start the show talking about the Warriors win last night over the Hornets 110-105. Jonathan Kuminga had a huge game last night on both ends of the floor. Has Kuminga finally arrived to be a that unstoppable force for this team
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Steph ripped the ball out of Joakim Noah’s arms which led to an alley-oop to Andre a few years back… a slightly better play than JK’s cuz it finished with points
This is what happens when a young player gets reps – when they working hard off the court
With Steph and Wiggins out it's an opportunity for the younger players are coming together and now I'm liking what I see.
Rite of passage for Kuminga
Yeah something going on in Grizzlies locker room.
Zion ripped the ball from multiple people
Zion did it..
Kuminga has limit as a PF. Night in/out he gives away size versus his opponents. He would do better as a wing guy.
The last 4 plays when the score was tied were a great combination of Poole and Kuminga. 2 JK dunks with and assists by JP. 1 drive layup by JP and 1 dunk by JK with assist from Dray. What great teamwork especially between JP & JK. That is our future! 💫
Coming into the draft, I personally saw Jaylen Brown & Jimmy Butler upside. I still like that comparison but, I see a lot of Iggy & Wiggins upside now
Memphis Grizzlies are fake bullies. A bunch of young punks who grew up on Social Media and is promoting pink hair and dancing like a elementary school girl
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Yes, this is the Kuminga the Warriors need. But i say its been there for them all along. Sure, Jonathan has his youthful lapses from time to time, but that's been overblown.
JK got drafted to a great environment, no doubt for sure. However that doesn't mean he got drafted to a team where he could truly roam free with minutes, instead a choppy in and out existence, with his rookie season affording him actually more opportunity to get in a rhythm than this his second season.
So people slowly say they're aware of all the minutes issues and playing on a deep team yet still somehow put JK under a microscope and critique him way out of context (and here he's this kid from another culture.)
While everything is still fine (as long as the team doesn't postpone his playing time anymore) with the Warriors and Kuminga and i have no problem or not much problem with how they've brought him along (i understand they're a deep, spending deeply therefore stacked team.) But i think JK if given the PT all this time would have performed quite well.
JK's role as he gets more comfortable in the offense can and will expand, but all along so far this time if he were afforded the PT many rookies get his role could and many say should be with the Warriors as a sort of deluxe garbageman type. Think a different but kinda similar but again different Shawn Marion. Point being he's an athletic freak, can run the floor and D up the best of them. Hits open threes but otherwise moves the ball (he's much more able to penetrate than Marion, so again, he's his own guy and can and will do more, but for this stacked team if they just let him get out and roam free running the floor, filling passing lanes (and who will finish at the rim more effectively than JK,) defending and creating havoc out there, hitting the occasional open 3 towards half way or end of 24 clock, passing as he's shown he's capable of….he's a solid young guy it seems, doesn't do stupid things that i can remember much at all.
It's just the reporters have fallen in love with their little social sessions after each game and JK somehow seems to be seen as this raw project who needs to be brought along slowly, etc. No, the slowly part is strictly due to the situation and depth with GSW.
JK is and will be a badass. He needs to spend time getting into a FT shooting repeatable process full from when he steps to the line to how he handles the ball upon receiving it to how many dribbles and how he sets up and releases. Focus JK, get it to be a rote muscle memory thing, a mental automatic thing. Because JK will get to the FT line a lot, or if he doesn't it might be due to fear of the FT line, which you never want brewing up in a player like JK (note: i'm not saying that is happening yet, but his FT acumen getting to the line is clear, and also clear is he doesn't shoot them with any confidence or consistency in approach, or if he has i apologize, i haven't seen every game recently but from what i can tell he doesn't have a good FT shooting routine.
Other than FT's the guy can be an elite 3/4 and he fits with many different styles of play as he can defend no matter what else but he does so much more.
And he's what seems like a really great young man.
Hard for a 20 year old to stop deferring to older humans, even with his physical attributes. But his focus on D I think has turned the “nice” switch off, to the Warriors benefit
Here is another funny part: " what if Moody begins to play similar ( he can), think of how dangerous they will be