Charles Bassey’s play is turning heads in Golden State

Every season I activate this trope to try and inspire a wary Dub Nation who wonders why we don’t replace (insert suspect player) with someone else in the league. You’re in the back seat of your mom’s car, those sweet sweet Golden Arches come into view, and you make your pitch: “Mom, can we PLEAAASEEE get McDonald’s?”

And without missing a beat, back comes the dreamcrushing sentence masquerading as a better suggestion: “We got McDonald’s at home.”

Advertisement

What’s at home is never McDonald’s, but it’s ground beef, sandwich bread, ketchup, mustard, and relish. You eat it and more often than not depending on who your mama is, it hits. Your tastebuds are awash with flavor and gratitude. Maybe mom was right, maybe you do have McDonalds at home.

That’s Charles Bassey for the Warriors right now. When Golden State asked for a real center, the front office looked at the cap sheet and injury report, and said, “we got a center at home.”

And maybe the Warriors front office is right, maybe we DO have a big man at home!

And that is quite the development considering the hope of Kristaps Porziņģis dominating as the big man for the Warriors has effectively died as it looks like he’s retiring from Warriors basketball. The team re-signed him this summer even though he’d missed 90 games over the past two seasons with three different teams.

Advertisement

Then there’s Al Horford, who is 40 years old and dealing with a body banged up from years of playoff warfare. Horford is a professional basketball genius. But asking him to play 30 minutes a night in November is not gonna have him available for any kinda playoff run in the spring.

And of course the Warriors can always counter with the grizzled, undersized legend Draymond Green at center. That works until Draymond does Draymond things and gets ejected two minutes into the third quarter, which brings us to the night the center at home showed up.

On Nov. 2 against the Suns, Golden State trailed by 17. Draymond had been thrown out for body slamming one Phoenix player and quasi strangling Dillon Brooks (rightfully so).

That’s when Bassey had a career night, scoring 19 points on 7-of-10…

Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/charles-bassey-play-turning-heads-190218480.html

Author :

Publish date : 2026-11-08 19:02:00

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.