Explain: Warriors youngster Jonathan Kuminga soars for dunks, dominates on defense

He strangely put it all together in his best game yet as a warrior who combines defensive dominance with electrifying

dunks

starts with a simple pick and roll a little shaky, but Kaminga's man, the corner here is going to rise towards the wing, threatens that the roller can enter. and then JK is sinking into the paint now that his man has escaped the corner. JK has to recover until the end. He is so athletic that he can cover a quarter of the court just as the ball handler attacks, the shutdown tries to intimidate him. via kaminga kamenga showing admirable strength to not get dislodged here and just keep his hand up here without fouling and finally the attacker gives up and Draymond as a kick saves here the great Naz Reed is guarding Jordan Poole to get him out of Noel, he's here.

I'm going around the corner, so you might think it's no problem. JK can just switch to Noel, but that will leave Jordan Pool protecting the big read, so Kamenga switches, but Pool is tracking the ball. Here's Reed trying to free himself. Draymond jumps into the guard read. Pool is still trying to reach the ball. JK still blocks the attacker. This attacker is contained, so he will try to read again and then Draymond will stop reading and try to box and endure some pretty light stuff. Speaking of Gobert and Draymond, Gobert will get a foul for hitting Draymond on this rebound.

JK shows more coordination with Draymond, wobbly dribble handoff, while a screen for D'Angelo Russell, this man will step up and set a second screen. The screen is going to nail Clay, so JK switches to D'angel Russell, which I don't know if Minnesota wanted that, but Comminga sure wanted that he loves being the guard person, whoever has the ball, Thelau tries to cross and catch. JK with a little feint that completely works. Kamenga goes up and at that moment Draymond sees that Kamingos left his feet and quickly switches to Dilo who is just thinking fast and this is a great contest against Dilo but what can stop Gobert? just dunking this rebound, JK sees drain on a switch, so he goes to switch to Colbert, comes in with his butt and tries to push Gobert under the basket, that's a pretty good move and then it's just a matter of strength.

JK Using assistant coach Dejean's preferred boxing method, where you go sideways towards the man and shield him with one hand to have the other hand free to go for the ball, the ball actually hits the ground, but Kamega is fully committed to push Rudy Gobert away from this ball Jordan Pool missed his chance to reward JK. JK started tied with Gobert and has now taken a big lead away from him. A good pass over the top would give JK a clear path to the basket. I don't know who would do it. be brave enough to stand in the way, but it doesn't happen.

I don't know why Draymond is trying to make Clay not guard this attacker but Draymond switches and that leaves the great Nas Reed here to be covered by Jonathan Kaminga, that means Clay is not guarding anyone because Draymond took him down and look who just entered, it is the French rejection, no one protects him. A little confusion comes along. Draymond and JK go to Colbert. Good lateral movement by JK. Draymond steals. Guard Reed Gobert's pass is too high. Wiggins wasn't confident so he rotated completely from the weak side which leaves the hot Noel wide open and this causes Clay and Jordan Pool to shut down Noel which is bad

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but once Noel misses the shot, Jordan pool is running away and Clay is running away right behind him.

Andrew Wiggins just has to throw it into the defensive zone and someone will pick it up. Steve Kerr does something interesting: he replaces the starters but without Draymond because Draymond needs a break and leaves Jonathan Kamenga at Looney. He smoothly switches to Edwards, but Edward will make a sweet move on him. Little Euro Step One Step two-step, he's going to get around Kavan Looney, but JK feels qualified to leave Nazreed in the corner. and he swoops in to dispute this. I don't think Edward expected to see JK suddenly appear there and he just floats higher than he wanted and JK instantly jumps up to contest this rebound, causing Anthony Edwards to miss the shot and then the third. jump immediately jump grab the rebound what a play one of the difficult things about the Warriors offense is trusting that if you give the ball to someone you will eventually get it back JK shows up after that big play but he doesn't just push on his man, tries to make a small dribble transfer to Jordan's group, the big Reed has to stay with JK because in this lineup, JK is one of the big guys in Jordan's group with a good quick retreat angle on this pass that allows him to attack from the lateral line.

