Anderson shows value to Warriors, who ‘hated’ playing against him

Anderson shows value to Warriors, who ‘hated’ playing against him originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO – Draymond Green doesn’t forget. His memory is one of the many resources he can reach in and grab from his tool box. One such example highlights the ways his new Warriors teammate, Kyle Anderson, can affect games without producing highlights that spread across social media.

“He’s one of those guys I hated playing against, I told y’all before,” Green said Wednesday night. “He got a steal either last year or a couple years ago where I was throwing a pass and he reached his long-ass arm out and took the ball and I’m like, ‘Yo, how did he get the ball?’ ”

Plenty of players have asked themselves that same question over Anderson’s 11-year NBA career. In the Warriors’ win Tuesday night to start a back-to-back against the New Orleans Pelicans, Green received a reminder how, but only this time he could savor the moment knowing he’s now wearing the same colors as Anderson.

Pelicans star and super athlete Zion Williamson tried to take Anderson off the dribble. The man known as “Slo Mo” slid and stopped a freight train square in its tracks.

“I’m like, ‘Yup, I’m happy I don’t have to face that anymore,’ ” Green said.

Anderson isn’t the fastest or the most athletic. He can throw it down but isn’t going to dunk in the fashion of Vince Carter, Dominique Wilkins or any of the great high-fliers. What he is going to do is use his 6-foot-9, 230-pound frame with a 7-foot-3 wingspan to his advantage in every way possible.

Combine that with having one of the most cerebral minds in all of basketball, and you have a winning player no matter what franchise he’s representing.

The veteran point-forward who can play nearly all five positions, especially defensively, now is on his fifth team after previous stops in San Antonio, Memphis and Minnesota. The influence he had on the shorthanded Warriors taking both ends of their back-to-back with the Pelicans, first a 124-106 win followed by a 104-89 win, was exactly what they envisioned when they acquired Anderson in the…

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Publish date : 2024-10-31 07:13:00

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