Warriors identity crisis: “We’re walking the ball up the floor,” says Kerr
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Info/quotes dump before Saturday’s rematch at home vs OKC Thunder: Hot topics from Steve Kerr’s Friday early evening radio interview, followed by Kerr, Andrew Wiggins and Kevon Looney on the podium after practice, followed by Bob Myers on Tim Kawakami’s podcast, then the full transcripts from the same practice and Thursday night postgame, with video of OKC pregame, and finally my game notes at the bottom.
STEVE WEEKLY RADIO ON 95.7
• Kerr on Steph: “He’s feeling a lot better and he went through all of practice… I think there’s a decent chance he plays tomorrow.” (95.7 The Game)
• On Wiggins’ struggles: “I think Wiggs is really trying… As long as he keeps doing that I’m confident his shot will follow.” (95.7 The Game)
• On Klay Thompson: “He’s just pressing. He’s just taking tough shots because he’s trying to get himself going… I have no doubt he’ll get out of it.” (95.7 The Game)
WARRIORS PRACTICE MAIN POINTS
[The above videos are repeated below, where you can read the full transcripts]
• Gary Payton II will miss tomorrow's game with a left ankle injury, Kerr said after practice Friday. Payton had an MRI last night. There wasn't substantial damage, Kerr says, but enough where he will be out for a short amount of time. (Kendra Andrews)
• Stephen Curry is considered questionable for tomorrow's game against OKC, Kerr says. Part of his status will be determined on how he comes out of today's practice. (Kendra Andrews)
• Kerr on if Brandin Podziemski can play the 1: “Beauty of Brandin is he can play in any lineup in really any spot.” (Jack Winter)
• Kerr on saying last night postgame that they lacked fight and grit: “You can lose confidence defensively.” (Jack Winter)
• Wiggins on if he's ever had a stretch like this before: “No…nah.” (Jack Winter)
• Warriors rank 4th in the NBA with 33.2% offensive rebounding rate — easily highest of Kerr era— after grabbing 20 of their own misses Thursday vs. OKC. Looney on Dubs' offensive rebounding: “It's something that we definitely emphasized coming into training camp.” (Jack Winter)
• Looney assessing Steph’s return to practice today: “He looked like Steph. He looked good. At this level, guys are great at hiding if they’re hurt, so I don’t know if he felt great but he looked great.” (Monte Poole)
• Warriors assign Trayce Jackson-Davis & Gui Santos to Santa Cruz. Both players are expected to play in Santa Cruz’s game against the G League Ignite tonight at Kaiser Permanente Arena (7 p.m. PST tipoff). (Warriors PR)
• Jonathan Kuminga attended the Santa Cruz G League game.
• Pau Gasol was Mike Dunleavy, Jr.‘s guest for the Santa Cruz game.
• Lester Quinones said he’s been trying to prove to Kerr that he can guard, and guard multiple positions. He finished with 27, 9, and 5 tonight in the win. (Jason Dumas)
• Gui Santos: 29 and 7 and a personal 7-0 run on Friday to give the SeaDubs a comeback win. (Jason Dumas)
BOB MYERS x TIM KAWAKAMI
[see embedded Spotify player below]
16:00 Steph at exit interviews 2016 when Bob Myers asked him about Kevin Durant: “You think he’d want to come here?… Yeah, for sure.”
19:00 Myers says 2014-15 and 2016-17 were the only years where it was a “smooth ride without bumps”, when asked about Steph and Draymond Green being out right now.
20:45 on what he would say to Dray: “You’ve made your mistake. This is Game 10. You can’t make anymore… you kinda used up your mulligan early. Now we gotta get through that, the rest of the 18 holes. And I think he would agree.”
22:45 “The best about Draymond is, he will listen… he listens but he still makes mistakes… I would say, ‘I know who you are. These things that happened, that’s not you,’ and people against him would say, ‘Yes they are,’ and then I would say, ‘You don’t even know him.’”
24:20 ‘I’m not gonna abandon you now.’ … You can support or you can get upset — and I don’t know what that accomplishes, right?”
27:00 Draymond and his family went over to Myers’ house on Halloween.
30:00 on Chris Paul: “we always tried to find someone to manage the game and often that was (Shaun) Livingston. (Andre) Iguodala was huge in that role.” (Also Joe Lacob told him they were going to do the deal, but just to tell him, not seek advice.)
