Last season, the Golden State Warriors returned nearly their entire championship winning roster, something that played a huge part in a barnstorming 24 game winning streak out of the gate.
This year is a different story, with seven new additions in the offseason, and a blowout loss on their home court in the season’s first game. Head coach Steve Kerr says the growing pains will continue as the new players continue to learn their roles, telling Tolbert and Lund on Thursday that this season will be a completely different experience.
“You look at a year ago when we won 24 straight games to start the season we had the whole roster back basically,” Kerr said. “It was the same team, everybody knew their roles, everybody just plugged right in and knew all the stuff we were running on both ends, so the continuity was dramatic and that’s why we had the season that we did.”
“So now, seven new guys and some really key guys obviously. KD, Zaza as our starting center and David West. So it’s been trickier I think the first few weeks to coach the team. We’re trying to figure out what works from last year that we ran, what doesn’t. What do we need to do differently.”
“Then you have the human part of it. Guys getting to know each other, not only on the floor but off. And so we looked like a team that had just been put together. As I said that will change as we go. The focus will really be on cleaning things up and tidying things up and hopefully we’ll get it going soon.”
Listen to the full interview below.