Warriors select Jonathan Kuminga with the 7th pick of the 2021 NBA Draft

[Coxy]

Stop arguing about Barnes and Green in the 2017 finals, it was a missed goaltend/violation on the Iguodala layup that cost us the series, facts.

[HiRez]

Kuminga rapid development has been phenomenal. Warriors will have a big problem next year figuring out who's minutes he takes.

easy, JTA's 15 mins + his 13 mins, that's at least 28 mins per, some of Bjelica's, should be able to get 30 mins no problem.

The advantage for Kuminga is he can get minutes at 3 different positions so yeah, I don't see it as a huge problem. If he's as good as it looks like he'll be by then, you're going to want to play him instead of vet pickups anyway. Hopefully he can get some good minutes in the playoffs this year, will be good for him to get a taste of that pressure.

[Duke4life831]

Kuminga rapid development has been phenomenal. Warriors will have a big problem next year figuring out who's minutes he takes.

easy, JTA's 15 mins + his 13 mins, that's at least 28 mins per, some of Bjelica's, should be able to get 30 mins no problem.

Ya its never had to find minutes for a young guy that is oozing star potential and fits in with the core. Oh and is also on a rookie contract for the next few years. Getting him minutes will be pretty easy. You just pencil him in as another guy who is locked in for 30 minutes and build the rotation around that.

[clyde21]

best part is we keep him and Moody the next four years on rookie scale deals.

THIS is why we shouldn't have traded them, even for Ben Simmons. aside from MVPs, there is nothing more valuable per $ than young studs on rookie deals.

[B-King]

Kuminga rapid development has been phenomenal. Warriors will have a big problem next year figuring out who's minutes he takes.

easy, JTA's 15 mins + his 13 mins, that's at least 28 mins per, some of Bjelica's, should be able to get 30 mins no problem.

Ya its never had to find minutes for a young guy that is oozing star potential and fits in with the core. Oh and is also on a rookie contract for the next few years. Getting him minutes will be pretty easy. You just pencil him in as another guy who is locked in for 30 minutes and build the rotation around that.

JTA's minutes are gone. I meant between Wiggins and Green. Who's minutes does he eat into between those 2?

[SFrush]

Stop arguing about Barnes and Green in the 2017 finals, it was a missed goaltend/violation on the Iguodala layup that cost us the series, facts.

Barnes was 5 for 32 from three the last 3 games of the series and left wide open to shoot. He does deserve most of the blame.

[Coxy]

Stop arguing about Barnes and Green in the 2017 finals, it was a missed goaltend/violation on the Iguodala layup that cost us the series, facts.

Barnes was 5 for 32 from three the last 3 games of the series and left wide open to shoot. He does deserve most of the blame.

Yeah, he bricked a bunch, but he was a major part of that team to get us there. I have no ill towards Harrison.

[clyde21]

easy, JTA's 15 mins + his 13 mins, that's at least 28 mins per, some of Bjelica's, should be able to get 30 mins no problem.

Ya its never had to find minutes for a young guy that is oozing star potential and fits in with the core. Oh and is also on a rookie contract for the next few years. Getting him minutes will be pretty easy. You just pencil him in as another guy who is locked in for 30 minutes and build the rotation around that.

JTA's minutes are gone. I meant between Wiggins and Green. Who's minutes does he eat into between those 2?

neither, he'll be taking JTAs and Bjelicas...I'm not sure where the confusion is tbh

[Duke4life831]

easy, JTA's 15 mins + his 13 mins, that's at least 28 mins per, some of Bjelica's, should be able to get 30 mins no problem.

Ya its never had to find minutes for a young guy that is oozing star potential and fits in with the core. Oh and is also on a rookie contract for the next few years. Getting him minutes will be pretty easy. You just pencil him in as another guy who is locked in for 30 minutes and build the rotation around that.

JTA's minutes are gone. I meant between Wiggins and Green. Who's minutes does he eat into between those 2?

I mean Iggy was playing 26mpg while KD was here. You can certainly make the minutes. It's not hard to sort out enough minutes for someone, especially a guy like Kuminga that you can find minutes for him for 3 different positions.