35:50 on the NFL and attending 49ers games: “If I went to the store and bought a puzzle, the NBA is twenty pieces…The NFL puzzle is a hundred-piece puzzle.”
38:00 Myers praises Kawakami’s reporting skills, especially at high-tensioned NFL postgame pressers after a loss, with Tim adding, “The question’s gonna get answered, but it isn’t going to make it worse.” Myers: “You were always gonna ask the question I didn’t want to answer… ‘Here comes Kawakami!’”
40:10 TK: “Durant got mad at me once… He was like, ‘No one’s gonna talk about the game? And I said, ‘Well, what do you think about the game?’ And he didn’t like the tone of my voice. He let me know.”
40:50 Myers: “You’re the reason he left!” … TK: “I’m probably second on the list of people we’ve mentioned (on this podcast, thereby alluding to Draymond).”
41:30 Myers says he lives in Laurel Heights, revealed as he answers the final question of a book recommendation.
42:40 Myers says he got a text from Kerr to read the book “Demon Copperhead” which was the book he had just finished reading.
STEVE/WIGGS/LOON AFTER PRACTICE
5:12 Steve Kerr after practice Friday on his reviews of the game tape: “Not great obviously. Some of it was OKC just shot the lights out…19 threes, Isaiah Joe 7-for-7. Get a three for a three. I mean, some nights teams are going to shoot it. And that's just the story, but for us there's plenty that we have to get better with our pick-and-roll defense, was not ideal. And then offensively, we could see some disjointed possessions where our spacing and cutting wasn't great. So we worked on all that stuff today and watched a lot of film and had a really productive day.
6:00 on offensive adjustments that have to be made to offset the fact that Steph’s not there: “Yeah, I thought the biggest thing last night was when we had advantages, we didn't get off the ball enough; we would draw two and then didn't didn't kick the ball, didn't pull behind the play and give our passer an outlet. There were just too many possessions where we weren't solid offensively and didn't recognize the advantage we had. It's obviously way harder to create an advantage without Steph. But we have to be able to do so. And those are the things we worked on today.”
6:44 on Gary Payton II having a boot on his left foot last night and how he is doing: “So he'll be out tomorrow… an MRI last night or maybe this morning, I'm not sure when. I think it was last night. But regardless, he won't be out (for) a long time. There wasn't major damage, but there were some things on the MRI, things that he felt in terms of pain to rule him out for tomorrow and then probably kind of a day-to-day thing.”
7:26 on Steph Curry’s status: “Steph’s questionable. Yeah, he practiced today and he's doing better but some of it will depend on how he responds to today's practice.”
7:40 on how much of Klay’s slump is on the system and how much of it is on Klay: “Yeah, I mean, we definitely have to find our identity as a team, what’s our identity offensively. I mean, we've always had an identity here of pace and ball movement. And right now we're 30th in the league in pace, so we're not playing fast. And the ball doesn't feel like it's moving really well. I think in some ways, those two things go hand-in-hand. So we have to do a better job as a coaching staff of helping the players find this year's identity, what this team can do well and how we can operate to create better shots and a more comfortable style for everyone.”
8:42 on if he had a sense of identity early in the season when they were winning games and it's lost its way or was never there: “We had a couple of really high scoring games. We had the game in OKC, I think we scored 140 or 141. We were doing a much better job of throwing the ball ahead in transition, playing faster. I think we did have a couple of slow games, but you always have to be careful about a small sample size, whether we were winning or losing. Now that we've played 13 games … big enough sample size to recognize patterns and what's happening and I think one of the things that's happening is we're walking the ball up the floor; sometimes even after a missed shot, we're sort of just jogging the ball. We’ve got to throw it ahead and create more advantages.”
9:38 on seeing anything different in Jonathan Kuminga with more of a chance to play a central role with Steph and Draymond out: “Um, not really. I mean, I think every game is a little bit different. And JK is a young player, so he's going to be up and down a little bit and (the) biggest thing with him is just to bring the focus and the energy and and the force when he's going downhill, either on the drive or on a cut, crashing the glass. It makes a huge impact; you feel his athleticism and his power and we need that and so the more active and the more mobile he is in the game, the better he plays and then I play him more.”
