Due to the environment, now that each team has a number of players absent, the Golden State Warriors have been greatly affected, the original second boss Klay Thompson and center James Wiseman are still recuperating, still have not returned, and as a result, many people have triggered the health and safety agreement. So in the away game against the Raptors, the Warriors simply sent all the bench players, in addition to the two players who were still recuperating, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Andre Iguodala and Otto Porter also did not play, so the Warriors basically gave up in this game, and the team really lost on the road.
Of course, everything has its own two sides, the Warriors although the big score lost the game, but in the case of more than half of the players can not play, it naturally means that some substitutes and young people who usually have fewer opportunities can freely perform. Among them, the Warriors' No. 7 show this year Jonathan Cuminga started on top, the coaching staff gave him plenty of time to perform, Cumming added 36 minutes, 9 of 15 shooting, including 4 three-pointers, cut 26 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 2 steals, including a career high. The fly in the ointment may be that Cuminga has 6 mistakes, of course, this is the only way for young players to grow up, and Cuminga's overall performance this time has indeed brought surprises to everyone.
Unlike most rookies, Jonathan Cumming did not choose to enter the collegiate league this season, but went to the development league to play. Statistically, he averaged 15.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1 steal, and 0.8 blocks per game, but in terms of possession offense, Cuminga is relatively rough and immature. This is actually no wonder, because Cuminga from the Congo did not start formal basketball training until he was 15 years old, and his selling point is mainly in his outstanding physical talent, just from the basketball foundation and technical details, Cuminga is more general.
The views of many professional scouts are to the point, they say that Cuminga is the highest ceiling player in this rookie, but the risk of choosing him is also extremely high, because in the past few years, there have been too many high-ranking rookies with explosive physical fitness but lack of skills, and they have faded out of people's vision early. Originally, Jonathan Cumminga's expected pick was in the top five, but the draft unexpectedly appeared, and the Toronto Raptors quietly picked scott Barnes with the fourth pick, which triggered the butterfly effect. The Magic chose The Super Double Guard Jaylen Saggers from college, while the Thunder clearly did not lack physically talented strikers, choosing "Australian magician" Josh Gidey, who was quite good at passing ability and on-court vision. So the Warriors took the shot, and they brought Jonathan Cuminga back with the 7th pick in the first round, and the outside world thought that the Warriors had successfully picked up the leak.
In the first half of this season, Jonathan Cuminga did not get many opportunities, even if this one broke out, but so far Cumminga has only averaged 4.4 points, 1.5 rebounds and 0.4 steals per game, which shows that he usually does not get any opportunities. Now Cuminga's main problem is still his poor outside projection ability, his current three-point shooting rate is only 26.1%, not to mention the Warriors' outside talent, in today's league, players who are not good at three points will be more and more difficult to survive, which is the main reason why Cuminga has not been reused for the time being.
But in this game, Jonathan Cuminga showed his potential, and it is true that he has difficulty competing with Andrew Wiggins and Draymond Green, and he will certainly not be able to start in the short term. But with Otto Porter, André Iguodala, Juan Toscano Anderson and Damien Lee equally dividing the playing time and competing for a major rotation, I think there is still a chance. After all, Jonathan Cumminga has excellent defensive ability and is full of energy on the pitch, sometimes he really needs his momentum to hit opponents.
As a once-in-a-decade draft, the outside world is also highly anticipated, and those high-ranking rookies are packaged by the media as potential new stars with super personal talent. Take Jonathan Cumminga, whose best template for the draft is Clippers star Kawhi Leonard, not to mention that the two do have a lot of similarities. Leonard was not optimistic when he first entered the league, according to Spurs coach Popovich, when the team got Leonard, just wanted to train him as a Bruce Bowen successor, no one could have imagined that Leonard actually grew so fast, every offseason can be upgraded at least one notch, and eventually grow into an MVP-level superstar. Jonathan Cumminga is naturally far from Leonard now, but he can indeed use Leonard as his goal and role model, constantly polishing his technology and thriving.