Though the Warriors did not scrimmage on Sunday, center Andrew Bogut rejoined his teammates for practice, his first activity since the Game 5 win over Portland last Wednesday. “I would say it was encouraging today just to get him on the floor and there were no setbacks when he was getting up and down”. Considering he was back on the court Sunday, it appears Bogut has avoided anything serious and the optimism for potentially being available for Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Monday keeps growing.
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Bogut did not practice Friday either, two days after suffering a right adductor strain, and was unofficially considered as day-to-day by Kerr at the time.
“Obviously we’re hoping he’ll be all right”, Kerr said.
Oklahoma City uses a lineup that often pairs 7-foot Steven Adams with 6-11 Enes Kanter and the Thunder are by far the best rebounding team in the league. “Hopefully he’ll be ready to go, give us what he has”.
Green stayed on the bench for the final 51.3 seconds of the third quarter before heading back to the locker room, where his ankle was re-taped. He knows he’ll particularly need to be careful around Oklahoma City center Steven Adams, who has demonstrated a knack for drawing technical fouls from opposing players. Kerr said that if Bogut can’t play in Monday’s Game 1 that Festus Ezeli would start in his place. “We’ll just kind of see”. “We have a very deep team. I think I’m going to do a really good job with it”.
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Andrew Bogut is out for the rest of Game 5.
