Warriors/Grizzlies Postgame, Klay,CP, Draymond, Coach Kerr Reactions | March 20, 2024

Warriors/Grizzlies Postgame, Klay,CP, Draymond, Coach Kerr Reactions | March 20, 2024

Hi Steve uh hi Janie the stretch there right before halftime and they they had come I think within two or so and then you guys had a 10 run and then started the third with with a 12 O burst I mean how key was that stretch and what was

Working to get stops and also just take it um aggressively to them offensively yeah I thought those last few minutes of the second quarter uh were really um key just to give us some momentum and and a lead at halftime but you know they scored

Um what did they get 58 in the first half so we what we talked about at halftime was trying to take control of the third quarter and and find a a stretch where we could get five or six stops in a row and open up a lead and

The guys did that right away which was great and I just thought everybody played well you know the ball was moving beautifully uh a lot of great individual performances and um it was a it was a fun game to watch CU um took care of the ball I mean 43 assists and seven

Turnovers you just don’t you don’t see that very often uh Jonathan with 26 points several emphatic dunks when he’s going to the rim with force and power like that and finishing like that I me think he has a franchise record for dunks in this season now when the like the

Play-by-play ER what does that do for you guys as a as a team yeah it gives us a different dimension just those easy baskets but it’s the force that he played with tonight um I thought it was it was maybe the best game I’ve ever

Seen him play um at both ends just um he was playing with intensity defensively got deflections he was guarding the ball um but the the way he played uh downhill um sprinting the floor he is so fast he’s electric and um he’s really learning to to use that more often and

In key times and and I thought tonight he was just brilliant and he mixed in along with that just several plays where he caught it and immediately swung it because he recognized we had the advantage so it it seems to me like like the game is really um making more sense

To him now and slowing down a little bit and um it was really fun to watch Jonathan tonight he was brilliant Steve it seems like the intensity really picked up shortly after that little dust up you want to call it or whatever um were you surprised to see that because

Sometimes that’s that’s what happens when you see players when when players get into it and the game changes a little bit were you surprised to see that at all the intensity ship rise like that uh no no I mean you know we have a history with this team and it’s always

Been very competitive they have a you know I talked about it before the game they’re just tough uh physically tough they never back down so uh when we play them there’s usually you know some kind of a you know a dust up um I hated to see what happened because it looked like

Taylor was really hurt and um I talked to him after the game briefly and he said he was fine so uh no harm done but it was a kind of a scary moment and uh I know it was uh inadvertent um you know someone uh got pushed and fell into to

Taylor yeah so um you know but but the intensity like that against them is not unexpected because we you know we’ve played a lot against them and we we know what kind of team they are and how tough they are and competitive and and so that’s all part of it hey Steve you’ve

Talked a lot about how you always have belief in this team this team’s ability to win big games I guess until it’s eliminated from the playoffs just how much does the way JK and wigs played simultaneously factor into that belief for you yeah yeah I mean and and it goes

Back a couple of months now you know it’s it’s um you see a game like tonight um you know we we’ve come so far just in terms of you know figuring out lineup combinations and and those two guys um individually playing well together we didn’t have that early in the season but

Um I think where we are right now um we’re in a good place we’ve got a lot of guys who are are playing extremely well in their roles and uh the the the combinations all make a lot of sense you know Trace has added a dimension to to

Our team with his finishing which is really exciting clay has embraced this role off the bench and is playing um his best basketball of the of the year so there’s a lot of good stuff going on and obviously we’ve got to keep getting better and we’ve got plenty to prove but

Um tonight was a good example of of why I believe in this team because we do have a lot of talent and they’re starting to to really put it together Steve over the last five games I think wigs is shooting almost 60% tonight he obviously had a big game it

Didn’t look like he was forcing anything looked like everything was nice and in the flow of the offense what have you seen from him lately well it this has been um going on for a couple of months maybe maybe not the uh quite the the level of shooting you’re talking about

Over the last five but wigs has had a really good stretch here the last couple months after the slow start to the season and he’s such an important player for us and uh you know tonight uh I thought we did a better job um of getting him the ball in some situations

Whereas um you know there are games where he gets a little lost in the shuffle and I’ve got to do a better job of of putting him in positions where he can attack downhill so I thought that happened tonight and he did a great job of of recognizing um what the defense was

Doing he made several really nice passes he rebounded well um just a great great night from wigs Steve in the beginning of the Season you know you and kaminga um obviously had your back and forths and just you know you wanted him to just do the little things that was one of

