KERR on “stays”: crashing can jam transition offense…Stackhouse brought some drills; big wide circle
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00:00 Steph was probable, is he good to go?
00:02 STEVE KERR: Should be good to go, yeah.
00:03 NBA Cup game, have a chance to move to 3-0 in the Cup. How do you kind of weigh the stakes of the Cup versus the bigger 82-game season?
00:13 Yeah, I mean, we want to win. I mean, we want to advance and this would be really helpful. At the same time, I'm not playing anybody 48 minutes because I got the big picture in mind. So we'll keep relying on our depth and try to play as many people as possible and bring the defensive force that we need.
00:38 Given the absences New Orleans has tonight, what are the keys to making sure you're avoiding a letdown?
00:44 Well, these are always the scariest games as a head coach when the other team's missing a whole bunch of guys because you just worry about the letdown. And so you warn the guys, you insist on execution from the start. If we turn it over a couple times early, I'm taking a timeout. You can't let your guard down. We've lost a lot of these games over the years. And we've won some as well, like on the flip side when we've had guys out. So it always feels like a dangerous spot.
01:12 Big picture, pretty sustained stretch now, success on the road. What are the keys to that kind of defense?
01:18 If you play good defense, you have a shot on the road. And our defense has been really good. Just a lot of us allowing us to stay in games and give ourselves a chance.
01:29 With regards to defense, significant improvement, obviously, in transition defense, but in the league, how did that come together? What is the process to building a transition defense that's been that effective?
01:40 Well, we talked a lot about it preseason with the guys in camp. We looked at a lot of our crashing offensive rebounding stuff last year. We probably got undisciplined last year with the difference between offensive, good offensive rebounding opportunities and reckless ones. And I think we've found a better balance between our offensive rebounding and our sprint backs. And we are showing our guys the — we call them "stays" — stays when you'd neither crash the glass or get back and we show those all the time and our guys are aware that that's the biggest problem in transition defense, is when you stay. Even crashing can jam transition offense. You might crash and not get an offensive board, but you're all over a guy. He's gotta pause for a second or two, take a dribble out to relieve the pressure and you're back. The biggest culprit is the stay, when we stay and do neither. And I think we've eliminated a lot of those in terms of just kind of establishing the identity changes.
03:00 That's, I mean, that starts obviously in training camp, right? How much emphasis was there to work specifically in those areas early on?
03:06 Yeah, we did a lot. Jerry Stackhouse brought some drills that he has run over the years, but we've really emphasized it. Once the season starts, you just hardly have time, but you just keep emphasizing it, watching film, showing the stats, all that stuff.
03:27 And then conversely, how do you like the kind of synergy between transition defense and transition offense, the base you guys are playing with?
03:33 I think we're doing a better job overall. I think the numbers…
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FROM NOV 22, 2024, pregame before Golden State Warriors at New Orleans Pelicans, held at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA.
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