Steve Kerr Takes Jab at Poole & Kuminga [VIDEO]

[azwfan]

Look players want things for their own careers and where those things aren't compatible with a coaches system you usually need the coach to win or the player to leave. That's how it goes. No crying over that.

But people talking about Poole or JK or JMG "poisoning" a locker room where Draymond tried to cave a guy's head in and the vets voted not to let the coach/GM punish him and Klay was single handedly tanking games out of shape, rubber legged and selfishly chucking for 40 games is LAUGHABLE. This locker room was poisoned. It was poisoned by the vets and impotent coaching/management that enabled them. And now we got Kerr whining that guys didn't cheer loud enough for Anthony Lamb from the bench.

The fallout you see at the end of the rotation is the team responding to the quality of the leadership they have been given. Kerr has his head up his ass and shirking his own accountability. Disease of more.

Best post on this topic.

[SpreeS]

Yea Klay played really “well”

[BayAreaDub]

Look players want things for their own careers and where those things aren't compatible with a coaches system you usually need the coach to win or the player to leave. That's how it goes. No crying over that.

But people talking about Poole or JK or JMG "poisoning" a locker room where Draymond tried to cave a guy's head in and the vets voted not to let the coach/GM punish him and Klay was single handedly tanking games out of shape, rubber legged and selfishly chucking for 40 games is LAUGHABLE. This locker room was poisoned. It was poisoned by the vets and impotent coaching/management that enabled them. And now we got Kerr whining that guys didn't cheer loud enough for Anthony Lamb from the bench.

The fallout you see at the end of the rotation is the team responding to the quality of the leadership they have been given. Kerr has his head up his ass and shirking his own accountability. Disease of more.

Best post on this topic.

Absolutely fire post

[Onus]

https://youtu.be/6-g2RYjlOTw?t=546

This different rules for different players thing isn't a good look at all. Klay has got to go if he can't even come to practice

[Sleepy51]

https://youtu.be/6-g2RYjlOTw?t=546

This different rules for different players thing isn't a good look at all. Klay has got to go if he can't even come to practice

Pop never had different rules for Tim Duncan and Duncan didn’t demand them. Kerr and the core are failing to live up to that example. Curry’s greatness has masked so much BS around here behind the curtain.

[Onus]

https://youtu.be/6-g2RYjlOTw?t=546

This different rules for different players thing isn't a good look at all. Klay has got to go if he can't even come to practice

Pop never had different rules for Tim Duncan and Duncan didn’t demand them. Kerr and the core are failing to live up to that example. Curry’s greatness has masked so much BS around here behind the curtain.

Really it seems like Dray and Klay are riding coat tails and getting away with a bunch of bs

[DevinVassell]

Hmm, so Klay used to miss practices all the time... years ago when KD was here? Maybe, and if so, that's telling.

But I'd like an actual reporter to confirm the reason for this with Klay straight up first.

[Onus]

Hmm, so Klay used to miss practices all the time... years ago when KD was here? Maybe, and if so, that's telling.

But I'd like an actual reporter to confirm the reason for this with Klay straight up first.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kevin-durant-says-klay-thompson-ditched-practice-the-day-before-he-dropped-60-points/

[DevinVassell]

To get paid 40M a year and just blow off your obligations is ridiculous. But if management allows that level of entitlement... well that's on them.

Still not totally buying that KD article though. Sounds like Klay missed practice once because he forgot, or didnt set his alarm... it happens occasionaly over a ten yr career but.. I could be wrong.

"(I think he said, like, 'Man, I was an hour late, two hours late. I was like, I might as well just stay in bed.')"

[Onus]

To get paid 40M a year and just blow off your obligations is ridiculous. But if management allows that level of entitlement... well that's on them.

Still not totally buying that KD article though. Sounds like Klay missed practice once because he forgot, or didnt set his alarm... it happens occasionaly over a ten yr career but.. I could be wrong.

"(I think he said, like, 'Man, I was an hour late, two hours late. I was like, I might as well just stay in bed.')"

You take that story and then Bonta's take where that's just Klay being Klay, it seems like it's happened more than just that once.

[DevinVassell]

Fair enough.

Was just trying to be cautious as shite like that is hard to believe.

[SinceGatlingWasARookie]

I do not hear the shot at Poole and Kuminga.
If Poole could be more like Jimmy Butler hard and if Kuminga rebounded as well as he should the Warriors might have been champs this year.

But not having a back up center was a failure by management.

The longer version of that video on the Draymond Green show was a great interview.

