How Klay Thompson was Benched, for a Rookie 

Imagine entering the league as a Guard and your teammates are Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Chris Paul. Plus your coach is Steve Kerr. Podz has every role model and bright mind to learn from entering the league.

I firmly believe that having Klay come off the bench will make him an even more formidable and game-changing asset for the Warriors. Klay 2.0 has the potential to become one of the greatest sixth men in NBA history.

Klay hit the bench and klay starting to see he can be benched but I see it’s helping him

Father time is undefeated. Put that on top with awful injury. Taking its toll

Many players would kill to have his career under their belts.

Klay’s showing the rookies how to play when they come off the bench.

You have to consider all the other underlying factors… Klay was averaging like 15pts on a team struggling with taking care of the ball and defense especially with GP and Dray out. Now you add in Brandin and Kuminga into the starting line up to help solve both problems. Brandin as we all know barely turns the ball over and makes high IQ plays while Kuminga is an offensive juggernaut and can guard all 5 positions.

Excellent vid!

Having a good attitude to come off the bench while still being productive could end up extending Klay’s career. I wish him the best.

60pts on only 11 dribbles is insane 😳

Klay’s shot selection this season is worst I’ve ever seen from any player ever. Contested jumpers, moving fadeaway 3s, and more. The few game he plays well he isn’t doing that shit. It’s crazy how much his decision making has sabotaged his career more than his age/ decline

It’s funny how making high percentage on floaters might be one of the single most important offensive skills for a guard now, after shooting 3s.

The splash Brocollis

It's actually a smart tactic to have players more seasoned and get tired faster play less time. The devote as much time to those with significantly more energy. So it's not bad at all.

Perfect👍💪

It makes sense. Both Klay and Jordan Poole, have been playing much better off the bench. Klay's streakiness was always there, but he was an All-Star because he was a great on the ball defender, especially among guards, which helped prevent Steph from having to guard an opposing teams best guard. The Warriors style of playing has also changed. Before it was Steph and Klay's gravity that presented the opportunity for slashers to get easy layups at the rim, or open 3pt shots. Last year, more and more teams had figured out how to better guard this, and it was also becoming apparent that Klay had significantly slowed down and was struggling to get seperation like he used to on his shots. So now the Warriors are still relying on Step's gravity, but require guys who can dribble and get off their own shot a lot more, players like Podz and Kuminga have that ability to do so to a much higher degree than Klay, whom, everytime I see him take more than 3 dribbles, makes me worried.

I have a feeling Kerr will be starting Klay in plsyoffs

The overall tone in the video and title is pretty ignorant. He’s also averaging nearly 20ppg from the bench, on 48% FG, 45% from three and the team is 5-1

One of the best ever moves the Dubs made was to offer Kerr an offer he can’t refuse, and made him their HC. Many people don’t remember that Kerr originally agreed to coach the Knicks just days prior.

Don’t bury Klay. He’s been hugely effective off the bench. Easily 6th man of year level performance (but he’s started too much this year to win it).

Dang them clips of young clay were like night and day 😂

What happened to the Aussie guy???

People say a few years back when he was leading league in 3s last year an carried warriors to playoffs not play in while steph was injured a good amount of season

The warriors last couple draft picks been crazy half them not even with the team anymore wiseman Poole nico manion etc

Klay super good

you have to give Klay credit for even coming back from those horrible injuries , he is not himself everyones time comes

Holy shit I haven’t seen klay touch the court since I was 10

"Polished young rookie" I see what you did their :)

He just hasn't looked the same after that big injury, it really took away his side to side explosiveness & agility. Overall he's a much slower player, which gives him less separation & less open shots = much lower percentage. His defense has also suffered as a result of that injury, he just can't move as fluidly. He used to be able to guard the oppositions best player, now he struggles to guard mediocre bench players at times.

Bench Draymond for Kuminga

It's not his fault.The injuries caught up.He had too bad injuries back the back

He the Klay

Well you nerds in California need to know that by benching “BigDawsTV” for a hungry rookie, you have a real coach in Kerr 💯

Klay can still play but he will shine off the bench… mark this comment … they should, the warriors will win this year

it looks like he's doing better coming off the bench, i know it's only been a few games, js

Klay was benched coach felt bad Klay gets in starting line up coach realises klay benched again. 💀

Podziemski "Clay ....get me a gaterade .....bee-atch " " Don't throw it to me because you ain't accurate like that."

4:00 The Spurs didn’t win the title that year, remember that was the year where Ray Allen hit the shot in Game 6 & they lost in Game 7. The following year in 2013-2014 season they did win the title though

Don’t you think it’s kinda funny that they look like half brothers?

Can we talk about how insanely good the Warriors are at player development? Time and time again they keep finding these hidden gems late in the draft or getting someone that has never fulfilled their full potential and bringing the best out of them, like Wiggins, how many players were great in their roster only to completely fall apart when they change teams?

They look better with klay off the bench. Podz and cp off the bench makes their team very small compared to klay and cp.

Not anymore bud they sit threw games now... Never playing through bad injuries helps stats tremendously...he is last of a dying breed

Damn Klay momma was fine

It’s all Kerrs fault I’m starting to notice

lucky proving totally up for the task, thou

Because he suffered the worst injury in sports and is getting old?

I watched a lot of golden state basketball klay isn’t the problem Klay jus the fall guy Wiggins not doing anything at all I’ve watched plenty of games Steph is jus jacking shots and missing a lot no one says nothing but when klay do it it’s a problem Steph plays no defense ppl don’t say nothing kuminga can’t shoot and is not consistent no one says nothing all the blame go to klay

Podz don't care about points. He just hustle more than Klay. He play good def and seen all around the court, simply amazing

Klay got benched for his doppelgänger 😭

Yall document the natural decline of an athlete really weird

Just don’t pull a Poole

The spurs win in 2014 not 2013

Because he gotta go bald.

but klay bench is on fire!

Well Klay is starting tonight so... 🤷‍♂️

Kerr needs to put klay back in the starting lineup he's trying to disrespect him that guy should not be starting over him

Bro this AI shit is getting ridicolous. I see like 1 warrior breakdown everyday made by AI

Dislike the headline intensely

Klay should have been benched or released last season…thanks for your service but business is business

Easy. He was benched bc he kept messing up my parley on FD

Playing with covid mask is crazy😂

Goofy ass music ruined the video

Because he’s getting old

I don't play that gay shyt -Klay and Smokey

Podz had 4 points last game.... 🤦‍♂️

he's just way to inconsistent, he showed that he fails them.

Dribbling 11 times and scoring 60 points. Kind of sounds boring to me like it was cool to watch but thinking about it now. Looking back and seeing how soft the league has gotten, yeah that's kind of boring dude... And everybody does the same thing. No more game planning. We already know what's going to happen. It's just going to be whoever shoots the most 3 balls wins it all

You mean buckets falling in the post season

I hope klay will leave this sorry ass team this offseason

Klay just have to pace his self he won’t be on the bench once playoffs start he still got a lot left in the tank

Klay was not benched. BP is good_the next leaders are the young guns. like STEPH KLAY DRAYMOND IGGY.

the main reason for klay's poor performance is his laziness! ... very far from steph curry's attitude!

Good. Klay is cooked

Klay was always overrated on defense and the refs just let him get away with mugging for years