For someone who was taken late in the first-round of the draft, and who didn’t participate in Summer League due major ankle issues in his lone college season, it’s a credit to Patrick Baldwin Jr. that many fans were actually clamouring for him to play more during his rookie campaign.
Sure, he wasn’t totally impactful appearing in just 31 games, but there were signs of an effective NBA player capable of soon filling a role the Warriors sorely lacked for almost the entirety of the 2022-23 season.