WEBVTT - Dub Nation 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.880 Five. Here's torn the. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:12.680 Second. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.439 Lots of NBA players keep one foot in the door 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:26.360 after retiring, per some coach, others head to the front office, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.280 and others make a career in broadcasting. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.680 It takes a special. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.400 Kind of person to do all of that and do 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.120 it well. And in this game, that guy is Steve Kerr. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.319 I have a very long intro to you, so I'm 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.400 going to make a quick. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.400 Basketball legend. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.960 Steve Kerr as head coach of the Golden State Warriors, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.280 leading the team to four NBA titles as a player 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.120 equally remarkable three with the Bulls, two. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:56.880 With the Spurs. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.560 Also front office of the Suns, color commentator for NBA 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.400 on T and T, and coach of the men's Olympic 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:05.560 team in Paris. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.440 Steve, Wow. First of all, that's a lot of hardware. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:09.480 Where do you keep everything? 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.280 I don't really display it. I just send a daily 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.520 thank you note to Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Steph Kurry, 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.280 Greg Pop. That's all I write. I just write a 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.560 quick text thanks guys, and that's it. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.319 You just practice gratitude and also which is very healthy. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.440 By the way, Although I do think you're you are 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.600 a common denominator obviously, so you have to take some credit. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.760 So we're going to talk about you. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:38.720 I'll take some. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.760 A lot of small lineup tonight for BOTHO Steve, yeahead, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.680 Steve for another trade, just turn around, fought and fired 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:49.840 ten points Raham. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.440 After retiring from the NBA in two thousand and three, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.120 Steve found his way to broadcasting as a game analyst 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.600 on T and T. His broadcasting career was interrupted by 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.720 a stint in the Phoenix Suns front office from two 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.720 thousand and seven to twenty ten. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.680 So stop take him right away and when he comes 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.760 up the floor, so. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:16.960 It flips a club. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.840 Steve's plan was to coach, and that didn't happen overnight, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.720 even though it seemed that way. Let's talk about your 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.240 first coaching job, and you were a star wart, you know, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:35.000 having a great career, broadcasting career, NBA on TNT, and 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.840 all of a sudden, it's like Steve Carr gets hired 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.160 as head coach of the Warriors. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.840 I know it wasn't that simple. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.680 What was the backstory of coming out of the booth 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.760 and onto the sidelines. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:52.360 I think the backstory was I missed the competition, so 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.919 I was in broadcasting for four years. Right after I retired, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.560 missed the competition, got into management in Phoenix, didn't love 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.880 the job, wasn't great at it, knew I wanted to coach, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.160 and decided to go back to broadcasting and prepare to coach. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.519 And I think all those experiences really helped the broadcasting, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.520 the playing, the management in Phoenix, and then I just 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.200 had a lot of good advice along the way. I 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.120 was when I went back to TNT after my Phoenix stint, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.880 I was visiting with a lot of coaches, asking how 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.520 I should prepare to get ready for a coaching job, interviews, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.160 that sort of thing. So I really spent a good 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.880 couple of years writing down all my thoughts ideas, what's 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.040 my philosophy going to be as a coach. So by 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.400 the time I interviewed with Warriors, I felt really prepared, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.120 but I still needed them to give me, give me 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.560 a shot and take a chance on me. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.520 So did you have a notebook that you kept everything in. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.080 The guy who really gave me the idea was Jeff 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.040 Van Gundy. We were speaking at a sports conference one 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.560 summer together. We were on a panel together, and I 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.120 just asked him, I said, what would you do if 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.720 you were a me, and he said, think of everything 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.160 that you're going to do as a coach and write 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.400 it down. Anything you think of, write it down. And 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.479 what I did was probably once a week, I would 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.600 just start typing and thinking of different thoughts and ideas. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:29.600 And Jeff's point was, before long, you actually have something 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:34.000 tangible number one to put in front of a potential employer, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.560 but more importantly, you really it's an exercise that forces 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.760 you to collect your thoughts and figure out kind of 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.960 who you are and what you would be like, and 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.440 what your culture would feel like and all of that. