Graphic madness by Ivan Bettger @ivanbe.
Current Depth Chart
PG. Stephen Curry / Jordan Poole / Ky Bowman
SG. Klay Thompson / Damion Lee / Mychal Mulder
PF. Draymond Green / Eric Paschall / Kevon Looney
This is an approximate guess by me. Your depth chart might look different.
Mychal Mulder
Okay, we’re in small small sample size territory. But in a season like this, you have to let me have small samples. And this small sample tore up the G-League, then came on as a ten-day contract and after a rough first game, shot the lights out. Basically the only ten-day who got comfortable quickly enough to shoot well from 3. 6’ 4”, he did work hard on defense.
The stats have to be taken with a whole salt mine due to small sample size and chaotic team situation. If you omit his first game (0-5 from 3), he shot a passable 34% from 3, and if you omit his last game (0-7 from 3 while awaiting coronavirus, I mean I admit this is basically cheating the stats but you have to let me play), he was 16-40 which is 40%.
Cleaning The Glass stats also love him: Good scorer, assists nobody, hangs on to the ball. Slightly above-average steals and rebounder. Fouls somewhat frequently, rarely blocks. On defense, he does not AT ALL touch the box score, and fouls a lot.
And advanced stats like BPM are quite negative on Mulder, the haters.
So, are we going to see Mulder playing any kind of serious role next season?
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Yeah, he's such an unknown still. From the G-league, it seems he can shoot from 3, but two notable 0-fers in a short stint is a worrisome event for someone whose most relevant skill is shooting.
On defense, he showed signs of being alright, but he's not Klay/S-Dot height, so that's one challenge, and he still seems kind of raw. Not as dependable as even JTA. But Ron Adams said good things about him, so that has to be a good sign, right?
I will admit, he feels more ready to contribute than Bowman or Poole, who seem farther off from being ready, or guys like Evans or Damian Jones, whom I don't really expect to see in the league in a year or two. But we also have a much better sense of where all those guys are at, whereas Mulder is just a huge question mark with high upside and equally high downside.
I'm not feeling irrational at all. Any player that makes it to the nba, no matter how they got there, has skills. But that is not enough to insure that they stay there. The Warriors, in assessing players, have 2 areas that they need to pay special attention to. How well they execute when they are on the floor, and how much they have to pay them.
Mulder was seen to execute sporadically, not very efficiently. One could think that he could improve with time. If the season were allowed to play out, we would have seen which way this area would go. Now, he will have to be measured against other free agents that will be available, known commodities. The odds stack up against him. Bad luck.
When the draft and trades sort themselves out, they will assess what they have, how much money they have to add players, and who they will be. It's no longer last year's choices except for those signed to guaranteed contracts. The Warriors will not be looking for bodies, but talent that will hold down and execute their position. The room for question marks just shrunk.