Postgame Interview | Steve Kerr on Steph Curry-less Warriors hang around, fade late in loss to Bucks

Postgame Interview | Steve Kerr on Steph Curry-less Warriors hang around, fade late in loss to Bucks

Look the Warriors for the most part took care of basketball just eight turnovers for them they average around 14 that’s been a big issue all season long for them and then you look at stay disciplined on defense I thought they lost a discipline in the fourth quarter

Giv up 46 points to the Bucks in the final 12 minutes they make life hard for yis I thought they did a good job in the first half he only had 10 points and six rebounds there but in the second he got loose with 23 points so this was also

Cool too Klay Topson how about this icon from Beyond yard clay moves past LeBron James for seventh on the NBA’s alltime threes list play Thompson that is amazing there for clay and he had a big night passing up LeBron James but also Clay is a sixth game with six or more

Threes made in a basketball game so Klay looks like he is getting back tough night for him though overall 7 to 23 from the floor d right heavy legs maybe on that back end of a back toback yeah he came up big time last night so clay

Might you know been dealing with some heavy legs today but man just where he is right now as far as his game the way he’s shooting the basketball these last few weeks man it’s been amazing to watch I used to get my butt whooped in practice all the time shooting against

Clay so it’s always great to see him making history from behind the arc and out there making shots at a high level so congrats to Clay we talked a lot before the game about Clay’s chemistry with tjd as a big man setting screens for clay I get excited because if I set

A great screen on Clay my man has to respect the fact that Klay Thompson is going to come off that screen and hit a shot and so you whoever is defending me jumps out to Clay which is what tjd has realized that if I set a good screen on

Clay and I dive to the basket my man is going to jump out I will be free and I’ll dive to the basket and Klay Thompson will look out for me Klay Thompson’s connection with his big man has been phenomenal you saw a clip there

Where he had a give and go with with tjd his Evolution as a playmaker is what this Warriors team needs and and I I really love the fact that throughout the point of throughout this game you had clay as the veteran there with the young guys and he was running the offense

Seamlessly him both him and Dario on the offensive end were really special moving that ball just a tough couple turnovers there that turned the momentum of the game but you’re really proud of this game if you’re Steve CER because you have a lot of good film to show things

That you can build on moving forward well how about Klay Thompson his last 24 games here at d right 19 points a game four rebound shooting 41% from three and 44% from the field put some respect on his name that boy still us the basketball at a high level at a high

Clip that jumper is not going anywhere so that’s that’s some great numbers that’s good to hear yeah no doubt he got hot in the fourth quarter for a secondary hit two straight threes you thought uh oh it could be one of those nights for clay in the fourth quarter

But you touched on his rapport with tjd Trace Jackson Davis in the 12 of the last 14 games Trace Jackson Davis has scored a double figures heck he scored F double figures in five straight 12 points two rebounds tough finisher here tough finisher for tjd look at this play big

Fella you see him getting more confident in his ability to finish around the rim finish around big guys in the first half you saw him struggling a little bit trying to finish above a guy like Brook Lopez or Giannis and you see the adjustment right there the young guys

For the for the Warriors right now they’re learning at a high clip a guy who you know played four years with with Mike Woodson coach W Mike Woods Mike Woodson at Indiana and as a big guy I’m excited to watch him play because he gives the Warriors different

Dimension but I love the defensive pressure that he puts on the other team the ability to rebound he he’s he’s athletic he’s just d right we talk about this all the time he’s got to learn how to finish with one hand he’s got to learn how to dunk with one hand but I

Love the way he goes up aggressively to to to dunk every ball yeah one thing I love about the young fell tjd is just the fact that he gets behind a defense so much and when you have a option like that another lob threat and you know

About this fesus when you played here you were a lob threat javil McGee those championship teams always had that one lob threat where you knew if you broke down a defense you had that option so the fact that he’s knowing where he should be at all the time on the floor

Is great this kid has a bright future in the league and the Warriors did a great job with drafting them yeah six of eight from the floor tonight in Milwaukee as the Warriors try to bounce back Monday against the Memphis Grizzlies they dropped this one to the Milwaukee Bucks

Of course the Bucks I score in the fourth quarter 46- 37 they end up shooting 54% this is the one of the top offenses in the NBA they don’t turn it over much fast break point is how about the points in the paint even points in

