The biggest black hand behind the "Kuminga Incident"

If you stand from a higher angle and look down at the entire process of Kumingga pulling with the Warriors, there will be an indescribable weirdness.

NBA teams train rookies, there are actually two situations. One is that the player development is not as good as expected, or they will be dealt with quickly (for example, the Hawks sent away Bafu Jin and the Lakers sent away Xifino the day before yesterday), or they will not renew the contract after the rookie contract expires. The competition for

nba is already fierce, and rookies are not as high as they imagined. Taking the 21st century rookies with the highest success rate, as an example, 6 and 7 were eliminated after rookie contracts, and the probability of water dropping exceeds 20%.

either meets expectations, not that they all become All-Stars and the core of the team building, but that they have achieved the team's previous positioning of them.

For example, the 1-5 pick is the pride of heaven who is designated as the focus of training by the team. The 5-15 lottery position should at least be the long-term main force of the team. It would not be too much of a loss to be able to obtain a stable rotation at 15-30 pick.

The talent show is simply a roulette or stone betting game, which depends on your vision and also requires luck.

So what is the positioning of the Warriors for Kumingga?

In the 2021 offseason, they were just beaten by the Lakers and the Grizzlies in the playoffs and missed the playoffs. Curry won the scoring champion, but the only helpers around him seemed to be Wiggins and Zhu Meng (Clay's return date was not yet determined at that time).

From the perspective of God, we certainly know that they won the championship next year, but at that time, the most realistic goal was to return to the playoffs.

They held two first round picks with 7 and 14 picks in the draft that year. Wiseman had just played for a year, so the team would not choose another center (so they missed Shin Kyung).

When Kuzhu Tangzui's four main players were stable and had to reserve time for Wiseman, their most reasonable and secure choice was to choose a large forward and a backcourt. In fact, they did the same. There was not much controversy about the arrival of Kumingga and Moody at the time.

Unless you can open your eyes and know that Jaren Johnson (20th Hawks) will cause a dropout scandal in college, and in the third year of his career, Trey Murphy III (17th Pelicans) will quickly gain muscle from a slim pin during college and not lose three-pointers. Otherwise, neither Kumingga nor Moody's choice at the time.

Some people say, why not grab the 8th pick Wagner?

The two men's rookie season, Xiao Wa scored 15.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 30.7 minutes, while Kuming added 16.9 minutes, 9.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 0.9 assists.

converted into 36 minutes, Kuming added 19.8 points, 7.1 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 51.3% shooting, 17.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 46.3% shooting, which is 1 year and 2 months older than Kuming.

Can you say that he was better than Kumingga at that time? What is the problem? Steve Cole.

As the "15 coaches" who have been set by the league, the nine rings in his career have even surpassed Pat Riley, second only to Zen Master and Auerbach. Cole's status in the NBA is undoubtedly.

In the past 11 years of the Warriors, he can even be regarded as the second most contribution to Curry's existence.

was he tailored the current style of play for Curry, allowing Curry to be unable to beat Paul from Mark Jackson to become the later Kuritian.

was he who promoted the dream to pursue his dreams and made him from David Lee's substitute to the team's inside big axle, Curry's career partner.

He played a small ball lineup in the 2015 finals, opening a new era. The Zen master and Riley had played before the Little Ball Formation, but they fought for their lives if they could get the game, starting with Cole and the Warriors.

and what few people noticed is that he completed the seamless connection with the team system after Durant's arrival. Compared with Adu's later encounter with the Nets and the Suns, you know that this is not as easy as you imagine.

After talking about his achievements and advantages, he began to talk about his problems.

First of all, he is a coach with serious "path dependence", or to put it bluntly, he can only control the system with Curry as the core to win.

Both him and his system are an alien that seriously excludes traditional centers and big men.

