Steve Kerr on Tuesday emphasized 'competition across the board' for the Warriors' starting spots -- and his aim for Golden State is to establish an identity out of that competition.
Stephen A. Smith is curious to know why the Warriors haven't been able to get another superstar to play alongside Steph Curry since Kevin Durant left the team. coach Steve Kerr has a very open-ended question he is hoping to answer throughout training camp: Who is going to be in his starting lineup?"There is competition across the board," Kerr said Tuesday following the Warriors' first session at BYU Hawai'i's campus.
Part of it was dependent on who was available, but more so because the group was not cohesive. With the revolving starting group, the bench unit also struggled to find cohesion. Kerr said all of that will be part of the conversation at camp."The starting lineup is going to have to be dependent, not only on the first five fitting, but the second fitting as well," Kerr said."We've got a lot of work to do to figure out lineups. All the guys can do is compete, play their ass off.
In making these lineups, the Warriors are prioritizing being an elite two-way team, similar to how they were en route to their 2022 NBA championship. The other focus is supplementing their shooting. "I want Wigs shooting six, seven 3s," Kerr said."I want Brandin, I want Moses, I want De'Anthony -- I want to be a high-volume shooting team. I think that's important to us. The big shift is Klay is not here. So we were fourth in the league in 3-point attempts last year, but Klay probably shot eight to 10 of them, so we're going to have to fill that void. That will come from multiple people.
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