Your arguments now you’re seeing games like this what is it like for you to see him on the other side of that where he’s doing everything that you have asked of him and what do you see from him going forward it’s um incredibly gratifying to uh to see JK taking these steps um

That’s you know that’s the whole point of coaching you know you know we’re as a staff we’re trying to help all these guys become the best versions of themselves and uh JK has worked so hard and I think he’s really had a breakthrough this year and he’s earned

It he’s earned everything um you know I didn’t hand anything to him obviously and there were times I probably should have played him and I didn’t and um so I think the way this has all unfolded um I you know I couldn’t be happier for him

Uh he’s earned it he’s a great young man and and uh great teammate his teammates love him just feels like he’s he’s starting to get very comfortable um you know just with his position on the team and the and play in the league all of that um and we’re going to keep coaching

Him hard because he can he can get a lot better and you saw that tonight I mean when he he plays with that kind of intensity and he Sprints the floor that hard uh both ways uh he is he’s a force and um so couldn’t be happier for him

But I’m I’m going to keep coaching him hard thank you by the way Chris Paul’s really good did I I don’t think I mentioned him that guy that was a clinic tonight thank you please ask about Chris Paul so he had about nine assists I think the last time I checked I don’t

Know if he finished with 14 14 assists to be able to Dish the ball out and get it to people to in scoring position the way he did not only tonight but then it just seems like he’s been able to do that the last few games how big is that

For this team to facilitate in that way it’s it’s huge we we’ve never had this Dynamic with our team where we can put Steph on the bench and and have someone just completely control the game uh to me Chris has been in his best Rhythm here the last couple weeks uh’s shooting

The ball great he and Trace are are running the pick and roll to Perfection um it what a luxury to have Chris playing you know the backup point guard role and then obviously playing with Steph at times too um he’s you know there’s a reason they call him the point

God as a followup to that question you have pods who’s just taken on the role of doing the little things we have kaminga who’s taken on the role of playing the way he’s playing now Ste I mean not Steph but clay who’s accepted his role on the bench what would you

Speak to when you say what the identity of this team is compared to this time last year what the identity of the team was then well we we’re playing uh different combinations this year I think we’ve found a starting group that we’re comfortable with and we’ve got a bench

Unit that’s coming in and impacting the game every night so I like where we are I like our identity but we’ve got to keep keep getting better uh we know we have a lot to improve upon but um uh I I like this team a lot great chemistry uh

Good energy we got to keep it going thank you walked out of here he said you know Chris Paul is amazing and he said that the way you facilitate for this team yeah I’m this going to be real quick the way you facilitate for this team they’ve never had that before

Especially to be able to put Steph on the bench for as long as they can and you take control of the game just kind of speak to why that is but then also how you feel like that impacts this team and where you all are trying to

Go uh I don’t know it’s uh it’s a easy game when you play with really good players too you know what I mean and being out there on the court with Dre who’s such a high basketball IQ guy uh clay and step with they shooting it it

It allows for so much spacing um and JK the way he’s been playing wigs we just we just really got a a complete team when we when we want to be we have 14 assists way you have tonight or did sorry I’m sorry I always do that when

You have 14 assist the way you did tonight just kind of speak to like why is it that you’re able to find the right guy that has the right opportunity to take the right shot do you get what I’m saying yeah uh I done played a few games

You know what I mean no no but but seriously it’s I mean and them guys will tell you I I I watch this game all day every day you know what I mean I’m on second Spectrum I’m watching Clips um I know this game like the back of my hand so

When you’re playing out there and you knowing you know Clay has got it going he’s shooting the life out of the ball you know that the slip may be open you know that all these different things um been playing this game since I was about

Four years old you know what I mean and luckily over my career and my life I’ve had some of the best coaches you could have you know I was 11 years old uh running Utah’s old offense you know what I mean we my a coach got Nam Andy Poppin

We used to run the flex when I was 11 years old you know and so now when you get up to this point it ain’t really much that you can show me that I haven’t seen Chris Steve also said that he’s felt these past couple weeks really

Since you came back from your injury and everything settled down has been your strongest stretch with with this team since arriving do you feel that that’s the case and how much does since your return having the rotation decided the the starting lineup established help with that I mean it’s

Nice it’s it’s been a very up and down year for our team you know every time we come to the arena we not sure who playing you know which is unfortunate but it’s part of the league you know so I think you know we get excited when we

See everybody you know in the lineup and it sort of gives you a comfort level but it’s also just playing in this league for so long you you know this time of year what it means you know we talked about it we we said this couldn’t be a

Game where we walk in the locker room after the game and say we should have won you know we got to start you know not not hoping we win and make sure that we win Chris you came back from the time off and it looked like you came back and

