HIELD: Steph = humble superstar; DRAYMOND: “Buddy’s the guy getting everybody together for dinner”
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00:00 BUDDY HIELD: I gotta shoot like, I gotta shoot more like Steph.
00:04 Buddy, when you joined this team this summer, did you imagine it going this well and so quickly?
00:13 You can always say, but I know I worked my butt off. And I know I — the team — I know that when you’re playing with a group of guys like this, the expectation is high. And, you just — I don’t wanna say you don’t want to let them down or let everybody down, but you just know what you’re coming into. So you just need to prepare yourself and physically prepare yourself, to have good games like this and for everything to go good. When you come with good intent, everything happens good.
00:43 How quickly did you feel comfortable just overall in these last few weeks? How quick was the comfort level that you had here?
00:48 The thing is, it starts off with, like I keep preaching, everybody just having the right intent, the right mindset, preaching togetherness, sacrificing. Starting from the leaders, with Steph and Draymond and Steve. Everybody come together as one and everybody putting each other first. Steph is one of the most humble superstars I’ve ever been around. The way he carries himself on and off the basketball court . And just like — so I just watch them and try to follow their footsteps. And just look up to them in a way that — and I see basketball a different way than being on previous teams.
01:20 This is the second straight game where a group of Steph, BP, you, GP, and Looney have done, like, really good mini-runs. What do you like about that group?
01:29 Sometimes I don’t even know what group I’m in. I just be hoopin’. Just like, just be hooping. I just know that Steph and, once you have two shooters out there, the way everybody gravitates to Steph, I just gotta find ways to get open, and try to get him open and give him — try to give him as much easy looks as he can get. That’s it. And he’s a workaholic and this ship doesn’t run without him.
01:54 How about with the way that Brandin kind of pushes the pace?
01:57 Oh, he’s very versatile. He’s smart, he can pass, shoot, dribble, guard. He’s a utility guy that does everything for our team. And we need him a lot. And he sets the tone the right way.
02:10 What did you think of that righty hook you had? Like, you guys were doing that hook shot.
02:14 Oh, yeah, yeah, that was good footwork, good patience. Hell of a move.
02:21 I think you had six assists. How do you feel like you’re, I mean, obviously everybody’s talking about your scoring, but how do you feel like your passing is kind of helping in some ways?
02:31 I just — I love to shoot. I always try to find — get the best available shot and make the right play. I feel like you make the right easy play, and the play that’s effective to make indecisions for defenses, and I feel like try to keep guys off-balance, and I feel like, when plays break down, I was able to get to the paint and, like, find the right guys wide open, and just try to make the right read and don’t try to make the home run play, but make the right read.
02:58 They’re not all easy plays. You had that one left-handed swing pass to Steph. How hard do you have to work on that kind of pass to be able to execute it? how to throw that.
03:08 I got it from him working, watching him, low-key. Me and my trainer…
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FROM OCT 25, 2024, postgame after Golden State Warriors at Utah Jazz, held at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, UT.
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00:00 BUDDY HIELD: I gotta shoot like, I gotta shoot more like Steph.
00:04 Buddy, when you joined this team this summer, did you imagine it going this well and so quickly?
00:13 You can always say, but I know I worked my butt off. And I know I — the team — I know that when you're playing with a group of guys like this, the expectation is high. And, you just — I don't wanna say you don't want to let them down or let everybody down, but you just know what you're coming into. So you just need to prepare yourself and physically prepare yourself, to have good games like this and for everything to go good. When you come with good intent, everything happens good.
00:43 How quickly did you feel comfortable just overall in these last few weeks? How quick was the comfort level that you had here?
00:48 The thing is, it starts off with, like I keep preaching, everybody just having the right intent, the right mindset, preaching togetherness, sacrificing. Starting from the leaders, with Steph and Draymond and Steve. Everybody come together as one and everybody putting each other first. Steph is one of the most humble superstars I've ever been around. The way he carries himself on and off the basketball court . And just like — so I just watch them and try to follow their footsteps. And just look up to them in a way that — and I see basketball a different way than being on previous teams.
01:20 This is the second straight game where a group of Steph, BP, you, GP, and Looney have done, like, really good mini-runs. What do you like about that group?
01:29 Sometimes I don't even know what group I'm in. I just be hoopin’. Just like, just be hooping. I just know that Steph and, once you have two shooters out there, the way everybody gravitates to Steph, I just gotta find ways to get open, and try to get him open and give him — try to give him as much easy looks as he can get. That's it. And he's a workaholic and this ship doesn't run without him.
01:54 How about with the way that Brandin kind of pushes the pace?
01:57 Oh, he's very versatile. He's smart, he can pass, shoot, dribble, guard. He's a utility guy that does everything for our team. And we need him a lot. And he sets the tone the right way.
02:10 What did you think of that righty hook you had? Like, you guys were doing that hook shot.
02:14 Oh, yeah, yeah, that was good footwork, good patience. Hell of a move.
02:21 I think you had six assists. How do you feel like you're, I mean, obviously everybody's talking about your scoring, but how do you feel like your passing is kind of helping in some ways?
02:31 I just — I love to shoot. I always try to find — get the best available shot and make the right play. I feel like you make the right easy play, and the play that's effective to make indecisions for defenses, and I feel like try to keep guys off-balance, and I feel like, when plays break down, I was able to get to the paint and, like, find the right guys wide open, and just try to make the right read and don't try to make the home run play, but make the right read.
