KERR: “we need to execute better and that’s on me as a coach”; “more energy and couple weeks ago”
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00:00 Second straight game, things flip in the third quarter. What do you feel like happened?
00:08 STEVE KERR: Yeah, it felt like we lost juice again tonight, big lead late third and can't close the deal. So just not a lot of energy, not a lot of force. And you open up the door for a team in the modern NBA and they might make 20 threes like Brooklyn did tonight. And they did a great job. I give them huge credit. Schroder was phenomenal tonight. But that was the key stretch. They took a timeout, late third or up 18 and we got a chance to put them away and they go on an immediate 9-0 run. And then it's a game and then, again, with the way teams shoot threes, anything's possible these days.
00:55 A couple games in a row where the second unit has struggled to get its offense going in the second half. What do you need out of that unit? Why do you think that group's been struggling a little bit in the second half?
01:03 Well, we need to execute better and that's on me as a coach. So we'll get them in here tomorrow for a practice, which we need and we'll get back to executing better. But 41 points in the fourth is giving up — 41 in the fourth, that's tough to overcome.
01:23 Steve, you've talked all season about how you have a much slimmer margin for error. You gave up 26 points off turnovers. How — what lesson is being learned or not learned as the season goes on with this?
01:35 Well it's an up and down season. Every year is up and down. And so we've generally done a better job of taking care of the ball for the most part. 13 turnovers is not a bad number, but they scored every time off of them. And so there were some bad ones that really hurt. And there were kind of automatic conversions and the ones that we had really took our momentum away. So you just gotta keep getting better.
02:09 And what — you can look at the defense and say that was an issue, but what does turnovers do to a defense?
02:18 Well, there's nothing you can do. If you turn it over, there's going to be an advantage the other way. You're going to give up something. And tonight, a lot of threes. They took 45 of them. They also got 30 free throws. That was the focus coming into the game. We knew that their ticket to beat us was threes and free throws. And we weren't able to avoid that.
02:44 Steve, when you talk about running out of juice, is that legs? And is that also something you're still seeing, the free throws?
02:51 Yeah, I mean, it's just — you can feel it, right? I mean, you could tell, we had a lot more energy a couple of weeks ago. So maybe it's just the schedule catching up to us a little bit. But we know we've gotta find that energy again. And the free throws, we've gotta, again, it's been a problem all year. So guys have to get in there and shoot them every day and find their rhythm.
03:19 Early this season, Steph is averaging 30 minutes per game, just a tick below that tonight. Do you think about 30 minutes per game for Steph is about where you want him for the season?
03:28 Yeah, I mean, we usually pencil him in for for . And we'd like to keep it around that number. We were able to give him a good rest in the first half 'cause the second unit was playing really well. And I don't love to run him the whole fourth quarter and I like to have him close with some energy. And so that means if we can give him that last eight minutes, generally, I feel pretty good about that. But at that point, brooklyn was rolling and we couldn't slow them down.
04:04 All of Steph's shots…
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FROM NOV 25, 2024, Brooklyn Nets at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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