Immediately was in you know even better like had a good Rhythm how much of that was the preparation while you’re away uh kind of getting ready to just hit the ground running man that that’s the preparation while I was away you know um rehab is hard you know guys don’t know

That like rehab is really hard really hard on your mental you know but I I give a big thanks to our team the training staff to the guys in the video room who worked out with me during All-Star break I hooped with a bunch of

Guys at my at my kids school you know my son actually played pickup with us a guy named Frank Nitty uh Aaron pal bunch of guy like we we hooped you know and that’s the stuff people don’t see and I just want them people to know that I’m grateful you know that

They they hooped with me you know what I mean I just need to get that confidence level and uh it’s it’s it’s still getting better but um it’s it’s golf time how old’s your son just to follow up on that how old’s your son 14 he’s actually out there with 130 his

Classmates they on a class field trip here to San Francisco so I’m about to go see him right quick oh that’s great uh okay so you’ve seen a lot of basketball what do you think about Steph Curry getting 300 threes that happened in this game there’s 14 games left in the season

It’s the fifth time he’s had 300 threes if I said that wrong sorry 300 300 tot in a season but that accomplishment to do it five times as well he going to do it again next year you know what I mean like yeah I’m not surprised you watching me every

Night yeah it doesn’t mean it’s easy though especially I didn’t say it was easy I mean it’s easy it’s easy for him you know what I mean he shoots the life out of the ball you know what I mean takes care of his body and I mean that’s

A unbelievable achievement but I mean even if you ask him he he not surprised uh so Chris when you were out a lot of the guys were like with Draymond really dependent on you and just how you run the floor and well clearly you were Mary player back in

Your time what do you think that back in your time we’re the same we’re the same age we’re the same age I’m I’m older though but yeah yeah but uh where do you see the development from the start of the season with the younger guys versus now because you have such a

You had a good flow then but you it just seems to get better and better um we just got a good group of guys and anytime you change teams or mix guys up you know it’s different rotations like I said we didn’t had a number of different

Guys in and out the lineup all year long so I think everybody just been trying to find their comfort level and we still just cuz we won this game we ain’t figured it all out yet you know but we we still figuring it out and we going to

Keep building and keep trying to play the right way building off that um beginning of the season kaminga was like your project you know you was somebody that you were you know just always giving notes to always trying to get him to to a point how has it been to see his

Growth throughout this season super dope to see and with anything man we always talk about stacking days you know what I mean and JK is a guy who puts the work in and so when the guys on the team see you put that work in that gives you the

Confidence too you know to take the shots to drive to do this and to do that and probably early he was tired of us yelling at him and whatnot but but now we we telling at him to be aggressive cuz we know we we we need him to to do

What he does in order for us to be successful know stylistically you know the Warriors have historically you know played a specific brand of offense at least you know with free flowing read and react kind of thing then you’ve you know played in a bunch of different systems but you’ve you know typically

Liked to run a lot of pick and roll um how have you fit into the system I guess compared to what you thought you might have yeah it’s it’s a little bit of both and initially when I got here I thought I just had to you know I was trying to

Fit in as much as possible and still am you know what I mean depending on what units we have but I remember Draymond and all them saying you know like be you too you know and I know in that pick and roll and stuff like that is just it’s a

Different Dynamic but you can do that and still find the shooters and like I said we been an up and down year for us and we just figuring it out draymond’s pretty much playing exclusively at Center for you guys uh you know obviously uh at his height how

Challenging and physically taxing do you think that is for him it’s a lot it’s a lot I talked to him about it all the time it’s a lot on Dre but that’s why I think it’s been big for us uh to get Trace going and make sure Trace is

Learning cuz in order to get to where we want to get to we got to be able to play different ways and loon is going to be a big for us butario too I think we have a great mix of guys and we have a number

Of ways that we can play and uh we going to have to when you you know you mentioned Trace there do you like potential two big lineups with Draymond also I guess shifting down to four and do you think that the league is weird it’s all about matchups it all depends

On who you playing some teams play five out like tonight some people play too big you just got to be you got to be able to change and adjust you know what I mean so um I’m yeah all right last one I got to see my kid um like you

Mentioned you’ve been playing a long time what’s the most fulfilling thing for you about nice like tonight um honestly tell you the most fulfilling thing about tonight was GG Jackson GG Jackson was on my a team uh I was his coach two years

Ago two years ago GG was on my a team uh with a John Adams coach some great players Rob Dylan ham uh Aiden Holloway a lot of great kids and uh GG is a unbelievable kid we done played at Memphis twice this year and I was hurt