Wiseman was just one of the victims. As can be seen from the Paris Dream Team in 24, Embiid, who was second only to Jokic at the time, was also very uncomfortable under his command. After the start, he almost couldn't beat South Sudan. In the end, he still had to save the ball in the four-position style like Davis and Adebayo.

Warriors fans complain about the empty inside of the team every year. Every time they encounter thick eyebrows, they are hung up and beaten. Is it possible that Cole won’t and don’t want a real big man at all?

In his mind, Looney is enough. Grab the board, hold the position, move the Great Wall, and occasionally clumsy, this is the image of the stupid guys in Cole's mind.

Secondly, he has a natural distrust of young people.

After a closer look, we can find that Curry, Clay, Dream Chasing and Barnes, who were trained by the Warriors, had already gained a foothold in the team before he arrived.

Since Cole arrived, only Poole and Looney have truly gained his trust.

The former is Curry's substitute in his system, but in fact, he could not solve the problem of Poole and Curry's coexistence until Poole was beaten away. The ideal situation is that Poole will carry the production for Curry in the regular season and be honestly a substitute in the playoffs..

Loney, since joining the team in 2015, has been playing substitutes for David West, McGee, and Cousins ​​for five years. It was not until 2020 that he gradually gained the trust of Cole, and after abandoning his own little ball-holding skills to become a real thug, he gained a foothold in the team.

How many people know that Looney was called "Little Durant" in high school?

Excluding these two people, which ones can play Pascal, Damian Jones, Yakub Evans, Spellman and Manion during the period from 2015 to 2020?

Although the Warriors had excellent record in those years, they were both rookies at the end of the first round, only Looney and Poole were discovered in the end.

If these guys, Cole can still use the low pick and limited talent as an excuse, then the team's most important reinforcement asset for the 20th second pick after 2020, and the 7th and 14th picks in 21, will only be considered a disaster by Cole.

This was originally an important asset for the league to continue the Warriors' glory. In the 19-20 season, he dared to give up his face and show off his bad luck. Later, he could still win the Timberwolves' No. 7 draw in 2018.

Ideally, the Warriors could get Halliburton, Shinkin, and Wagner Jr. around Curry, which undoubtedly gave them another ten years of glory.

The reality is that a person has left the team and has no news (Wiseman), a 3D (Moody) with mediocre qualifications, and a Warriors have been dragging the entire offseason and become the laughing stock of the entire league (Wiseman).

If you are Curry, you will be irritated.

As mentioned earlier, Kumingga's performance and efficiency in the rookie season (21-22) were not even inferior to Wagner, but because the team was in the championship group at that time, the opportunities and resources given him were limited, which was understandable.

It can be said that in the first two years of his career, Kumingga was not a troublesome thorn. On the contrary, he was a child who often brought surprises to the team and scored 2 or 30 points to make fans full of hope.

and even Moody can appear in the team's final lineup of the playoffs in the second year of his career (22-23 season).

Do you think they really have no talent or no progress?

But under Cole, the fate of these young people is like this.

Every year after the new season begins, the rotation order is almost overturned. They may be able to play in 30 minutes this year and score 20 points, and then they will be placed at the end of the bench or even DNP in the next game.

On the contrary, former meritorious people like Clay and Wiggins, even outsiders like DiVicenzo and Hild, can enjoy stable and continuous starting treatment.

So over the years we can often see such scenes, on one side there are dwarf lineups such as three-back and four-back on the field, while on the other side there are Kuminga and even Wiseman, who were waiting for alms off the field.

The young man's fault tolerance in Cole's mind is too low. He can hold his head and cry after being suspended from chasing dreams and beating people, but he never wants to look at him more when Kuminga plays badly.

So, in the process of negotiating with the Warriors, how many years to renew, how much money to renew, whether there are player options or vetos of transactions are actually not the most important.

Cole can change his view of him, or whether he can truly regard him as a stable member of the team in the new season from the bottom of his heart.

Otherwise, in the new season, we will just see a depressed substitute with an annual salary of 20 million on the sidelines of the Warriors.