Second technical?

Yeah, at halftime.

Uh, Ben Taylor came out and told me that it was a mistake that he didn't realize that that John Butler didn't realize that Draymond was yelling at his teammate.

He thought he was yelling at him.

I understand people make mistakes.

I'm sure you'd say the same.

How did it impact the rest of the game that Draymond couldn't play in the second half?

Well, I mean, obviously, Draymond is, you know, one of our best and most impactful players, so it hurt us, but we were playing very poorly to that point anyway.

So, um, I'm not gonna talk about the officiating.

I'm gonna talk about our our poor play.

Um, we we just foul constantly.

Um, you can't win.

We're dead.

Last in the league in fouls, I think.

And free throw attempts allowed.

Um, and you can't win games when you just foul foul foul.

You're you're constantly having toe bring the ball up out of the net after the team shooting free throws.

You can't build any rhythm at all.

We had four fouls in the 1st 55 seconds of the fourth quarter.

Uh, so we are who we are, and I obviously have to do a better job, were undisciplined, and we've got to find a way to defend without fouling.

Obviously, what is the main issue?

Would you say that?

Because, like you said, you're trying to build this defensive, you know, Habitat, but over fouling, What's the problem?

Mindless, reaching, mindless, Um, decision making, Um, defensively.

I mean, you know, we've got a very long and athletic, uh, team, and we've got an opportunity to be very good defensively.

I've been touting our defense, especially since Draymond came back.

But play after play, you got guards getting into the paint and, you know, instead of having to shoot a floater over James Wiseman or Draymond Green were just hacking guys from behind right across the wrist, as if we're gonna get a steal or something.

So we're just totally undisciplined defensively.

Generally, we play hard and I love our guys effort.

But, you know, I told them the other day that it's hard to win in this league night after night, on talent and emotion.

You can't count on that.

There's gonna be nights where you go nine for 38 from the three point line.

Andi, there's gonna be nights when you're tired and you're on the second night of a back to back and you don't have the same juice.

And so the way to win those games is by executed, taking good shots, having good defensive balance, defending without fouling, rebounding, being solid.

So we're not that team yet, so I'm hopeful that we can get there.

But right now we are a ZAY said, dead last in the league, and free throws allowed, um, fouls, uh, rebounds.

So we're not a solid team where we can be a good team, but we have a long way to go.

Hi, Steve Carlos Ramirez.

Carlos Ramirez, NBC Bay Area until the window.

How can you get a rhythm on a game that has 58 fouls called You can't you can't.

And when you're in the game, do you see?

I mean, I'm looking for a parallel when you're in a baseball game, you see that the ref might have in the environment have a different strike zone.

Do Do you see arrests having different thousands or ways of calling the game and you tell that to our players like Okay, let's have a different approach.

Just go out and play in baseball.

If the, um calls a strike, it's a strike.

If he calls the ball, it's a ball.

Nobody is reaching.

The catcher is not reaching and raking the pit.

The batter across the arms.

We're raking people across the arms were grabbing people by the waste coming off screens.

We're fouling.

It has nothing to do with the refs.

Uh, it has to do with us.

So we practice defensive fundamentals every day on it, z obviously not enough.

So I've got to think of some way to get across to these guys.

Uh, you know how we're gonna defend.

And maybe it just means if a guy reaches, he comes out, you know, and forget the defense or the rotation.

You know, just take a few games where if you reach, you come out and we just have a a bunch of guys filing in and out of the game.

And if they reach, they come out and then another guy goes in and ex guy comes out when he reaches, and that's the only thing I can think of because we practice defense without fouling every day.

It's not happening, so we've gotta somehow find a way.

Steve Commander Andrews, NBC Sports Bay Area You were just talking about different tactics to try and improve some of those things.

And earlier on in the season, you said you would have to adjust your coaching for this kind of team, a team that's trying to work their way back up in the league.

How are those adjustments going for you?

Do you think that you need to make more adjustments?

Adjustments moving forward?

Yes, the main adjustment I need to make is to get across to the team that we can't defend without fouling or we're not going to be good, so I have to figure out what that adjustment is.

Hi, Steve.

When Draymond Green and Steph Curry aren't in the game, who do you look to be the catalyst of your team?

Well, the reason I put Nico Manion in the game in the third quarter, I was looking for a spark, and he's an excellent passer.

And with Raymond out, uh, obviously Steph is, uh, going to draw a lot of attention, and I wanted to put another ball handler, um, into the game.

Thio get stuff off the ball, but you know, Stefan Draymond or our leaders.

And if one of them's out, if both both of us out, it's up to the entire team toe.

Pick up the slack and and help us execute.

But we did not execute.

We didn't turn the ball over a ton, UH, 10 turnovers total, which is a really good number.

But our shot selection they must have blocked.

I felt like they blocked about 20 shots.

We just kept barreling into the lane trying to shoot over, uh, Robinson and and Noel.

And, you know, our sense of driving kicking was nowhere near where it needed to be.

Steve, is it?

Is it surprising to you that, you know, after after last night was a game where you described it as your best complete game on both ends?

Is it frustrating?

Is it surprising to you that it goes this way 24 hours later is frustrating.

It's not surprising we haven't proven anything, so we're not a good team.

Were eight and seven were a mediocre team with the potential to be a good team and so good teams learn how to win, uh, with execution and defense and rebounding.

And you know, on nights when the ball is not going in the hoop, you find another way to win.

So we're not that team yet, So that's the plan is to become that team.

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