Both of those games so going into the game game um it was crazy it’s crazy uh sometime he still call me coach and uh he hit a three in my face early in the game I was pissed cuz um our a program is really like a family and so to see um

Him to be out there on the court playing against him uh it’s something I never get used to it’s kind of surreal moment so uh I know I know I won’t hear the end of that damn what he have 30 what 35 that was a career hot that’s some bull

Yeah but uh man him him along with all of the other guys that came through our program um that’s probably most fulfilling to know that uh he he’ll have a long career in this league thank you damn I like that jacket but it’s a new

It’s a new starter I could tell oh yeah uh first of all clay tell me how you guys were able to go on that 22 nothing run uh spanning the second and third quarter I think it started with uh Jonathan’s defense on the ball his ability to get in the passing

Lanes and then excite the crowd with his acrobatics Above the Rim I think that’s what uh really uh got the ball rolling what what does it do for you guys to have a playmaker like Chris Paul it makes my life way easier he’s unlocked a TJ’s ability to elevate Above the Rim and

It’s just a a joy to play with him he’s such a great player and we are really lucky to have him on the team I mean 14 assists it’s it’s clinical than what he did tonight what’s it been like seeing JK’s development this year and in what what

Areas have you seen him grow most um it’s been awesome to see I mean expected because he’s such a great athlete and he loves the game and I’m uh his mid-range shot is really nice he’s got great form um his shot selection as far as attacking the rim first then uh settling

For those jumpers that he’s been hitting and uh just his ability to be himself I mean JK’s got an incredibly bright future you just mentioned Chris Paul and his ability to kind of unlock the lot threp when he came to TJ D but you’ve kind of done the same thing with TJ D

You and him have a lot of chemistry and connection out there that just seems to click and work well is that something that you guys are working on in practice as well is he kind of under you trying to figure out how to learn from a vet like what’s that relationship that kind

Of plays over onto the court well he’s trace junor for a reason because I’ve been playing with trace my whole life from my little brother now it’s a trace junor so it’s uh it’s really cool and he is uh great at getting me open off the

Ball screen and then his ability to get out and roll the basket is one of the best I’ve ever seen for a rookie so you got to give Trace credit coming in NBA ready 50 something pick or whatever playing the years he did at IU as a go-to player obviously helped him

Develop his skill and be NBA ready so he’s uh he’s been a joy to play with good work who uh so close you to watch the NCAA tournament of course the cougs are playing what I’m so excited and Mr Obama picked us to win the first round game so there’s a watch

Party at my residence tomorrow I’m very excited very excited great question yeah great question is that it nice I need to make a compl tonight GG had 35 I knew he was shooting that thing Jesus all right oh hey Draymond uh yeah there C

High for GJ GG by the way um he seems to have those against us that’s true uh can you take me through what happened I guess early in that I guess that sequence between you and Desmond on the court that kind of I didn’t really think

There was a sequence I got grabbed and I snatched my arm away and I got to so looks like it it kind of helped you guys kind of get on that run that you guys went on put quarter uh kind of woke our team up and um we got going from

There and never looked back so it was shout out to them maybe they was trying to get me throwing out the game or something it didn’t work it worked it actually worked against him so I don’t know though you got to be careful when you do stuff like that cuz

They were playing pretty well and I think at that point what were they down one or two so and then they were done after that like it was you know so you got to be careful faking how much more or not uh is physically taxing is playing the five as

Much as you are compared to if you were playing the four more oh it’s definitely more taxing because at the five you’re involved in every possession like um like at the four fours don’t crash every time you know like so you may not have to box out

Every possession um at five you got to box out every play like FS are trying to get the offensive rebound every play and so it’s even as something as simple as that you know it’s that’s call it 20 more box offs a game like that’s contact that’s a battle you

Know so it’s definitely more taxing um but I’m cut out for it I mean you you popped up on the injury report again today with the back soreness I would assume boxing big people out probably yeah for sure but I think there was other issues more so than just boxing

Guys out I don’t attribute it to just playing a five um you know like I said the other day it’s kind of around the same area that I had something for um and so number one want to be aware but also you know we got those things

That um you know we have to report to the league and all of that stuff so I would hate for it’s something that I’ve been dealing with you know so I would hate to say I’m good I’m good and then last second like a I can’t go you know

And and so also a little precautionary as well and knowing I mean I had talked to you know I worked a lot with Rick over the last few days and um his idea like he crushed me this morning um like we did this a full session this morning

And I think his idea was more so like if you can come out of this session good great you can play but I’m going to put you through the session and if you come out of it not great then I’m you’re not playing and like I tried to stop it

