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Steve Kerr's Honest Statement on Warriors After Losing Klay Thompson

The Golden State Warriors will look different this season.

Joey Linn

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and guard Klay Thompson (11) against the Denver Nuggets at Chase Center.
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and guard Klay Thompson (11) against the Denver Nuggets at Chase Center. / John Hefti-Imagn Images
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The modern NBA places a major emphasis on three-point volume. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and the Golden State Warriors are a huge reason for that.

Curry is the greatest shooter in basketball history, and Thompson has a case for being second. The NBA’s all-time leader in three-pointers, Curry has led the league in that category eight different times. This includes the league-leading 357 threes Curry made last season.

Thompson’s 301 threes in the 2022-23 season led the NBA, but he is now with the Dallas Mavericks. Despite this, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr believes his team has a deeper personnel of shooters than they did last season.

“What I like about this team is that, even though we lost Klay, we have more shooting depth,” Kerr said via Anthony Slater of The Athletic.

The Warriors were able to add both De’Anthony Melton and Buddy Hield this offseason. Melton is a career 36.9 percent three-point shooter (4.1 3PA/G) while Hield is one of the league’s elite snipers with a career 40.0 percent clip from deep (7.7 3PA/G).

This is why Kerr believes the Warriors have more shooting depth even after losing one of the greatest three-point shooters in NBA history.

Partly responsible for the NBA’s shift towards higher three-point volume, the Warriors are looking to lean into that even further this season.

“The math just doesn’t add up (if you don’t take a bunch),” Kerr said per Slater. “Especially for us. We’re not a team that gets to the free-throw line much. It’d be hard for us to win a lot of games unless we shoot a high volume of 3s.”

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Title: Credentialed writer covering the NBA for Sports Illustrated's FanNation Email: joeylinn52@gmail.com Education: Communication Studies degree from Biola University Location: Los Angeles, California Expertise: NBA analysis and reporting Experience: Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA for Sports Illustrated's FanNation. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined Sports Illustrated's FanNation to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams during his time in school. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts, combined with his excellence in the classroom, earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time across multiple platforms, primarily serving as a credentialed Clippers beat writer.

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