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00:00Does this bug you guys though?
00:03You know the mr. Mr. Kaminga guy over there and Grandy brought this to my attention. Does this bother you?
00:09Listen to what the guys said about
00:12Schroeder
00:13Joining the team. First of all, this is postgame
00:17last night from Draymond Green and
00:20Talking about Dennis Schroeder and fit. I don't think he was necessarily the brought brought here to fit
00:28You know, we play a certain style of basketball that he does not really play
00:35And I don't think the goal is to get him to play the style of basketball that we play we need someone that can do
00:41The things that he does and so I'm looking forward to us adjusting to him
00:46Not necessary, you know, he'll have to adjust to some things and he's a pro. He understands that
00:51But
00:53We have to adjust to him because he's bringing something that this team needs and
00:59to just you know, uh
01:03To just think or make him fall in line of what we do you we wasting our time and even bring them here
01:11Because we need somebody that
01:14Can do what we necessarily don't do
01:16Does that bother you at all?
01:19Not really no because I think about and that the example
01:23I'm gonna give is not to give it to say that this player is that player but when Kevin Durant came here
01:29You adjusted what you did for Kevin Durant because he doesn't play the way that you play sure
01:34Player in the league, correct?
01:36And you know Kevin Durant is an automatic bucket
01:38But you definitely changed the way you approach offense when he was on the floor
01:43You did a lot less running around that you do now
01:46And I think Schroeder is the same way where he's a guy who's gonna need the ball in his hands more
01:51He's gonna look to get his out of certain sets that are not necessarily what you normally run
01:57So doesn't bother me. It actually is an astute observation from Draymond
02:01Okay, same subject Mike Dunleavy earlier today the play style stuff rotations all that's on Steve
02:07We've talked about it thoroughly though
02:09And I think he's open and aware to some of the strengths Dennis has and what he can bring to the table
02:14It's no secret
02:15We need to improve offensively and sometimes making some shifts and what you're doing and philosophically is is the right right way to go about
02:21Things so we'll see how that unfolds. But yeah, we know who Dennis is as a player
02:26We know we're a choir and in order to play to his strengths. We may have to shift some things
02:30Can we bring Grandy and granny does that does that bother you at all?
02:33Cuz you kind of said to me like oh you guys will adjust for Schroeder, but you won't adjust for coming
02:38Obviously, it's different skill sets and and Schroeder's more of a ball handler and a creator and a distributor more so than coming is but
02:45What has hurt the Warriors the most and recently it's scoring the basketball in clutch times
02:50It's lost them so many games
02:52and I don't know if you're a little less stubborn about the way that you play and you just give the ball the coming gun run
02:57pick and roll with Andrew Wiggins that might work more than Stephen Curry trying to
03:01Beat a triple team at the top of the key over really think that it would do you like just search that for me?
03:07I know that we're they have had
03:09Terrible closing game. No, no question. No question. But are you guys really in that camp?
03:16Let's just give Jonathan the ball
03:18Let's ride. You saw how they closed the game at home against Houston without Steph without Draymond
03:24Led by coming in Wiggins. Oh, how did they close the game in Houston with Steph and with Draymond?
03:29It's a fair. It's a fair rebuttal
03:31The fair rebuttal, but if I ask you that are you guys dibs, are you confident that?
03:40Jonathan Kaminga, here's the ball dude, and he's a bucket getter
03:44late in basketball games
03:46Well, he can be and I think the the counter to that is if you're not gonna do that
03:51If you're not gonna give him the ball and let him cook so to speak then
03:56What good is he out there on the floor because he's not a great
04:00Post up catch-and-shoot
04:02Corner three-point shooter or above the break as Tim Roy so eloquently always says so if you're not gonna use coming in that way
04:10Then why bother having him out there? Well, okay, let's go there for a second. Let me let's say. All right, let's do that
04:17well, then
04:19This will sound so ridiculous
04:22the first time you hear it, but I really I
04:25Kind of believe this if you're gonna do that
04:27Then what good is having Steph out there?
04:29Because Steph is a guy that is gonna run screener roll with Draymond and Steve Kerr actually said that to us last week when we
04:35Had him on in his weekly spot. That is always gonna be their best play. They've been doing it for more than 10 years
04:41I think what's being proposed though is not doing that and and and running it through Jonathan Kaminga
04:47And my argument would be is when you give the ball to Jonathan Kaminga. It kind of ends there
04:54He's not a good passer
04:56He's not gonna break people down and find Steph Curry in the corner for a three
05:00You're not gonna do that, right?
