Golden State Warriors 2013-14 Player Grades: Andrew Bogut

Weaknesses:

Are we allowed to say that Andrew Bogut’s body is his weakness? There’s no doubt that the nine-year veteran has all the physical attributes needed to be a dominant center in this league. At 7’0″, 260 pounds, Bogut can hold his own in the paint against just about any NBA center or power forward. Unfortunately, he just can’t quite seem to stay healthy over the course of an 82-game season, let alone the playoffs too.

This season, Bogut missed 15 games plus Golden State’s entire seven-game series against the Clips. In his defense, the 67 games Bogut played in this year were the most he’s had in a season since 2009-10 with the Milwaukee Bucks, but for a team that was looking to improve their playoff positioning after a promising postseason run last year, the games that Andrew Bogut missed were critical. Had he been able to stay healthier, this Warriors team might have been able to grab a seed higher than No. 6.

Aside from things that Bogut cannot control, the Aussie is also a horrendous free throw shooter. People talk about DeAndre Jordan (42.8 percent) and Dwight Howard (54.7 percent) as centers that you can play Hack-A-Shaq with, but Bogut was actually worse this season than both of them, converting only 34.4 percent of his free throws. He’s not a high volume free throw shooter like Jordan and Howard, but that’s still a discouraging clip that playoff teams would do well to realize.