The paint that was special look at the bench points the bench continues to show up and show out every game but too much Giannis too much Middleton too much Dame let’s hear from Steve Kerr head coach to go to St Warriors presented by BMW I thought our guys competed really hard um you know tough backto back um playing against a great team thought we really um gave a great effort we just the game slipped away from us in the fourth you you know they scored 46 points and felt like we had U you know

Decent uh control of the game defensively um until that fourth and then they got they got loose but I’m really proud of the effort and uh guys really fought was that your defense faltering in the fourth or was looked like a few plays Giannis just sort of

Asserted his will yeah there were there were a couple breakdowns um you know I thought the key was uh Chris Middleton got going and when he got hot during that stretch um you know that helped Giannis get free because we had to pay so much attention to Chris and uh there

Was a rebound off a free throw that was a huge play I think it turned into a four-point play um couple plays where we we um you know wanted to to to double Yannis and he um you know he went to the rim before we could get there um but

They you know give them credit they they played a great fourth quarter for the first three quarters though and especially in the second quarter you limited them to like 20 20 something like Below in the 20s for what what was the biggest change that you saw defensively compared to the Past you

Know couple games just how hard the guys were playing you know and that’s all we’ve talked about is the last few days is um you know we clearly lost our uh our belief and our our um Spirit our Edge whatever you want to call it um

Those last two home games of our homest standad and it was embarrassing for all of us and I think um you the last few days that’s what we’ve talked about um our guys have played really hard the last two nights and that’s the standard uh that has been set here for a long

Time and uh as long as we play that hard I’m I’m good with you know whatever the results are um I think we’ll give ourselves a chance to win every night when we compete like that we talked about Brandon being back Inman his hometown what how’ you think he play

Tonight Brandon was fantastic yeah um you know without Steph obviously we needed um his offense and um you know he came through in a big way um he’s a really crafty player you know he knows how to get to the rim he’s got that Euro Step um he just has a feel and

A knack he’s had 10 rebounds I think um it’s one of the things we love about him he just seems to be a step ahead of the play all the time seems like Jonathan has games where he’s really locked in others where he kind of just Fades he

Obviously was very locked in last night looked early tonight like he might be fading but then he snapped back to life did you any sense of what got him rolling a little bit yeah I mean that’s kind of how it is with with young players um you know it’s a little up and

Down and um I thought uh JK really stayed with it after the slow start and he did a really good job of attacking getting downhill and um you know he had a big big scoring night and um he continues to to grow so um he’s doing a

Great job where have you seen him his grow that’s Steve Cur there in that fourth quarter for the Warriors we can’t it enough you talked about JK scored 17 in that final frame but overall the Warriors give up 70% shooting to the Milwaukee Bucks they

Score 46 points go 19 to 27 they shoot 50 from three and that’s where the Warriors kind of gave in there in that final frame you got to defend at all times against his young against his veteran L uh Lon Bucks team yeah with a team like the Bucks a good team like

That with a bunch of veterans it’s a 48 game you 48 minute game you got to play The Warriors did an amazing job in that first half they did a solid job in the third quarter but then you know once the once the OG’s kind of got their Rhythm

And kind of figured out what the warrior Warriors were doing on defense they kind of had their way so uh great showing but you know when you play against a team like this it’s got to be a whole 48 minute game this is a game where you

Know a couple layups made here or there by the Warriors it might be a different outcome I really enjoyed watching the way Jonathan kaminga attacked the defensive end of the Milwaukee Bucks that’s a really team on that end and you have you have a guy like Brook Lopez you

Have Yannis kumbo these are long athletic bigs and for Jonathan kaminga to be able to finish with ease I think that shows something it’s telling Steve cerr listen I know I said what I said last week and I’m here to back it up because now you give him more minutes

And he’s backing it up out there on the road the Warriors desperately need guys that can finish in the paint and tonight you saw a tied 6262 with the Milwaukee Bucks points in the paint that’s a that’s a step in the right direction for this team shards was big when it came to

Points in the paint 12.6 rebounds and six assists for Dario sards back toback starts for him I thought he held his own against the Bucks you saw him take Giannis and Brook Lopez to the rack a couple times made some good passes there Dario sar’s a very smart basketball

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Postgame Interview | Steve Kerr on Steph Curry-less Warriors hang around, fade late in loss to Bucks