Warriors training camp takeaways: Competition for new roles underway

Warriors training camp takeaways: Competition for new roles underway originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

LAIE, Hawaii – The first day of Warriors training camp for the 2024-25 NBA season on the BYU-Hawaii campus wasn’t so much about individuals standing out or combinations of players impressing coaches. Steve Kerr’s point of emphasis Tuesday instead was structure.

The goal is to create a foundation in Hawaii and build from there.

Kerr of course wants the Warriors to play instinctively. Clarity of roles for new additions like De’Anthony Melton, Kyle Anderson and Buddy Hield, as well as the young core of Brandin Podziemski, Jonathan Kuminga, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Moses Moody, also have to be established. That creates more work perhaps than usual during training camp for a coach that has firmly created his style of play over the last decade, leading to four championships, but Kerr appears up to the task.

Since his arrival in 2014, Kerr also hasn’t been shy about leaning on others to get the best out of his team. The latest example is the additions of Terry Stotts and Jerry Stackhouse to his coaching staff. Kerr competed against Stotts for years when he served as the Portland Trail Blazers’ head coach, and already is finding him to be an invaluable asset to his offense.

“He’s been a coach who has relied on movement and flow,” Kerr said. “He taught his teams in Portland to play with a lot of rhythm but with a little more structure. That was one of the reasons I brought him here. We believe in the same kind of basketball, with the movement and the ball changing sides.

“He’s been around this league a long time. He’s got great ideas, he’s a great teammate. I’m thrilled that Terry’s here and he’ll really help in that regard.”

Here are three takeaways from the first day of training camp, which featured comments from Kerr, Kuminga and Steph Curry.

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Publish date : 2024-10-02 16:07:17

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