This article probably isn’t going to tell you anything that you didn’t already know from watching Golden State Warriors games this year. Let’s get that out of the way before we move on. I’m not breaking any news, and I’m not dropping some controversial opinion like “James Wiseman should be starting next year” or “Steph Curry is bad, actually.”
I’m just telling you something that you probably internalized a long time ago: Jordan Poole took a gigantic step forward in his second year as a pro.
Aided by a stint in the G League bubble, Poole went from a player that the fanbase complained about having drafted, to a core part of the team’s rotation.