Steve Kerr stood by his recent remarks on Monday that he felt coaching the horrific Golden State Warriors team last year was more enjoyable than coaching the team that went to the 2019 final.
However, he is not happy with a Bay Area media member for taking an out-of-context quote on the subject and tries to make it look like Kerr is taking a chance on Kevin Durant.
Not one bit.
Steve Kerr ‘angry’ over ‘terrible unfair shot’
Kerr “said he ‘enjoyed last season, when we had the worst record in the league, more than I did last season when we went to the finals.’
Golden State only advanced 15-50 last season in a brutal attempt to back their run to the NBA Finals – when they fell to the Toronto Raptors. Both Klay Thompson and Durant got hurt in the series, and Durant then kicked for the Brooklyn Nets.
Kerr’s point was not that the Finals team was bad at coaching, but rather at working with a new group of young players to learn as much as possible was a big change of pace from the tension around it. to five NBA Series Finals.
And of course it makes sense.
Although Kerr did not mention Durant by name, Drew Shiller of the NBC Sports Bay Area tweet definitely made it look like he took a chance on Durant.
Steve Kerr tells @loganmmurdock he enjoyed last season (when the Warriors were 15-50) more than Kevin Durant’s last season with the Warriors.
“The past year has been difficult. There has been a lot going on – some of which you know and others not. It has been very difficult.”
– Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) 22 March 2021
Durant thought so too.
So, before Tuesday’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Kerr made his remarks unasked on Tuesday – calling out Shiller by name for what he considered a horribly unfair shot.
Steve Kerr, unsolicited, commented on his podcast that went viral today about KD’s last season compared to last season. He said he was ‘angry’ about the way it was contextualized.
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– Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 23, 2021
“I did a podcast with Logan Murdock a few nights ago, and I mentioned during the podcast that last season, in which we had the worst record in the league, was more enjoyable as a coaching point of view than the previous season. us in the Finals, ‘Kerr said. “The context was basically that the fifth year after the five-year run was just an absolute bear. That was the tension level, two season-ending injuries during the final, DeMarcus also had a serious injury took him six weeks out of the playoffs. We had all kinds of tension.
“The whole point of the conversation was the tension of the five-year run compared to coaching a team of young guys who did not win many games but are eager to learn. More enjoyable than last season, it was my comment.
‘Drew Shiller decided to tweet today that Steve Kerr said he enjoyed more last season than Kevin Durant’s previous year with the Warriors.
“OK, so I want to make it extremely clear. If you want to make the story accurate, I encourage you to listen to the podcast before we air this story and use it as my quote, because it’s the farthest thing from the truth.It was a terrible unfair shot.
“To bring something completely out of context to the point where people are going to read it and think it was my quote. You have been very fair to me over the years and I rarely have complaints. I know I am fair game for criticism when we’re playing a game. I’m going to make bad decisions that you can criticize. I’m going to do a lot of things that you can criticize and I deserve it.
“But to take that remark and put it in a tweet and send it to the universe was so irresponsible and harmful, and I’m angry. And I know what’s going to happen. I know it’s going to be taken out this morning. Shows and people are going to talk about it and they will use what they think is a quote that is actually something that is completely made up. I’m not happy. I think it’s wrong. Again, I’m trying to be candid. I’m trying to share everything so our fans know what our team is going through.What I am going through.We like to share our story.It’s a big part of promoting our team.So it’s very worrying for me.It may be part of the modern media, but it is dead wrong, and I’m upset about it. ‘
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