MARCH 2: Quinones’ 10-day deal is now official, the Warriors announced (via Twitter).
MARCH 1: The Warriors intend to promote guard Lester Quinones from their G League affiliate in Santa Cruz to their NBA roster, having agreed to sign him to a 10-day contract, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
The move is being made due to a rule buried deep in the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, as Anthony Slater of The Athletic explains. A team that has an open spot on its 15-man roster can only have its two-way players active for a total of 90 combined games, rather than 100 (50 each).
Golden State’s two-way players have hit that 90-game limit — Anthony Lamb has been active for 47 games and Ty Jerome has been active for 43. By filling the 15th spot on their standard roster, the Warriors will ensure that they can continue to activate Lamb and Jerome for at least a few more games.
As Slater observes, a simpler solution may have been for the Warriors to promote one of those two-way players to a standard contract, but the club wants to maintain some roster flexibility before finalizing any decisions on Lamb or Jerome. There’s an expectation that at least one of them will likely be promoted before the end of the season, but it may come down to which player head coach Steve Kerr believes would be more needed in the playoff rotation.
After going undrafted out of Memphis last summer, Quinones signed a two-way contract with Golden State, but he was waived just before the regular season began in October and has instead spent his first professional season as an affiliate player for the Santa Cruz Warriors.
Quinones averaged 17.4 points on .498/.436/.745 shooting in 18 Showcase Cup games (29.6 MPG) and has put up 20.7 PPG, 7.1 RPG, and 4.9 APG with a .448/.361/.808 shooting line in 21 NBAGL regular season appearances (32.5 MPG) for Santa Cruz.
this season G League per game
3 point shot attempts 8.6
3pt 36.1%
Assists 5.0
Turnover 3.2
Steph Curry, nba stats
3 point shot attempts 11.4
3pt 42.7%
Assists 6.4
Turnover 3.2
Kevon Looney has not missed a 3 point shot attempt this season.
Another guard ?
Meanwhile, if Kevon Looney gets Injured, who is going to play Center ?
Taking a big risk expecting Looney to stay Healthy through the Playoffs, like he did last year.
Lol this was the same refrain all last year. How’d that work out for them?
How’d it work out? Looney stayed healthy. and so did Draymond. And we were LUCKY.
My question is, what if they don’t stay healthy this time? Are you willing to gamble that both him and Draymond are healthy again for the Playoffs?
Why risk it by adding another Guard today ?
Curry, Klay, Poole, Donte, GP2 – sh’t, thats enough Guards.
Jerome, Moody and Quiniones wll not get any Playing time if those 5 are healthy.
Meanwhile, the greater need was for a space eater, lane clogger like a Dwight Howard or a Hassan Whiteside. Someone that can help guard Jokic, Ayton, KD, AD, Sabonis, etc.
If added now, they would be playoff Eligible in the event that Dray or Looney get injured during or before the Playoffs even start.
Can only play so many Guards on the court at Once.
Hell even Melo or Harkless have a use
Do you really trust Dwight Howard in Warriors offense? Be sure that by adding someone you don’t subtract. They need the ball moving, people moving. Adding some big body for the hell of it looks nice on paper but I trust Kerr knows what he’s doing…but what do I know?
I mean its a 10 day they can give him a look since he has been good. They like one or both of Ty/Lamb and this will be an audition to take over the 2 way spot.
didn’t dwight die on that fox show?
No backup big ?
Come on. Pick up a Big!
Moses Brown or Noel wake up GS. We need more threes
So many big option on the market what is FO doing…..I know you like small ball but doesn’t work 24/7
They have to keep lamb!!!! Jerome is great but small….and gp2 will be back before playoffs. Warriors can’t afford to go smaller! But a g league guy? Guess they forgot how Barton kills them every game
Have Iggy retire. Then they can keep both Lamb & Jerome