Steve Kerr Postgame Interview – Warriors’ Kuminga, Curry bring a spark to clunky win over Nets

Steve Kerr Postgame Interview – Warriors’ Kuminga, Curry bring a spark to clunky win over Nets

Our defense was was really good um you know they I know they missed some Shots tonight that you know they they’ve hit last few games I mean they they’ve been pretty hot from three they definitely missed some open ones but I just thought our defense was um was

Pretty solid and then we made a lot of second effort type plays GE Santos was amazing just um getting on the floor for loose balls getting offensive rebounds generating extra possessions and uh you know obviously Steph and JK kind of handled the offense but um it was a

Really good team effort you mentioned you you closed with d over clay which is obviously notable to to many um why did you go with that choice it’s the game is you know you just you know if a group’s playing well you just stay with that group you know

That’s kind of a general rule and uh so we stayed with the group CU they were they were really um competing and making plays and and and they had the momentum so I didn’t want to stop the momentum this is kind of new to Clay though I mean you haven’t closed with them

Several times recently how are you kind of seeing him take that he’s fine I mean you know this is uh uh a season where you know he’s had a lot of ups and downs and um you know he’s it’s it’s not easy um you know for a guy who’s

Uh been so good and you know Hall of Fame player um to deal with you know the injuries and and uh it’s not it’s never easy for for any player getting older and and um but he’s he’s he’s mentally tough he plays through everything um you

Know I’d like to get uh some of our depth back uh so that we can you know give him a little more rest and you know maybe not play him on some backto backs try to you know ease the load that he has um but uh klay’s going to help us

Win plenty of games G going forward just on talk back do you think that maybe some of play recent struggles have to do with the how much he’s been playing yeah yeah he’s played a lot and you know this was our third and four nights and um so

It’s um you know it’s all part of it but um everybody has struggles during the season and and um you know you just have to play through them and um you know I thought he did a good job tonight moving the ball and on the glass and and his

Minutes were good and uh so he contributed and um you know it’s just there’s a spotlight on him because of how great he is because of the career he’s had um so I don’t think that should be the story tonight the story should be we want a

Game on the road um you know against a team that’s been playing well and we had multiple guys step in um you know with Lester and and Moses and ghee like that’s the story of tonight’s game is you know um those guys coming back and really contrib buting to to a win

Especially the way you guys have been struggling times lately Steve how good is it feel to win a game like this where like you said it’s not like you guys shot the lights out or really you know easy at any point you had to kind of

Grind it out from start to finish I mean for us to go for four for 22 from three and and when um is uh I don’t know when the last time that’s happened but um Raymond for sure will be on that you know like Thursday you know he’s got

He’s busy the next couple of days I guess um no we it seems like every game is like this for us you know we um we’ve hardly had any blowouts in either direction um so every game’s tight and I think you know if our guys um can build

On this we can we can recognize what it takes uh to win it’s a lot of grit you know that’s what was so impressive about ghe tonight is just you know the multiple efforts and you know he was going after every rebound and and loose ball and Diving on the floor floor and

That energy is contagious the whole team felt it so I thought I thought ghe was um just fantastic there was one specific possession where uh I think he he got two offensive rebounds and then the jums he gets I think it was his 10th of the

Game and you know Clon gets the FL right turns into a 41 possession uh how just is that kind of a microcosm what you’re talking about that yeah yeah you know though that play I mean he made a good cut to I think originally almost to get a layup on the play

And you know he’s he understands the value of finishing Cuts we had a lot of guys tonight who would start to cut and stop and they’re switching everything and uh we we got nothing going so um you know against a team that switches like that you have to cut you have to be

Around the basket and make sharp you know Sharp Cuts and swing the ball reversal and U the game changed as soon as we put him in in the first half cuz the ball finally started to move how much uh me like I uh everybody here always say like be ready or when you

Have the opportunity to be there and to be in the court and and play so when I saw like that I having like couple minutes in the court I was like I gota I got to bring another energy to the team especially def defensively because uh I feel like we we need more

Like this energy on defense so I was there like I gotta bring that for the team like I don’t care like how many points I’m gonna I’m GNA do or like rebounds I don’t really care about that I just want to go there and help the

Team to win and every time that I got a couple minutes or like I’m GNA be there in the and I’m gonna be doing that helping the team to win doesn’t matter what stay ready uh like my family yeah my family is always like talking to me about that

Uh it’s not it’s not easy to be in another country like uh you know but with the Warriors like with the Warriors organization they make make me feel like like a I am in a family you know so H I feel like in in the sports like you always

Got to be ready because your opportunity comes like you’re never waitting you never you’re never like waiting for your opportunity the opportunity just come and you got to be ready and my family was like I think the biggest key like talking to me every day and like keep

You doing your things keep it working out hard and when the opportunity comes like God’s theing everything and you’re going to you’re going to be ready for that is the hardest part for you in terms of being away how you de with that uh like the culture is a little bit

Different uh especially be away from the family and you not be there in like special moments but that’s one thing like everybody in the basketball and the all these sports pass through it so I think like it’s tough but you gota you got to know that that’s how it going to

Be you guys play overall uh I feel really good like I I see like that we we can be like a a really good team if we keep playing that way because nobody can stop for us like I was I was saying in the other interview like we

Got Stephen cirk for me is the best player in the world so when you give him like wide open shots and you facilitate the game for him he gonna win the games and you just got to be there on defense like working hard on defense and on

Offense let him let him work he gonna he gonna play and he gonna win the game game today but obviously a lot of Warriors fans a lot of support what did it feel like to play in that atere uh I was feeling like like we was playing at

Home to be honest because we we have a lot of fans in here and like uh it’s it’s good when when you hear like you’re you’re doing a good play you like the ball is in the in the floor and you dive and you go grab the ball and everybody’s

Like uh oh yeah let’s go let’s go you feel like okay let’s bring this energy and you like hype it up you know

Steve Kerr Postgame Interview – Warriors’ Kuminga, Curry bring a spark to clunky win over Nets
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