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.120 So Jeff was a huge help to me. And then 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.160 I met with a lot of different coaches from different sports. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.760 Bill Parcells had lunch. Yeah, yeah, I went to Saratoga. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.680 I was in New York visiting family with my wife, 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.000 and I was connected with Bill Parcells. I went up 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.080 and had lunch with him at Saratoga Country Club and 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.480 it was amazing. I was such a you know, I've 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.440 always been an NFL fan and Parcels and I couldn't 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.320 be any more different, but you know, to hear his 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.200 thoughts on coaching and his ideas, and it was fantastic. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.320 Is there one conversation that looking back in retrospecting like, wow, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.400 that guy nailed it and everything. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.279 He said, yeah, yeah, Pete Carroll, I spent three days 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.840 in Seattle watching training camp. This would have been in 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.880 like July of fourteen, so after I took the Warriors job, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:51.120 but before I started, and I'd always loved Pete just 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.120 watching his teams, seeing his energy. You could feel the culture, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.279 you could feel the vibe that came through the screen 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.880 when you watched his teams, and so to get a 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.680 look at him for three days sitting in on the 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.760 coaches meetings. He was so generous with the scrimmages. Were 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.480 standing behind the huddle, He's like, go get in the huddle, Like, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.840 listen to what Russell's saying. You know, was listen to 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.040 the play he's calling. I'm like, literally in the huddle 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.680 and Russell Wilson's calling the plays. I'm like, what am 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.279 I doing here? How did this happen? But Pete was 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.560 so great and he spent you know, at the end 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.799 of the three days, we spent a couple of hours 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.120 really talking about philosophy and coaching and what coaching is about. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.960 And to this day he remains a mentor and a 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.480 close friend, but he made a huge impact on me. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.720 When he felt ready to take a coaching job, Steve 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.800 had suitors, including his former coach, Phil Jackson, who at 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.840 the time was general manager of the New York Knicks. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.760 Well, Phil offered me the job before the Warriors job 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.640 was a right pretty far down the road, and I 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:07.560 was really excited to work with and for my mental 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.280 you know, Phil changed my whole career. My experience in 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.640 Chicago really set the stage for everything that's happened since. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.000 And just an amazing coach, an amazing human beings. So 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.040 I was all set to go, but the Warriors job 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.040 opened up, and I hadn't signed a contract in New York, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.679 and you know, here's here's Steph Curry, here's Clay Thompson, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.120 here's this young talented group. And it was really a 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.320 difficult decision for me by one of my of my 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.760 good friends, Danny Ferry, who's my teammate in Cleveland in 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.720 San Antonio. He was GM, I think of it either 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.320 Atlanta or Cleveland at the time. I think Cleveland. I 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:50.600 called him and I said, what do you think and 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.400 he goes, well, what do you think Phil Jackson would 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.800 do oh, you know, I said, well, that's a good question. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.280 He said he'd probably go to the town. And I 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.560 had a couple of other Rick Carlisle Great, you know, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.400 president of the Coaches Association, and he called me and 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.520 he goes, Look, the thing I learned most with coaching, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.280 it's all about the players. It's all about your talent. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.640 As much as you love Phil, Golden State has the talent. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.080 And then the other factor. My daughter was a sophomore 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.280 at Berkeley, so it was like, oh, I get to 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.000 be right in her backyard. And you know, it seems 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.560 like an obvious decision, but at the time it was. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.280 It was very difficult saying no to Phil because he 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:30.440 meant so much to me. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.600 Kerr joined a Warriors team that hadn't won a title 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.000 since their third back in nineteen seventy five, even though 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.480 they had a brief thrilling ride from nineteen eighty nine 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.360 to ninety one with Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.040 Mullen run TMC Partaway. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:53.920 Mullen now has six. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.920 Owen's Wide opening the right nat part of way, there's 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:58.800 the three. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:01.120 Nineteen. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.720 Nonetheless, the franchise spent a lot of time in the 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.200 basement of the Western Conference. From nineteen ninety five to 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.200 two thousand and six, they never broke forty wins and 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.719 six times failed to win even twenty five games. At 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.680 one stretch, the Warriors went twelve straight seasons without a 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:21.720 playoff appearance. