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 couple of workforce’s potential.
“We have not carried out something but,” Curry told ESPN, downplaying the beginning. “You do not wish to get too forward of your self. We perceive we’re constructing a basis and a brand new identification with this workforce. And also you wish to be rewarded with successful when you’re studying, in order that’s a superb begin.”
Whereas they misplaced Klay Thompson in free company, the Warriors didn’t bear 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 workforce is trusting 11-12 players to supply high quality minutes on a nightly foundation — a system that labored for the 2014-15 Warriors who lived by their “energy in numbers” slogan.
“We’ve got 12 guys often in our rotation that may play, so it feels completely different, appears to be like completely different [from last year], however we’re attempting to construct child steps,” Curry mentioned.
The Warriors’ deep rotation is finest typified by the stat that no participant, not even Curry (28.8) or Inexperienced (27.8), has averaged 30 minutes per game by means of the primary 12 outings. Amazingly, seven gamers are clocking no less than 20 minutes per evening and 4 others are averaging no less than 15. Payton II is averaging 11.8 minutes because the twelfth man.
The red-hot Warriors, on a three-game successful streak, will subsequent journey to the Clippers on Monday earlier than returning dwelling to host the Hawks.
