Klay Thompson has been thriving since he was moved to the bench and his longtime teammate Draymond Green has spoken in regards to the daring transfer by Steve Kerr.
February 15 was the primary time Thompson got here off the bench since his rookie yr after struggling as a starter for a lot of the season.
The transfer has effectively and really paid off as Klay had one other baller evening from the bench within the Warriors’ 128-121 victory, the place he scored 26 factors on 9-15 taking pictures.
Green has a large quantity of respect for his teammate for embracing his new function and spoke extremely of him after the win.
“It shows his maturity,” Green said. “He’s been starting since halfway through his rookie season. And to have a resume like he has. Build up an organization like he has. And then you’re asked to take on a bench role. There’s not many people that know how that feels, but there was a bunch of people that wanted to judge him. I thought that early on, he was too worried about how people were judging him, and now he don’t care. And once he stop caring, his game did what we know Klay Thompson is capable of doing…We want to extend this as long as we can. This is our baby. We built this thing from the ground up.”
Green together with Klay and Steph Curry are chasing one other championship so as to add to their assortment of 4 rings.
With Thompson on the bench and getting superb lineups, they’re one step nearer to that dream.
The Warriors and Klay are but to return to an settlement on a brand new contract and if they’re unable to earlier than the season’s finish, Thompson could hit the market as an unrestricted free agent.
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