Jordan Poole spent four seasons with the Golden State Warriors. He got to play with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green and was coached by Steve Kerr. The Warriors won the 2022 NBA Finals but lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2023 Western Conference Semifinals. Poole, who was punched in the face by Green before the start of the 2022-23 season, was traded to the Washington Wizards this offseason in the Chris Paul trade and the scoring guard is embracing this next chapter of his career while also taking everything he learned with the Warriors.
“Golden State, their picture is already painted,” Poole said during an interview with Josh Robbins of The Athletic. “Some other organizations, they’re already established or they have their foundation. But it was cool ’cause I got to learn from the best of the best.
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“That’s the challenge. The challenge is learning and applying what you took and trying to build everything up from the common denominators of what you do know, what you took from different teams, different age groups, different areas, different coaches, and then you apply what you think is needed or what you’ve asked or what you think will help and see what masterpiece comes out of that.”
Poole averaged 20.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Warriors last season. In the Wizards’ preseason win over the New York Knicks on October 18, Poole erupted for 41 points. The NBA champion will have a larger role with the Wizards than he had with the Warriors since he’s not playing with Curry and Thompson anymore.
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“In the four months that I’ve been here, it’s just cool,” Poole said. “It’s kind of like you’re painting your own canvas, essentially. You’ve got a blank canvas and you got 18 artists, and everybody gets to kind of paint their own picture. And at the end, we try to make it one (picture), which is cool.”
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