Golden State Warriors 2013-14 Player Grades: Andrew Bogut

Lowlights:

Missing 15 games isn’t the end of the world, but missing the last seven of your team’s season, especially when that team is a playoff team, isn’t good. The lowlight of Bogut’s season was obviously not being able to help his team out when they needed him the most, particularly against a tough Clippers team that had the best power forward in the league in Blake Griffin and a much improved DeAndre Jordan at center. The Warriors’ small-ball lineups and Draymond Green‘s arrival allowed them to remain competitive and force a seventh game, but Bogut would have helped that defense get stops down the stretch of close games.

As for individual highlights, Bogut fell victim to the posterizations that come with being a shot-blocker: sometimes protecting the rim means you’re going to get slammed on. Nobody ever really Blake Griffin-ed him or anything like that, but Jonas Valanciunas certainly got the last laugh after he got Bogut to bite on his pump fake. A spin move and high-flying jam later and we’re left with one of the few instances this season where Bogut got beasted in the paint: