KERR: “these guys continue to put themselves on the line year after year after year…spirit & energy”
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00:00 STEVE KERR, POSTGAME G7-GSW-HOU: First of all, I want to congratulate Houston. What a series that was, had a great season, a lot of good things ahead for that team. Ime did an amazing job and really the whole rebuild over the last couple years has been so impressive and we were lucky to get out of this series, but much respect to the Rockets and their staff and their organization. They have a great team and they had a great season. Couldn't be more proud of our guys. That was an incredibly impressive display of resolve, discipline, defense was fantastic. The ball security, kind of game plan discipline followed to a T and then multiple guys stepping up, Buddy Hield. I don't know what to say. I mean, that was really incredible watching him light it up and that first half, especially, and then down the stretch as well, but I can't say enough about our guys and what they were able to do in this series and to pull this thing out on the road in Game 7, pretty impressive.
01:17 Steve, they cut a 15-point lead down to like three. Jimmy gets that corner three out of a double team and then he finds Draymond twice and then it looks like maybe in the huddle between the third and fourth, you guys make an adjustment that gets Steph attacking the rim a little bit and you got him free. What did you guys do there?
01:36 Well, it's always matchup-based and so if you can find an advantage with the personnel they have on the floor then you try to get Steph in pick-and-roll with a particular player or two and I think it just kind of played out that way, the way the game was going. They've done a great job of taking away the Steph-Draymond pick-and-roll all series by putting Fred Van Vleet on Draymond and putting their center on one of our wings. And so that was really a great strategic move for them and I think in the fourth quarter, because of the matchups, we were able to get Draymond back in the pick-and-roll with Steph a couple times. I thought Steph was brilliant tonight. I know he got off to a slow start shooting the ball, but the whole key to the game was taking care of the ball and he managed the game beautifully. And it's just a matter of time before his shot goes in, but the reason we had the 11-point lead at half or whatever it was, 12, was because of the way Steph took care of the ball, got us into our offense and settled the game down.
02:49 Steve, you've been through so much with Steph and Draymond. This was your sixth Game 7 together. What can you say about the tone that Draymond set on Sengun and obviously the way that Steph was able to close it out?
02:58 Draymond set the tone last night at the team meeting. Basically, he owned up to losing his poise in Game 6 and I agreed with him. I thought the flagrant foul four minutes into the games was a tone setter and he knew it and so he talked to the group last night and said, I gotta be poised and I have to be better and we're gonna come in here tomorrow and get it done. And I think his emotional stability tonight, just his poise from the start, I thought it set a great tone.
03:44 Steve, you said last night that you were considering all options for the lineup. How close — I mean, Buddy didn't play that great the last two games. How close were you to not starting him and what about tonight's game? Did he get more space than he is gotten or — ?
03:57 I was — I never wavered on starting Buddy. The lineup that we started tonight has been by far our best five-man unit in this series and so I knew I was gonna stay with Buddy and I like the way that group looks. We knew they were gonna play a lot of zone. We finally got better spacing against the zone and we were…
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FROM MAY 4, 2025, postgame after Game 7, Golden State Warriors at Houston Rockets, held at Toyota Center in Houston, TX.
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