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00:00 Let's get it over with. Anything you can say about whether Jimmy's gonna play tonight?
00:05 STEVE KERR, PREGAME BEFORE G3-HOU-GSW: Not yet. Yeah, he'll try to get some work done downstairs and see if he can go.
00:19 How about Gary?
00:21 Gary should be good to go.
00:28 Did you think there were any lapses in your coverage against Jalen Green in Game 2 and what are the points of emphasis against him now in Game 3?
00:36 Yeah, there were plenty of lapses and the main point of emphasis, we just let him get way too much separation.
00:49 A lot of that was him kind of attacking your centers, in space. I know you had to play them more 'cause the rotation got jumbled up, but how, I guess, how much of a concern is it not wanting him in the action against the centers and how much do you just have to tell Quinten to, I guess step up?
01:04
01:04 They covered, yeah. I mean that was the big adjustment they made was instead of going guard- to- guard, putting Steph in the action, they brought the fives in a lot more and so we have to be prepared for that. And so that's part of our planning, for sure, the last couple of days.
01:23 So people say that in the playoffs, role players play better at home. Is that something that you've known to be true over the course of your career and why might that be?
01:33 I think sometimes it plays out that way. It's not always the case, but the bigger thing to me is just the emotional swings in any playoff series when the location shifts. You get the home crowd behind you, there's just a level of energy that you get at home that is helpful?
01:59 I mean, I think that's the thing I took from Game 2 is they played harder. They played more physically and their crowd was into it and it was probably something that we've seen in other series. It was something we've seen in other series and throughout NBA history, is just a little bit of human nature. it's all part of it, so that's a big theme for today. We have to respond the way they were responded in Game 2.
02:28 Steve, is there any one or two things that you want to see from your guys from the beginning, the very beginning?
02:35 Just the force. Just the force and the energy. That's the main thing.
02:40 You said our last game that if Jimmy can't play, you have to recast everything. Everything has to be redone, so you just basically have that plan already and then you have a plan that he can? Do you have a plan where he sort of can play, or I mean, how many different plans?
02:54 Plan C? That's plan C. Yeah, we got A and B lined up and you saw Plan C the other night. When somebody goes out in the middle of the game, you're scrambling, but at least we've had more time to prepare for that this time.
03:11 Steve, last season, your perspective played a part in some of the decisions that were made about the whistle and the league. Looking at how things were officiated, I wondered now with things having swung a bit in the way these playoffs have been, what's your two cents on how physical and how the whistle is now in this postseason?
03:30 Well, I think that the talk last year was about the foul grifting. That was the whole thing, was just guys baiting the refs into fouls and the league, I think, did a fantastic job of eliminating that guys driving, purposely driving in to drive contact, throwing their arms up. And the league did a great job of basically eliminating that all year and I think what happens in the playoffs is teams basically just say to their guys, just foul every time. They can't call it every time and so…
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FROM APRIL 26, 2025, pregame before Game 3, Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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