DRAYMOND fouling Chet: “I f—ked that off” [transcript] KERR: still good enough to win a championship
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0:00 Steve Kerr postgame OKC on what the story of the game was: “Turnovers and fouls. I can just repeat it, if you want. I mean, it's turnovers and fouls. That's what it comes down to. So the fact is, we're playing one of the best teams in the league on their floor. We're good enough. We're good. We're good enough to win a championship. I believe that of this team, but if we're gonna just turn it over and throw the ball to the other team and foul over and over, then we're gonna lose. We know the formula. We just controlled that whole game on the road against a great team. That's our game. So that’s turnovers and fouls.”
0:47 on 29 turnovers being an obscene number: “Yeah, obscene is the right word. Yeah. It's an obscene number of turnovers. Yeah.”
0:56 on which turnovers are the ones that he wants back: “You want me to go through them?”
1:07 on if there are any particular turnovers in overtime: “We will watch all 29, I can tell you that. As a team, we're going to watch all 29 turnovers because it's a decision-making game; basketball is all about decision-making. And there's probably some where it's random, maybe it's an illegal screen. We got a couple of those and we'll see what the calls were like on those, maybe they were good calls, maybe they weren’t, I don't know. But I don't mind illegal screens so much. But passing is a crucial aspect of this game, and you've got to be able to make solid passes and solid decisions. So we went in, we had a ton of bad passes, I can tell you that.”
2:02 on if the turnovers were due to carelessness or trying too hard: “…the game was our offensive rebounding against their ability to force turnovers and that's why the possessions actually ended up about the same… over and over again, decisions that we would like to have back.”
2:40 on what the instruction was going in to the foul on Holmgren up three: “…We believe in fouling up three… We had a game in Miami about five or six years ago where Kevin Durant got fouled and it was overturned...”
3:40 on if this game felt like the Sacramento game: “…it's a pattern right now… champions, but they're not playing like it and I'm not coaching like it and we've got to figure this out. We know the formula. I've got to do a better job of getting them to execute. But fouls and turnovers, that’s it. Fouls and turnovers.”
4:17 on what stands out about the Thunder after playing them four times already this season, and what they're building: “This is not surprising to me at all… nailed picks… Shai who is impossible to guard...”
4:57 Draymond Green postgame OKC on what makes him confident and about this team:
“…we just kind of tighten up in the margins but we know what it takes to win a championship...”
5:30 on if he feels some urgency: “…that’s on me… you can't claim to lead in that department when it's going well and not lead when it's not going well. So I’ll take one on the chin…”
5:53 on why there hasn’t been a sense of urgency: “I don’t know... It's very fragile … we just got to be better.”
6:19 on if this game felt like any of the other close losses to Sacramento and the Clippers: “Each game is different…”
6:38 on how to stop turning the ball over: “I mean, it's just the careless ones, right? … we had 29 turnovers and still had a chance to win the game is nuts. But it shows that if we can clean that area, how good this team can be…”
7:06 on the rise of the OKC Thunder: “They got a great head of the snake in Shai... Chet will possibly be a generational player … Jalen Williams … can shoot the ball from three, mid-range, get to the rim. He’s 6’8 … a lot of times you have to sit down and guard one-on-one. But yeah, you still got to keep your shell tight and I don't think we did a much of a good job of that.”
8:07 on fouling Chet up three: “… I fucked that off. That's a mistake that a young guy should make, not someone in their 12th year.”
9:02 on the late mistakes late: “…I don't so much look at the mistakes later and say that's why we lost the game, because how did we get in that position? You look at all these games we're losing, we're in total control… Now like I said, I fucked that off…”
10:04 on if they look at these issues in a positive way (controlled each game) or negatively with the turnovers: “Both…”
10:35 on being 10-12: “We’ve tricked off four games, like legitimately… you don't trick those games off, you’re 12-8 ... 22 games, I don't think anyone's throwing in the towel.”
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