10:45 on what Dario Saric brought to the starting lineup and if it’s amazing that he was available on a veteran’s minimum: “We were shocked that we got him on the minimum. He’s a really good player. He's so skilled. He handles it, he passes it, shoots threes. He recognizes what defenses are doing and draws defenses in and then makes the perfect pass. He's been one of our best players and one of our most consistent players night in and night out… in the starting lineup to try to create a little more space. Obviously the first unit from last year has struggled; obviously, Draymond is out now too, but without having the spacing and the flow with that first group that we've had the last couple of years, we’ve gone to Dario to try to create a little more space.”
11:39 on if defensively guys were lacking connectivity and didn't know personnel, or were just getting confused on coverages: “It's not effort. I think it's interesting, you can lose confidence defensively, just like you can lose confidence in your shot and I thought we got a little demoralized last night. They made everything so even when our coverage was good, they were making everything. I think I told you before the game, I'd be surprised if either team shot as well as last time and I was obviously dead wrong about that. I mean, they lit it up and I thought we just got a little demoralized, even on a couple plays where we defended well and they made a shot. And that's part of human nature and the nature of sports, like you're working so hard, things don't go your way, you let your guard down a little bit. And that's what I meant after the game by grit. I mean, we have to be able to play through and still maintain our intensity and our emotion and our confidence, even when a team is making shots.”
12:57 on if there is concern that Klay’s slump can get into his head and what would they can do off the court: “Klay has frequently started out seasons very cold for whatever reason. I think if you go back and look at his career, more often than not he has started off slowly. But I think what's happening this year, the losing; when you combine a losing streak with a cold streak, that’s especially demoralizing, especially for a competitor like Klay. I mean the guy, he lives and breathes for winning. And so this has been especially frustrating. These last five games losing and struggling to knock down shots and obviously with Steph and Draymond out, we're not generating as many good looks for Klay, either. So the biggest thing message-wise for him is just he's got this long track record, he's in good shape. We know what he's capable of. We have to find our identity as a team offensively and that will in turn help Klay, but every season of his career where he's gotten off to a slow start, he's found it and there's no doubt that he's going to find it again.”
14:27 on if they’ve given any thought to playing Brandin Podziemski at the 1 with three wings and a big or if they’re more looking at him as an off m-ball guy: “Oh, he definitely can play the 1. Part of the way we play is we want to have two handlers on the floor. So whether he's at the 2 or the 1, it doesn't really make that much difference because he's perfectly capable of playing either spot. But like when I was playing him with Chris or with Cory last night, the idea is more to have two different guys who can handle the ball and make plays and create for others. But the beauty of Brandin is, he can play in any lineup, but really at any spot.”
0:00 Andrew Wiggins after practice on if things are starting to turn for the better for him: “For sure. For sure. Shot’s not falling right now… just trying to stay aggressive and do whatever I can just to help the team win, whether it's rebounding, defend. Just trying to take care of that side of the ball…”
0:30 on if there are little things he can do in terms of mentally: “…just keep telling myself and just believe in myself and knowing that I'm here for a reason. And this is nothing that I haven't done before, you know? So, just sticking with it.”
00:56 on if he’s had a stretch like this before: “No. Nah.”
1:09 on if they miss Draymond Green’s communication: “…We miss him for sure. He's the type of player that you can't really replace, especially with one person; gotta do it collectively as a team because Draymond is a special talent… we still have enough to get the job done, as long as we do it together and just communicate.”
1:55 on comparisons to what he did in the 2022 Finals and if there is a different mentality in the postseason: “Definitely a different mentality. I feel like the game is different and I feel that playoff games are different. They're more physical, they’re called different. The room for error is not as much, but I know what I can do. Like I remember the playoffs, the Finals, all that. I know what I can do. I just gotta stick with it, keep my confidence up and just knowing what I can do and keep getting up extra shots, extra work.”
2:48 on if there is a part of him that has to fight from being mad: “As a basketball player, as a competitor, you're gonna be frustrated. Sometimes you can be mad because you know what you can do. When you fall short of what you know you can do, you're gonna be hard on yourself, you know? I feel like just being competitive and wanting to do good for the team and myself.”