Reed only makes one misstep in this direction and that's enough for Doom to give Carl Anthony Towns credit. He tries to go up and block this spin and loads the ball on his right side to throw it down, but then as the cat gets closer he says I still have time on my flight. I'm going to detour my trip to Dunktown a little and he spins the ball this way so the cat can't reach it. Kamenga has more hang time than a hovercraft pool and crashes and crawls on the screen. and JK says, "Oh, I can't take any chances.

I have to protect this guy. I'm also pretty excited about that dunk that's going to follow behind Kamenga, holding back and trying to split the difference between the bigs behind him and Austin Rivers. Austin Rivers does not want". part of trying to finish over Kamenga so he throws the ball to the cutter down the baseline and there should be a dunk well Kamenga just spins to Hyper Speed ​​reaches power through Kamenga but it actually bounces off Kaminga, that's some strength Reed has to do. kicks the ball out again to read in the post with Kamenga and Kamenga plays respectable

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here, but just a really nice move from Reed, too aggressive for Kaminga for the foul and one, and he's trying to

explain

to the referee . that Reed committed an offensive foul by turning with his elbows out oh I like this Jordan Poole with the sympathy elbow saying yes my man kamenga got elbowed this play is low key and very good too Anthony Edwards isn't putting up much resistance here but the ball bounces strangely and now it could be a 50 50 ball but Kaminga protects Edwards with one hand and then with his right hand he approaches and with just one hand Odell Beckham Juniors this ball comes out of the air and falls. with a one-handed pucker that's beautiful D'Angelo Russell is outplaying Looney on the perimeter Reed tries to space himself out to try to keep the manga going with him, but that's never going to happen.

JK knows that he is the last man and that is why Dilo now decides. to try his luck against Kaminga and his luck is denied or delayed. Cut to Carl Anthony Towns running at top speed. Jonathan Kamenga, though he is sitting on the spot preventing Towns from passing. Looney JK is discreet and trusts in his athleticism to leave his man Anthony Edwards all the power. coming out here trusting that when the kick comes he'll be able to recover and stay with Edwards through whatever type of closing attack he does, that's some confidence there and it's something that's coming, he's still feeling what his limits are, Edwards a little bit shoulder feint. sidestep and kamenga even though there's a little bit of space here, it goes up quickly and Edwards misses it so much that he needs this weird sidestep and kamenga.

I love that he didn't leak, he stayed back to make sure this ball got there. The assembled Commander brings us up and doesn't find he can get anything fast, so he flows this into a play that will turn into a screen, two billiard screens on top, the Stagger screen, the Timberwolves try the same pick and roll defense Kamenga was using here is a screen group where D'Angelo Russell is blocked and follows the ball handler, calls Anthony Towns trying to contain this momentum and then recovers his bounce pass Man Simple to Looney Carl Anthony Towns. He is not a Kaminga, he cannot return to the field.

Play this Defender has to rotate from the Looney manga, the little bounce pass and the soft dunk. Jay Cale is such a fun combination of super athletic puppy aggression and cartoon character because every time he notices someone getting cut in an unexpected way, he can see it. this gigantic Farm exclamation point above his head and he'll like to do this double tick all over his body. Whoa, this is Kamenga's dream, the guy who can hold crosses for short bursts, but then can also switch to D'angelo. Russell and stands in front of him. Dilo takes a couple of dribbles at him and says, Oh, hell, let's go to plan B, so if he keeps playing like that, he'll keep making mistakes and big plays for the rest of the game.

We will see it more and more. Let's go back and do a celebratory audit of that Jonathan Kaminga dunk. Draymond is so excited that he starts bouncing off of people and the first person he bumps into is Steph and he tells you: I love you. The man hugged and punched Steph in the chest Steph because I love you too, but I want to get a front row view and start yelling right in his face at my comrade, so there's Steph. It's no surprise that he and Draymond eventually received technical fouls for being on the court. celebrating, we have Moses Moody, he always has angry man celebrations and here he has an angry man flexing showing off his muscles.

Draymond has stomped past Steph and it's Steve Kerr, he's had enough. Draymond is so excited that he's going to get punched in the chest by Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr. He is already old, I don't know if he can survive this blow to the chest. Draymond seems to realize that it would be medically incorrect to apply full power to Steve Kerr's chest, so he scales it back down to a light chest bump and a big I love you hug. and Steve Kerr is trying to absorb the impact and also tell Draymond I love you, man, but you smell like a dumpster full of sneakers, so I'm just going to hug you and walk away at the same time.