05:02You can do both and what I think I hear
05:05Well, every trip down the floor doesn't have to be the same thing and what I'm hearing
05:08Grandi say it's kind of what I'm seeing late in games
05:11And this is what I asked Steve last week is it seems like under four minutes
05:16What they do is Draymond screen for Steph if they double Steph pass back to Draymond Draymond create
05:23Steph runs around. Let's try to get it back to him
05:26It seems like that's all they do if you have coming out there
05:29Maybe one trip you do that screen and roll Steph and Draymond one trip
05:33It's isolate coming gun let him try to cook and I think that Schroeder is
05:38From a usage standpoint more like cominga than he is Steph. He's kind of a combination because he can
05:46Yeah
05:47And I don't think cominga at this point his career to your statement
05:51He's not quite that player yet where if you ran a screen roll for him and he comes off the screen
05:57He's gonna look to get downhill
05:58He's not gonna look to get in the paint and maybe kick it out and find somebody gonna shoot the thing whether it's there or
06:04not exactly
06:07Well, I think the
06:09Offensive the NBA but there's value in that because he can get to the rim and get to the foul line
06:14And what's the problem with that?
06:15well
06:16he hasn't made it at a high rate, but the other thing is what you're doing in the end the games right now is
06:21Screen for Steph and teams are just trapping him
06:24And so he's either got a shoot a 30-footer contested or you give it up and then now you're left with one
06:30Yeah, I don't know. I don't argue that I don't argue that what what they're doing is is is working
06:36I'm certainly not gonna argue that it's not it's not but I you know
06:39the the acquisition of Dennis Schroeder to me is more about that and
06:43Having another ball handler and another scorer and another person who can both knock down a shot
06:48But also create one for someone else, you know, like I don't know man this the the cominga thought again
06:54It's it's nothing against the skill set. I
06:58Just I don't think that that's winning basketball
07:01Even if it's being done at the highest of levels
07:04Like talk about what you guys are saying about Jonathan cominga and what you wish the Warriors would let him do is
07:11basically James Harden basketball
07:14And there are a few others around the league doing it and what they don't do is win
07:18in a win
07:20It doesn't work. Well, you're you're talking about a whole game of that
07:23I think that there are spots and there are times when you can you know, if you're closing lineup is
07:29Steph and Draymond and Wiggins because Wiggins has been really good and then you can put in either buddy healed or
07:36Slow-mo depending on the matchup and then you have cominga
07:39I do think that there's space for cominga to at times on possessions get the ball and attack depending on who is guarding it
07:48I'm seeing too much is just the garden variety high screen for Steph and
07:53You know it either works or it doesn't work and if Steph gets double teamed which defensively that makes the most sense if you've got
08:01Other non scores on the floor. Let's get it out of his hand
08:04I mean take a look at last night, right if you put the ball in Luka don't use his hand, right?
08:09What happens if the Warriors run at him like really run at him and double team? What happens?
08:13He's gonna find the open player start spinning around what happens three-pointer over there three-pointer over there three-pointer shoot three-point shooter over there
08:21And a big guy in the middle, but the Warriors don't do that because they don't have that exactly. Yeah, exactly
08:27So what do they need to do? You got to go get that they got to go get that
08:32This is to me the and that's why I fall back on it doesn't fit and I hope
08:39Repeatedly that that doesn't sound like me saying Jonathan cominga is not a good basketball player or even that we know exactly who he's gonna
08:46Be someday, but I just don't see how
08:50It's okay to ask Steph to do this you're six foot two
08:55You're gonna get into a pick-and-roll up high and and you're gonna come off. You're gonna get double teamed
09:01You're the tiniest guy on the floor, but you're Steph
09:05So if you do have two trees in your face, you're either gonna get around them at least enough to create
09:12Openings on the floor for others and who's waiting for you. It's pods and cominga
09:20It doesn't work
09:21It doesn't work. It's more slashing players who are not good at knocking down a three
09:26You can to me don't get mad at Steph or cominga get mad at the way the game has evolved
09:34Like that's that's what that's what Oklahoma City's doing. It's what Minnesota is doing
09:40It's what Dallas is doing. The Warriors do not have enough three-point shooting and spacing and
09:48And so we can bang our head against the wall and continue to get more
09:53Information on Jonathan cominga all we want
09:56But I just this these three players who are at the core of the Warriors right now
10:01It it's just puzzle pieces that don't fit if you ask me
10:05But I think they do fit and they fit at certain times and in certain
10:09Situations and I would like to see the offense be a little bit more diverse when we get down
10:14Late in games and you know
10:16Steve told us last week that that is their best play and it's worked for the better part of ten years and I get that
10:22But I do think that there's space for other things whether it's Wiggins attacking or cominga attacking
10:27Putting the defense into different spots other than the same old high screen and roll