3:13 on the hardest part for him, the shooting or the ball handling: “Probably just shooting, just getting my rhythm down. I'll say that because I feel like with rhythm comes the ball-handling, the shooting, getting through spots, knocking down your shots. So just getting that rhythm.”
3:38 on if it is just a slow start or if there is anything deeper: “Just a little slump. I’m in a little funk. Still 69 games left. So I just gotta have short-term memory and look forward and keep looking forward to the next game. Keep getting better and keep improving with each game.”
4:03 on if there is an advantage to playing a team twice and back-to-back: “Oh, for sure because you can go back to the drawing board. You can make adjustments, see what you need to do, see what worked, what didn't work. We’re familiar with this team. This will be our third time playing them this year. So we're familiar with them. Also they’re familiar to us. So it comes down to execution.”
4:41 on if he’s working on like shot mechanics with the coaches: “Just gotta keep putting in the work, on and off the court… so I'm having some good workouts and also watching some film and seeing what I could do differently.”
5:35 on fans wondering if they actually want him to shoot and if that mirrors any sort of hesitation: “Um, no, not really. I know what I can do. I always appreciate the love and support, always goes a long way. But whether the love and support is there, I'm gonna play my game. I'm always going to be confident in myself because I know I belong here. I put in the work. I'm always going to be confident in myself and when I go onto the court, I would never shy away from no shot or no challenge. Just keep taking it head on and keep working.”
6:54 Kevon Looney after practice on his breakdown of what's going wrong in these last several games: “still is early in the season. We still have to establish our identity on both sides of the court. I think Steve talked about it today being last in pace. That was way different than last year. Not having Draymond on defense, are we gonna go ‘red’ or are we gonna switch, how to guard the pick-and-roll. It’s still early, so we're still trying to figure things out and get all on the same page and luckily we’ve got a lot of games left to figure it out. But I think that's probably the biggest thing is just finding our identity, find our style of play. It's gonna have everybody thrive.”
7:45 on how hard it has become for Klay and for Wiggins to operate in the absence of Steph, considering how defenses to bend toward him: “I wouldn't just put it on not having Steph. I mean, I feel like they just gotta find a rhythm. They weren’t shooting the best when Steph was playing, so just try to get their legs under them... Like I said, we’ve played a lot slower; just trying to figure out their spots. Figure out the plays that we should run for them to get them going. I think is the kind of group effort to figure it out. Having Steph out there obviously helps because he draws so much attention, but I think it's just more us getting them in a rhythm. My job’s getting them guys open, getting better shots and you just can't put it on one thing.”
8:43 on if it’s hard for him to see Klay going through this slump and having people talk about him and talk shows going crazy: “I mean, that's the nature of the beast, if what we do. It's not the first time they done did this to Klay. It’s something he's accustomed to. I done seen him struggle before; he always finds his way out. Even last year, I think he struggled the first 10, 15 games and he ended up having a career shooting year. I don't worry about that with him. He's gonna figure it out. He's been figuring out his whole life. He's one of the best shooters ever. He’s just missed shots and that’s one thing that I know he's going to do. Long as he continue to bring the effort on the defensive end and he continues to rebound and do the small things, I think the offense will figure itself out.”
9:38 on what Dario has brought this season and if it’s a pleasant surprise that he was available at a minimum contract: “Playing against him in the past throughout my whole career, I know how good he was. I know how tough he is and how good of a playmaker — and he's a tough cover because he can stretch the floor. So being able to have him on our team for the minimum is great. He's been a huge plus for us. He’s somebody that can space the floor, he's a playmaker, he makes all the right decisions and he's tough and so that's something that we really needed. He's been a bright spot for us to see.”
10:16 on the team being 3rd or 4th in the NBA in offensive rebounding rate this season, if that has been an emphasis or just kind of happenstance from wings crashing the glass: “It’s something that we definitely emphasized coming into training camp. I think the last few years we didn't really emphasize, but we always played our best when we were offensive rebounding. And I think that's something that the coaches really challenged us on to start the year off… And we've been getting extra possessions and actually winning the possession battle which is something we haven't done in the past.”
10:58 on what stands out to him about Kuminga: “His ability to just put pressure on the rim, get to the free throw line. It’s something that a lot of guys can't do is athleticism, his speed, when he's on the ball, putting pressure and doing different things like that. He makes our team way more dynamic. And I think last night we saw a glimpse of that; he's really getting to the rim, hitting open threes when he's open and really just attacking the paint. Especially with Steph being out.l, that’s something we really need.”
