STEVE KERR on Game 7: “I know our guys believe and they’ll be ready to go”; “that’s the equation”
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00:00 Was it an energy level situation? Was it a loss of confidence? Just generally, what would you explain this to me?
00:05 STEVE KERR, POSTGAME G6-HOU-GSW: I didn't like our first half with the turnovers. I think we had 10 and that's the key to the whole series, is our ball security. And so the 10 turnovers in the first half got us off to a rough start. With that said, we're down two going into the fourth and I thought the key play was the four-point play to start the quarter. And that's on us as a staff. We gotta make sure they're matched up and they just threw it — we didn't guard Van Vleet. They threw it up the floor and he knocks it down and gets the free throw. And that felt like a game changing play because it's, like I said, two-point game. We're right where we need to be despite not having played very well and turned it over quite a bit.
00:47 Steve, do you see a common thread or commonality with the turnovers that's such a big issue? Is there something that's similar between them or — ?
00:55 We have the three wins in the series, we're averaging, I think 10 or 11 turnovers, so it's just, we're in a rush. We gotta slow down a little bit. With that being said, I mean, there was the four-point play, but I think you guys missed like 14 or 15 shots in the fourth quarter. What happened offensively, would you say, during that stretch?
01:12 Well, they were in a zone. They played Adams quite a bit and he's at the center of that zone, kind of a 2-1-2. And I thought we got some good looks against the zone, but then once they pulled away by 10 or 12, it was easier for them to run us off the line. We had a lot of openings, but they were, using their length to run us off the three-point line, knowing that we had to make threes to get back in it and I thought they did a good job of kind of running us off the line and keeping us from knocking down threes to get us back in the game.
01:45 It would kind of seem outside looking in that, that you guys, your issues are not being able to solve this zone, but from some of your answers, it sounds like you feel okay about what you're getting against it. I mean, like, do you go to Game 7 believing that you know you can, like how many change, how much change do you think is needed against the zone or not, how much change — how you're attacking it, personnel, whatever?
02:10 Yeah. I mean it's the — there's playing zone offense is really about, getting the ball to open space and then filling behind the play and moving the ball and, like I said, we've had a lot of good zone possessions in this series and I thought we had some tonight, but we'll do a better job in Game 7. We've got another tape to watch and we will see some things, but it's definitely been a factor. Adams was fantastic tonight, 31 minutes, probably most he's played in a couple years, but he was so effective that Ime kept him out there and they controlled the game while he was out there. We fouled him and then they got a couple rebounds after his missed free throws too, so that wasn't very effective, ultimately. So, we got some things that we can clean up. We got a Game 7, though, and we're excited about that.
03:06 Coach, 37-from-90 from the field, 15-for-49 from beyond the arc. Do you think fatigue played a role in that?
03:14 No, I don't think fatigue was a factor.
03:17 Obviously Game 7, maybe everything's on the table?
03:19 Everything's on the table for Game 7, for sure.
03:21 Yeah, given some of the struggles, maybe some of the other guys are having even taken a shot, but definitely making him — I know it'd be a lot to ask, like, went and played a lot — is Jonathan Kuminga…
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FROM MAY 2, 2025, postgame after Game 6, Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco , CA.
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