Stackhouse holding newly motivated Warriors defense accountable

Stackhouse holding newly motivated Warriors defense accountable originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Someone clearly lit a fire under the Warriors’ defense this season, and you should look no further than new assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse.

Golden State forward Draymond Green spoke to reporters after the team’s impressive 104-89 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday at Chase Center, where he was asked about the impact Stackhouse has made early on in his first season with the team.

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“He’s adding a fire and a level of accountability to us on the defensive end. He came in kind of implementing some sort of defensive rules,” Green said of Stackhouse. “If you know anything about the NBA, [it’s that] we all run the same stuff. And he’s coming back from college, obviously. Stack’s a legend, [he has] 17-18,000 points in this league.”

Stackhouse, a former 18-year NBA veteran, most recently served as the head coach at Vanderbilt for five seasons before joining Steve Kerr’s staff as an assistant this summer.

Primarily focused on the Warriors’ defense, Stackhouse, upon his arrival, implemented a few new rules that the team, despite its initial hesitation, has grown to appreciate early on this season.

“But he came in with a couple different rules where everyone was like ‘eh,’ but he was so confident and he was so vocal about it and every time you got it wrong he’d teach you ‘That’s not it, I know you’ve done it that way. That’s not it,'” Green added “And when someone comes in with that type of force, that type of confidence and presence, as a player you have no choice but to believe it.

“And he’s given guys a level of confidence on the defensive end that we haven’t had. But like I said, more importantly, a level of accountability that we haven’t had over the last couple years. That’s all he talks about, he don’t say a word about the…

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Publish date : 2024-10-31 19:07:00

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