Dubs Talk: Grading Warriors' Kristaps Porziņģis trade, big man's potential fit
On "Dubs Talk," Monte Poole and Dalton Johnson break down grades for Warriors' Kristaps Porziņģis trade and discuss his potential fit with the team.
Dubs Talk: Grading Warriors' Kristaps Porziņģis trade, big man's potential fit originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Now, I am gonna push back a little bit on what you said about the Porzingis deal.
I think it could possibly move the needle.
Warriors will have 30 games remaining, beginning with the Laker game.
Yeah.
If he can play 25 of those games, which again, I know it's a long shot, I think, but but if he can, I think I give this deal a B grade.
Okay.
If, if he, if he plays in fewer than that, then it's probably gonna be a C grade.
If he plays in, you know, four or five, then it's a D- Yeah ... it's a D grade.
And if he plays not at all, it's an F, okay?
Yeah.
So because I, again, I think he does give them The idea of him playing with Draymond, I think he would be Draymond's best partner in terms of rim protection and paint protection since Bogut.
Yeah.
And so if you can put Draymond and KP out there, you have a pretty good defense, pretty good paint defense, 14, that routinely gets blown by at the per- perimeter.
Yes.
You know, so I mean, I p- compliment the Warriors for recognizing the fact that, hey, our guards really aren't keeping penetration away from the rim.
Yeah, yeah.
So what can we do?
If KP I'm just calling him KP now.
That's fair.
If KP can play, if he can play, that addresses that need.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, that gives them some help there, and Draymond can be a little bit more of a freelancer, which is when he's at his best.
So we'll see if that works out, and if, if it does, then I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give the trade a B if it works out because he can give them that rim protection that Bogut gave them.
He can give them the spacing even.
I wanna say- Yeah ... he can shoot the three with- he's much, so much of a threat as a three-point shooter that he can almost give them Klay Thompson-type spacing.
Ooh!
Wherever he goes on the perimeter, people are gonna look for him.
And the other thing he can do, I think at least, is he can kind of close- he can kind of ful- fill some of that rebounding void that left with Kevon Looney.
When Looney was with the Warriors, they were considerably They were consistently among the top eight in rebounding, and this year they've been like this and like this.
And then, you know, in the past couple of weeks, they've been near the bottom 10.
They've been in the bottom 10, so they have a rebounding issue.
Yeah, what, when they played the Sixers, oof.
The Sixers had 25 offensive rebounds, 25.
I think the Warriors had, like, 32 rebounds total.
Yes, and they took two free throws.
So KP gives, gives them those three things, but he is so The caveat that comes with him is gigantic.
Yeah, he's so health-dependent on the force.
Yeah, it, it is.
He's so health-dependent.
So that's the key.
I mean, if it works for them, I mean, good grief, Rick Celebrini will have to do a miracle here.
Oh, gosh.
You know?
I mean, I think this is his biggest challenge since Otto Porter Jr.'s feet four years ago.
Um- Yeah.
Yeah, they were able to manage Otto well enough to get a good season out of him, and he played another year and retired.
Yeah.
You know, we haven't seen Otto in the game because he c- he couldn't hold up.
His body wouldn't let him.
You know, his an- ankles and feet just weren't, weren't gonna cooperate.
So, I look at that, and I think that this could possibly work.
