KERR: #Warriors had long practice, did drill work; “our timing was off” on turnovers vs OKC; Kuminga
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0:03 Steve Kerr after practice in Phoenix, 2 days before Suns, on attending the University of Arizona basketball game on Sunday: “First time I've been to a game at McKale (Center) in like 12 years...”
0:34 on watching all 29 turnovers, as he said he would do postgame OKC: “…I threatened to, but I didn't end up doing it… Some of it is decision-making. And then some of it is execution. And as the head coach, I'm responsible for both… we had three illegal screens, maybe four, and our timing was off on the screens. And so the league is — everybody's really smart. And so we're the No. 1 off-ball screen-setting team in the league for our shooters. So everybody's learned to run into the screener and flop … if we clean up our timing, the flops don't matter, but because our timing was off, we gave them the opportunity to draw fouls, and they did a good job.”
1:52 on how many turnovers he showed the team: “…probably five or six… I let them talk about what they're seeing. I mention fundamental stuff. And then we just discuss it ... It's very collaborative and calm and ‘let's get better.’ I mean, I'm gonna keep saying it, but this group won to title a year-and-a-half ago. We’re leading all these really good teams on the road in the second half…”
2:59 on being able to, in the past, critique Steph in the video sessions and doing that for the whole team: “Draymond, lets me coach him… Steph and Draymond are gonna have three turnovers each every game… Wiggins had six the other night, and he knows he can't have six turnovers for us to win…”
3:55 on how much value there was with a longer practice: “…seven coaches went down and Brandin Podziemski went down. Steph played golf…”
4:50 on how he addressed the turnovers in practice and if he stressed the fundamentals: “Yeah, and you remind guys, like, interior passes generally have to be bounce passes. You try to throw a shovel pass in the interior, in the NBA, there's almost zero chance of the ball getting through… part of the problem in the NBA is you don't practice because there's a game every other night. And so you have to take advantage of the practices that you do have.”
5:40 on the L2M report of the five-second violation that was not called on OKC before Draymond fouled Chet Holmgren: “… I know it was a five-second violation. So what?”
6:00 on if Chris Paul is back: “Yeah, yeah. Feeling much better. Klay was sick today. So Klay didn’t practice.”
6:13 on how significant the next stretch of 11 games out of 13 at home is: “Very significant. I mean, we've fallen behind after that good 6-2 start. We've been in a bad spell. We've lost probably three or four games that we should have won. Great thing about the NBA is there's always a game the next day and we have 60 games left on our schedule. So there's a ton of time for the team. We’re getting a big leads on the road against really good teams. That's a good sign. So it's not like we can't compete and we're all sitting here like the team isn’t good enough, we’ve got to make trades. None of that. We’re good. But we’ve got to improve in these areas…”
7:30 on Kuminga taking 21 shots and going to the rim: “…He's so powerful, gives us a dynamic we don't otherwise have. As a young player, he still tends to gravitate towards the perimeter. We want him to gravitate towards the rim with spacing and that means working the dunker’s spot, working behind the defense, cutting at the right angles, all these little things that we see on tape...”
8:26 on the importance of JK getting to the rim when the team has size issues: “Yeah, that's been the message since he's gotten here, that's where we need him. I want him shooting an open three late in the shot clock. If the ball is swung and he's open, absolutely shoot it. But otherwise, let's see how much you can attack the rim…balances out our team”
9:06 on JK actually shooting six threes vs OKC, but having 21 field goal attempts overall: “Yeah, that's good. But he shouldn't shoot the threes that Steph shoots… shoot the ones that are coming out of the offense and that's what he's getting much better with. He's figuring out what's what.”
9:27 on every 21-year-old wanting to shoot threes: “(Sarcastically) Steph has ruined the game. He's destroyed — every young player thinks he can be him. I think Steph has destroyed the game. We need to criticize him more often.”
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