KUMINGA: “Jimmy is very smart…if he see you wide open, just very small space, he's gonna throw it”
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00:00 Jonathan. Thank you. I need to — I want to get into your mindset of you had that dunk where you almost like double-pumped, you finish it and you come back down the court and you're smiling. What was going through your mind at that point?
00:16 JONATHAN KUMINGA: I think that's the moment I realized I was out there with the crew and everything was just going the right way.
00:23 JK, you settled in pretty good. Coach said you — he felt like you played well out there. How did it feel to kind of be off that long and then be able to kind of just get right back into the flow of things tonight?
00:40 I don't know. I think a lot of people didn't see, but I kind of struggled a little first minute and I think in the second half, they kind of played me a little longer than I was supposed to, so I was kind of tight, but I've been out for a couple months and I've just been watching how everything's been going and how they've been playing. And, obviously, I spoke to Steve a couple of times about how they've been playing, how things are going well for everyone and I've just been sitting and watching film and learning how I'm feeling when I come back. And I feel like that's what kind of helped me to just go out there and just have fun and, obviously, you got Draymond, you got everybody supporting me, telling me just be you, play the way how to play and just do your thing, so I think that's kind of helped me to just go out there and and, I don't know, and help us win.
01:36 How difficult was this ankle injury to just recover from?
01:42 I never got hurt the way I did and I wasn't — I didn't know what it was until our staff told me that it's something that was going to take a little longer than usual and a lot of people didn't know what it was, but we knew it was just a simple ankle, but it just took longer than the usual end because it was pretty bad. But here I am.
02:09 Steve said he thought your last two scrimmages that it looked like you were kind of getting your pop back. I mean, did you feel maybe not like yourself in the lead up and maybe start to feel a little bit more like yourself the last few scrimmages?
02:26 I didn't really feel like myself, but just obviously having some of our G League players here for the last couple of scrimmages, they kind of helped me just playing with them, just being out there and thank you to our coaches that was helping me to go through this process, but those last two scrimmages kind of gave me a good confirmation of knowing I'm ready to go out there and play and it wasn't no pressure coming from any of our staff. It was just, yeah, they asked me to tell them how I feel and I felt like I was very close to be ready and I just decided to tell them I was ready to come back and they let me come back and play.
03:11 Different roster construction, different rotations since the last time you played, just what did you notice about maybe differences in spacing playing with Jimmy that stuck out to you tonight?
03:24 I think the game kinda just slowed down and the more slow down, the more it's a lot of open space to just go out there and just get things easier, and I feel like just having Jimmy and the way everybody playing, it makes everybody's life easier.
03:46 How important — Jonathan, over here — how important is it to have this stretch — I think you have 16 games left — to kind of re-acclimate before the playoffs to get comfortable?
03:58 I mean, I was out for most of the games we played, but just the way they're playing, the way we're playing now, the way things are going a lot of people find out who they are, their identity. And I feel like it was just very important for us to finish the…
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FROM MARCH 13, 2025, postgame after Sacramento Kings at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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