Steve Kerr Reflects on Warriors Loss vs Pacers | March 22, 2024

Steve Kerr Reflects on Warriors Loss vs Pacers | March 22, 2024

Think you had a 12-point lead there in the second quarter and then everything just seemed to change there what what do you think happened uh to change this game well I thought Indiana was great so give them credit I thought uh their point guard play was fantastic between

Halbert and nard and TJ mcconell um they just pushed the ball down our throats and got out in transition and I thought they were the more physical team as well um when we had that lead you know they made the push at the end of the second

And then also at the beginning of the third and it just didn’t feel like we were getting um to the loose balls um and they were they were out competing us there for a little bit and then we lost our Poise a little we started turning it

Over we were really good in the first half I think only three or four turnovers and then probably 10 or so in the second so I thought their physicality and their their speed um just kind of took us out of our our Rhythm a little bit what kind of factor

Did their their size and length play with with Miles Turner yeah Turner Turner was great at The Rim you know he blocked some shots halberton blocked uh several shots um jump shots um I think he got steps threes a couple of times um Turner had five so the shot blocking was

Definitely a factor do you think the halber and three to close the half that you gave up impacted the third quarter I mean I I don’t think it it we lost our spirit or anything because of it but you know the guy hit two uh basic Bally

Buzzer beating shots one at the end of the second one at the end of the third and they were both incredible shots so um I didn’t think it affected Us coming out of out of the out of the Break um but it gave them momentum for sure

Because we went one I think in the last few minutes we went from up 12 to only up one so that that push definitely helped them at the end of the second kaminga has been you know extremely efficient the last month and a half or

So uh but I think 417 tonight uh what did you just see I just thought JK got into a little bit of a rush and um you know they had SE yakum on him um a lot of length at The Rim so he wasn’t able

To to get um you know some of the easy Hoops he’s been getting great learning experience for him you know he’s had such a a good run and um teams are going to start you know putting their best guys on them they’re going to show them

Different looks um so it’s uh JK’s has been fantastic and um you know love what he’s done and this is all part of his growth so he’ll he’ll watch the tape he’ll feel this one and he’ll see where he can get better and he’ll continue to grow you’ve been very consistent saying

You think there’s a good run in this team you could see a 100 run I know you’re never going to say there’s no chance but it’s getting pretty late uh do you have to start recalibrating what you’re thinking about this team no there’s nothing I need to recalibrate I

Think we we know who our team is um we just have to stay with it you know we we U disappointed obviously in this home stand we were hoping to um to get all three and we only got one and that’s put us in a tough spot so just got to keep plugging

Away Steve you guys only had six home games this month and to lose four of them how hard is that to take given the stakes and the point of the Season you’re in well we’re a better team on the road this year for whatever reason

So I mean I I I don’t think it matters where where we play um we haven’t been able to control our home court uh so maybe we’ll go out on the road and and um you know find some momentum Steve you have a lot of guys

With the green light to shoot the three your team attempted 48 three-pointers tonight only made 14 of them what do you think about those three-point attempts I thought in the second half we got rushed on some of them I thought um you know the first half we had really good ball

Movement I think we had 15 assists and three turnovers it was a really clean first half and then when they made their push to start the third quarter I think we started to get into a rush and instead of trusting each other I thought we we started launching some some tough

Shots you changed up Steph’s rotation a little bit you took them out a little bit earlier in the first and the third and you played them all all the fourth maybe that was game related but were you looking at a different thing with step was it the pressure their point guards

Were putting on him maybe a little bit he looked tired to me uh mid mid third quarter and we were on a bad in a bad way um when I took him out at about five and a half minute Mark and I just wanted to get a different group out to try to

Find some Traction in the game and and um because he sat for those 5 and a half minutes and then we were down 12 I think going into the fourth or 11 whatever it was um felt like it was necessary to start him so you know it’s not anything

I’m doing differently it’s just the game called for it thank you

Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr meets with the media after 123-111 loss against Spurs.