{"id":17508,"date":"2022-11-21T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/klay-thompson-criticize-me-all-you-want-but-i-know-how-great-i-am-and-what-im-capable-of\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:31:30","slug":"klay-thompson-criticize-me-all-you-want-but-i-know-how-great-i-am-and-what-im-capable-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/klay-thompson-criticize-me-all-you-want-but-i-know-how-great-i-am-and-what-im-capable-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson: &#8220;Criticize me all you want. But I know how great I am and what I&#8217;m capable of&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpb_video_wrapper\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"td-youtube-player\" width=\"600\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AgkI_eU83Y?enablejsapi=1&amp;feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;vq=hd720&amp;&amp;&amp;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>After a slow start of the season, Warriors star Klay Thompson exploded with 41 points in a win against the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time NBA champion is having his worst season in terms of shooting, but this time he made a whopping 10\/13 three-pointers (14\/23 field goals).<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has been getting criticism amid his struggles, but he never allowed the critics to get the better of him and stayed confident in his abilities to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care anymore,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI really let the trolls get to me. Like, \u2018What am I doing?\u2019 I had just a revelation where I was like, \u2018Man, just be you and everything will play out.\u2019 Criticize me all you want. But I know how great I am and what I\u2019m capable of, and I think real Warriors fans know that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This season Thompson is averaging 17.3 points (38.8% field goals, 37.7% three-pointers), 3.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 29.4 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a slow start of the season, Warriors star Klay Thompson exploded with 41 points in a win against the Rockets. The four-time NBA champion is having his worst season in terms of shooting, but this time he made a whopping 10\/13 three-pointers (14\/23 field goals). Thompson has been getting criticism amid his struggles, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[3774,3773,1336,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17510,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions\/17510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}