Steve Kerr laments Warriors’ inability to ‘close games’ after brutal loss | NBC Sports Bay Area
Warriors coach Steve Kerr speaks to reporters following Golden State’s 136-131 loss vs. the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday at Moda Center.
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Steve Kerr laments Warriors’ inability to ‘close games’ after brutal loss | NBC Sports Bay Area
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This is all on steph, what a weak superstar….even lebron would speak up to this madness…seems like all steph is happy with is his meaningless 3 pointers
when you have the age that the warriors have on the team there is really no reason for dnps for quality players. that's a failure of the coaching staff to put together rotations that work. why are buddy and podz playing so many minutes not playing defense AND not getting points?
SMALL BALL IS DEAD! It has been since their last championship. The Blazers WERE DEAD LAST in 3pointers in the NBA. LAST! Yet they looked like they can't miss on the Warriors. WHY? Coz they can shoot over them, and the tiny Warriors can't rebound or always had to help in defense. The rest of the NBA is playing like the old Warriors–BUT WITH TALLER PLAYERS. Kerr is dumb if he still think that old and Small can win in today's NBA. Sorry
Why is he wearing a Santa Cruz Warriors shirt? I guess he'd rather be coaching them or is presenting himself as the coach of a G-League team. Silly ah Kerr
Might as well play JK so he can develop they still loosing without Jk playing 😂 Chasing a championship that’s not coming but at the same time wasting young players talent by not letting them develop 😂 but Podz
Steph need help losing to many no help it a shame
The problem with the warriors is the way we play defense we double team people when they're driving to the basket and we leave three-point shooters wide open so when the driver passes the ball we always late closing out. Our defense should be tough twos not open threes. We need to stop playing the percentage defense and just play tough defense every possession.
The coach has lost the team and Draymond has lost a step. It's the ugly truth, it doesn't make me happy to say it, but some tough decisions need to be made because this is not working.
The rotation merry-go-round is now in year three. Imagine working somewhere for 3 years and not knowing your role. If you are not Steph, Dray or Jimmy, you have no idea what your role is on this team.
Look stop change up the lineups use what work everybody can't play it together learn how to close games stop shooting so many threes take it to the basket and get foul
The spoiled bitch Warriors fans in here sobbing have me crying lmfaooo
Why is green throwing away the ball all the time man it’s crazy
I don't understand "inability to close games" when it was easy to see Portland's height beat us. The two guys that went after Steph and blocked shot were able to do this because we had no height on the floor. COME ON PLEASE! We should be known as the Golden State "Little People". We had no one on the floor over 6'6" or 6'7" many times, please! Bring Wiseman back and at least we have two 7 footers. I think Post is looking good when he is on his own out there.
Fire Kerr, send Shitziemski and Draymundo to the G League
The league is full of long, versatile guys who can do everything.
Our team is full of guards who can’t reliably shoot, defend, or finish. No surprise we’re under .500.
Wants to play like OKC and Spurs who have quick athletic guards who hang their hats on the defense end. We can’t compete with those guys with slow footed guards like Podz, Buddy and in some cases Moody. We will win more consistently if Podz and Buddy were given DNPs for the next 15-20 games
3 losses to the 10-16 blazers (which includes 3 wins on us) is crazy 🥀
What happened to choosing a rotation? Kuminga is trash. Trade him. Move on. But pick a lineup. Curry and Kerr and Green will go down together.
Podz is a selfish arrogant lunatic. Kuminga can't play in Warrior system. Post needs minutes. Trayce Jackson Davis needs minute. Santos needs minutes. Spencer is a White sportswriters fantasy. Package Moody. Podz. Kuminga. Draft picks. Bring in a stud jock.
Coach Kerr has finally recognized that he is the reason for losing. He has to learn how to maximize the roster. No one is angry about losses if he properly uses the roster given to him.
Steve Kerr again insulted the entire Warriors organization when he said that Portland has better talent than the Warriors. Really? He is the only one in the league that believes that.
He has 3 hall of famers, the best shooter in league history, and his brother, yet he DNP’ed 2 of the league’s best young talents in J. Kuminga and Will Richard. He also has refused to go back to the lineup that won 2 road games minus Steph, Jimmy, and Draymond. He does not see victory when it is looking straight at him?
He continues to play B. Podz more than anyone on the team, and continues to pair him with Steph, P. Spencer, and Buddy while at times playing all 4 of them and pairing them with an undersized center. If this is what he thinks is the best on the roster, he is correct, Portland has more talent than the Warriors.
So, Coach Steve Kerr, like the majority of the losses, said all the right things. But he could not explain why he keeps repeating his brand of small ball defeat after defeat, and he could not explain why we lose every game when he puts out a starting 5 that makes no sense, and when he accidentally finds a winning combination that gives him a lead, his player rotations are always the point where the game is lost, and it doesn’t matter the players that he has available on the roster.
Finally, he is right when he would not criticize Jimmy. Jimmy is listed on the roster, as a “small forward”. Can he explain why he continues to play Jimmy as a power forward and wonder why he can’t find a second scorer because he is asking everyone to play position less basketball without any designed plays saying that it is basketball IQ?
I have learned not to listen to Coach Kerr because no matter what he has said, he does not change, and his game time starters, player rotations, constantly substituting, and unorganized chaos, have nothing to do with strategy and game time situation. Add to this, he does not recognize or adjust to NBA talent.
THOSE STOOPID LOOKS AGAIN😂😂😂😂😂😂
Steph and Draymond have the most turnovers on the Warriors.
I’m going to help your GM out. 100% Jimmy and Kuminga plus all the picks, for Giannis and miles turner to go win a chip now.
If bucks want more picks, trade other young guys for more picks and also give them to the bucks, then go win two more championships.
If you keep Jimmy, don’t play him with Steph and dray. Have a lineup that works for Jimmy.
When kuminga turn the ball over,, he get bench for a week,, but when Draymond Green or pozi turn the ball over,, everything all good,, bench green for All them turn over,,
waive kerr, the kerr/dray era is deadddd
Rotations is the problem!
I knew once Curry started high fivin they were gonna lose. Why are they still playing their old school ball? The league has caught up and passed them. They are hard to watch.
Steve Kerr needs to stop making excuses for Draymond Green, aka turnover machine. He keeps making bad passes and blaming his teammates. Warriors have way too many guards; they need longer and more athletic wings. Moody is not making open 3's. Podz keeps getting blown by and over dribbling with minimal ball executions whenever he drives into the paint. Buddy Hield needs to stop bringing up the ball and dribbling into traffic and turning the ball over.
Steve Kerr: “couldn’t stop them…blah blah blah!…it’s because Steve Kerr is the stupidest coach in the NBA today…what a moron!!! Trying to blame the team when everything is because of his stupid small ball line ups…