On A Scale Of 1 To 10, Steve Kerr Gives Complexity Of Warriors System A 6.3

WARRIORS PRACTICE FACILITY, OAKLAND, CA — Earlier last month, BBallBreakdown posted an in-depth video of the offensive system that head coach Steve Kerr has installed with the Golden State Warriors, utilizing game film from Summer League.

Kerr will be installing elements of the Triangle as well as “motion” action borrowed from the San Antonio Spurs.

Coach Nick, the basketball scout who produced the video, even suggests that, assuming the Warriors’ talented roster buys in to the system, the Warriors are bonafide contenders for the NBA championship this season.

The Triangle is notoriously difficult to learn because of the patience needed in executing it and certain elements which are counter-intuitive in comparison to some of the more popular basketball sets that are taught to developing basketball players, ranging from youth to even the Division-1 college level.

At the Warriors first practice today, LetsGoWarriors asked coach Kerr, who had prepared for his initial interview how he would rate the complexity of Golden State’s system, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most complex.

“6.3,” was the meticulous Kerr’s rather precise response, although he prefaced that with a laugh.

The Warriors have only begun their training camp with basic in-transition drills and won’t be getting into the offensive sets until later this week, center Andrew Bogut told us.

“(For now), it’s very, very simple. It’s push the ball and run,” Bogut said, “They’re huge on the first three steps. When we secure the ball, we’re trying to run those first three steps as quickly as we can and try to get an easy basket.”

But even in the offensive sets, the expectation is that the flow into the Triangle-like system will come quicker, as Kerr has already reported in Summer League.

As far as the rest of the system, Kerr will introduce things incrementally.

“You introduce a concept, you run through it 5-on-0, and you add defenders, and you introduce another concept or a set the next day,” Kerr told LetsGoWarriors, “You figure out what works, what doesn’t, and that part’s going to take some time for us to kind of condense all of our thoughts and ideas into what our style’s gonna be. It doesn’t just happen, but we’ll do it as a process and we’ll see how it goes.”

Even for those of you who are not X’s and O’s types, the introduction (and closing remarks) by Coach Nick in his video are worth checking out, for example:

(Kerr) may be on to something big. First off, he’s starting the Triangle by dribbling the ball from the guard to the forward instead of waiting for the guard to pass to the forward and then run to the corner. And that actually speeds it up a little bit.

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