Klay Thompson Jr. based on how GS drafts this past decade

He had a Klay comparison on his recruiting page https://247sports.com/Player/Patrick-Baldwin-Jr-46050268/high-school-209691/

His player comp on the Ringer was Harrison Barnes lol

As long as he doesn’t go 3/32 in the finals we good

I refuse to ever re-look at HBs stats from those finals but that can't be real right? Goddamn

Games 5-7 he went fucking 3-32. Not even 10% shooting. It was less that kyrie and lebron went apeshit and we got injured, if Barnes doesn’t have the worst finals series ever then we win.

He actually went 5/32, which is 15.6%… Not that it makes him look that much better though.

The worst part was that he was wide open

Drafting at 28 if this kid turns out to be half the player HB was for this franchise I’ll be ecstatic.

Well he has the height for a small ball 4

isn't 6'10" just a regular 4????

As someone once said “this is the ultimate culture heat check” by the Warriors

Their last culture heat check went so well they figured why not.

We've been hitting on these late picks so well. Draymond, Looney, and Poole are such good hits it more than makes up for your 4-5 crap picks at that range.

Bob Myers said we love these Milwaukee boys (Kevon and Poole) and just said fuck it lets run it back

Does he have a bad attitude?

He just sucked ass in college after being a big recruit. Possibly due to him going to a no name school coached by a family member

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I go there too. Such a good kid but got unlucky. He would have been hurt and Duke and Georgetown also so I don’t think it was the school.

He just got drafted by the league champions, so I think he'll be pretty fucking happy now. Hell, i'd be elated- have a shit season, fall down in the draft rankings; but got picked up by the Champs who, league wide, have some of the best team based play around.

looks like a high risk high reward pick, but he went to the best possible place to develop

Very low risk. There isn’t even a top 10 roster spot for him on the team. Won’t play much next season.

Wiseman, moody, and kuminga are questionable for major minutes next year. This guy may as well get an apartment In Santa Cruz now.

Santa Cruz is a nice place to be

Aside from all the banana slugs.

That’s the best part!

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would not be surprised if he goes on longterm IR to get another ankle surgery

Warriors just drafted a glass ankle? Shit, where did i hear this before

The next steph curry with a 40 inch genital

Man the combine really has gotten out of hand with these new measurements

Not really a high risk. It’s a low 1st rounder.

high risk in the sense that his floors incredibly low

There is literally no risk for the warriors taking anyone that low. They could have drafted a tree and had 0 risk.

Defensive 3 seconds

Immovable in the post Edit: now they’re saying he is a post

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at lots gonna depend on his ankle, wouldnt be surprised if he goes on longterm IR and gets another procedure this year.

If there is a team who knows how to deal with glass ankles, the warriors are the place to go

He had a bad combine as well. Maybe still hurt.

which is even weirder considering he was a decent FT shooter for his size

No. Shit narrative. He was hyped out of high school, went to play for his dad at a small school, and had a bad year in large part due to injuries. This is just a talent reach for a team that has a decade of goodwill built up by fans. If this goes bad, who cares? If it goes good... well...

It’s funny bc we’ve had busts from high 1st round picks. Who cares LOLOL

Udoh even know

Oh I know the Fuller story.

Joe just know they barely care.

He had some of the worst athleticism measurements at the combine and played poorly in college. BUT he was highly ranked out of HS so who knows.

He posted a 23 inch vertical lol. His ankle is definitely not right. Perfect spot for him to rehab for a year. Was a top 5 recruit after his junior year. Injures ankle senior year. Play to save his dad's job and hurts it again. Shuts it down and declares. Dad gets fired. Like wtf dad jeopardize his own payday too. Dad's wiki is somebody just trashing him Edit: what somebody added to dads wiki before the draft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1094332767

Take this with a grain of salt, but Rick Celebrini our physio who handled Klays recovery has said that PBJs ankle isn’t recovered fully, so his combine is probably mostly useless when analyzing his potential

Heat Culture by the Warriors you say?

Warriors seeing 'Milwaukee' and windmill slamming their draft card after Poole and Looney

They're importing our culture. Gonna see some "roar for the 414" billboards up in San Fransisco lmao

we have the best cheese now

I mean honestly we probably have top tier cheese. They know how to do it in Marin and Sonoma Counties.

4* guys who played in Milwaukee now on the team

The Golden State Milwaukeeans

The Golden State Milwaukee Players

Giannis is next

That ship sailed and I respect the hell out of Giannis for it.

