Steve Kerr: “We don’t practice anymore. So we have to develop these 19 year old kids who are coming into the league without much practice time…Frankly, I’m not great — I’m an older coach…So I lean on the young [coaches].”

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  3. don’t show this to the Kerr fans. they try so hard to justify Kerr icing out the young guys for vets even when the young guys are red hot

    Moody shot 73% from 3pt in the Lakers series yet was 9th in minutes. Moody got benched twice vs. Sac, once in a play-in game when he was the 2nd leading scorer to play an ice cold Klay and CP3 who couldn’t even get a shot off

  4. Luke Walton was the interim coach in a 73-9 season that gets credited to Kerr

  5. I remember reading a quote from Moses Moody about Chris Paul. He talked about how Chris Paul was the first veteran to ever take the time to teach and help the young guys on Golden State and that they all loved him.

  8. Saying nothing controversial. Some coaches are better at managing finished products and producing winners. Some coaches excel at teaching fundamentals and developing talent.

    Both are important.

  9. Funny how Miami takes players who played 4 years in college and still some helps them to develop into better players, all while not practicing ??

  10. lol at the number of bots just replying shit without actually listening to the conversation.

    The players are coming in younger. The schedule doesn’t give you 4 days off for 2 long practice days. So coaching staffs around the league have to have more position specific assistants to coach the positions more like baseball or football coaching.

    Bots: wahhh wahhhh Kerr Kuminga blah blah blah.

  11. I think the players who become good like SGA, are probably doing the heavy development in off seasons with their personal coaches doing drills and stuff.

  15. The Warriors have 5 Player Development coaches, they are a part of the 10 person ‘Player Development’ team. I assume those are the coaches he leans on for player development, since that is why they were hired

  17. Totally agreed with Steve Kerr and aau basketball hasn’t done upcoming draft prospects any favours by focusing on highlights. Rather than teaching draft prospects the basic fundamentals of basketball.

  18. We can tell Kerr does amazing with veteran talent and can make good adjustments in crucial times , but man what he has done with some of the young players recently is disappointing. Even what he did with Tatum in the Olympics , he’s not a great developmental coach . And don’t say Curry and the guys because they won 50 games with mark jackson they were already ready they just needed a better system they could’ve possibly won with Mark though .

  22. Kerr sucks it’s his fault that Kuminga doesn’t pass the ball to wide open teammates and dribbles the ball off his feet twice a game

  23. There’s no way not practicing is better than practicing for every player. For seasoned vets yeah no reason to risk getting hurt but for players with real flaws in their game or up and comers practicing has so much upside.

  24. You see it in quality of play. When guys have a few days in between games and can rest/practice, they come out playing much better.

    But with the schedules nowadays, you’re playing every other day, hard to practice

  25. It’s so crazy if you think about it. Like this teenager is supposed to be like a star professional basketball player. And a year or 2 ago they were in high school

  29. Can you imagine a MLB manager or the head coach of a NFL team saying that? No practice?? Wow

  30. At the end of the day, the NBA is a business. There is player development but if a player just doesn’t have it mentally or physically, I don’t blame coaches at this level for cutting them and bringing in players who can win now. NBA coaches get paid to win.

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