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.280 But in two thousand and nine, with. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.800 The seventh pick in the two thousand and nine NBA Draft, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.439 the Golden State Gloriors select Stephen Curry from. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.920 Davidson Town, and two years later. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.679 With the eleventh pick in the twenty eleven NBA Draft, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:47.720 the Golden State Warriors select Clay Thompson from Washington State. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.320 The Warriors, nicknamed the Dubs, started their ascent under head 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.880 coach Mark Jackson before they hired Steve Kerr in twenty fourteen. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.280 Curry with the black shot. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.560 He tops it with a three response, and I think 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.720 one of the reasons I got the job, frankly, was 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.560 I told the Warriors about my experiences in Chicago and 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.600 San Antonio winning championships and that that's what it took, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.920 and that that's what I was going to sell you 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.480 know that, Hey, we've got this great team. Mark Jackson's 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.000 done an amazing job the last couple of years. The 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.000 defense is great. You know, here are a few adjustments 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.520 that I would make offensively, but this team is ready 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.520 to take the next step, and what I learned in 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.040 Chicago and San Antonio, I think I can implements. Here's 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.280 a kicker, all right. So I'm like shooting about ninety 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.520 five for ninety seven percent and I lose every time. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:43.640 It makes no sense. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.280 In the spring of twenty fifteen, I had the chance 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.040 to focus on one NBA team for my special episode 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.960 of Face to Face with Hannah Storm on ESPN. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.680 That's it, that's what he does. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.720 So off I went to spend a week with the 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:04.720 war in Oakland. Here's some of that special courtesy of ESPN. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:06.679 Y'all are making him nervous. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.120 This is the thirty foot birdyfoot to win, to win 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:13.640 the match. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.240 What makes him such a great shooter the rhythm and 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.240 the snap of the risk. There's just this kind of 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.400 relaxed flow to his shot that's pretty rare, and it's 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.680 starting to piss me on. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.960 One of the things that struck me was how much 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.680 fun the Warriors were having. They were literally playing horse 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.920 in practice. There was joy built into all of their 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.640 hard work, and in the end, their most joyous player 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.480 and his teammates changed the game forever. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.160 Courry's got it, Curry, I let it go, the three 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.760 cups up, short, offensive rebound carry again. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.520 It's a great. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.840 Time game. It's amazing. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:01.679 It is amazing. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:07.560 What's from the NBA and iHeart podcast This is NBA 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:18.800 DNA with me Hannah Storm, Episode ten dub Nation. Before 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.920 Steve Kerr got to the Bay Area, the Warriors were 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.400 already a team with major potential. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.480 Clay Thompson and Reggie Williams on his kils and hits 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:28.960 the jumper? 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:29.839 How about that? 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.320 Rich Organs. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.679 In the twenty twelve thirteen NBA season, they made it 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.240 to the playoffs for the first time in three years. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:39.800 Under coach Mark Jackson. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.360 Steph Curry made two hundred and seventy two three pointers 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.640 during the regular season. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:46.760 There's the freebet. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.360 It's staff crops of the three? 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.320 Why I shot something else? 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:54.480 Isn't it quick? 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:55.199 Smooth? 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.920 He and Klay Thompson became known as the Splash Brothers 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.400 for their ability to sink dramatic three pointers. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.240 Hey Thompson is a. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.960 Three point shooter. Thompson and Steph Curry have thirty five 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.959 between him. They're nine of seventeen on. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:17.360 Threes, hurried down, dream On Green was the grit and 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.720 soul of the team, and andre Iguadulla, the wise veteran. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.319 All the pieces just worked. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.000 Here's Andre You must have seen a pretty clear vision 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.720 because the Kings and the Nuggets offered you sixty million 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.040 over four years, and I believe the Golden State Warriors 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.319 had enough cap space to offer you forty eight million. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.479 That's I mean, so you took a twelve million dollar 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.599 flyer to go to the Bay Area, which is really remarkable. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.360 I've been I played in Phybey for eight years, one 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.520 year in Denver, and I knew I'm probably on the 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:52.000 back end. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:52.520 Of my rear. