00:00I want to explore this and don't be shy. There's so many of you, you text us, you tweet us,
00:09you call us, YouTube commentary, whatever it is. And you're very, very flippant and I get it. I
00:16know it's the internet. So people say stuff that you don't actually mean because you're trying to
00:20get attention or whatever it is. But like, if I had a nickel for all the fire cur tweets
00:27that I get, so like, can we talk about the job that Steve Kerr is doing? And I also understand
00:34that what I just referenced is an echo chamber. And I still think, maybe I'm wrong, I still think
00:41Steve Kerr has a lot of fans in the Warrior fan base. Why wouldn't he? He is a freaking legend.
00:50He has four rings. Want to give the credit to someone else? That's fine. But I want to know
00:56where this year fits into all of it. Because they're the eight seed, they're 31 and 28. None
01:05of that is terribly impressive, especially because we run it through our current Warrior lens, which
01:11is all messed up because of how good they've been over the last 12 years. But at the same
01:18time, it's usually a rule in sports where if a team kind of wins more games than they lose
01:25in the face of tons of major injury, the first thing people usually think of is coaching.
01:33And they go, that coach is doing a good job. So I just, when you watch, and forget last night
01:41tanking Memphis, but when you watch a no Steph, no Jimmy, no Kristaps, no Draymond team beat the
01:49Denver Nuggets. What do you say? Like, do you go, Hey, a coach is doing a good job or something
01:59else? Something else. Why? Because in the NBA, it's usually not the coach in the NBA. It's
02:05usually the players and the old adage of it's a make or miss league is really, I think appropriate,
02:11especially in this day and age where you shoot a ton of threes and nobody shoots more threes
02:16than they do. And so yeah, Steve has built a system around ball movement, player movement
02:22and shooting the three. So when you shoot 45 threes a game, which is their average, when
02:27you have a good night and you're making a lot of them, if you're over 40%, you almost
02:32never lose as a warrior team. You're 15 and three this year when you shoot 40% or greater
02:37from three. So is he telling these guys, Hey, tonight, I want you to go out there and make
02:42the three. Okay. Coach, that's good coaching. If the players are making shots, you win.
02:47If they aren't, you lose.
02:49Ah, it's an oversimplification.
02:51Sensation.
02:52It is.
02:52I agree, but.
02:53Come on. It's more than that.
02:54But when you look at this team, it's preparation, it's motivation, it's rotations, it's all the
02:59other Asians that you want to talk about.
03:01Stylistic, the ball movement, all of this. I mean, and again, you're dealing with, you're
03:07dealing with young players. Largely right now, for the first time in a decade and a
03:12half, the Golden State Warriors are putting a product out on the floor that is largely
03:18young players. And I'd kind of argue that at least recently, sure, it's rough around
03:24the edges and it's not like great, but it's, can I, dare I say, a little bit better than
03:31you would expect? I think that that's fair.
03:34I think it's about what I would expect, honestly. Yeah. I mean, you've got, you've
03:38got a super high powered, talented team at its best. And when you don't have them, you
03:44have a team full of second rounders and guys who you probably wouldn't bank on. And so when
03:48you don't have your stars, you're less than average. And when you do have them, you're
03:52better than average and you add it all up and you're a slightly better than average
03:56team. I mean, they're what, three games above 500 through it all. And you know, you've
04:01had Steph for the majority of the games and you've lost Jimmy and you know, you don't
04:06have Draymond and Zingas, whatever you didn't play Kaminga. So all these things, I think you
04:11added all up and you are about where I think that you would be.
04:15Oh, and that's fine. I just, I feel like the goalposts move. That's what I feel like.
