While Klay Thompson recently asked for time to get back to his old self, he acknowledged that he’ll never return to his peak pre-injury form.
It’s unclear exactly when Thompson made those comments to Shelburne, but just a few weeks ago, he engaged in a verbal back-and-forth with Hall of Famer and TNT analyst Charles Barkley about the state of his game.
But after the Warriors’ championship parade in San Francisco, Thompson didn’t play any basketball over the summer. An admitted mental block caused by his Achilles injury prevented him from participating in any pick-up games. His first game action came in Golden State’s Oct. 14 preseason finale. Those early season struggles, combined with a poor performance and subsequent ejection Oct. 25 against the Phoenix Suns, prompted Barkley, a longtime critic of the Warriors, to say on “Inside the NBA” that Thompson and teammate Draymond Green“There was a time when Klay Thompson was the best two-way guard in the NBA, and he's not the same guy and that's because of injuries,” Barkley said. “Is he done? No, I don't think he's done.
"I played 55, 57 games in three years. Give me some freaking time to get that back. To hear someone say, 'Oh, he's not the same player as he was prior to the injuries.' Like, duh. Who goes through that and comes back? … I don't know, it just hurt my heart hearing that. But you know, I'm going to internalize it, and it's going to be fuel for me to be even better. I'm very proud of what we accomplished last year, and I feel like I was a huge part of it.
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