Jonathan Kuminga interview via SF Standard’s Tim Kawakami – “Jonathan Kuminga’s gold-dye summer and enormous plans with the Warriors”
September 20, 2024
Jonathan Kuminga interview via SF Standard’s Tim Kawakami – “Jonathan Kuminga’s gold-dye summer and enormous plans with the Warriors”
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Scrubbed through the podcast to try to find the interview, but unless I missed it, this is reporting on an interview that happened behind the scenes, not an actual interview with JK. Some may still find it interesting for sure, but I was hoping to hear straight from the source.
I would love to see JK becomes a legit 2nd option, able to put up 30-40 maybe once every 2 months, but average mid 20s for the season, grab boards and assist.
One aspect that is lost is that Kuminga is STILL 21-years old. (He will turn 22 in October).
I am looking forward to see his improved game. (3pt shooting, processing, passing, team defense).
Nice to hear JK views himself as a SF, but I guess he’s got to prove it. Thankfully sounds like he’s ready to
Always big on kuminga. The team’s success this year is going to hinge heavily on his improvement. They won’t be championship contenders, but if he takes a leap they could make some noise
Is he actually putting in the work? Or he just dyed his hair?
Someone needs to plant this kid in a room with a Jaylen Brown tape on loop
I’m not crazy about the hair.
I do hope he elevates his game this season. That’ll be awesome
TK not at the Athletic??? that is news
Goddamn his hair looks rodmannesque.
This part of the interview made me go 🤨…kid is certainly defiant going into the season, I’ll give him that.
**TK:** There’s Draymond still there, power forward, you and Andrew at small forward. Kyle Anderson could play some of those positions. Where do you see yourself fitting in that?
**JK**: I’m definitely, like I say, I’m a small forward. I don’t see Draymond always going to be Draymond. I could play with Draymond. I could play with anybody. So I don’t see anybody being in my way because I feel like we could all be on the floor at the same time.
**TK:** You know, there’s a lot of talk about could you play with Wiggins, right? The stats weren’t there. But then Draymond at center or, you know, something seemed to really click with that.
**JK:** That’s not even a problem. I feel like I have done it. I think I have done it and I have got better. And I feel like that’s just very easy. Like, it’s not that hard. It’s just I feel like I could play with all of them on the floor at the same time.
Whether you have Wiggins or Podz at the 2, if Kuminga can play the 3 well, then that makes a lineup of TJD at the 5 and Draymond at the 4 and roaming possible. So the toss-up would be Podz or Wiggins off the bench. I think Podz is better suited for that role. Making Steph, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond, and TJD the starters. Podz would probably be closer over TJD and we would put Dray back at the 5 for some closeouts.
12 comments
Scrubbed through the podcast to try to find the interview, but unless I missed it, this is reporting on an interview that happened behind the scenes, not an actual interview with JK. Some may still find it interesting for sure, but I was hoping to hear straight from the source.
I would love to see JK becomes a legit 2nd option, able to put up 30-40 maybe once every 2 months, but average mid 20s for the season, grab boards and assist.
One aspect that is lost is that Kuminga is STILL 21-years old. (He will turn 22 in October).
I am looking forward to see his improved game. (3pt shooting, processing, passing, team defense).
Nice to hear JK views himself as a SF, but I guess he’s got to prove it. Thankfully sounds like he’s ready to
Always big on kuminga. The team’s success this year is going to hinge heavily on his improvement. They won’t be championship contenders, but if he takes a leap they could make some noise
Is he actually putting in the work? Or he just dyed his hair?
Someone needs to plant this kid in a room with a Jaylen Brown tape on loop
I’m not crazy about the hair.
I do hope he elevates his game this season. That’ll be awesome
TK not at the Athletic??? that is news
Goddamn his hair looks rodmannesque.
This part of the interview made me go 🤨…kid is certainly defiant going into the season, I’ll give him that.
**TK:** There’s Draymond still there, power forward, you and Andrew at small forward. Kyle Anderson could play some of those positions. Where do you see yourself fitting in that?
**JK**: I’m definitely, like I say, I’m a small forward. I don’t see Draymond always going to be Draymond. I could play with Draymond. I could play with anybody. So I don’t see anybody being in my way because I feel like we could all be on the floor at the same time.
**TK:** You know, there’s a lot of talk about could you play with Wiggins, right? The stats weren’t there. But then Draymond at center or, you know, something seemed to really click with that.
**JK:** That’s not even a problem. I feel like I have done it. I think I have done it and I have got better. And I feel like that’s just very easy. Like, it’s not that hard. It’s just I feel like I could play with all of them on the floor at the same time.
Whether you have Wiggins or Podz at the 2, if Kuminga can play the 3 well, then that makes a lineup of TJD at the 5 and Draymond at the 4 and roaming possible. So the toss-up would be Podz or Wiggins off the bench. I think Podz is better suited for that role. Making Steph, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond, and TJD the starters. Podz would probably be closer over TJD and we would put Dray back at the 5 for some closeouts.