Golden State’s season is quick approaching the end line, the second straight season wherein the Warriors are hovering close to .500. Their document makes one factor painfully clear: Golden State should purchase a dependable second choice behind Stephen Curry this offseason.
If final season’s second-round exit did not make it apparent, this season doubtless did. In addition to Curry (26.9 PPG), the next-best participant for the Warriors (34-31) is third-year ahead Jonathan Kuminga, who has posted career-highs in factors (16.1), rebounds (4.8) and assists (2.1) per sport and earned an uptick in minutes over the earlier season (20.8 to 26).
Nonetheless, a lot of this manufacturing did not come till the center of the season (after Jan. 5), when The Athletic broke the story that Kuminga had misplaced religion in head coach Steve Kerr and not believed he would permit him to succeed in his full potential.
Because the report, Kuminga has averaged 19.9 factors in 30.1 minutes per sport in comparison with the 12.8 factors he averaged earlier than the information.
Kuminga is a vibrant spot, however his inexperience exhibits on the protection, whether or not it is in transition …