Steve Kerr reacts to Steph Curry’s honest warrior statement

The Golden State Warriors haven’t looked like the same team that started the season 10-2 through their first 12 games. While such a sample size is never indicative of how an entire season will go, the Warriors are now just 14-10.

Injuries have contributed to this slide, as some key Warriors players have been out of the lineup (including starting shooting guard De’Anthony Melton who is out for the season with an ACL injury), but Golden State can’t blame their poor play entirely on injuries.

Following their NBA Cup quarterfinal loss to the Houston Rockets, Warriors star Steph Curry made an honest statement about his team.

“The pattern of scoring droughts down the stretch has to be fixed or we’re going to be a mediocre team,” Curry said of Golden State’s poor late-game execution. “I’ll take responsibility for not being able to get our act together and not being able to finish plays. The ball is in my hands. I have to make shots.”

This was just one way Curry was critical of his team after the loss, prompting a response from Warriors head coach Steve Kerr.

“The beauty of Steph is he’s one of the only superstars in sports who can just say it so authentically,” Kerr said on 95.7 The Game’s Willard and Dibs show. “So genuine. So non-threatening. There’s no controversy. Nobody’s writing stories today or yesterday about Steph Curry calling out his coach. It’s just genuine collaboration.”

Curry has never been the type of superstar to cause controversy in the media, and his comments after the Rockets loss were not taken the wrong way by Kerr or any of his teammates.

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