https://x.com/NateDuncanNBA/status/1732631247627882997?s=20
Totally agree with Nate Duncan. If JK is playing hard & smart, this lineup has the best combination of height, athleticism, offensive balance & perimeter defense of any the Warriors can throw out there. As currently constructed, if this team is going to go deep into the playoffs, the best chance they have to do so is by playing this lineup a lot and growing their on-court chemistry.
by GroundbreakingSea960
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Light Years podcast talked about this one too. It’s the group that’s most clearly in the Death Lineup mold of Steph and four switchable wings.
I would also like to see this more bc while Wiggins, Klay and Kuminga have all been wildly inconsistent, if they can’t figure it out the Dubs aren’t getting out of the play-in anyway.
It sounds good, just like it sounded good when Duncan said Jordan Bell was obviously a better prospect than Kevon Looney or when he said that Paul George was going to destroy Moody in their matchup. He is a bit biased toward athleticism imo.
I’d go with this lineup with either Moody or GP2 in Kuminga’s place as their best possible lineup, personally. I’d agree that no one is established enough to make it a set closing lineup like it was pre-2019 though.
Just waiting for people to say klay should be benched instead of moody
Marcus Thompson mentioned that Kuminga hasn’t played back to back 30+ minute games yet in his career. Podz already has. That’s crazy to me especially when you consider Wiggins missing time last season.
[https://twitter.com/GoIdenState/status/1732852929072132532](https://twitter.com/GoIdenState/status/1732852929072132532)
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Replace Klay with Moody.
Curry/Moody/Wiggins/Kuminga/Dray would be my pick.
Edit: it appears this lineup has not logged a single minute this season.
I’d swap Moody for Klay
Highest upside seems correct, but I think the floor on it is also pretty low.
Swapping Kuminga for Saric gives you better outside shooting, better passing, better screening, better rebounding. It also gives you worse perimeter defense by a lot, worse interior defense by a bit, and worse finishing at the rim.
If Klay is Klay, then a high-effort Kuminga is the correct choice. If Klay isn’t Klay, then you specifically need Saric to patch over with his shooting and decision-making.
What I’ve seen is JK,MM,and bPodz alternating great games. In the kings game we all declared MM was the next coming of Michael Jordan, so then we started him and he did OK, but not as good as bPodz. Then JK had a breakout quarter last night…
we need to keep giving them all 3 an equal amount of minutes and play it game by game depending on how they do that particular night.
It’s a coaching failure to get JK to play hard all the time. If you have issues about his rebounding, shout on him to do that instead of benching him.
It is small – and it they won’t reach that upside until both Klay and Wiggs play better. Klay is on the way – Wiggs has had one good game…. At times they will need Saric or GPII or CP depending on the matchup.
Also, so far this year, Moody is outplaying both Wiggs an Klay.
I also thought the curry/Klay/Wiggins/gp2/Dray lineup did really well before gp2 got injured. Seems like the trend is we need to pair a high energy/hustle type of player with the core + Wiggs
This is the biggest takeaway from last night. I can only hope that Kerr finally saw what has been obvious to many of us for two years now- JK brings the missing pieces to our aging stars. Given time and room to make mistakes, this is the lineup that can literally contend for a championship.
Upside sure. But practically it should be moody instead of Klay.
Look I love JK and he’s made a lot of improvements but he just doesn’t have the BBIQ yet. He’s getting by on his athleticism and natural talent rn
possibly moses for klay because moses outplaying klay atm
With the potential of it being Steph/Wiggs/JK/Dray/Moses
JK IS READY