https://youtu.be/hAPrXvLkzCs
It’s getting a bit late in the season for me to start declaring which players on the Warriors roster are “Klay Thompson replacements”, but I’m going to do it anyway because I really don’t have another angle for this video description. Simply put, Mychal Mulder is the Klay Thompson replacement that the Warriors have been craving ever since the real Klay Thompson blew up his Achilles. As you desperately grasp around the Warriors’ roster looking for somebody other than the 6’3″, 5 PPG scoring Mulder to be the replacement for the irreplaceable Klay Thompson, please be aware that I have already completed my analysis of the Warriors’ roster and found no other suitable players.
Mulder have it all. He’s got the goatee. He’s got the 40% three-point shooting. He’s got the skin tone. He’s got the name (Klay’s dad is also a Mychal). He’s got the ability to drop 25 on any given night. Meanwhile, the other candidates on the Warriors have deficiencies that Mulder simply doesn’t:
-Kelly Oubre: perhaps the designated Klay Thompson replacement at the beginning of the season, but can’t shoot anymore, and is too attractive to be a credible replacement
-Damion Lee: no goatee
-Jordan Poole: career 30% three-point shooter
-Kent Bazemore: no. just no
When Thompson comes back next season (something that I assume will happen), and Mulder is still under contract for less than two million dollars, the Warriors will actually have TWO Klay Thompsons. That smells like a guaranteed championship to me. What does it smell like to you?