Steve Kerr is revered as one of the league’s best coaches not just because of his ability to manage the egos of four Western Conference All-Stars, but because of the elite X’s and O’s of his play-calling.
Steve Kerr jokingly used his time as All-Star coach to steal plays from other teams
We know what you did, coach. We know what you did.
But on Sunday in the second half of the NBA All-Star Game, the Warriors’ coach showed his hand — “secret scouting reporting.”
Kerr asked James Harden about the plays the Rockets run in Houston.
“What’s that play you guys run where you set that high screen?” he asked.
He asked the same of Anthony Davis, fishing for the play Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry likes to run for his All-Star big man in New Orleans. But when Kerr got to Russell Westbrook, he let the NBA’s triple-double leader do some coaching of his own.
“I need a shooter right here,” Westbrook said to Kerr, who obliged by putting Klay Thompson in the corner and putting “DeMarcus in the cousins.”
If Kerr proved one thing on Sunday, it’s that coaching is a two-way street. And maybe it’s that “secret scouting reporting” that’s got his Warriors squad as the league’s last-standing team in the single-digit loss column.