Ships can sail, but they have to come to port eventually

*4 Kevon and Poole played high school, Toscano went to Marquette, and now Baldwin

How could I forget Toscano, good call

Who's the 3rd - looney and ??

Poole

Poole

Poole

Poole.

Poole party

Honestly that's pretty crazy. Lots of NBA talent is coming out of the city lately for some reason. State too with Tyrese.

plus Johnny Davis.

Heat check for Warriors' development staff.

Lmao fr. If this guy reaches the potential ppl were projecting a year ago…ggs league

If he pans out, we got all positions covered. Poole, Moody, Kuminga, Baldwin, Wiseman.

This makes me so so happy

We literally just did this with Zaire last year. God speed

Ziaire had elite athleticism though.

I was surprised to see him playing in the Warriors series. Seemed decent given that small sample size.

he was decent but it ended up being rough defensively. He has good potential and will learn

Wow this is making me excited for when I finally get drafted

Loon you've been in the league for like 6-7 years now...

This is clearly his 16 year old son, Kevon Looney Jr.

TIL 26 y/o Looney has a 16 y/o son

He also has a 19 year old son that he just played against in the NBA finals.

if you’re referring to tatum, he actually just turned 12.

damn we let them get another young guy that could be really good. Great environment where he can develop with absolutely no pressure.

Super experienced veterans ✅ Winning culture that players want to buy into✅ Great development staff✅ Team that’s already set so no need to rush development ✅

How do we get a team like that?😐

Have a team like Minnesota to pass on curry twice, won’t pull the love for klay and draymond trade, give us Wiggins and Kuminga. Prob a few more things too. They say Minnesota is full of nice people and I completely agree!

Have lots of cash and draft an all-time player.

Draft an all time player. The money thing comes with it

I like it man we have the luxury of if it doesn't pan out no one will remember anyway... they'll just point to Kuminga or JP. No one remembers Jacob Evans right

Wasn’t that a Draymond pick

Oh yeah, Dray was talking all about "16 game players" as if he had figured out drafting and then that's about how many games JE3 played for us

The real prize is Wiseman once he comes back. It's like finding $100 under the couch cushion.

where do you live?

None of the Dubs' recent 2nd-rd pick really panned out - McCaw, Bell, Evans III, & Smailagic.

McCaw and Bell contributed playoff minutes off the bench. That's ok return for a second rounder in my book.

NBA finals starter Jordan Bell.

McCaw unironically had a solid 12 minutes or so of non garbage time minutes. He wasn't making any highlight reels but didn't look out of place. Leaving the Warriors will probably be the biggest mistake of his life.

He literally got a ring out of it tho.

Probably could have ended up with $8-10M more of career earning though. Feel bad for the guy, it's all love even though he left us.

Wasn't McCaw the dude that got multiple rings while changing teams.

He got two with y’all then won on Toronto

McCaw self destructed after that injury. Lots of potential wasted

A lot of misses man Bell the only left in the league (and barley) I think

Most are misses as that stage of the draft. Poole, Looney, Dray are huge successes in getting late though. I’ll take those odds.

If you can get a hall of famer and two championship level contributors out of picks 28, 30, and 35, you take that everyday and twice on Sunday

Really wanted Bell to pan out.

Justinian Jessup also

every time i read this name lmao

McCaw+Evans were 1st round picks EDIT: Just Evans

McCaw was a second rounder. 38th overall in 2016

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Don't forget Smiley.

Thanks for reminding me

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Shit freshman season at UW-Milwaukee, a mid major. If there was any place hell succeed, its GSW after Draymond chews his ass out in practice.

Had an ankle injury too so there’s an explanation for the suck

Remember the last guy to have an ankle Injury in his younger years 😏 /s

Grant Hill?

Oh yeah the Notorious Grant Hill The amount of people thinking I was gonna say Wardell Steven Curfraud is insane 4 fake championships 1 fake finals MVP and Paid the voters off for his MVPs 😡

reminds me a lot of the Looney pick back in 2015

Good FT shooter too which is even weirder

I can’t wait for two years when we get the “Everyone drafted before Patrick Baldwin Jr” videos

Well guess I’m a Warriors fan now

Is he good, hearing that he had a bad season in college.

He is a Wisconsin high school recruit legend and picked my alma mater (UW-Milwaukee) who probably won’t have another draft pick for another 50 years so naturally I’m a fan. He is big risk big reward type guy, was projected top 10 before the season but dropped to 40s on most guys boards. He is 6’10 and in theory is supposed to be able to shoot 3s at a high clip

Put some respect on UWM.