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:58.240 Oh wow, why hold on that that the people up 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.520 here behind us, guys are yelling, alling off. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.920 What I wanted at the minimum was to, you know, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.440 wake up every day and look forward to going to work. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.000 And I can see a sense of joy coming from 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.240 the Golden State Warriors. You know, I knew the guys 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.120 really enjoyed playing for Mark Jackson. I knew he was 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.560 a great motivator. I knew he had his guys on 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.960 one accord. They felt like they had great collaboration. And 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.800 I knew I wanted to end my career in a 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.960 situation like that. I could see the talent there. You know, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.040 that was like Steph Curry's coming out party. You know, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.240 he had gotten over the ankle injuries. You know, you're 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.200 starting to find a stride. You know, he had an 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.720 amazing series the next series against the San Antonio Spurs. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.720 You know, they didn't come out on top, but you know, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.600 you can just kind of see it bruin. You can 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.680 see Klay Thompson coming to his own. You know, I 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.600 went up against Clay for six games in that same series, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.880 and he guarded me a good amount, and I said, oh, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.120 this is the young kid can defend. You know, he's 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.680 not just a shooter. And with the confidence that Mark 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.920 Jackson gave him that first press conference, I said, you know, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.920 I think we have a real shot at making some 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.240 noise in this league, not just going making a run 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.600 at the playoffs. We have an opportunity to do something 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.880 above and beyond that. And I didn't mention like championships 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.400 or you know, how many we win, but I really thought, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.720 you know, we can put ourselves in the position where 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.640 we can realistically think about making a run for it. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.840 In Andrea's first season with the team. They played well, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.760 ending the regular season with a fifty one and thirty 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.160 one record, one of the. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.760 Best Enfranchise history. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.720 They made it to the playoffs and took the number 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.200 three seed LA Clippers to a game seven in the 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:31.000 first round. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:36.440 The Clippers lead a current C three so already, Curry, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.800 let's take in the free shots cras in this series. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:41.120 Score more for. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.480 It was surprising, very surprising to win fifty one games. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.120 I never forget we won the fiftieth game of that 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.240 regular season and it was a mini celebration. You know, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.360 how many organizations in the NBA have the opportunity to 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.760 win fifty games, and in the Western Conference that's the 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.280 sixth place. That just shows how competitive, you know, the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.560 West has been for you know, the last few decades. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.400 So being down a few men going into the playoffs 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.800 and our rotation is really six seven guys. We have 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.320 like seven guy rotation, and we take the Clippers to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.040 a seven game series, and you know, you're looking at 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.920 Lob City as one of the teams, one of the 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:19.880 best teams of all time. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.040 They never won a championship. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.360 We got game set coming up to the Los Angeles 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:28.680 on set. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.720 And then to see the ups and downs of the season. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.240 Uh, things that you know you never see from the 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.960 outside looking in, but you understand the NBA culture. You 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.880 get a feeling of where the organization might be heading. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.280 And so the decision was a shock, but when you 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.080 look back and seeing how a lot of things transpire, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:49.760 you can you can kind of see it coming. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.720 After the heartbreaking lost to the Clippers, the Warriors front 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.040 office parted ways with Mark Jackson. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.040 We really enjoy what Mark Jackson brought to the table. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.800 So it's uncertainty. You know, when there's change, there's uncertainty. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.000 And then with Steve Kerr comes in, you're trying to 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.119 figure out, like who this guy is, what's going to 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.960 be about, what changes he's going to make. And I 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.680 think a lot of guys had to open mind when 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.159 he stepped on into that role, and he's trying to 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:14.160 lead us into the next way. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.800 As Jackson's replacement, Kerr was an unproven entity replacing a 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:25.399 popular coach, but he had championship credentials, a vision, and 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.320 a game changing talent in Steph Curry. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.080 Well, he was exactly who I thought he would be 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.399 on a human level because I had spoken with him 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.960 a couple of times before, and I knew Dell and 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.240 I knew the family was amazing, and so he was 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.040 exactly who I thought he would be as a person. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.640 I didn't know just how good he was. I knew 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.840 he was a great shooter, but the first few months 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.040 of the season he was taking the craziest shots, and 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.359 I mean, you know, dribbling six times, threw his legs 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.680 around the back, fade away three pointer shots that every 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.760 coach I've ever had was would be like, you know, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.200 what are you doing? What kind of shot is that? 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.640 You've got to be kidding me? And it really took 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.320 me several months to understand the power of Steph's talent 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:26.280 and his audacity and how how demoralizing that was her opponent. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.119 I was looking at it like that's a bad shot. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.360 Then after a while I was like, all right, it's 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.639 going in forty percent of the time, you know, so 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.440 that's a good shot. But it was more than that. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.480 It was just the how deflating it was for opponents 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.360 and how confident and brash he wasn't what that did 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.360 with the crowd and our team, it was just stunning 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.560 to watch. I had never seen anything like it. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.200 The girl drop it in the door. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.640 That's pretty play the nine point. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:56.200 Might at the half. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.120 And then of course there was his splash brother, Clay Thompson, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.520 also the son of an NBA player, twelve year veteran 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:05.600 Michael Thompson. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.840 Well, I think what made him a great compliment was 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.639 that he didn't need the ball in his hands. He 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.399 loved to play off the ball. Steph could could do either. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.680 You know, Steph could play on or off the ball, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.920 And so it allowed us to have all this movement 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.720 where you got both guys flying off screens and the 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.119 defense is terrified and they're chasing both of them, and 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:29.919 all of a sudden there's a wide open layup for 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.600 someone else. But the other way that Clay complimented Steph 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.719 was that he was great defensively on the ball, and 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.720 it allowed Steph to go and guard you off the ball, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.520 where he was better, and we could stick Clay on 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.480 the toughest guy, whether it was you know, Kyrie Irving 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.680 or Lebron James or didn't matter. Play could guard anyway. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.280 He passed stolen by Irving, Irving on the drive layup 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.280 block by Thompson, right. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.720 Recovery for and so as a two way player. You know, 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.040 Clay was just incredible, but the two of them offensively, 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.240 it was a light show out there. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:11.280 Hurry with the revel. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:19.960 Finish inside, here's Andre. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.440 I think it goes beyond basketball. You know, you say 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.480 guy or some mysterious ways. You look at their backgrounds. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:29.639 You know, you got two guys who grew up in 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.040 the NBA and the NBA that they grew up in 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:34.639 it was you know, it was hard nose. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:35.080 Uh. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.960 Clay grew up in Portland, step grew up in most 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:39.760 of his time in Charlotte, spent a little bit of 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.760 time in Toronto, where his dad played. And so when 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:44.520 you grew up in the NBA household, one thing you're 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:46.720 you know, an NBA parent will teach you is to 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.520 find skills and fundamentals of the game and a big 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.280 piece of that shooting. And you know every NBA player 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:55.359 is like, the first thing you need to teach your 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:56.960 kid is out of had a shooting touch. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:58.359 And dal was a great shooter. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.080 And then Mikey Time someone was a hard nose player 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.119 who you know was around some great teams. And so 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.560 you know their kids are going to understand great basketball. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:12.320 But beyond basketball, those two aren't really phased by fame. 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.040 They aren't phased by the glitzon and glamour, and so 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:21.439 the personality that they've grown to be isn't necessarily around 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.840 like I love basketball for other reasons outside of basketball, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:26.560 Like they weren't forced to play the game. They didn't 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.240 have to. They had so many other opportunities in front 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.159 of them. Basketball wasn't their only option. And so you know, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.560 those two loved the game. You see the guys, they 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:36.679 understand that they missed five threes in a row, the 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.879 next was good. That's the confidence that's been breeded in 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:41.320 them from growing up in the NBA. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.200 Kirs started his Golden State career by meeting with players 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.040 one on one before training camp. He even flew to 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.960