11:36 on what the try to say to him, based on what Kuminga said on the podium postgame: “Just keep the habit of playing with a certain energy which is big for him. When he's playing with a lot of pace, when he's playing hard and doing all the small things, it kind of like jumps off the page when he does it. Sometimes when things are not going your way, you kind of get in your own head sometimes but we want him to stay confident, stay positive and just keep going l hard because when he's positive, he’s confident, he looks like a completely different player and I think he did that last night. He knows that he's been doing a great job this year. Even when he's not making shots, he’s still hustling, he’s still being a great teammate. I think when he does that he usually plays well.”
12:35 on how Steph looked at practice: “He looked like Steph; he looked good. I mean, at this level, guys are great at hiding if they're hurt or not, so I don't know if he felt great, but he looked great. So hopefully we can get him back soon.”
STEVE/MO/JK POSTGAME OKC
0:00 Steve Kerr postgame OKC on the bottom falling out in Q3 after cutting the game to a one-point deficit and giving up 3s: “I thought that was a key stretch of the game; we needed to finish that quarter and be tied or ahead and have some momentum and that quick run they went on got it right back to 10 and it slipped away from there. But they were amazing tonight and they were 19-for-32 from three, put on a clinic and they played a great game.”
0:33 on if the penetrating and kicking by OKC was due to on-ball defense: “They put a lot of pressure on you with the small-small pick-and-roll and they've got Holmgren out at the three-point line… spread you out, they've got shooters everywhere and they’ve got a lot of modest size, positionally… Between Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander) and (Josh) Giddey and (Jalen) Williams, they can all get downhill and find people. so this team’s really well-put together, well-coached and they hammered us tonight.”
1:12 on what went wrong from a game plan perspective: “Not a lot went right. I mean, they took it to us from the beginning. Our transition defense was bad; we lost Isaiah Joe in transition for his first shot of the game. It's a wide-open corner three; we didn't locate him and a shooter like that, if you give them a wide-open look, the floodgates can open up and that's what happened. And they ran a few nice plays for him and he popped free and knocked down shots. But he's 7-for-7… he goes 3-for-3 and they make 19 threes. As you can see it's going to be tough to win this game.”
2:10 on what they need to improve: “Well, we gotta be gritty or we gotta show more spark and energy defensively. We've got to put up a better fight. It just felt like they got anything they wanted. We had a lot of miscommunications on pick-and-roll coverages and anytime you're in a rut like this, I mean, we're obviously in it right now. Five losses in a row. So when you're in that state, there's only one way out and that's to dig your way out of it and you’ve got to fight and compete and that's what we have to do.”
2:56 on what the conversation or emphasis is for Klay: “Yeah, just to be patient. I mean, it's tough. They loaded up on him and made it really tough on him. They had Dort draped all over, doing a good job defensively. And we weren't really able to create any space for him, with our lineups and with our offense. They just kept him really smothered. And he was trying to get his own shot and took a lot of tough ones and so, out of frustration, I think he's just trying to get himself going. But we gotta try to find a way to get him get him some cleaner looks.”
3:44 on Kuminga: “Yeah, I think he did a good job out there, attacking. Good to see him get to the rim a couple times and he had a good run.”
4:00 on if Gary's left ankle injury might be serious: “X-rays were negative. That's all I've heard. So I don't know about Saturday.”
4:09 Moses Moody postgame OKC on what it’s like when they're almost hitting every three: “Yeah. So they had a really good game, got a lot of shots. But we’ve got to make those shots a little bit tougher, pay attention to their coverages, pay attention to what they did tonight, build on for next game.”
4:32 on if he thinks he’ll get some more minutes: “I mean, all I can do is work towards the ultimate goal, which is a win and we didn't get that tonight… I got some shots, but we didn't come out with the win. So that's the ultimate goal.”
5:00 on surviving without Draymond and Steph: “Yeah, I mean, that changes a lot for sure, just in the way that we play, or rotations and different sets and looks… So that kind of changes the game up a little bit. But paying attention to it, knowing that it’s going to be a little bit different, gotta attack everything head on. So, seeing what pieces we have out there on the floor and seeing how we can make it work.”
