[Highlights] Klay’s WSU highlights are a case study in ‘just because a player doesn’t, doesn’t mean he can’t’ & what it looks like when an NBA player sacrifices reaching their highest ceiling as a player in favor of specializing in a role for the sake of the team & winning.

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  2. More like a case study in finding your role in the NBA may lead to a more successful career. You’re absolutely tripping if you think Klay would be out here disrespecting actual NBA players on drives and finishing. He adapted what he was good at to the NBA. Based on your shitty general statement and highligjt video every D1 success would be an NBA star.

  3. A former coworker went to school with him there and said he was down to smoke weed anywhere, anytime, with anyone lol

  4. How many of these players in the clip made it to the league ? NBA talent vs college not even close

  6. I remember his ESPN highlights while getting drafted and thinking this was the next Milwaukee bucks ray Allen. Turned out he was the next sonics ray allen

  7. Idk what this post even means.

    In the NBA he played at the absolute highest level for nearly a decade and was an elite defender and shooter. He’s for sure going to make the top 100 team in 20ish years and he didn’t really sacrifice anything.

    Everyone knows how amazing Klay was.

  9. hes earned over 300 million in his career

    became a multi time all star

    i think hes okay with this career arc

  12. That team was sorry. If Klay didn’t do everything on offense they wouldn’t score. Probably was great for his development and confidence honestly.

  14. Klay does dribble in nba games lol, he can go to the post and make a few quick moves for a straight lane or pull up j.

    He doesn’t use any countermoves beyond that unless really needed (hospital Mavs).

    People think that all Klay does is shoot 3s but he has other aspects to his game. They’re just not as proficient

  15. Idk if it’s a huge sacrifice. Curry being on that team means Curry has the ball. It’s hard to know what translates in the NBA in terms of putting the ball down and scoring. He’s the best catch and shoot player in history, he leaned into that role and excelled in it. That’s not a bad thing, he optimized his talent to further his career 

  16. All this proves is how much better NBA guys are than everyone else, especially guys like Klay who was a top tier player in his prime.

  17. College is one level, doing this in the NBA is a whole different stratosphere!! Especially in the postseason when the best of the best defenses are scheming against your style of play!

  18. Klay Thompson is a 4 time nba champion who broke the single game 3 point record and is top 5 in 3 pointers made all time lol

  19. I feel like if anything Klay is one of the few players in history who actually did hit his absolute highest ceiling

  20. This highlights package makes it look like he was dropping dimes all night. He averaged 2.6 APG in college. And he was already averaging almost 15 FGA in his second year in the NBA. He didn’t sacrifice much at all

  21. Think a better example of this is Ray Allen. in college and during the first few years of his career, he was pretty much a franchise leader and 3 level scoring threat who eventually transitioned to 3pt specialist and 4th string on a Miami team. Most young ones don’t know his full career trajectory outside of his 3pt shooting.

  23. This is dumb because Klay is showing exactly who he is at the NBA level here. Most of these shots are jumpers and on the catch.

    If Klay was in a role where he’d be the number one option and have to run an offense he’d struggle.

  25. What the fuck is this title and point of the post.

    Do people just upvote anything?

    I’m so confused.

    Does OP think Klay was secretly Michael Jordan but Warriors were like “nah you gotta chill with that we need you to hold all that back and just play on normal All Star level”.

  26. OP just learned that most NBA players were the best player on their college team

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