Golden State Warriors striker Jonathan Kumina, who has been marginalized since the ankle was twisted on January 4, will soon be marginalized. Kumina did not play against Orlando’s magic on Thursday, but, but, According to Anthony Slater of The AthleticLater he could on the Warriors road trip, which will see them visiting the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday, the Charlotte Hornets next Monday, the New York Knicks next Tuesday and the Brooklyn Nets next Thursday.
When Kuminga was injuredHe had presented consecutive 34 -point games the previous week and Golden State was approximately one month after doing the Jimmy Butler trade. Will return to a different team, one that It seems to have a significantly higher roof. The way he plays in the stretch of the regular season, and, ideally, in a playoff race, he could determine how the main office addresses the next contract negotiations, since Kuminga will be a restricted free agent this summer. The Warriors coach Steve Kerr does not want him to concentrate on scoring more than 30 immediately.
“We talk today,” Kerr He said to journalists Tuesday. “The main thing I want for JK is not to press when I return. It is not an easy place to return, where the team, the contract, hires things this summer, will have a lot in mind, and I want to make things as soft and easier as possible. And I want you to understand that it will not happen immediately.”
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Kumina made her first field scrimmage on Monday, Kerr said in an interview at 95.7 the gameAnd he will continue writing with coaches and players at the end of the rotation at the beginning of road trip. Kerr said he will not understand where Kumina, 22, is adjusted in the rotation until he is clarified to return, but the Warriors are “in a good forest” with his current initial alignment of Stephen Curry, Brandin Podziemski, Moses Moody, Butler and Draymond Green.
“I love the initial group at this time,” Kerr told 95.7 the game.
On Tuesday, Kerr’s check-in with Kumina included a film session. In addition to Kumina’s clips on the court, they saw “some of Jimmy’s things, what Jimmy is doing at this time, because I think he is the perfect guy for JK to emulate,” Kerr said.
Specifically, Kerr wants Kuminga to pay attention to Butler’s decision -making. The six-time All-Star has fit without problems with Warriors largely due to its intellectual basketball coefficient.
“What makes Jimmy special is that he is not trying to be special,” Kerr told journalists. “It simply plays fundamental basketball. The fundamental constant game: never delivers it, simply makes the game simple again and again. And I want JK to learn some of that. You know, it is so explosive, I think it is always more difficult for men who are the most talented to make decisions that have many options for their disposition. Therefore, I think you can learn that Jimmy is the most talented and what Jimmy has.
“I know he will. Jimmy is really good with that. But understanding that attacking the edge, nothing there, jumping, passing the ball, that is a great basketball play. Especially for us because Steph Curry is at the other end of the play a lot.”
Kerr added that, before the injury, Kumina was “on a really good track” and interpreting “the best I have seen to play.” Decision making has not always been Kumina’s strong suitHowever, Kerr said that the film’s session was “a reminder that these are the things we want.”
In theory, Kuminga will add more fire and athletics to a Golden State team that seems increasingly dangerous. Green He said to journalists That the leaders of the warriors, including himself, will let Kuminga know that “you don’t have to recover it in one day.” It would be natural, he said, that Kuminga “press a bit”, but “we are preparing for a good career”, and there will be “a lot of time” for Kumina to “demonstrate exactly who we know is.”
Butler did not sound as worried about how the pieces would fit when Kuminga returned to the mixture.
“I think it’s going to be easy,” butler He said to journalists. “Hella Athletic. You can shoot it, you can write down a multitude of ways and can protect yourself. You can definitely protect yourself. So I think you will return and do what you have been doing. My job is simply to make it even easier for him, so they see and help us get some dubbing.”
As usualKumina’s role will be complicated by the fact that the defenses are not particularly concerned that he has made 3s spot-up: he made 40.6% of his prejudice 3 of capture and shot this season, but averaged only 2.6 attempts in 26 minutes per game. The volume of 3 points of Butler is even lower, so, while Green, Kevon Looney and Stretch-Big Quinten Post have played in the center next to Butler, the relative newcomer has not shared the floor with Green and Looney at the same time. Presumably, the Warriors will experience with Butler’s game, Green and Kuminga together, but they can find that what they earn in defensive versatility is compensated with a poor space.
Green, however, told the positive aspects: “You are integrating another dynamic player who can change position, who [can] It comes out in transition, who can score basketball. “And although the staff is different from what was the last time Kuminga adapted, Green told journalists that it is not as if the Warriors had changed the way they play.
“I don’t think I returned to a completely different offense; I think he is returning to a team with a completely different mentality,” Green told reporters. “And it will be well collecting that.”
