KERR in 2014: “Man, that’s a lousy shot from Steph (Curry)…all my coaches lied…those are good shots”

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07:08 For the first couple of weeks, it looked like maybe, but now that's changed.
07:12 Yeah, I mean, like I said, we're not built that way, so I don't really worry about it, but I'm just answering your question. We're not a 4-out team, a 5-out team. We are — We're a defensive minded-team. That's our identity. We're almost a third away through the season. We have the fourth-ranked defense. That's held up. Like I said, even through the losses, the defense has held up. So our identity is a defensive-minded…
08:20 How important is pushing after makes?
08:23 Huge. One of the best things Draymond does is, our team makes it and he gets it out quick and we race up the floor into our offense. The thing that's interesting to me is, every coach that I've ever had, if he took an early shot in transition, every coach I've ever had would say, "It's a bad shot. You can always get that shot." What we've learned in the modern NBA is they were all lying. All my coaches lied to me. Coaches across the country were saying the same thing, "You can always get that shot." Now the difference was, without a three-point line, back then to let my coaches off the hook and all those coaches back then, when the three-point line wasn't as big of a deal, they might have been right. Like, you could get a late-clock shot, long-range shot, but it wasn't worth three. So now that the three-point line is such a big deal, the shot you want is the early three in transition or a layup in transition and all the numbers show it. The first eight seconds, points per possession across the league for every team, is dramatically higher than the last eight. So, playing with pace has huge advantages, the main one being defenses can't get set up.
09:40 When did your mindset shift on that, just having it being drilled into your whole life by coaches? And when did you discover that that early shot is the right one?
09:49 When I started coaching Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. And it took me a little while because that had been ingrained in my head for forever. But a couple of months after I was coaching those guys, I realized, I'm on the bench, I'm going, "Man, that's a lousy shot from Steph." And it's like, "Oh yeah, but he's shooting 43 percent on that shot and they're three-point shots, points for possession way up." So yeah, those are good shots.
10:18 The shot that he took late in the game the other night, there were still people who didn't do it too soon. And I'm wondering if because you guys had a surprising number of shot clock violations in that game, if maybe that gets into your mind that we've had too many possessions where we didn't get a shot off at all, could that be a factor in taking a shot at that point?
10:36 I don't think so. I don't think so. I think Steph was just, he had a clean look and he's made that shot a million times. And what makes Steph who he is, is he's fearless. And he's not a game manager. He's not a guy who's gonna come down and he's gonna — he's a flamethrower. He's an assassin and he knows that and we've talked about it. He should have run the clock down, but I should have been screaming out there for him to do it, too, and telling Loon to stay down and not come out on the screen. And so we're all at fault on that late-game stuff and, again, you gotta learn and you gotta move on and make sure you do it right the next time…
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