5:37 on making a couple pushes but not coming out with the win, if it’s deflating or if they’re still staying afloat: “…working towards the goal for a win and you're not getting that this is going to be a little bit deflating as you say, but when you lose a couple games in a row, I wouldn't necessarily say it's the fight as much as it is charging up… everybody's motivated. We need to get a win, so I think we're gonna be playing like that.”
6:28 on if it’s weird not to have success at Chase anymore: “A bit weird as you say, different than the norm… still early in the season. We’ve got to pay attention to that as a stat and just come out with wins, home and away… Last year was kind of flipped, struggled on the road, great at home. So every season is gonna look a little bit different. And this is just a case of that and we just got to do what we got to do, to get wins at home.”
7:13 on what’s missing in the locker room with Draymond out, if there is an awkward silence there or some motivation missing: “Yeah, good question. Like I said, with the absence of Steph and Dray, it is going to be different. It's going to be a different look. But CP3 is a vocal leader that we haven't had in the past two years. So he adds a lot to that gap. I mean, it obviously is something missing there on the vocal side, just his large presence not being there. But we have a lot of guys stepping up, more communication. And I feel like that's definitely been something that CP3 has kind of taken for himself, to kind of close that gap. But yeah, we obviously will miss Draymond.”
8:18 Jonathan Kuminga postgame OKC on finding a rhythm tonight: “…talk with certain people… keep motivating me… we didn't get the win but obviously we just go out and just give it all you got.”
9:44 on what teammates are saying to help clear his mind ahead of the game: “…keeping you engaged, keeping you engaged especially days where we don't have everybody, just those talks help you to be involved in staying engaged.”
10:45 on what the team morale is like right now: “Very good spirit. Everybody in a good spirit. There's nobody really worry about what's going on because it's just small things that we got to figure out and I feel like everybody's on the same page. Everybody has a good spirit…obviously you're gonna be fine.”
11:17 on what he specifically can do to try to help the team get back to winning: “Just going out there and just being an athlete, playing hard on defense, bringing energy. That’s pretty much it.”
11:35 on who was in his ear: “Everybody on the team, just like a family and pretty much everybody, whoever just feel like talking to me, come and talk to me…there is no any specific person will say you can talk to me about pretty much everybody just talking to everybody on the team. It’s not just me and just keep our spirits up because when you lose … everybody's spirits kind of go down. But that wasn't the case. It's just I know everybody in a good spirit. But you need just people who will come and talk to you, to keep the same spirits and just go out and just perform.”
STEVE PREGAME OKC
GSW-OKC IN-GAME NOTES
0:00 the new article and video about Draymond that no one is talking about!
6:00 my rant on why I think Steve Kerr's "inexcusable" quip is incorrect, borderline disrespectful
14:14 tipoff!
11m50 Q1 Jalen fadeaway
11m30 Q1 Kuminga 3
11m15 Q1 CP steal to 94-ft JK
11m05 Q1 CP pulled the chair on Giddey
10m40 Q1 another tough shot by OKC, good team D by GSW
18:30 Draymond doesn't have an anger problem he has an enforcement, took the law into his own hands to teach Rudy never to lay hands on Klay again or any GSW
10m00 Q1 good D, tov on the ATO
9m50 Q1 Wiggs attacks Giddey
9m20 Q1 Giddey attack on JK good, good D
9m15 Q1 Wiggs tov bad pass
8m15 Q1 good transition D as Dario has to cover Giddey after miss
7m55 Q1 another bad tov Dario pass, we're throwing the ball to the other team now
7m30 Q1 CP for 3 on ATO via Klay
7m05 Q1 CP bad on the close out, why did he suck into paint vs Lu?