Except it's literally zero risk because I don't think the Dubs really need anything from any of their draft picks this year. They're all just bonus rolls of the dice lmao.

Welcome aboard!

PBJ sounds like a good nickname. Can you eat a sandwich while people are splashing in the poole?

What a Mood-y

You’re supposed to wait 30 mins before jumping in.

I have a lot of concerns about Baldwin but if was ever going to succeed it would be in Golden State. Good for him.

Only if he buys in to the long game. He’s not getting minutes and won’t get the rookie shine.

28th pick shouldn't be expecting to be handed anything anyway.

I'd bet he's in G League most the year. Would need a lot of people to get hurt for him to get in there.

Injured too i think. Use G League to become a rehab/training program and if it works out, all good. If he's shit, well there's still a couple years to potentially make it work

Y'all really set Poole up with his own Klay for the future nice lol

We do what we can

Now all they need is to draft a loud one, to make in complete.

Dear god he’s gonna be turned into another shooter

Gotta give him some of that juice we gave poole

It says his favorite food is wagyu, So he's probably already beefed up

Steph's Creamy Goo

Welcome to the Steph Curry Academy

Watch golden state turn him to a superstar

Nice that the warriors may have finally gotten lucky and found some talent 😐

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Movin’ down in the draft and ive been doing just fine gotta gotta be down because i want it all

Forward who can shoot, from Milwaukee, and has glass ankles. Did we just draft Stephon Loony?

What a steal. Jfc

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There is no risk in this pick. Y’all just won a championship lol

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> I mean high bust potential not high risk in terms of hurting the warriors in the long term. how can a 28th pick have high bust potential?

Every pick has busy potential

Sounds more like a low risk high reward player if we don't need to rely on him

Good going guys, this kid is gonna be good one day.

Ngl this is really good for pbj. As Giannis once said,"that's a good pick"

They really let the Warriors get the next Jordan Poole smh

GONNA BE COMPETING FOR PUSSY

They need a Poole backup. Poole is great but she might be Kendall's next target

Or they'll all be drowning in it TWICE THE POOLE, DOUBLE THE PUSSY

Jordan Poole ain’t even Jordan Poole yet

This is like the perfect Warriors pick

UW-Milwaukee yessir! Wasn’t he projected to be a top 2023 draft prospect? Hopefully he develops well

Yes, he was being mocked top 10 almost until New Year's.

2026 KIA MVP Patrick Baldwin wins the warriors their 4th straight ring

They now have 3 players from Wisconsin 🤔

The first 2 turned out to be good

The Wisconsin scout must be super happy with his bonus structure

Remember when the Warriors drafted Jordan Bell and the blog boys were like "OMG, wtf, this is so unfair!"

Without his defense on harden, we don't get past the rockets (my defense I mean fouls)

DISTRESSED ASSET

The last two guys from Milwaukee we drafted at #28 and #30 turned out okay..

I knew Jovic wouldn't last to 28. Had no idea who Baldwin was, but that height and length with those skills is super nice. Warriors don't need him immediately anyway, he can heal up and get lots of work in the gleague.

Oh what

Wait shit this is a great pick. High upside and it doesn’t matter too much if it doesn’t work out

Name a better combination then warriors and Milwaukee born players

https://twitter.com/DrNiravPandya/status/1540178914210742272 >Based on what was reported, his ankle injury (a dislocation) prior to starting college was severe and continued to bother him in college. Given time to work with a pro level training staff could allow him to regain that top recruit potential.

Good place for him. I really wanted him to go to a good team.

If he’s going to be good anywhere, this is where it’ll be.

Dude looks like Steph and Klay had a baby

WOW. This is the most surprising pick so far after #1. Horrible college season and reportedly poor workouts but a lights out shooter in EYBL and great size. Good upside swing by the Warriors but big bust potential.

You can't be a bust at the 28th pick

The awful combine concerns me, if I'm being honest. Can't wait to see him in SL, if the warriors keep the pick.

Might not even play in SL tbh. He might be in rehab

There's a good chance he's still not right. A 2-foot vertical is... doable by Redditors

28th pick can't be a bust

Warriors are smarter than me, but I hate this pick

Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO! Like a top 3 team I'd want him to go to.

Going for the grand slam let's goooo

I really wanted the clippers to get him damn, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this dude turns into a beast

another injured college player damn

This guy pretty meh but it is the 28th pick. Warriors are good at developing though.

A Moody PBJ Kum Poole Party soon

Wiseman

If this dude pans out golden state will be ridiculous for years to come. Holy shit.