Brandin Podziemski is rising up the rookie ranks and has earnt the respect of his teammates and rivals, however there’s one factor he does that Warriors vets don’t perceive.
The 21-year-old has an air of confidence about him that’s hardly ever seen in rookies and Steve Kerr says the veterans can’t wrap their head round it.
“He’s bought nice really feel for the sport; he simply sees it earlier than it occurs and that’s fairly uncommon,” Kerr mentioned of Podziemski on 95.7 The Recreation. “My favourite high quality of his is his confidence. He simply bounces again after powerful nights and shortly. And that’s actual confidence and self-assurance. I like that and it drives a few of the veterans loopy generally, as a result of a rookie isn’t alleged to behave that method.
“Draymond [Green] mentioned it to me years in the past; he mentioned rookies must go take it. Younger gamers must go carve out their spot, and no matter meaning, you’ve bought to do. And for Brandin, meaning doing what he’s doing all 12 months, connecting the sport for our guys with the suitable lower, the suitable path, main the league in fees drawn, making a ton of gritty, loose-ball recoveries, offensive rebounds. The man is a gamer and there’s a motive he performs as a lot as he does.”
Podziemski is sweet firm in the meanwhile, since he and Victor Wembanyama are the one first years to rank within the prime 5 of each rebounds per recreation and assists per recreation.
Studying below Steph Curry is just going to speed up Podziemski’s abilities additional.
He has stood up in massive moments in 2023-24 and the Warriors’ future in is sweet arms with rooks like Podz and Trayce Jackson-Davis, who put Wemby on a poster this week.
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