Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics
Team totals: Warriors 104.3, Celtics 107.8
Projected injury report: Robert Williams (Q, knee), Andre Iguodala (Q, knee), Gary Payton II (Q, elbow), Otto Porter Jr. (Q, foot)
Celtics projected starters: Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Al Horford, Robert Williams
Warriors projected starters: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green, Kevon Looney
Udoka quotes: Said they’re looking at lineup combos and they could make some adjustments, said Robert Williams was more scared than anything with the contact to his knee, said they had crisp and sharp ball movement in Game 1 and that went away, said they’re 13-2 when they have 0-14 turnovers and 0-5 when they have more, said giving up so many points off turnovers was disappointing, said they have to do a better job attacking closeouts.
Kerr quotes: Said their strategy is having talent and playing competitively, said Klay is “pressing a little bit” but he has responded to slumps, said getting “good rhythm shots early” will be key, said the biggest thing with Jordan Poole is his confidence and he’s never afraid after a bad game, said Otto is “always in the right place” and he understands ball movement on both ends, said everyone was engaged on defense (not just Draymond), said Steph doesn’t get enough credit for his defense, said Gary Payton II has been doing conditioning for “several weeks” but he had some concerns on him extending his arm, said GP2’s defense and physicality gave them a huge boost, said everyone was out there to help force turnovers.
Draymond quotes from his pod: Said it was amazing that Gary Payton II was out there and he made an immediate impact on the game, said GP2 didn’t look like a guy who missed over a month and it’s harder to do that in the postseason, said he expects to see GP2 making a consistent impact, said Poole shook off some of his bad Game 1, said the Celtics “felt” the Warriors early and it affected them, said it was important to limit the role players.
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