It’s A Splash Bros Reunion! Are You Kuminga To The Poole Party? Warriors 2022 Season Thread
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Igoudala seemed mad uninterested in the parade.Can’t upload video but crowd was crazy
They even had that hoodrat Libby schaff twerking on an Oakland parade float
Draymond spraying ace of spades bottles like nothin
Steph with hella trophies
Chiozza with some hoodrats on his bus
Iguodola on his phone
Fat ppl sweating in the sun
Not having to commute to the parade
So, this is all well and good, but can the nikka set a screen? Does he have improved positioning when trying to rebound? Does he have good footwork in the post?
I’ll never understand these videos. He won’t do any of these things in a real game outside of dunking
I’ll never understand these videos. He won’t do any of these things in a real game outside of dunking
Steph sister got a fatty 
Lee literally and figuratively ain’t going anywhere, sorry brehs we stuck with that nikka until Steph retire
Lee literally and figuratively ain’t going anywhere, sorry brehs we stuck with that nikka until Steph retire
And you think they not teaching him that? They have Jokic old coach on the staff bro lmaoo
Weisman out here doing the Shamgod, man if this nikka is half way dynamic as these vids league in trouble next year.. I mean Wigs told y’all we gonna be even better.. so they obviously seeing something we ain’t privy too
He wasn’t setting screens well in his G League games.
EDIT: this wasn’t a joke. I watched a good amount of the 2 games. It’s like he’s afraid of contact. He ghosts the screens before contact is made.
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agreed, what them defensive rotations look like, can he box out, set screens and roll to the basket. Can he move his feet on defense and can he use his length to contest shots, not jumping and fouling.
BlaqkSpliffin
Ni**as Still Weird - Me
He's not afraid of contact, he just used to slipping screens to focus on getting buckets. This kid was the consensus #1 player in the country in 2020. He's always been the focus of the offense. Screens and that other shyt are dirty work that most players in the league don't wanna do.He wasn’t setting screens well in his G League games.
EDIT: this wasn’t a joke. I watched a good amount of the 2 games. It’s like he’s afraid of contact. He ghosts the screens before contact is made.
And those G-League games should be taken with a grain of salt. First games after a year off, conditioning ass, and he playing with dudes he don't even know forreal. Remember when everyone was worried about Kuminga shot because of 13 G-League games last year? Kid shot over 50% from the field and 34 from three. Gotta give them a chance to actually learn and grow.
Parade was lit today, bart wasn’t a huge issue for me surprisingly. The parade was so crowded that people were climbing on scaffoldings to gain higher ground, it was crazy. If was pretty peaceful, everyone had a great time. Next time make the speeches public!!
idonttouchgrass
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Nice article on Looney in The Athletic:
The same right hand that Doug Looney, Kevon’s father, gripped his red iPhone with to capture parade footage Monday afternoon in San Francisco has a ring finger on it that, at the knuckle, angles slightly diagonal. Thirty years ago, he broke it while — how else? — grabbing a rebound during a college basketball game.
“Didn’t realize it was broken,” Doug said. “I finished the tournament out with two popsicle sticks taped together. Played through it. It was fine after but just stayed looking that way.”
Kevon, his son, just completed his seventh NBA season, capped by the breakout stretch of his career. It can be defined by two statistics: zero games missed and a playoff-high 63 offensive rebounds. Looney appeared in all 104 games in 2021-22 and cleaned up the interior for the league’s smallest contender.
“Clean that glass!” one fan yelled at Looney during the parade.
“Rip those boards!” another shouted.
Both times, Doug, gripping that iPhone and a champagne bottle, nodded in approval. His son’s popularity has ascended in recent weeks to the point that, in the middle of the playoffs, home fans at Chase Center began shouting “Looooooooon!” in unison every time he was announced in introductions or muscled up for one of his rugged rebounds.
“The first time, me and my wife (Victoria) thought they were booing him,” Doug said. “Like, what? Then after I figured it out, it was really gratifying.”
