DonaldSanders wrote:Onus wrote:SpreeChokeJob wrote:He should try sixth man like Ginobili. He was already sixth msn before his injury because his starter minutes leaked into bench minutes before. I can see why Kerr is hesitant to pull him because the big 3 has built up chemistry, but they already played without him last year and Poole benefits playing off Curry’s gravity. Poole isn’t good enough to be a first option.
Kerr is being hesitant because if he benches klay that could be the end of klay's career. Confidence is so huge for a shooter, once you lose it, you can really lose it forever.
The thing is, we kinda hid Klay last season with the starters. GPII would come in for him and he was clearly playing better than Klay. Klay should move to a bench role, but if he continues playing this bad he might not get deserve to play at all. The whole team looked better the game he sat, young guys got to play more and all our pieces looked like they fit together. We're not gonna blow people out every game but at least we were playing Warriors basketball.
I assume Klay will automatically still get time, even if he doesn't deserve it. That kinda messes up our young guys though -- we need to make sure the lineup is a meritocracy. But I don't want to get ahead of things, we need to first try Klay in a backup role and see how that works. At least him guarding the backups shouldn't be as hard for him, it was ROUGH watching him guard Booker.
I agree, but Klay has to come to grips with it. Klay was bad last year in the regular season. They made it work in the playoffs though. Kerr has to make the hard decision and find a way to tell klay to take better shots and until he does limit his minutes. But it's hard because if they do something with Klay they could lose Klay for the rest of his career and he becomes Duncan Robinson.