Anthony Slater: Moses Moody has been nudged out of the Warriors’ current rotation. Steve Kerr said he’s talked to Moody about “turnovers and fouling” as the inhibiting issues, but expects Moody to get back in the picture soon.

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1. Tbh, didn’t really think Moody had an issue with fouls, but the POA defense is definitely a blocker to locking up rotation minutes.

   *Now that I think about it, most of Moody’s fouls are the ones where he tries draw a charge, but is just a bit slow or out of position lol

2. Kerr explicitly stating what we’ve all known – the start to the season hasn’t allowed room for the kids to play if the team wants to win because they make understandable (for them, ie relative to their experience) rookie mistakes – is exactly why some kind of trade needs to happen because the backlog of youth the team has right now (PBJ and Rollins in the pipeline is something not often talked about, at least that I’ve seen, as what makes the ‘they just need more time,’ as in another year or so, argument for the young guys problematic because pushing back the unspoken ‘expected to be producing’ deadline just means PBJ and Rollins’ development will then get stunted while they wait in line for real NBA minutes) is bad for both the players’ development and the team’s self-imposed need to develop so many raw rookies and win at the same time.

   A trade at this point isn’t even about the young guys being so bad they need to be shipped off, it’s just genuinely what’s in everyone’s – player and team – best interest. The young guys, lottery picks especially, deserve a rookie conducive environment to develop in and GSW just isn’t that and in a bizarre way, I think that’s what makes lottery picks and GSW just not a good fit (in today’s NBA at least, ie lottery picks are almost never 4 year college players, which for obvious reasons are Kerr’s fav and the kind of drafted players that *tend* (I’m not saying there are never exceptions and Poole is obviously one but that’s the thing, he’s an *exception*) to have the most success in Kerr’s system…PBJ might be another exception to this rule given he’s a coaches son so he has more BBIQ than most one and done guys). We’re that bizarre franchise, because of our system, that can do more with a journeyman cast off that has some NBA experience than a raw, athletic wunderkind with limited ability to read and react to NBA level ball.

3. He’s also got to stop sliding all over the place

4. Turnovers, fouling, not good enough offensively to excuse those mistakes.

5. Better gap management will do wonders for him. He tries to guard like he’s gp2 bur he doesn’t have the footapeed for that. But he’s long with decent reflexes. He needs to use that to his advantage. He has to give a little ground to these perimeter players and force them to shoot over the top. That’s what Klay was great at.

   I personally think they should have him guard wings instead of guards more. I think his frame and physical toils would be better suited for that.

6. One of the three needs to get minutes because or we are wasting everyone’s time. We got to draw the line somewhere. If Moody is most ready he needs minutes.

7. Have we made the decision type of mistake this season that was made with Wiseman his first year? Throwing young guys to the wolves may not be the best method. Just spitballing here.

8. Surprised as all the vets talked last year about his being most ready. And he got good minutes during the playoffs. I haven’t watched games so wasn’t aware he had regressed.

9. While they’re at it can they teach him how to fall properly? Dude’s gonna have a really short career if he keeps hitting the floor like he is.

10. But the Warriors still had bad fouling and turnovers.

    It’s like Kerr thinks he got crabs from his girlfriend so he broke up and got a new girlfriend but still got crabs.