Kevon picked up on the chant quickly. He’s a Green Bay Packers fan from Milwaukee. They had a fullback, John Kuhn, from 2007 to 2015 who received that unified shout every time he rumbled in for a 1-yard touchdown, bulldozed for a difficult first down, delivered a big block or even showed up at a Bucks game.
“Kuuuuuuhn,” Kevon laughed. “Nah, but the love in the Bay Area is definitely different now. They’ve been supporting me my whole career, but this past year has been even more. They watched me grow up, seen my story, know the adversity I’ve been through.”
These are some of the scenes from atop Looney’s parade bus on Monday afternoon.
Doug attends every home game and watches every road game. He tracks the stats. If he’s in the arena, he’s glancing at the scoreboard. If he isn’t, he’s following the box score. He’s mostly just looking at one category.
“It used to be scoring, I’ll be honest,” Doug said. “But when he got here, it wasn’t required. So it became rebounding. I always talk to him about rebounding, boxing out, the basic fundamentals of the game. I tell him after the game, ‘Hey, they missed two of your rebounds.'”
During his junior year in high school, Kevon, a five-star recruit who eventually went to UCLA, took a visit to Tennessee. During the trip, they stopped over in Knoxville, where his father grew up. Doug attended Austin-East High School. He played with future pro Elston Turner. They won a state title.
“I just remember talking to his teammates,” Kevon said. “They were telling me all about what type of player he was.”
Doug was a combo forward with guard skills. He went to Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, just outside of San Antonio. One season, when his lead guards were injured, they had him bring the ball up the court. But he made his mark on the glass, just like his son three decades later.
“I didn’t get to see his college tape,” Kevon said. “But I went to his college and saw his name on the wall.”
What did it say?
“He finished with the most rebounds of all time at his school,” Kevon said.
“I was a good rebounder,” Doug laughed.
That’s why it’s been so gratifying for Doug to absorb the increased appreciation washing over Kevon the last couple of months and directed in loud chants toward him the entire parade. Doug called Kevon’s 22-rebound night to close out the Grizzlies in the second round his favorite game his son has played.
“They appreciate the hard work,” Doug said. “Rebounding and defense and screening is not all over the highlights. But they really appreciate his rebounding and defense.”
Doug didn’t play professionally. He moved to Milwaukee and started a family after his playing career. But his basketball expertise didn’t go to waste. He was Kevon’s first and maybe most influential youth coach.
“As a kid, he would never yell at me for missing shots,” Kevon said. “He’d yell at me for missing a box out. All the small stuff. It’s what helped make my career. It’s what I’m known for — being in the right place, doing the right thing, don’t make too many mistakes out there. That’s from him.”
But the biggest lessons Kevon learned from Doug came off the court. When Kevon was 4, Doug picked up a second job. He spent regular work hours in workforce development, running a crew that staged job fairs and helped find employment for people receiving benefits from the state. Then, on weekends and after hours, he worked as a residential counselor, helping guide kids with behavioral issues.
“Between those two,” Doug estimated, “I worked maybe 68 to 70 hours a week.”
Kevon remembers. He saw it every day.
“He used to take me to open gym workouts at six in the morning,” Kevon said. “He’d wake up at five, take me there, go to work. Then he’d pick me up at school, take me home and go to work again. I always remember those talks, those moments. Those car rides are something I’d always remember.”
Consistency. Kevon said that was the biggest lesson Doug imparted upon him. Show up, do your job well and then, the next day, do it again.
“He always told me when you start something, you always finish it,” Kevon said. “Made sure I went to practice every day, always found a way to get me there around his work schedule.”
Injuries impacted Kevon’s first several seasons in the league. Two hip surgeries. A neuropathic condition. Stomach issues that influenced a diet change. Core surgery. He showed up at work every day, but those hours were far too often spent healing and rehabbing and constantly trying to keep his body together to stay on the court instead of working to improve.
That’s why the 104 games played means so much to Kevon and Doug. He was one of only five players to play all 82 regular-season games this season — avoiding both injuries and COVID-19, playing through some bumps, like a painful thigh contusion in February — to ensure he was out there every night for his team and then added another 22 playoff games to lead the NBA in appearances.
