This Is The Kevon Looney Main Character Moment We Never Expected (KevinHFY on how Looney has paid specific focus in his development on the grimier skills that matter for a Warriors center in ways Wiseman, Bell and Ezeli never did)
There’s little glamor in rebounding, and there’s certainly little left to spare for a center playing on the Golden State Warriors.
This is underappreciated and sometimes unsightly basketball, the sort easily taken for granted. You would think it’s easy to play clean-up for a handful of the all-time greats, but Looney is the only in-house starting center that the Warriors have successfully nurtured over the years. He’s really just one of two or three draft picks to pan out for the team since they started winning.
There’s this notion that the Warriors are responsible for the death of the center in modern basketball, except I don’t think Kerr or the team has ever felt that way. Even when they had the NBA’s most infamous center-less in their back pocket, the center has always mattered for the Warriors. Here’s a team that could run a historically fearsome spread pick-and-roll with Draymond at the 5, but never chooses to mash it.
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