Klay Thompson Was Candid About Not Closing Win Over Brooklyn

The Golden State Warriors picked up a 109-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday evening. With 7:19 left within the fourth quarter, Klay Thompson went to the bench and didn’t examine again into the sport. Thompson struggled on the evening — he had eight factors on 4-for-9 taking pictures and didn’t make any threes in half-hour of labor — so Steve Kerr opted to go together with Moses Moody and Gui Santos off the bench, as a substitute.

Thompson met with the media after the sport and received requested how he was feeling. After saying he felt bodily nice, Thompson was remarkably candid, telling the press “mentally, most likely slightly totally different story.” After which, Thompson went on to have perhaps essentially the most fascinating back-and-forth with the media that we’ve seen this season, as he tried to stability the delight he felt in how effectively his younger teammates performed together with his personal private struggles, notably in terms of not closing video games.

It’s straightforward to recollect how laborious Thompson took Charles Barkley’s criticism that he’s “not the identical man” after his accidents from final season and see the parallels between that and this. For a way laid again Thompson’s been off the courtroom throughout his NBA profession, he’s all the time had a outstanding aggressive streak, and you’ll see it in moments like this when he’s battling a dip in his efficiency — throughout his final 5 video games, he’s solely 12-for-49 (24.5 %) from behind the three-point line. If there may be excellent news for Thompson, it’s that he’s the type of man who has proven he can snap out of a rut and get again on observe, and it’s not laborious to think about him on the courtroom and enjoying a giant function the subsequent time the Warriors try to shut out a win.