6m51 Q1 Klay out, visibly upset with the sub, BP in (but Klay knows that he'll close the game)
6m40 Q1 BP dreb already
6m20 Q1 BP oreb tap out
5m55 Q1 Wiggs another tov (playing with bad shoulder)
5m40 Q1 JK and-one reverse!!! athletic
5m10 Q1 JK subs out, I'm sure Twitter is enraged
4m30 Q1 Wiggs butter fingers leads to and-one
4m20 Q1 Josh Tiven terrible call per usual
4m03 Q1 tic tac toe CoJo BP Loon
3m55 Q1 BP great zone help on Shai then close out
3m30 Q1 Wiggs another tov, shuffled feet, subs out
3m20 Q1 GP misses another bunny (Wiggs tov, Klay missed shots, CP not having killer instinct have all been diseases lately)
3m10 Q1 GP disrupts Shai drive
2m51 Q1 bad screen Loon but that's on Dort, he has the right to pivot
2m40 Q1 Klay bad shot blk, dunk the other way
2m05 Q1 Klay another bad shot saved by Loon
1m45 Q1 Joe wide open 3, Loon bad PNR D
1m23 Q1 Klay another bad shot, maybe we should expect/want that w/o Steph Dray
1m02 Q1 BP should trust GP more, late on close out of Dort
0m40 Q1 GP misses another hook shot
0m28 Q1 Shai gets past GP, tough ask, but I'm asking it
0m03 Q1 Klay another bad shot
45:00 on why Moody isn't in there: I think it's because they're plugging in BP at the 2 as a scorer. Give it some time. We'll see. Could be matchups. If BP is at the 1 then Shai is guarding him? Again, be curious, not outraged. You never know, maybe CoJo been great in prac with BP at the 2
11m51 Q2 Loon bucket inside, new fav opponent OKC?
11m12 Q2 Loon late attack vs Chet wow, GP steals inbound but misses again, sprains ankle
10m00 Q2 Klay another shank 3
9m55 Q2 Mo 94 feet spin good
9m22 Q2 Klay to Loon scores on Chet again
9m05 Q2 Klay POA bad vs Micic. gets subbed out BP
6m40 Q2 JK good D vs Chet on the dreb, tov
5m42 Q2 Wiggs airball vs 2 guys
5m29 Q2 Mo and-1 fade in paint vs Jalen
4m44 Q2 Mo 3 tongue wag via JK
4m39 Q2 OKC missed dunk but parting of the Red Sea
1:05:00 Have we seen the Moody, Wiggs, JK, Saric, and CP combo on the floor together? -- sometimes you have to just check the boxes, like we told CoJo that he would play as a backup
4m05 Q2 Klay great D on Giddey
3m33 Q2 Wiggs via CP on the BLOB
2m51 Q2 bad trans D as Giddey 3
2m30 Q2 CP gambles the pinch on Shai and Joe hits a 3 (like a blitz in football)
2m05 Q2 Saric could've Larry Bird no look overhead behind, but he's not Bird
2m00 Q2 Mo draws hook on Shai
1m44 Q2 Wiggs attacks late but Giddey leaves so it's a bucket
1m30 Q2 Wiggs blocking foul vs Shai, Kerr argues with Tiven who has no rapport
1m11 Q2 Wiggs oreb leads to Saric 3
0m42 Q2 Klay drives into two guys why, deflect out
0m27 Q2 Klay good POA vs Josh, tov
0m11 Q2 CP good job knowing Joe will foul, still 10 sec
0m03 Q2 CP attack finds Dario 3 corner (only down 7 at half)
1:17:15 on Wiggs needing to abandon the 3 -- you don't break out of a slump by not shooting. You just don't. Maybe you do at the high school, maybe possibly NCAA? But guys in the NBA, nah.
1:21:00 there might be an equivalent length of slump between the NBA and MLB, but in MLB fans don't get on players in slumps
1:22:45 on how many games it will take for chemistry: I say 25 games that include the starting five healthy
1:26:45 GP out, if he had to go out, now's a good time, missing bunnies, don't need elite D per se
11m25 Q3 Wiggs post up vs Shai
10m31 Q3 Dario leaves CP vs Chet but comes back, tov to Klay
9m51 Q3 Klay ugly 3 but Wiggs cleans up
1:34:15 when Klay got 37 or 14 threes, who else was on the floor? Lakers suck too when LBJ or AD is gone
9m10 Q3 good voer by CP3 on the reload
9m00 Q3 Josh Tiven wow good call on Kenrich pushing Dario into JK (down 4)
7m45 Q3 Dario fell down on the Josh 3
6m50 Q3 JK passes up a chance to post up Shai (4 pf) see below
6m00 Q3 bad ATO CP to JK with 3 sec
4m30 Q3 no and-one for JK although Chet bumped him, Natalie missed the trip by Shai (would've been his 5th)
1:46:15 analyzing the play where JK needed to post up
3m45 Q3 GSW still avoids JK vs Shai
3m15 Q3 Loon bad blocking foul with 5 on clock
2m05 Q3 Shai 3 on discombobulated D
1m22 Q3 good attack CoJo
1m03 Q3 Loon bad PNR to Chet dunk, is he tired?
