Warriors coach Steve Kerr | Postgame vs Miami Heat
Uh what’s part of the decision to start playing what do you feel like his presence on uh just felt like um get a little more spacing on the floor to start the game and um so you know it’s it’s not doesn’t necessarily mean know it’s permanent it
Just felt like tonight that was a thing was up to obvious from the second half just just able to just turn it up and I scor those two final two periods much better uh level of uh competitiveness in the second half I thought they outcompeted Us in the first
Half and um you know they were making it difficult for us to get the ball across half court they were playing really really hard and we didn’t match that in the second half I thought we flipped that around I thought wigs his defense on Terry roier second half was one of
The keys to the game I thought J uh really did a a great job competing coming up with some rebounds and loose balls uh and great to have LOM back in Atlanta you know LOM represents um a lot of what we’re about you know just the professionalism and and staying ready
And we’ve missed having him out on the floor and uh it’s great great to see Lon step in and and play well and help us well how good was Draymond on on B uh yeah Draymond was great I mean bam hit so many tough Shots tonight um you know
All you can can really hope for is to keep him you know away from the hoop and he made um I don’t know it felt like seven or eight turnaround Fade Away jumpers um but Draymond made him work for everything that he got and um I
Thought that was really key and you we didn’t have to double so we were able to to guard the three-point line pretty well and Grandma’s always you know a key to our defense but especially slow ton them coach you held the heat to I believe 37 points in the second half you
Mentioned the second half competitiveness being much better but what do you think was a key other than just was it just guys like guarding their yard better or what led to that uh just like I said I think Wiggins set the tone with his defense on on roier and
Better better ball pressure but also better um job of staying in front and not allowing as much penetration as we did in the first half see obviously the the record’s better on the road than it is at home what do you think has been worth to
You guys over the years that when you what what do you think it’s been worth to you over the years that when you come into an opposing Arena there’s often a lot of fans for you guys here I mean you’re one of the few people that get
You’re one of the few teams that gets loud cheers in this building what’s what’s that like the collective that been like for you guys over the years um yeah it’s it’s great I mean you know you walk into any Arena uh um in the league on the road and there’s automatically um
You just blue and yellow jerseys all over the place you staff’s got so many fans across the country and a lot of people cheer for them no matter where we are and U you know so that that part is is nice it’s um I it didn’t work last
Year so it’s working again this year I don’t I don’t know what you mentioned their their pressure their ball pressure giv isues in the first half they play a bunch of different variations of Defense it’s all on the tape um did that full cour pressure catch you guys by surprise
I guess and how different is preparing for this team versus other teams yeah I mean we we expected it because that’s what they do they they play a lot of Zone um I don’t know where their numbers are this year but historically they’re one of the U the most um Zone heavy
Teams in the league and um especially when short-handed um I know SPO well um he’s challenging those guys to to pick up four to to get into the you know into the ball full court pressure they got a an 8sec violation on us in the first half couple Steals and and I thought
That kept them in the game and I just felt like we matched it much uh much better in the second half we more aggressive attacking on the Press another one of Miami defense just what’s the challenge of going into a game preparing for def what what’s unique in that well he’s
Unique in that he can uh he can push the ball in transition U he’s the falr of their offense you know um they give him the ball and they they start running their off ball actions triple handoffs but he can also be the lob guy set the high screen and
Dive and as you saw tonight he can make that that mid-range shot with ease so it’s a great play thank you
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