KERR: Steph Curry gets 1 rest each half, “we’re gonna sit him 10 mins/game”; boxing out & transition
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QUOTES/NOTES/TOPICS:
• On the rushed shots: “Our team kinda always walks a fine line… (want them to be) uninhibited… we can go from good to great… we know that, watching the film. We have to make them guard for longer stretches… doesn’t matter who we’re playing… instead of settle for the first open three… swing side to side.”
• On how important Game 2 is: “Every game is important. I don’t ever saying anything is a must-win until you have three losses, then it’s actually must-win. But we’ve been through everything in the last decade… take it a day at a time… watch film, recover… whatever the result is you go back to work again… until your season’s over. Everything else is hyperbole.”
• On the familiarity with Mike Brown making it easier or harder: “I don’t think it makes a huge difference. He knows our team really well. There’s a couple things that we saw last night that we anticipated. And Mike’s great. He’s got a great eye for the game… at the same time, the players are out there and making plays… finish our defensive possessions with box-outs then we’re sitting up here up 1-0 and we’re feeling pretty good. But that’s how it goes, there’s always what-ifs.”
• On defending Sabonis: “Did a pretty good job on the dribble handoffs… we took away some of their pet actions and they went to more pick-and-roll with Fox, but you know these series, for everybody it’s whack-a-mole. You take away one thing, something else pops up. All these guys are great players on both teams. You never stop and think, alright we solved one problem and now we gotta take care of this one. Tomorrow could be totally different and it probably will be for both teams… clean up the things you can.”
• On what got away from them: “second half, they really went to more pick and roll and he got in the middle of the paint and started knocking down his midrange stuff and once he knocked down a few of those he got confident from the three-point line… kinda have to tip your hat… what you really fear is him getting right to the front of the rim… we can make things harder for him.”
• On how potent the Kings offense is:”Yeah, Number One-ranked offense for a reason.”
• On the role for Kuminga this series: “Yeah he did some good things… another athletic defender to put on the point of attack whether it’s Fox or Monk… I’d like to see him rebound, he didn’t have a rebound last night… and for our whole team… we can keep talking about everything but it still comes down to rebounds… really good job in a lot of ways and he can get better.”
• On Kuminga not rebounding as much because he’s guarding a perimeter player: : “He’s just a really young player… he’s still learning as he goes. There’s stuff on tape and we’ll point out certain things to him… gotten dramatically better over the course of this season.”
• On a sense of having seen this movie before, we know how to do this: “Yeah! (Laughter) I’m not even going to expound on that.”
• On taking out Steph late in the third quarter: “we played it how we’re gonna play it last night. 48 hours in between Games 1 and 2, I think he played 38 minutes. We just didn’t do a very good job while he was out. I don’t regret resting him… work so hard with the ball in his hands but also defensively. Playing Steph 40+ minutes isn’t the answer. The answer is handling the non-Steph minutes better.”
• On if there’s any different thinking when there’s two days in between games: “Maybe. We’ll see once we get there.”
• On Steph and Draymond being out together late first and third and tweaking that: “we’ve already talked about all that with the staff… then you watch the tape and you go, alright, couple missed free throws and a mistake in transition and it’s a five-point swing and then a couple of missed box-outs and it’s like, was that rotational? Not really. We gotta box out better. We gotta get back better. And if we do those things then we’re not even talking about rotation patterns right now. You gotta get those guys out at some point, you gotta get them both rest… we just gotta clean up the other stuff.”
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NOTE: Filmed by Sean Cunningham for Fox 40 News. From day before Game 2 Golden State Warriors vs Sacramento Kings, held at Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento, CA. WE WILL GO LIVE WITH GAME 2 GSW-SAC ON MON 4/17 AT 7:00PM PDT TIPOFF.
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