Five main takeaways from Warriors’ successful NBA Summer League run

Five main takeaways from Warriors’ successful NBA Summer League run originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

One brutal loss doesn’t define the success of the Warriors’ NBA Summer League between the California Classic and Las Vegas.

The Warriors were a perfect 3-0 in the Cali Classic to raise the first Mitch Richmond Trophy. They then won their first four games to reach the semifinals in Vegas.

A three-point loss to the Miami Heat, a team the Warriors had previously beaten by 39 points ended their win streak at seven, and put an end to their summer league as a whole.

The Warriors played to the style of head coach Anthony Vereen, a developmental coach for Golden State who is beloved among players and coaches. His group brought energy, pushed the pace, played hard and touted their togetherness. They only had their top players for three games, and battled key injuries.

Summer league, as previously stated, was an unquestioned success for the Warriors.

Here are five thoughts from the Warriors’ 7-1 summer league exhibition slate that gave them a new trophy, and had them within striking distance of another.

If first impressions are everything, we should have known it all about Daeqwon Plowden after the Warriors’ blowout win to open the California Classic. Plowden was a plus-41 in the win over the Heat. The 25-year-old undrafted wing scored 26 points on 10-of-14 shooting and drained six threes.

That was Plowden’s first game in a Warriors jersey, and just the beginning to his Golden State journey. The franchise agreed to a two-way contract with Plowden after five games this summer, where Golden State was a perfect 5-0.

Plowden at the time was averaging 16.7 points on 53.7-percent shooting from the field and 48.1 percent from three. He wound up playing in all eight games this summer and averaged 14.6 points – 16.7 at the Cali Classic and 13.4 in Las Vegas – on 47-percent shooting (39 of 83) and 39.6 percent (19 of 48) as a 3-point shooter. And Plowden sees himself as a 3-and-D player with an emphasis on defense first.

Every year in college, Plowden improved as a scorer. This past season in the G League he went…

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Publish date : 2024-07-22 18:07:58

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