0m50 Q3 Mo travel
0m15 Q3 Klay loses the ball again
0m05 Q3 CoJo good block on MIcic
11m55 Q4 BP a little late on the handoff PNR Joe 3
10m50 Q4 Loon bad PNR vs Jalen easy bucket down lane, but Loon impacting O so keep him in
10m15 Q4 Jalen 3 but you gotta keep Loon in for orebs, coaching is difficult! You just can't take out Loon for TJD
9m55 Q4 good POA by Mo although Jalen did get the step
9m20 Q4 BP didn't trust Mo, leaves the open 3, what you get when you see Mo's POA
8m07 Q4 Klay dribbles off foot (13th tov, all of them seem like AAU)
2:04:00 Jalen as your 2nd unit pg is kinda amazing, 2 pgs in the starting five (Josh/Shai)
6m51 Q4 JK finally posts up
5m30 Q4 Wiggs another tov underestimating Josh again
4m45 Q4 JK jogging back on D leads Saric to commit to Shai, gets burned
4m30 Q4 JK loses ball after going past Shai
4m21 Q4 good hustle back BP gets fouled on dreb
2:15:30 Klay will be a Warrior this summer whether it's by extension or FA, don't worry, even his dad said that
2:18:00 on "Klay won't get a bag": It's still a long season, though. All Klay has to do is hit 20 threes in his last two games, and your theory's out the window.
2:19:45 on Woj reporting Klay is asking for more than available: They ALWAYS ask for more than what franchises are willing to pay (esp this early in the season). Why would guys need agents if not this way?
2:21:15 People gotta remember: 1) OKC is damn good, 2) we're missing two HOFers, it's never enough for the outraged zombies which is why they're failing in life
2:23:30 on people being addicted to negativity and why they always choose Kerr the easy target
2:33:30 NEW LGW RULE: IF YOU'RE GONNA COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMETHING COMPLAIN-ABLE
2:34:15 Actually in MIN-GSW Part 2, the starters finally played well, although Wiggs and Klay ended a good amount of possessions with a missed shot https://www.letsgowarriors.com/p/warriors-starters-turns-mistake-steph-curry-klay
2:38:00 on guys from the hood like J-Rich, Pat Bev, PG, KD, Morris twins, there's only 5 out of 450 loud guys from the hood like Dray
2:48:15 STEVE POSTGAME AUDIO NOW ON
2:51:30 MOODY POSTGAME AUDIO NOW ON
3:02:15 Rey1953: "How do you motivate professionals to hit shots?" Honestly just keep encouraging them with positivity. Plus there's so much negativity on social media these days, that there is no choice but to do that. So could effectively negativity! Lol. Because you always lose to the Zombie Apocalypse
3:12:00 GP2 wearing a boot postgame per Kendra Andrews
3:19:45 JK POSTGAME AUDIO
3:24:00 checking where the game was probably "lost", hard to pinpoint because Klay's bad tov we were down 13 already, late Q3 Loon bad D (maybe he was tired), but he had good orebs, Joe opens Q4 with a 3 (BP bad positioning?), and it trickled from there from late Q3 to no later than 8m00 Q4 when Klay had the bad tov down 13
3:30:45 MORE JK POSTGAME AUDIO
3:38:00 Calvin Chu: "I can understand why Kerr limits kuminga’s minutes. He has shades of pietrus- does something amazing then something grossly bad- instead of a back step out of bounds- it’s a slip of a dribble" -- COMMENT OF THE NIGHT EVEN IF IT IS A TAD THROW-UNDER-THE-BUS-ISH
3:40:45 Add Isaiah Joe to the list that includes Evan Fournier
3:41:45 Tim Kono: add Naz Reid
3:42:15 Dean Chambers adds Lonnie Walker IV to the list
3:43:45 Dean adds Al Horford
3:45:00 my rant of life and letting go of people leading up to...
3:56:30 TWITTER IS A COLLATERAL DAMAGE APP
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