Steve Kerr and Ime Udoka pregame Boston Celtics at Golden State Warriors (partial) transcripts below, any typos or errors please use the Comments section and be mindful of the effort I put in to post these, thanks. Video above is clickable, per usual.
STEVE KERR
• Wiggins and Bjelica: “They’re out.”
• Bug that’s going around the team? “I don’t know.”
• Not COVID though? “Yeah.”
• Wiseman: “Main thing is he’s healthy and he’s moving well. That was our biggest concern…sustain it (momentum)…”
• Next for Wiseman: “…keep building his conditioning. He gets tired during his runs…all to be expected though especially as a big guy…”
• Mindset: “Everybody’s feeling like things have turned in a positive direction after the recent slump or whatever you want to call it…til we get our whole team back together it’s tough to figure everything out…”
• Draymond: “He loves to orchestrate the offense and generate shots for Steph and Klay and everyone else…minutes, he’ll be bumped up. I think 24 is the number today. Slowly but surely it’ll continue to climb…”
• Draymond off bench: “Yeah.”
• Starters same as last time: “I’m trying to remember who started last time. I will not announce…”
• Was Klay coming off the bench ever discussed? “I don’t think so…”
• Draymond moment checking in: “…you could see it in his face…dead ball, he runs to the scorers table…”
• Steph 47 a matter of chemistry? “…know each other so well…if people are double teaming Steph he finds Draymond in the pocket…”
• Celtics: “Yeah they’re really clicking now…when we saw them they were without Horford…added Derrick White…defense…number one over the last couple months…but athletic team, they’ve given us problems over the years…”
• Draymond not able to solve everything: “Transition defense, back door cuts, boxing out…the shell having to be tight…you gotta have a tight shell…layups and dunks…”
• Mostly defense? “Yeah.”
IME UDOKA
• Preview: “…good challenge for us coming off the Dallas game where we felt like we didn’t play our best good chance for us to come into Golden State tonight.”
• Different approach for road especially at Chase environment: “…record breaking streaks it was because of our approach on the road…take home crowds out of the building…playoffs you’re gonna have to win at home or on the road…us against the world mentality.”
• Standings and seedings: “…monitoring that…games like Dallas are very important…slip ups…you wanna avoid play in tournaments…few days off…starting in the top six is crucial…”
• Theis: “…Traditional coverage as well as switching…timing, same as Derrick…important for their rest situations (Horford)…”
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