The Kuminga-Warriors leverage duel. | The Zach Lowe Show

The Kuminga-Warriors leverage duel. | The Zach Lowe Show

If there’s one thing that he could have done or that the coaches could have coaxed him to do that would have papered over all this, it would have been be a balls tothe-wall defensive player all the time, every second year on the floor. We know that’s not the kind of player you envision yourself being defense first, defense always, switch everything, guard every position, but that’s what we need you to do. Sometimes he’d be going pretty hard on defense and sometimes he’d be closing out late and lazily on Nazare. other Warriors make mistakes of both commission and omission that didn’t necessarily get that kind of reaction from the coaching staff and by then it’s obviously you know year four of the Jonathan Kaminga experiment there’s all sorts of built in like sometimes you’ve been a starter then you come off the bench and that ankle injury last year when he was fin when he was moved into the starting lineup and was playing really well and then he got hurt then they get Jimmy Butler then the spacing doesn’t make so much sense anymore with Jimmy and Draymond and Kaminga and Kaminga goes back off the bench that ankle injury will always be a big what if because it felt like, okay, we’re finally kind of figuring it out. There’s a lot of baggage and it it’s hard for you to imagine that this gets repaired in any lasting way for the Warriors. I think everybody needs a fresh