Think of the situation that head coach Steve Kerr presently sits in. He used to play with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen on the 72-win Chicago Bulls, and now he gets to coach the possible 73-win Golden State Warriors. It’s a heck of a spot to be in, but he’s tired of people asking him to compare the two squads.
After all, can you blame him? It has to get pretty taxing constantly getting asked questions about which of the two teams would beat the other team in a seven game series. No one wants to keep answering the same questions over and over, but you have to love how Steve Kerr is now responding to the questions themselves.
From Rusty Simmons, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle:
“First of all, it’s a really hard question to answer — not just because you’re comparing eras, but also because it’s literally tough for me to answer grammatically. I don’t know who ‘we’ is and who ‘they’ are,” said Kerr, who played for the 72-win Bulls and coaches the record-hunting Warriors. “I’ll just say: ‘If the two teams played each other, there’s no question that we could beat us and they could beat them.’”
Kerr’s now having fun with the questions, but you can tell that he’s over the talk in general. And he has a right to be. The talk has grown tiresome, and the questions are all the same. Scottie Pippen recently said that the Bulls would sweep the Warriors if the two teams had ever met, but Pippen’s obviously biased.
As the Golden State Warriors sit just a few wins shy of 73 wins for the season, the talk is going to heat up even more. Just expect it to. At least the Warriors have the right guy at the helm, and that’s half the battle in this situation.