Jordan Poole - 1st Game w Warriors
Jordan Poole played his first NBA preseason game on Sunday:
17 points in 23 minutes (5-11 shooting,4-9 from 3)
No Klay Thompson and they lost to the Lakers, Lebron and AD 123-101.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:22 AM ^
Jordan Poole is good
The Warriors are also good
October 8th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
Lakers are also very good with Anthony Davis and a healthy Lebron.
October 8th, 2019 at 10:57 AM ^
The lakers will be great for the 26 games that AD and Lebron are healthy enough to play together
October 8th, 2019 at 8:29 AM ^
He should have stayed. One more year under coach Beileiiiiiiiiiohthatsright I forgot he left too.
Congrats to Jordan. Hope he has a great rookie campaign.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:37 AM ^
Part of me wonders if he would've stayed if Beilein left first. Either way, I'm glad he landed with a playoff team.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:36 AM ^
That's great for Poole. I will admit, I thought it was a bad decision to leave early.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:52 AM ^
I should probably step up and say the same. To be fair, he had a pretty underwhelming season leading up to the draft. But I definitely thought he needed one more year and he could have been a first rounder. That said, my thoughts were to have that one year be under JB and Yak and he would have another year to improve defense and decision making blah blah blah.
it was never a question to me whether the kid had the talent tho.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
Yeah, I think it definitely all depended on what team he ended up with on draft night.
On a different team, it's very possible he would have been asked to do too much/many things that his skillset might not necessarily be up to par with just yet.
But on the Warriors, I think he'll fit in quite nicely.
October 8th, 2019 at 1:15 PM ^
He obviously got some assurances that he would go in the first round.
For ANYONE going in the first round, it is almost always a good decision. Only caveot is guys who might be talented enough to move from bottom of 1st round to top of first round with a monster season, but that is somewhat rare.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:39 AM ^
Scoring points on a losing team. Job done.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:46 AM ^
Making money you can only dream of.
October 8th, 2019 at 8:51 AM ^
that’s very rude.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:14 AM ^
Yeah, what a loser, playing for the 5 time defending Western conference champs.
October 8th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
.... did you just call GSW a losing team?
October 8th, 2019 at 8:49 AM ^
First thought AD - Adrian Dantley...he’s playing again?
October 8th, 2019 at 8:53 AM ^
at 63 that would be....well, impressive, mostly.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:13 AM ^
He's technically still in the league, but--after getting traded to a really horrible team in the early 90s--he's still refusing to suit up.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:25 AM ^
He either lost a bet or it was rookie hazing, but Draymond Green made him get on the microphone at center court in the arena and sing the MSU fight song in its entirety to the crowd. WTF?
https://twitter.com/loganmmurdock/status/1181400414555496448
October 8th, 2019 at 9:43 AM ^
Should’ve said I’ll sing the song, but only if I can kick you in the balls “accidentally.”
October 8th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
That's actually pretty A+ rookie hazing.
October 8th, 2019 at 11:45 AM ^
Meh...Jordan proved last season that he wasn't a Michigan loyalist. I don't think it meant much to him to sing about the Red Sewer.
October 8th, 2019 at 10:51 AM ^
To be fair, he stomped on the lyrics and said "Go Blue" at the end!
October 8th, 2019 at 2:01 PM ^
I understand how a guy in this situation really wants to find a niche and fit in, but man, you'd have to consider not doing it even if it means you have to fight. It was the same when that fuckhead Buckeye carved 0-4 into Jake Butt's hair with a trimmer. Might have to say "fuck you let's throwdown."
October 8th, 2019 at 2:38 PM ^
Um, Dude, it's a game.
October 8th, 2019 at 10:07 AM ^
Would love to see him light up the NBA obviously, although I'm not sure he has the discipline, focus, and create-your-own-shot skills to push through the streaks when he goes ice cold from 3. I'm also not sure he would have gotten any of those things from staying though.
October 8th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
It's possible the spacing he gets playing with GS will make his shot creating skills look a little better than they were playing with 3 non-shooters most of the time.
October 8th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
It's a good showing, and I'm happy for him. There will be minutes for him on that team if he can hang onto them. What will define his season is his defense; if we can even be passable on that front he'll likely get enough minutes to stay in rhythm with his shooting.
October 8th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
Nice to see. The JP haters here can eat crow.
October 8th, 2019 at 12:22 PM ^
Not so much that it was about "haters," but about the fact that his play last season was disappointing.
Whether it was his fit on the team, some sort of unhappiness with his role, etc...who knows. But clearly he did not play up to the expectations or his abilities.
October 8th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
It is a gorgeous Fall day out here in South Central Kansas...about 70 degrees with a light Kansas breeze-that means it's less that 30 mph. Tuesdays are "our" days-I'm retired and it's my wife's day off. We are making tomato juice and spaghetti sauce from the 3 bushels of tomatoes we have stored up from our garden. I started boiling them down at around six. Here at 1205 the 14 quarts of juice have long been processed-the spaghetti sauce is about an hour away from the canner...likely another 2 canners/14 quarts. It's great stuff.
Otherwise, this next paragraph is against my better judgement-so it's on me. I do my best not to comment on Michigan basketball matters because, quite frankly, the profound ignorance regarding basketball on this board, in general, is too staggering for me to comprehend and no effort should be wasted upon attempting to change this. I will attempt to keep this short and too the point: Jordan Poole is an outstanding basketball player...and that the GSW drafted him with their first pick obliterates any of you naysayers who claim otherwise to hell in this regard. For you haters-and that is what you are to continue to piss on this kid for his decision to leave is despicable. And to add insult to injury you give a 66 year old multi-millionaire a free pass for leaving. Jordan is 20 years old. Good grief, what the hell is the matter with you guys!!!!!