“What it means to me is he was focused,” Doug said. “He was focused on eating the right things, his body. The simple things that aren’t easy to do. Stretching, yoga, treatment. That’s what it meant to me.”
We’re about to see what it means to the Golden State Warriors and the rest of the league. Kevon is again an unrestricted free agent. He’s gone through this a few times before. Kevon played a key role his third season on a title team and it appeared the Warriors were in danger of losing him. They didn’t pick up his fourth-year option and couldn’t pay him much.
But the league didn’t bite. The Warriors were able to maintain him on the minimum. Kevon hit free agency again the next summer, 2019, after an even more productive season. A few teams showed interest. The Boston Celtics were among them. But nobody paid enough to pry him away from his comfortable situation. The Warriors retained him on a reasonable three-year, $14.4 million deal.
That contract is expiring in a couple of weeks. Kevon’s game is sharpened, his body is proven durable and his reputation and stock, you’d presume, has never been higher on the open market. He wants to stay with the Warriors. Because of James Wiseman’s stalled development, Kevon would return as the starting center on a contender. But a raise is expected and the higher it goes, the more that Warriors’ tax bill spikes.
“Always want to be back here,” Kevon said. “I’ve been here my whole career. But it’s a business. Never know what’s going to happen. Wait to see what my agent says about what’s going on around the league, what’s going on with me. But I’d love to come back and defend what we’ve just won. But you never know in this league.”
Riding the Warriors’ parade bus with Kevon Looney and his biggest influence: His dad
The same right hand that Doug Looney, Kevon’s father, gripped his red iPhone with to capture parade footage Monday afternoon in San Francisco has a ring finger on it that, at the knuckle, angles slightly diagonal. Thirty years ago, he broke it while — how else? — grabbing a rebound during a college basketball game.
“Didn’t realize it was broken,” Doug said. “I finished the tournament out with two popsicle sticks taped together. Played through it. It was fine after but just stayed looking that way.”
Kevon, his son, just completed his seventh NBA season, capped by the breakout stretch of his career. It can be defined by two statistics: zero games missed and a playoff-high 63 offensive rebounds. Looney appeared in all 104 games in 2021-22 and cleaned up the interior for the league’s smallest contender.
“Clean that glass!” one fan yelled at Looney during the parade.
“Rip those boards!” another shouted.
Both times, Doug, gripping that iPhone and a champagne bottle, nodded in approval. His son’s popularity has ascended in recent weeks to the point that, in the middle of the playoffs, home fans at Chase Center began shouting “Looooooooon!” in unison every time he was announced in introductions or muscled up for one of his rugged rebounds.
“The first time, me and my wife (Victoria) thought they were booing him,” Doug said. “Like, what? Then after I figured it out, it was really gratifying.”
Kevon picked up on the chant quickly. He’s a Green Bay Packers fan from Milwaukee. They had a fullback, John Kuhn, from 2007 to 2015 who received that unified shout every time he rumbled in for a 1-yard touchdown, bulldozed for a difficult first down, delivered a big block or even showed up at a Bucks game.
“Kuuuuuuhn,” Kevon laughed. “Nah, but the love in the Bay Area is definitely different now. They’ve been supporting me my whole career, but this past year has been even more. They watched me grow up, seen my story, know the adversity I’ve been through.”
These are some of the scenes from atop Looney’s parade bus on Monday afternoon.
Doug attends every home game and watches every road game. He tracks the stats. If he’s in the arena, he’s glancing at the scoreboard. If he isn’t, he’s following the box score. He’s mostly just looking at one category.
“It used to be scoring, I’ll be honest,” Doug said. “But when he got here, it wasn’t required. So it became rebounding. I always talk to him about rebounding, boxing out, the basic fundamentals of the game. I tell him after the game, ‘Hey, they missed two of your rebounds.'”
During his junior year in high school, Kevon, a five-star recruit who eventually went to UCLA, took a visit to Tennessee. During the trip, they stopped over in Knoxville, where his father grew up. Doug attended Austin-East High School. He played with future pro Elston Turner. They won a state title.
“I just remember talking to his teammates,” Kevon said. “They were telling me all about what type of player he was.”