Earli like all right Rick I’m good and he’s like no you should do this now and it was another 35 40 minutes and stuff that I had to do but um you know it was the right thing because I felt extremely active I felt great um legs were a

Little tired from all of it but as a basketball player you know how to get through tired legs so it was great you seem to think playing the five is sustainable though physically and and for this team as much as you are or do you think there should be more lineups

Mixed in with you at the four uh no I mean it hey my love the ball he hit you with the ball yall was playing basketball it’s only because she pushed me okay y’all fighting a little bit okay go give your brother hug give your sister a hug give your sister a

Hug like a real hug thank you um yeah I think I it’s sustainable I can I can do it like I said I’m cut off for it uh I think we you know I don’t overly worry about it because I also know that we have fives that are more than capable

Um of taking it and doing whatever it is that that we need them to do so yeah um uh it’s not something I think about like uh whether I’m at the four or the five or any other position just got to be ready to go so I think it’s

Sustainable Draymond Wiggins didn’t had an up and down start to the season but lately he’s been playing really well shooting well obviously tonight had a big game what’s the domino effect when you guys are getting the kind of game like you got from him tonight what’s the

Domino effect on everybody else it helps everybody because uh with wigs aggressiveness um you know with his his athleticism uh he he when he’s driving to the rim he can make defenses collapse or he’s going to go finish and then you know like you said he’s been shoo

Shooting the ball extremely well and you know I don’t none of us look at that as a matter of oh he he’s hitting shots now he’s taking them and so that’s the you know that’s the biggest thing with us with wigs is just making sure like yo

He’s being aggressive as long as he’s taking the shots he’s a good shooter they’re you know he’s going to make a good amount of them you know so it’s just a matter of making sure he’s being aggressive and taking those shots and when he’s taking those shots and playing with that aggress

Gess we’re capable of winning Championship have you guys had to prod him to be more aggressive this year or is it he just kind of naturally evolved into that over the course a little bit of both you know um when you play on a team like this there’s always it’s funny

Because I talked to Chris about it at the beginning of the year and he came back around him a couple weeks ago I like yo you right like it’s very easy to play on this team and stop shooting because with all our action you’re going to find someone that can

Shoot a great shooter and play or Stu like with all the action if you don’t shoot you’re still going to find them and get a good look and so uh more often than not and so it’s very easy to fall into that ah I need to look for those guys and and

Um it’s something that you have to be conscious of and and and try to try not to fall into that because when we fall into that at times it hurts us more than it help help us and so with him being aggressive that way it’s just another

Option for us that we can go to that can initiate offense that we can run pick and rolls for that we can go to in the block you know you can just allow him to create something he’s more than capable of creating offense for any team when you said Rick took you through

A full session this morning what does that look like is that working out is that stretching like what does that in uh it starts on the table um I was anticipating getting like 10 15 minutes of table work that turned into like 45 50 minutes and then um I was

Anticipating doing like 10 minute Court workout and that turned into like 35 minutes and then I was anticipating getting like 10 minutes of shots up and that turned into about 30 minutes and so I end up being in here for like 3 and a half hours this morning and I thought

I’d be here for an hour and a half and saying that it was great because we got a lot of work done um I got stronger uh which which great um and just got my body to a really really good place like when I showed up this evening it wasn’t

Even much to do on the table because of all the work that we had done this morning so it was beautiful um much needed it’s funny cuz L was telling me on the bench like Rick’s the king go one more one more and one more turns into

Like six more but it’s great Draymond for a long such a long time you’ve been a key facilitator and playmaker for this team but what added layer does having a true point guard like Chris Paul and 14 assists turnovers tonight doe for this group so you going have my point guard

Skills all right back I got you no um honestly uh when you’re playing with a guy like Chris like I find easy buckets as well you know like just run the floor he’s looking ahead uh Chris is one of the elite playmakers that this league has ever seen one of the best

Passers um we’ve ever seen in this league and you know I think the most beautiful part about is he don’t turn the ball over like 14 assists and zero turnovers I’ll be here jumping for joy and that’s just a normal night for him and you know it’s um it’s absolutely

Incredible to have him on this team with the scores that we have and um adding not only adding another playmaker but an elite playmaker uh it’s absolutely incredible and it unlocks so many different lineups like you put Chris on the floor Chris can unlock a lineup as

Good as anyone how challenging do you view what’s ahead for this team standings wise and and What needs to get done no we just need to win games I don’t I mean winning games in the NBA is a challenge in itself but I don’t view

It no further than just got to go fig win the game

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