After torching the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday for 41 points on 13-of-24, shooting including 7-of-14 on threes, Klay Thompson credited the weather for his recent peak in shooting percentages:
Klay Thompson says the weather is responsible for his hot shooting. Is he right?
Thompson was shooting 37 percent from the field and 27 percent from three while Oakland battled bad weather.
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“I’ll probably say the weather’s gotten better. This sunshine’s been so good to me, been able to get outside,” Thompson told reporters, according to CBS Sports’ Sean Wagner-McGough. “It just puts me in a great mood to come to the gym every day, get my work in, go home and enjoy the outdoors. The Bay Area is beautiful, that’s a big part of it. Not even kidding, it’s been so nice to be able to get outside.”
Between Feb. 22 and March 8, Oakland battled uncharacteristically cold weather that blasted the city with lows below 40 and highs that didn’t peak in the mid-60s until late in the first week of March. Thompson struggled accordingly, averaging just 20 points on 30 percent field-goal shooting and a vile 27 percent shooting from three.
But then the weather turned.
Oakland has had lows below 50 degrees just four times since March 14. In the 12 games since then, Thompson has lit it up, averaging 25.5 points per game shooting 51 percent from the field, 49 percent from three, and 89 percent from the foul line.
Eight of those 12 games have been at home.
His shooting percentages have been better than Stephen Curry’s since the weather turned. The weather is only going to get better as summer draws nearer, and the Warriors have all but locked home-court advantage in for their entire playoff run.
The rest of the league should be scared.
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