"The Invaluable Kevon Looney: The Warrior's Unsung Hero"

2023-04-30 22:49:51

We talked, we talk and we will talk for a long time about Mr. Stephen Wardell Curry. However, in the very large shadow of the leader hides that of a very small interior trade, Kevon Hodor Looney.

11 points, 21 rebounds and… +25 from plus/minus. This is the third time that Looney cracked the 20 rebound mark in this series against Sacramento.

The Shadow of the Watcher. The great inexhaustible verticality that brings balance to where Stephen Curry tends to centralize attention around his prowess. Without Kevon Looney, would the Warriors have taken this match, won by a wide margin of 120 to 100? Nothing less sure. 21 rebounds including 10 offensive change the course of a meeting. They offer a second chance to outsiders. The ability to catch up, to sow, to crucify an opponent who relied on his only 24 seconds of aggressive defense. Last night – and as during the 2022 Playoffs – Looney restored his letters of nobility to the 5 muddy positions which do not leave the mud and stick around over the 48 minutes of the game. Impossible to ignore the construction site installed in the head of Domantas Sabonis, in sight but dominated on the rebound. The Lithuanian is not a fan of the profile he often lacks: few spacing, at least not the offensive palette for, but an ongoing struggle when a shot is fired. On every outside shot, Looney makes it a priority to grab the rebound. As if he had a place in one of the best teams that our sport has ever known, and that he continued to welcome it as a good privilege, without ever getting used to it.

The Warriors will face Los Angeles in the next round: the idea of a duel between Looney and Davis makes us graze vagal unease. Be careful not to fall, the big Kevon might just pick us up.