Doug was a combo forward with guard skills. He went to Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, just outside of San Antonio. One season, when his lead guards were injured, they had him bring the ball up the court. But he made his mark on the glass, just like his son three decades later.
“I didn’t get to see his college tape,” Kevon said. “But I went to his college and saw his name on the wall.”
What did it say?
“He finished with the most rebounds of all time at his school,” Kevon said.
“I was a good rebounder,” Doug laughed.
That’s why it’s been so gratifying for Doug to absorb the increased appreciation washing over Kevon the last couple of months and directed in loud chants toward him the entire parade. Doug called Kevon’s 22-rebound night to close out the Grizzlies in the second round his favorite game his son has played.
“They appreciate the hard work,” Doug said. “Rebounding and defense and screening is not all over the highlights. But they really appreciate his rebounding and defense.”
Doug didn’t play professionally. He moved to Milwaukee and started a family after his playing career. But his basketball expertise didn’t go to waste. He was Kevon’s first and maybe most influential youth coach.
“As a kid, he would never yell at me for missing shots,” Kevon said. “He’d yell at me for missing a box out. All the small stuff. It’s what helped make my career. It’s what I’m known for — being in the right place, doing the right thing, don’t make too many mistakes out there. That’s from him.”
But the biggest lessons Kevon learned from Doug came off the court. When Kevon was 4, Doug picked up a second job. He spent regular work hours in workforce development, running a crew that staged job fairs and helped find employment for people receiving benefits from the state. Then, on weekends and after hours, he worked as a residential counselor, helping guide kids with behavioral issues.
“Between those two,” Doug estimated, “I worked maybe 68 to 70 hours a week.”
Kevon remembers. He saw it every day.
“He used to take me to open gym workouts at six in the morning,” Kevon said. “He’d wake up at five, take me there, go to work. Then he’d pick me up at school, take me home and go to work again. I always remember those talks, those moments. Those car rides are something I’d always remember.”
Consistency. Kevon said that was the biggest lesson Doug imparted upon him. Show up, do your job well and then, the next day, do it again.
“He always told me when you start something, you always finish it,” Kevon said. “Made sure I went to practice every day, always found a way to get me there around his work schedule.”
Injuries impacted Kevon’s first several seasons in the league. Two hip surgeries. A neuropathic condition. Stomach issues that influenced a diet change. Core surgery. He showed up at work every day, but those hours were far too often spent healing and rehabbing and constantly trying to keep his body together to stay on the court instead of working to improve.
That’s why the 104 games played means so much to Kevon and Doug. He was one of only five players to play all 82 regular-season games this season — avoiding both injuries and COVID-19, playing through some bumps, like a painful thigh contusion in February — to ensure he was out there every night for his team and then added another 22 playoff games to lead the NBA in appearances.
“What it means to me is he was focused,” Doug said. “He was focused on eating the right things, his body. The simple things that aren’t easy to do. Stretching, yoga, treatment. That’s what it meant to me.”
We’re about to see what it means to the Golden State Warriors and the rest of the league. Kevon is again an unrestricted free agent. He’s gone through this a few times before. Kevon played a key role his third season on a title team and it appeared the Warriors were in danger of losing him. They didn’t pick up his fourth-year option and couldn’t pay him much.
But the league didn’t bite. The Warriors were able to maintain him on the minimum. Kevon hit free agency again the next summer, 2019, after an even more productive season. A few teams showed interest. The Boston Celtics were among them. But nobody paid enough to pry him away from his comfortable situation. The Warriors retained him on a reasonable three-year, $14.4 million deal.
That contract is expiring in a couple of weeks. Kevon’s game is sharpened, his body is proven durable and his reputation and stock, you’d presume, has never been higher on the open market. He wants to stay with the Warriors. Because of James Wiseman’s stalled development, Kevon would return as the starting center on a contender. But a raise is expected and the higher it goes, the more that Warriors’ tax bill spikes.
“Always want to be back here,” Kevon said. “I’ve been here my whole career. But it’s a business. Never know what’s going to happen. Wait to see what my agent says about what’s going on around the league, what’s going on with me. But I’d love to come back and defend what we’ve just won. But you never know in this league.”