STEPH CURRY: Wiggins “rewarded for the energy that he’s putting in the game…fun”; knee feels great
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CHAPTERS/TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Steph (and Klay) at pregame routines
0:57 Stephen Curry postgame OKC 11/18 on how this loss is hitting him: “…emotional roller coaster. Not playing as well as we did for the first 30-ish minutes and then give up that big lead … So it's kind of going back and forth … the NBA can go either way and especially the last five games have gone for us that shot Wiggs hit will get us over the hump. As fate would have it, wasn't enough and so a very, very tough way to lose for sure. But you gotta keep hold of the rope, as they say; understand it's a long year and we showed some signs of great and good shots on offense and trying to connect the game, just didn't have enough.”
2:08 on not experienced anything quite like this at home: “You hate losing games, no matter where it is, and especially at home … you set a standard of protecting your home court and there are different challenges for us this year that we're gonna have to overcome if we're going to be competitive in the standings late in the season. You hate seeing the 1-6, 1-5, whatever it is … but doesn't mean we can't turn around.”
2:51 on what are the biggest challenges: “Obviously know we need to shoot the ball better as a group, limit our turnovers especially like tonight where we have 18 and you're giving a very explosive offense easy buckets in transition and not, again, connecting the game, taking care of possessions … Those blemishes were pretty costly … we've been experimenting with the rotations and lineups … find some chemistry and develop an identity of how we're going to win games. And we've shown some bright spots early, but I think through this losing streak we've gotten a little rattled a little bit. So we gotta figure that piece out and missing Draymond... I was out for two games; seems like a perfect storm of everything. So we have to, again, maintain confidence in ourselves and our ability to figure it out. But it's gonna take everybody.”
4:05 on how urgent it’s starting to feel: “…losing streak like this, there’s urgency for sure. Like, anytime you're this many in a row. It's a problem that you gotta fix and you don't want to develop a losing mentality at all, at any stretch in the season. That’s a stink in the locker room you don’t really wanna have.”
4:43 on the level of frustration with Draymond out for three more games: “Anytime you're missing anybody as important as Draymond is and our core starter, a guy that's anchored on defense, it’s tough…especially with a team that's trying to put the pieces together, like you want to get as many reps together as possible and, again, to develop an identity. So we're missing time. It's tough for whatever reason, so it's not ideal, but I feel like we do have enough to win games. In the meantime, we just haven't been able to do it.”
5:43 on if Wiggins’ big game starts to fix what they need to do to get out of this skid: “Yeah, he's always been aggressive and plays with great energy, especially recently. He's trying to get himself out of whatever funk he found himself in … you'd like to see him having fun out there and him being rewarded for the energy that he's putting in the game and that was great to see. And some were obviously some big shots. And the message for him is, keep being aggressive to take shots you think you should take. He's bringing it on the defensive end and he does that every game, so it's nice to see him get rewarded. And hopefully it continues.”
6:43 on how his knee feels: “Oh, great. All the rehab stuff that I did, I didn’t really feel it out there. It was nice to, even though it was a loss, get the extra five minutes and getting to 40 minutes and being able to get through it, all the physicality of the game and the speed of it, take that right where I left off. Timing was a little off, but I know that’ll come back.”
7:13 on if there’s anything he can take from his very early career that he can summon now and apply it to what they are dealing with now: “It’s just a mentality that you're supposed to win…Doesn’t mean that the Xs and Os and the execution of game plan and whatnot are going to follow, but it sets you up for the ability to be in games…You gotta have, I mean, like an ego…”
8:33 on how much overtime was just about Shai making some really difficult shots: “That's what he does, especially when they have floor space the way they do and some of the offense they run…”
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