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The Golden State Warriors beat the Sacramento Kings 110-105 on Tuesday night, in a battle between deeply injured teams. Only one team was actively trying to win, though, and that team did, indeed, win.
It wasn’t pretty, though it was for a little while. The Warriors blew a 16-point lead, but recovered to pull off a win, and put a halt to their four-game losing skid.
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So let’s grade the players who handled business on Tuesday. As always, grades are based on my expectations for each player, with a “B” grade representing the average performance for that player.
Note: True-shooting percentage (TS) is a scoring efficiency metric that accounts for threes and free throws. League-average TS is 58.1%.
Pat Spencer
41 minutes, 14 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 3 turnovers, 2 fouls, 5-for-16 shooting, 3-for-8 threes, 1-for-2 free throws, 41.5% TS, -5
Spencer didn’t have a particularly good game, but there’s still so much value that he provides. The Warriors only used nine players, which included a player on a two-way contract who is fighting through an injury, a player who was healthy for just the eighth time this season, and a player being carefully worked back into the fold after two months on the sidelines.
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So while it wasn’t great basketball that Spencer played, it was extremely valuable for Steve Kerr to know he could trust the guard to play 40+ minutes and not make any huge mistakes along the way. And that’s exactly what happened. Spencer ran the offense well, competed on defense, and made a few buckets. His efficiency wasn’t quite as bad as it looks, since he had a few bail-out attempts.
Grade: B-
Malevy Leons
21 minutes, 2 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, 3 turnovers, 3 fouls, 1-for-5 shooting, 20.0% TS, -15
Leons didn’t play well. There’s no sugarcoating that. He’s also been gutting his way through a nasty wrist injury because the Warriors are shy on bodies, and he deserves a whole lot of credit for that.
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Grade: A for the toughness
Post-game bonus: Worst plus/minus on the team
Draymond Green
27 minutes, 1 point, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal, 1…
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