Steve Kerr and Draymond Green have had the odd collision. Without going any further, the player recently pointed out that it was the way in which the coach and the franchise managed his relationship with Kevin Durant that ended the forward out of Golden State, and apparently his collisions in training sessions are relatively frequent. . However, far from being due to their having opposite ways of understanding basketball, this could happen due to how similar they are in some respects.
“We both have the ability to explode and lose our minds for a second,” said Kerr in a statement to Tim Kawakami on the podcast. The TK Show. “We are more alike than people think. I think we both have that competitive flame inside of us and it’s what drives us. It has brought me here since I was a child, and with Draymond it has been the same. That competitiveness has always been with us ”.
“It is part of how we are at the individual and organizational level. Every time I think about it, I give thanks for going to war on the same side as Draymond Green. “
The truth is that, at least externally, it is above all the power forward who most represents these characteristics described by Kerr. Green is the emotional leader of his team on the court, while the coach, from the bench and the board, seems to represent the most rational part of the team. However, it is enough to see Draymond play to understand that he is also someone very cerebral, while Steve is not exactly a cold coach on a passionate level. As Kerr points out, the two may have more similarities than meets the eye, and it’s perhaps why their union has brought so much out of both of them.
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