After Golden State improved to 10-2 with a 123-118 win over Memphis on Friday, Stephen Curry was requested how a lot a stat like that may reveal a few crew’s potential.
“We have not finished something but,” Curry told ESPN, downplaying the beginning. “You do not need to get too forward of your self. We perceive we’re constructing a basis and a brand new identification with this crew. And also you need to be rewarded with profitable when you’re studying, in order that’s a very good begin.”
Whereas they misplaced Klay Thompson in free company, the Warriors didn’t endure a significant roster turnover this offseason. They introduced again Curry, Draymond Inexperienced, Kevon Looney, Jonathan Kuminga, Moses Moody, Brandin Podziemski, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Gary Payton II, Andrew Wiggins and Gui Santos from final 12 months’s squad. Nonetheless, their offseason additions — Buddy Hield, Kyle Anderson, Lindy Waters III and De’Anthony Melton — have made important contributions within the younger season.
The crew is trusting 11-12 players to supply high quality minutes on a nightly foundation — a formulation that labored for the 2014-15 Warriors who lived by their “power in numbers” slogan.
“We’ve got 12 guys normally in our rotation that may play, so it feels completely different, seems completely different [from last year], however we’re attempting to construct child steps,” Curry stated.
The Warriors’ deep rotation is greatest typified by the stat that no participant, not even Curry (28.8) or Inexperienced (27.8), has averaged 30 minutes per game by way of the primary 12 outings. Amazingly, seven gamers are clocking at the very least 20 minutes per night time and 4 others are averaging at the very least 15. Payton II is averaging 11.8 minutes because the twelfth man.
The red-hot Warriors, on a three-game profitable streak, will subsequent journey to the Clippers on Monday earlier than returning house to host the Hawks.
