Steve Kerr explains why Warriors offense has struggled

The Warriors have had to stomach some brutal losses this season, and the most recent, a 40-point drubbing by the Boston Celtics, is high on the list.

With that as the backdrop, Steve Kerr joined Willard and Dibs Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state of the team.

More than anything, it's glaring that the Warriors have no flow on offense. They've struggled mightily, and their loss to Boston highlighted that. Kerr was asked whether some of those struggles are cause by a lack of effort.

"The effort's fine. It's about confidence," Kerr said. "And we're lacking confidence. And so while it may look like effort, what it really is is just, it's being demoralized at times. And we're a team that does not, as you guys know, we don't get layups or free throws. We don't score easily, we don't get easy points, and so when shots aren't going in, I think our guys have felt a little bit demoralized, and shoulders sag a little bit, and maybe that looks like a lack of effort, but it's not. Our guys are playing hard. They're just in a little bit of a funk. It's more just confidence and belief than anything right now."

Kerr was asked whether it was a "chicken or the egg" situation, with winning breeding confidence or vice versa. He said it's a bit of both.

"It goes hand in hand. You could see early in the season, you know, we were making shots, and I think the first 15 games, we were second in the league in three-point percentage," Kerr said. "As a team we were 39 percent and we knew that wouldn't hold up. I mean, that's a really high percentage to shoot. You're not going to do that the whole season, but you saw the results of shots going in. We played faster. Our defense was sharper. And so I think what's happened over the last few weeks, is shots haven't gone in, and all of a sudden we're not quite as fast paced. We're not quite as sharp defensively. And so it's all it's all tied together,"

Kerr went on to explain why the Warriors need to be better with their offensive flow, and that it's not just a product of making shots.

"I don't want it to depend on making shots," Kerr said. "I want us to be able to generate momentum and flow through the movement, through the ball movement, through the passing and the cutting and and I think we lost some of that last night. We got to get back to that."

Listen to Steve Kerr's entire interview above. He discusses Steph Curry hanging his head at the end of games and the Olympics non-drama with Jayson Tatum.