04:20I think the goalposts move. And it is actually similar to the discourse that happened about
04:27Jonathan Kaminga over the last two years. Steve Kerr has become someone that you either like
04:33or you don't. And therefore you take your result and then you go with that based on what you're
04:41already thinking. So for instance, what you just said, which is if a team of young players
04:48goes out and wins an NBA game or a few of them, if they go do that, well, largely the
04:54NBA is players and it's just about whether or not you're making your shots. Okay. But
04:59a Steve Kerr fan will be like, well, clearly these guys are being coached up. And oh, by
05:04the way, couldn't I extend it further? If you're watching young players get better, is that or
05:09is that not what people have said the Warriors franchise doesn't do? You don't make young players
05:15get better, but I'm watching young players get better. I'm not saying they're great. I'm
05:21watching them improve. I'm clearly watching them improve. Right. And I'm not you are. And
05:26I give them credit for that. I give Steve credit for that. But the staff is the one that he
05:31would
05:31give credit to. And that's really this conversation, I think, in a more macro way, because it's not
05:36just Steve Kerr. This is not me coaching a high school boys volleyball team by myself.
05:42I agree. No assistant. I agree. This is a guy who's got a staff of, I don't know, 10, 15
05:46other coaches. And so if we talk about Steve Kerr as a coach, I do think it's important to include
05:52everybody, the whole staff. And yeah, the whole staff have younger players gotten better. Absolutely.
05:59Which is why I always push back on the he doesn't develop young players myth because it's just that
06:05it's a myth. Well, and if you really want to get into the weeds on this, it's kind of funny
06:09that
06:09we're talking about an NBA head coach and development. That's not his job. It's actually
06:15not his job. It's actually more his job than ever before because of what we now have with
06:20the one and done. Absolutely correct. But even in this moment, he's not the head of player
06:25development. That's not his job. Sure. It's organically going to happen some, right? He's
06:32the coach of the team and you coaching. Yes, he is. Therefore, a player should get better. But there's
06:39a whole staff and a whole process. There's a whole wing of the warrior franchise that's actually
06:46dedicated to that. And so we really probably shouldn't even be looking at that. But if you
06:52want to like zero in on the organic nature of a head coach and development, let's do that.
06:58And let me just request, if you see development, then give him the credit. The same time when you
07:05don't see development, you don't. That's all. The goalposts are constantly moving with Steve Kerr.
07:12Constantly. You're putting championship dreams around his neck when the team doesn't have a
07:17rash chance in hell of winning a championship. You're putting development around his neck when
07:24there's a discord between him and Jonathan Kaminga. But then you don't want to hand out
07:29any credit when Guy Santos averages 16 points for three weeks or pods threatens triple doubles or
07:38Will Richard, a second round rookie, starts putting up double digits and playing his ass off.
07:44So there's plenty of criticism to go around. I'm not trying to remove it. I just I wonder where
07:51we are on that, because in my mind, that's what I see moving goalposts because of preconceived thoughts
07:59about him as head coach. That's what people do. I mean, all of our opinions at some level are biased
08:05based on our own thoughts and our own feelings about everything. And whether or not it's, you know,
08:10people who think you're a homer or you just think what you think because you are a fan of these
08:16teams,
08:16whatever you people can judge your opinions, mine, their own based on our own biases. And I'm biased
08:23toward Steve Kerr. I think he's a phenomenal coach. He's a great leader. I think that if I was an
08:28NBA
08:29player, I would love to play for a guy like that, a straight shooter and somebody who I believe has
08:34my
08:34best interest at heart in the teams as well. But the big question you've been asking is, what kind of
08:40a
08:40year is Steve Kerr having? Yeah, he's fine. He's having an okay year. I think there are things that he's
08:45done
08:46like the Kaminga handling. I would have liked to see him do things a little bit differently.
08:51Clearly the organization and Kaminga were not on the same page this year and maybe last year,
08:57maybe the year before that. I don't know how long back you want to go when you see that these
09:02things
09:02weren't going to work. And so it's not up to Steve to trade him and it's up to Steve whether
09:07or not he
09:08plays. And so he tried it early this year and then Kaminga got hurt and then that was kind of
09:12it.
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