The NBA trade deadline is next week, and it's coming with the Warriors having just pulled off perhaps their best win of the season over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
With that in mind, Steve Kerr joined Willard and Dibs to discuss where the Warriors are after the win, and with the deadline looming.
The question at hand is whether the Warriors are talented enough. Here's what Kerr said:
"Well, we know talent wins in this league," Kerr said. "It doesn't mean you're guaranteed to win if you have talent, but if you don't have enough talent, you can't go anywhere. That's just the reality. So the question we have to ask ourselves, and Mike and the front office have to ask themselves is, do we have enough talent?
"And that's a tricky question to ask, because on some nights, like last night, you go, 'Hell yeah we do. That looked great.' But then other nights, it's clear Steph could use a little help scoring wise, or we could use this or use that, and then, of course, you sit there and you look at all the options, and you have to determine, does this really help us? And that's what this this time is all about. Mike is gathering all the information, all the possible trades he can make, and then going from there."
Kerr simultaneously admitted that it would be very difficult for the Warriors to move on from some of their key, veteran rotation pieces like Kevon Looney and Gary Payton II.
"We've had more trouble scoring at times than we've had in the past, and it's made the decision-making a little trickier," Kerr said. "But it's hard for me to watch Gary Payton last night, watch Looney and see their impact and ever really change my my view that defense wins games.
"I mean, yes you got to score. But man, those guys, I've been watching them for years. You think about the '22 playoffs, Loon against Memphis and that whole series, and Gary against Boston, soon as he got back, we won four out of five games. These guys are big-time winners, and I love coaching them, and I just believe in them, and I know organizationally, we do, and so that's where you see a game like last night, you just go, hey man, these guys, we need these guys. And they are big, big impacts on winning. There's no question."
LIsten to Steve Kerr's full interview above.