[floppymoose]

Maybe Klay is like I was at his age and has some real sleep issues. I used to sleep through alarms and miss things. I would turn off alarms in my sleep, not fully understanding what i was doing. It would get integrated into a dream as something else.

I still am that way to some degree but it's alot tamer now than when I was Klay's age.

[whatisacenter]

Maybe Klay is like I was at his age and has some real sleep issues. I used to sleep through alarms and miss things. I would turn off alarms in my sleep, not fully understanding what i was doing. It would get integrated into a dream as something else.

I still am that way to some degree but it's alot tamer now than when I was Klay's age.

you sound like my son....dude is about to go to college and I worried he won't get out of bed without me there!

[Upperclass]

Look players want things for their own careers and where those things aren't compatible with a coaches system you usually need the coach to win or the player to leave. That's how it goes. No crying over that.

But people talking about Poole or JK or JMG "poisoning" a locker room where Draymond tried to cave a guy's head in and the vets voted not to let the coach/GM punish him and Klay was single handedly tanking games out of shape, rubber legged and selfishly chucking for 40 games is LAUGHABLE. This locker room was poisoned. It was poisoned by the vets and impotent coaching/management that enabled them. And now we got Kerr whining that guys didn't cheer loud enough for Anthony Lamb from the bench.

The fallout you see at the end of the rotation is the team responding to the quality of the leadership they have been given. Kerr has his head up his ass and shirking his own accountability. Disease of more.

Best post on this topic.

Dude nailed this post. Should be stickied

[CDM_Stats]

To get paid 40M a year and just blow off your obligations is ridiculous. But if management allows that level of entitlement... well that's on them.

Still not totally buying that KD article though. Sounds like Klay missed practice once because he forgot, or didnt set his alarm... it happens occasionaly over a ten yr career but.. I could be wrong.

"(I think he said, like, 'Man, I was an hour late, two hours late. I was like, I might as well just stay in bed.')"

You take that story and then Bonta's take where that's just Klay being Klay, it seems like it's happened more than just that once.

the amount of stories that dont make the news cycle is nuts.. fwiw though back when I was doing medical stuff, I heard way more about Sacramento than anyone else. But its always crazy how reality and fan narratives can be so very different, and how quickly fan narratives can become the truth by repetition

[Romulus]

i think the bloody core is too old and kerr is too stubborn. this season was a pain to watch, i had more fun the two seasons we didn't make the playoffs after 2019.
kerr took his side. that is clear. yes, the two timelines wasn't a brilliant ideea, but kerr did everything to sabotage it as well.

i know i'm on an island here, but i still want kerr fired, draymond and klay gone. also poole, if we can move him at a decent price(not sure). this "culture" of ours is in the gutter rn, i think it looks awful when one of your young guys is put down for the world to see, and the agresor is praised by the head coach and backed up by the organization.

Well, you're not on that island alone. I'm tired of Draymond for so many reasons. I'm also tired of Kerr's coaching and approach. He's so stubborn about everything. And Klay at this point just seems like a very selfish player that only cares about showing everyone he's still got it.

I'd love to see the roster totally re-done around Steph. Who knows how successful it would be (would depend on the moves). But man, would that be exciting.

[Dom801e]

The starters were good when playing together most of the season. Klay tanked that in the playoffs. Their problem was that they played worse with the bench and a lot of it was poor decisions and/or lack of energy. That is pretty inexcusable from a vet team.

Poole and Kuminga were scapegoated so I don’t really blame them for having less a of a team first attitude. That being said if they are going to continue to lack chemistry they should be traded.

[Nvnervous45]

Poole has got to go. He's not a great fit for the system. He's an iso-chucker with no defense. At various times I've seen curry yell at him, draymond get frustrated and now kerr. At some point you have to admit that he is the problem, especially with the pedigrees of the the 3 individuals your talking about. He either humbles himself and learns to play within a winning system or he gone.
Kuminga needs to keep his head down and work on the mental aspect of the game especially rebounding and not follow Poole's bad example.

[Zvaart]

Poole has got to go. He's not a great fit for the system. He's an iso-chucker with no defense. At various times I've seen curry yell at him, draymond get frustrated and now kerr. At some point you have to admit that he is the problem, especially with the pedigrees of the the 3 individuals your talking about. He either humbles himself and learns to play within a winning system or he gone.
Kuminga needs to keep his head down and work on the mental aspect of the game especially rebounding and not follow Poole's bad example.

Yeah, how dare he have opinions? somebody should beat some sense into him.