> “I drew the first up play … for him to catch it and move it on,” Kerr said. “I should have known better.”
> In the locker room, the game ball was given to him by his Splash Nephew, Canon Curry. A gift from the future, punctuating the present jubilation, because Thompson got past the roughest patch of his life.
> “Threw him a nice crisp pass,” said Curry, whose 3-year-old also delivered Moses Moody the game ball after his first career basket. “Then he wanted a pass back and said, ‘I want to play basketball.’ And Klay gave it to him. So Klay’s second pass went to Canon.”
> A Wiggins All-Star selection this season set up as a perfect public validation for them all — that Warriors culture that generates league-wide eye-rolls. So they pushed it hard after a couple of strong months of two-way Wiggins production. Steve Kerr, Klay Thompson and Steph Curry, all in the same week, rerouted unrelated questions into a mention of Wiggins’ candidacy.
> “No. 22 should be in Cleveland this year,” Curry said unprompted in early January.
>A silver lining to the postponement: For the first time tonight since the 2019 Finals, Klay Thompson scrimmaged with the starters, including Steph Curry.
>Steve Kerr made one thing clear tonight: Klay Thompson will start right away when he comes back.
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Article by The Athletic's Tim Kawakami - Kawakami: Steve Kerr on the Warriors’ 2021-22 roster and playing style, his relationship with Draymond Green and much more
This article is a written summary of the podcast Kawakami recorded with Steve Kerr yesterday which you can listen to here.
Steve Kerr on If There's a Need For More Bigs/Centers:
> “The way we played at the end of last year, last 20 games, we’d like to carry that momentum forward,” Kerr said on my podcast Thursday. “You know, how can we get off to a similar start to the way we finished last year?”
> The Warriors plan on playing small this season, as they did to finish last season. That’s especially true now that James Wiseman has been ruled out for full-speed practices in camp and through the preseason as he comes back from the knee injury that sidelined him for the last months of last season. Planning to go small means the Warriors don’t necessarily need a third center, though projected starter Kevon Looney is the only healthy true big man on the roster.
> “I think the league has changed quite a bit,” Kerr said. “I know if you look at our teams historically over the last six, seven years we’ve always carried a lot of centers. But think about the last part of last season. We played Draymond at five so much. We even played Juan (Toscano-Anderson) at five. The league seems to be getting smaller and quicker every single year. So I think we’re less inclined to carry a bunch of centers like we used to.”
Steve Kerr on the 15th Roster Spot:
> The Warriors haven’t settled on whether they’re even going to have a 15th player on the roster to start this season, Kerr said, and definitely haven’t made a final decision for what position they’d want if they decide to use the spot.
> “It’s really up in the air, I think,” Kerr said. “If you look at our team, we’ve always been a team that has multiple players who handle the ball. We don’t necessarily have to have a traditional (backup) point guard because Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala traditionally have handled the ball a ton for us. So has Juan Toscano-Anderson last year. So if we wanted to have a combo guard in there, you know, add more shooting, we could have a shooter.
> “The le
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