KD calls Team USA the 'BEST TEAM' he's ever been on + Kerr gives credit to Steph Curry || Latest Update
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Kevin Durant (9 PTS, 3 REB & 1 AST) and head coach Steve Kerr spoke to Brian Windhorst and the media after Team USA's 95-91 win over Nikola Jokic and Team Serbia in the men's basketball semifinals. They also discussed the gold medal match vs. Victor Wembanyama and Team France.
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Kevin Durant (9 PTS, 3 REB & 1 AST) and head coach Steve Kerr spoke to Brian Windhorst and the media after Team USA's 95-91 win over Nikola Jokic and Team Serbia in the men's basketball semifinals. They also discussed the gold medal match vs. Victor Wembanyama and Team France.
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00:00Kevin you've experienced a lot of games in your career
00:03What was that like?
00:05Yeah, that was at the top. That was at the top one best games ever been a part of
00:10for the simple fact that
00:12We dug deep being down 15 that late in the game
00:15I think we were down with 15 with like 11 seconds to go in a third
00:20And a full quarter dominance that we show everyone with 34 to 15
00:2614
00:28And by our defense and getting out and running transition be barely called plays. We just played off of each other. Well, you know
00:35There's a lot of nonverbal
00:37You know actions out there guys just knew each other gonna be on both ends of the floor
00:41It was special especially be a part of Steph Curry
00:44We talked about each game somebody might somebody have to step up it might be a night
00:48And he came and had the best night out of anybody the whole tournament
00:53So incredible to watch him knock down shots to keep us afloat
00:57Brian playing
00:58Extremely hard the whole game. It was incredible man. Joelle was insane tonight. I just love what everybody did
01:05There were five MVPs on the court at the end. All of you wanted it so badly
01:08That's kind of a unique moment in basketball history. Yeah, I think this game is gonna go down
01:13It's one of the most memorable games for anybody you see
01:16Jokers on that end don't he can't do that. Well this team to victory
01:20Then you got you know MVPs on our teams
01:22You also got to get other guys credit to like bogeys and sorry if I'm forgetting number 30s name
01:28But he played a great game for them as well shooting it and their whole team played extremely
01:32Well, it was just high-level basketball that people could enjoy down to the wires great entertainment, but it's also great basketball
01:40You guys were what was the conversation you guys were having with each other in that fourth quarter. We just wanted to get
01:46Single digits by seven minutes. That's all we were talking about
01:49You know get it this five or seven with five minutes to go we looked up we down five with like seven minutes to go
01:56I'm like, all right, we're in a good spot right now. So defensively we turned it up even more
02:00We got stops when we needed to we made them miss
02:03We got a couple of lucky bounces too as well because you know
02:06They got an open three there when they were down to miss but that was just a momentum of the game
02:11I was playing great defense the whole quarter
02:13They get a shot that looks like they're not in the first quarter day to made that so on the fourth quarter
02:18They didn't make that shot because the pressure we put on them throughout that fourth. It was just incredible basketball
02:24I was glad I was just on the court for that
02:31Just because he was
02:33Everybody's trying to find their rhythm within the group. We slept in five at a time some guys playing roles. They haven't played before and
02:41Like like I said, we talked about guys
02:44It could be any guy that had that moment so knock down his first shot, but to get us going that first quarter, man
02:49I think he has 17 that first quarter 17 of our first 20 points guys were looking for his energy was high
02:55He was turning around shooting ball turn around and it was vent
02:59It was it was just a regular stuff game
03:01And I think he was searching for that type of game the whole Olympics and to have it right here
03:05Especially when we needed it. It was special to see it was it was God talking through him tonight
03:14Yeah, that's what it felt like tonight the shots he would make he was making and we just and we fed off of that all
03:20night, Joelle was
03:22Incredible and defensively being aggressive downhill finishing
03:27Brown I think they had triple-double. I mean like you said you guys showcase who they are tonight
03:32I think defensively we got guys that can pressure the ball. We got length we can switch
03:37We can do pretty much everything and we showed that tonight before
03:43It's definitely nice
03:48Those moments that you're getting on this team with these guys that you can play with and against your entire career
03:56Yeah, special group of guys, you know just
04:00Time is winding down. We got one more game and this is kind of bittersweet
04:04you know because we are playing the gold medal game an opportunity to get another goal, but
04:09We're not gonna be together for you know
04:11You know once we finish here and it was just it's just a joy being in locker room these guys on the bus just talking life
04:17With these guys and then hooping on the floor with them
04:19Like just the best team I've ever been a part of and I want us to finish it off with a goal
04:32No, it's impossible to rank Steph's performances because there have been so many of them so many big games
04:40But it's different playing for
04:43USA basketball than it is playing for your NBA team, you know, you're literally playing for your country and so it didn't surprise me
04:51At all that Steph had the game that he did he always comes up big when he's needed the most
04:58But it was a competitive spirit of the whole group that really stood out to me and we needed
05:04Everything because Serbia played I thought the perfect game they were amazing and
05:10We had just enough time to to make the comeback and catch them at the end
05:15but our guys were incredible LeBron and Kevin and
05:19book with his defense down the stretch and Joelle
05:24You know the way he battled Jokic and made those big plays in the fourth quarter
05:29What an incredible effort from our group
05:34You've been worried I'm not worried but you've been concerned about Serbia not just during the Olympics but for months
05:39Maybe even a year when they qualify. This is the kind of game you're worried about
05:43You know that there's gonna be a game like this at some point, you know in the Olympics
05:47you do you're not getting a free pass at this point in 2024 and I
05:53Was very worried about this game based on the fact that they have
05:57Nicola Jokic
05:59And we've beaten them twice
06:02Both times
06:04rather easily and that never bodes well for the third time and
06:09so I told our staff and our team that this was going to be our biggest challenge of the tournament tonight and
06:16And it was they you know of Ramovich. It's four threes in the first half, you know, he's a 22% shooter
06:23They played the perfect game. They they really did and we had to play a perfect fourth quarter to come back
06:32And beat them a fourth quarter
06:33You had five MVPs on the court considering both teams and you guys are playing for for everything your country and everything
06:39That is a pretty big moment. Yeah, great coaching, you know
06:43Who should we put in? How about five MVPs? You know, that'd be a good idea
06:48For okay. Oh, that's true. That's true. We only had four
06:54Yeah, not very good coaching. No
06:57Yeah, you know, it's it's an interesting
07:02You know position to be in when you have so much talent at your disposal
07:06It's it's an incredible luxury and it's also difficult
07:11you know for decision-making but
07:13Those were the guys we went to we really haven't been in this position yet
07:17we're you know, we kind of had to find a lineup down the stretch and
07:24You know the guys they determined the lineup really I mean, you know, they were playing
07:30They were individually and collectively they were playing the best that we had played all night and so we just stayed with them
07:37Can you take us into that conversation going into the fourth quarter with the team?
07:40You know who was leading that convo as you guys are going in
07:44You know, you just did in the heat of the moment
07:46You're just staying poised and just all the guys were were fine
07:51You know, we had made a good run in that third quarter and then to go down 13
07:55To end the quarter was demoralizing and I I thought the guys did a great job of you know
08:02keeping their spirit up and
08:03Knowing that there was enough time to battle back and it was incredible to watch