• Steve Kerr says minutes for starters aren’t ready to be ramped up. Not ready for 30+ minutes. Until they are, Golden State will lean on its depth. Says they’ll rely on depth. “It’s fine. You just adapt and adjust.” (Monte Poole, CJ Holmes)
• On Jama and his role: “His energy is infectious…he’ll be handing substitutions, taking that from Mike Brown…get it mapped out (before the game with Bruce Fraser)…if I’m up at halfcourt…put him in, you don’t need my approval…I’ve just got too much going with my discussion with the referees, with the players on the floor…Like Mike, he’s extremely organized…also in a meeting every day with our performance staff…say, Klay can’t go (various minutes)…he’s kind of the Chief of Staff, he gets everything organized.” (me)
• On Klay: “we’ll build him up from here…his calf, his Achilles…they just wanted to make sure he had strength in that calf.” (me)
NOTE: From Golden State Warriors practice, day before Opening Night vs LA Lakers. We will go live on Tue 10/18 at 6:00PM for the livechat of LAL-GSW and commentary during the game, which tips off at 7:00PM, but there’s a ring ceremony at 6:30PM.
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