CLEVELAND — On Friday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena, the Warriors went through what might be their final shootaround of the season.
It was a subdued, tranquil mood on the court. However, as Draymond Green keeps saying, this team remains as locked in as he’s ever seen them.
Questions to Steve Kerr revolved mostly around Game 4. The Warriors are looking to become the first-ever NBA team to post a perfect 16-0 record in the postseason.
Kerr was asked what he made of all the former NBA greats denouncing the Warriors’ success. He gave one his most sarcastic — and best — answers of the entire season.
“They’re all right,” Kerr said. “They would kill us all. The game gets worse as time goes on. Players are less talented than they used to be. The guys in the 50s would’ve destroyed everybody. It’s weird how human evolution goes in reverse in sports. Players get weaker, smaller, less skilled. I don’t know. I can’t explain.”
Kerr is not new to the trolling business. Earlier in the year he lightly roasted Dennis Rodman, who blasted the Warriors for resting players now and then during the regular season.
“I saw Dennis was complaining about resting players,” a chuckling Kerr said back in April. “I got a good kick out of that, because Dennis was suspended 15 games a year anyway. He got plenty of rest … or went to Vegas or WrestleMania. He just took a night off whenever he wanted, so he can’t complain.”
Perhaps Kerr’s other favorite target is Charles Barkley. The TNT broadcaster has lambasted the Warriors for playing girly basketball, and he routinely picks against them — he chose the Cavaliers in six games for this NBA Finals.
“It’s getting to the point that I feel like if our whole team walked in front of Charles’ house, he’d yell, ‘Get off my lawn!’” Kerr said last December. “That’s how I feel about it.”
Never change, Steve. Never change.
