Here are our Top Ten quotes from the Warriors-Lakers season opener, featuring Yaxel Lendeborg, Steve Kerr, Draymond Green and one Wardell Stephen Curry II, along with two complete postgame Q&A videos available for everyone to watch.
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I also have a separate thesis about this game that I’ll be writing about soon, so stay tuned for that!
🏀 TOP TEN GSW-LAL QUOTES
Yaxel: “A lot of flopping, a lot of foul baiting, a lot of praying to the ref, man. Interesting first game for me, for sure.”
Yaxel on if his opinion of Luka changed dramatically: “I lost all respect.”
Yaxel on what he actually said on the court: “I was telling him he sucks. You can’t score on me.”
Steve on welcoming the competition: “I love the back and forth.”
Steve on the 4 fouls called on Yax: “Yaxel’s getting the rookie treatment.”
Draymond on never backing down: “The next time he see him, go at his ass again.”
Dray remembering when Kevin Durant scored 54 on him: “And guess what? I kept talking. And I can guard him now, so.”
Dray on what he’s learned about coaching Yaxel: “He responds. He responds. You go at him, he responds. You yell at him to get him to do something, he responds.”
Steph on Yax: “I love confidence. I love that care and passion.”
Steph on the much bigger Warriors problem: “We only had really eight minutes probably of good basketball and just got beat pretty much in every area of the game.”
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