Before becoming a quadruple titled coach, Steve Kerr also went through a learning phase on the bench Warriors and one of the highlights of his coaching career dates back to his rookie year.
We are then in 2015, right during the playoffs. Golden State comes out of a regular season with 67 wins and 15 losses, then a “sweep” against the Pelicans in the first round, to cross paths with the Grizzlies of Mike Conley, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol in the conference semi-finals.
A more contested series than we remember, which saw the Warriors trailing 2-1, with one game left in Memphis. But for this Game 4, Steve Kerr decides in agreement with his staff to make a daring adjustment, he who was then not a follower of changes in hot situations.
” When I think back to the 2015 campaign, the biggest change we made was in the second round in Memphis, when we were trailing », does he remember, in Draymond Green’s podcast. ” Ron Adams [son assistant, ndlr] suggested that I put Andrew Bogut in defense on Tony Allen. [Les Grizzlies] were controlling the tempo of the show and I remember we were on the plane when I was like, ‘Why would we do that? It sounds crazy. »
“Create a radical change with some subtle changes”
Except that Steve Kerr decided to trust his staff, to allow Andrew Bogut to help in the racket by ignoring Tony Allen in defense, and the series tipped in favor of Golden State…
” The more I watched the video, the more I understood [cet ajustement], so we did and it was like magic. It changed everything! It was the first time that I realized, as a coach, that a simple change could radically transform a series. I didn’t know it at the time, but thanks to our great, experienced coaching staff, with Alvin Gentry and Ron Adams who had already been there, I was taught it. So from there I was like, ‘Okay, I got it’, in the sense that you can bring about a drastic change with some subtle changes “, he continues on this subject.
Then, on the strength of their paid tactical adjustment, the Warriors eliminated the Grizzlies in six sets (4-2), before taking out the Rockets (4-1) in the conference final, then offering themselves the scalp of the Cavaliers (4- 2) during the Finals, to win their first title in the space of… 40 years.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Stephen Curry | 56 | 34.7 | 49.3 | 42.7 | 91.5 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 29.4 |
| Klay Thompson | 69 | 33.0 | 43.6 | 41.2 | 87.9 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 21.9 |
| Jordan Poole | 82 | 30.0 | 43.0 | 33.6 | 87.0 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 20.4 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 37 | 32.2 | 47.3 | 39.6 | 61.1 | 1.6 | 3.4 | 5.0 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 17.1 |
| Jonathan Kuminga | 67 | 20.8 | 52.5 | 37.0 | 65.2 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 9.9 |
| Donte Divincenzo | 72 | 26.3 | 43.5 | 39.7 | 81.7 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 9.4 |
| Draymond Green | 73 | 31.5 | 52.7 | 30.5 | 71.3 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 8.5 |
| Kevon Looney | 82 | 23.9 | 63.0 | 0.0 | 60.6 | 3.3 | 5.9 | 9.3 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 7.0 |
| James Wiseman | 21 | 12.5 | 62.8 | 50.0 | 68.4 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 6.9 |
| Ty Jerome | 45 | 18.1 | 48.8 | 38.9 | 92.7 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
| Anthony Lamb | 62 | 19.3 | 47.1 | 36.7 | 76.7 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 6.7 |
| Jamychal Green | 57 | 14.0 | 54.0 | 37.8 | 77.6 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 6.4 |
| Gary Payton II | 7 | 16.1 | 60.7 | 44.4 | 66.7 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 5.7 |
| Moses Moody | 63 | 13.0 | 47.6 | 36.3 | 69.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 4.8 |
| Patrick Baldwin, Jr. | 31 | 7.3 | 39.4 | 38.1 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 3.9 |
| Lester Quinones | 4 | 4.5 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 66.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| Andre Iguodala | 8 | 14.1 | 46.7 | 11.1 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
| ryan rollins | 12 | 5.2 | 35.0 | 33.3 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.9 |