And if we are being honest, Wiggins is no KD. Draymond is older so he doesn't need to play as many minutes as he used to. So again you can find 25-27mpg easily without effecting guys like Wiggins and Draymond. Then you can take 1.5 off of each of them and Kuminga is at 30mpg.

It would be one thing if he was position locked. But ya he's versatile and you just find minutes for someone as young and with the potential he has. That's not that hard.

[floppymoose]

[SpreeChokeJob]

Was thinking they should bring Hakeem to train him during the All Star Break, but most definitely in the offseason since he has a full plate at the moment.

Hakeem has trained lots of big men over the years with little results to show for it. I think Kuminga is one of the few that can make use of his training.

[Big J]

You have to admit that JK fell into the perfect situation. I can't even imagine how many bad habits he'd be developing in OKC or Orlando being allowed to chuck away without consequences.

[AdonalFoyle4Prez]

I think we all see him have the potential to be the next Kawhi Leonard or Jaylan Brown. But, I think the bigger need now is to have a Draymond replacement. Perfect situation to learn more from Green to play the Point Forward. If his defensive effort continues to mature all the while improving his offensive efficiency, I think that's the next path forward for him to learn to be a facilitator, defensive stopper, and his offensive game will come along.

[Samurai]

I think we all see him have the potential to be the next Kawhi Leonard or Jaylan Brown. But, I think the bigger need now is to have a Draymond replacement. Perfect situation to learn more from Green to play the Point Forward. If his defensive effort continues to mature all the while improving his offensive efficiency, I think that's the next path forward for him to learn to be a facilitator, defensive stopper, and his offensive game will come along.

The challenge with this approach is that you may be trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. For all his greatness, Kawhi himself is not a Draymond-type of facilitator. If you had Kawhi on your team, better to let him do what he does best rather than force him to try and be something he isn't and get frustrated with him because he isn't an elite facilitator. We need to see where JK's talents take him and put him in a situation that maximizes those strengths rather than force him to do the things he is weak at. We have to recognize that he has 4 teammates to help fill in those gaps.

[Crazy-Canuck]

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Congratulations. Well deserved.

[HiRez]

Nice. Figured he be a replacement for someone.

[EvanZ]

Next year's team is likely losing a lot of pieces. It might just be the core 4 + Poole/Wiseman/Kuminga/Moody and my guess is they can bring back Payton and Looney. That's 10 guys. Everyone else either retiring or moving on is my guess.

[The-Power]

Next year's team is likely losing a lot of pieces. It might just be the core 4 + Poole/Wiseman/Kuminga/Moody and my guess is they can bring back Payton and Looney. That's 10 guys. Everyone else either retiring or moving on is my guess.

Bringing back 10 out of 15 guys, including the entire starting 5 and the 6th man, seems like fairly good continuity to me. Especially considering that some of the young guys' roles should expand a bit compared to this year, so we won't have to integrate a bunch of new key players expected to play 20+ MPG.

I'd also say there's a solid chance Lee is back on a minimum deal if we want to keep him (which I think we would). Ideally, we'd be able to keep OPJ with the MLE but that certainly involves some wishful thinking (although I wouldn't be totally shocked if he's not actually being offered a much larger long-term contract and at least considers our offer).

We'd be losing Bjelica, JTA and Iguodala only because we'd want to in order to use the spot different and/or we'd be able to fairly easily replicate their impact. So it would only be Lee and Porter who I could see leaving and leaving behind a void to fill (and Lee might actually only be an 11/12th man on the roster anyway, which would then not hurt too much). At least on the court, I have no idea how important Iguodala and to a lesser extent JTA are as locker room guys.

[Old_Blue]

Next year's team is likely losing a lot of pieces. It might just be the core 4 + Poole/Wiseman/Kuminga/Moody and my guess is they can bring back Payton and Looney. That's 10 guys. Everyone else either retiring or moving on is my guess.

With all the talk of a rift between Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, I'm wondering whether Gobert gets put on the market...In which case the Warriors could offer Wiggins, Wiseman and a pick or two. Gobert would obviously fill the need for a big. But, he's also owed approximately $167 million over the next four seasons. Personally, I think the Warriors will be looking to shed salary...not tread water (which is costing them dearly in terms of the luxury tax). One way or the other, Wiggins isn't likely to be on next year's squad.

[EvanZ]

I think Wiggins is extremely likely to be on the team next year.


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