02:58 They're not all easy plays. You had that one left-handed swing pass to Steph. How hard do you have to work on that kind of pass to be able to execute it? how to throw that.
03:08 I got it from him working, watching him, low-key. Me and my trainer work on it a lot, many summers. And I always — when I was in high school in the Bahamas, I always get in trouble. My high school coach, Ivan Butler, always used to curse at me for making that left-hand pass. It worked. I told him I passed Steph Curry the ball, and he made a shot. So, hopefully he will give me some props for that. But that's something I've been working on my whole life. And I'm just stronger. That's why I can make that pass, to be honest with you.
03:36 (RAYMOND RIDDER:) Good thing he didn't make that wrap-around behind-the-back.
03:38 Oh, JK's supposed to stay in the corner.
03:41 All right. All right, we'll have, Wiggs, TJD and Steph in here, hopefully, shortly.
03:48 Thanks, Buddy.
03:50 Thank you, thank you.
03:50 DRAYMOND GREEN: What was key defensively tonight?
03:55 Well, I think we did a good job of getting — Steph did a good job of getting to Keyonte George early. He's given us trouble since he's been in this league and he got off to a good start hitting a couple of threes. I thought he did a good job there. And then I think we did a good job on Markkanen. He's the head of the snake and to make 4-for-17, 1-for-5 from three, to make him take the tough shots that we made him take the first half, it kind of got them out of sorts and allowed our defense to take over the game.
04:22 This depth that you guys have at the point-of-attack now defensively, so like, the versatility, what does that change for you with your response?
04:28 It changes a lot because it allows me to kind of play free safety at times. I couldn't play free safety a bunch tonight because of Lauri Markkanen and I can't — I just can't help much. He's a knockdown shooter. But it allows for our defense to have more length on the backside. A lot of times last year, if they get the ball into the pocket, we were so small on the backside that you were just getting layups or everybody had to swarm the ball and you could kick out threes. And I think this year with having the size that we have when you get to the backside of the defense, there's still length there. It's a tougher finish. You have to keep the ball out. We're flying around. So I think having that size on the ball and so many guys that can guard the way we — the way they can, it allows for myself and Trayce and Loon to play center field more and not — and then also not having guys coming downhill at us every play last year. It was like something (where) every time you looked up, it's somebody coming downhill. And that hasn't been the case this year, which is good for our defense.
05:29 You started this really big lineup two games that struggled in the first quarters, recovered in the third quarters. What do you think of that group? And Steve seems pretty committed to it. Can this work?
05:42 Well, it can for sure work. We've won each game by 35 points. So that, that helps. And then the second half, that unit has been dominant. Both — I think that unit is still learning how to play. We didn't have Wiggs all training camp. And then, obviously, sometimes I'm on Steph's team, most of the times I'm not, in training camp. You're just kind of trying to even things out so you have great practices. Now this lineup is getting a chance to get some minutes together. And I think what you'll start to see is we'll be able to settle in more offensively. We're coming out in that first quarter and everybody's just trying to get to it. Go, go, go. Because we want to do — you want that, we want that lineup to do well so bad. And so everybody's kind of coming out, pressing. Then once we settle down that lineup, it takes over, our size, our athleticism. We're getting out and running, we're attacking the rim, getting kick-out threes and the game has changed the force in the third quarter. So we just gotta do a better job and that's probably on me, to make sure that when we're coming out, we're getting into good stuff and everybody's settled down. We move the ball around, we get good looks and I think last game, we got good looks They just didn't go in this game, I hoisted a three to start the game, Wiggs hoisted a three, JK hoisted a three, then JK shot a floater and I turned the ball over and that's just too much, we gotta get settled in and I have no doubt that we will.
07:06 The, like, bench vibes on this team are obviously very good right now, but outside looking in, you won two games by 40, everyone's gonna have fun through that. How do you make sure, when you do go through some tougher games, maybe guys are pulled from the rotation and you can't go with a 12-man rotation every game, how do you make sure kind of that, that remains what seems to be obviously very good?
07:28 We're all for each other. We, at the end of the day, we all have one common goal and that's to create a special team that can do some special things. The minutes won't go everybody's way every night. . I would have loved to play more minutes than I've played the last two nights. It's — it is what it is, so just roll with it. I don't think — we have great guys in that locker room and that's credit to Mike Dunleavy and the job that he's done, putting a great group together. I don't think you have — you don't have many whiners in that locker room. And that makes a big difference.
08:07 Buddy Hield is really shooting it right now. How much are you enjoying that?
08:10 I'm enjoying it a lot. It looked like Buddy from Oklahoma again. He's moving around and finding the shots. But we knew coming in, the one thing we've all said coming in is like, we know what Buddy gonna give us. And he's been doing exactly that. And we gotta make sure we keep doing a good job of finding him.
08:29 We all see him draining threes. What has he brought to the team, off the court?
08:34 Great vibe, man. Just great energy. He is a complete team guy. Buddy's the guy trying to get everybody together for dinner. Buddy's the guy trying to get everyone together to hang out, like he is the guy that's kind of molding this whole thing together behind the scenes. And I think that's, that's a beautiful thing. We spoke about that before of how this team has been the same for so long that I don't need to hang with Steph every day to get to know Steph. I know him well and I don't need to hang with Loon every day to get to know him. I know him very well, but now there's so many new guys that you kind of have to change that thinking. And Hawaii's training camp was a good way to start that off to changing that thinking, and we continued that on, and it's good for the vibe of this team, and I think we got a great aura going on around this team.
Klay must have been a really crybaby behind the scenes
Splash Buddy