When Steve Kerr was hired by the Golden State Warriors as head coach in 2014, he had no idea they would so heavily use a lineup with Draymond Green at center.
"No, because I didn’t know how good Draymond was," said Kerr. "When I took the job, I was anticipating David Lee would start. I had no reason to think otherwise. I knew Draymond was a great competitor. I didn’t know he could guard centers. And that became clear when David was out for the first 20 games or so that he was injured.
"We randomly fell into some switches where Draymond was on a big guy and we kept watching on tape, ‘Man, this guy, he can guard a 7-footer and still hold his own strength-wise and get in there for the rebound.’
"So it just kind of evolved. The first quarter of the season with David’s injury turned into a blessing in disguise, because that all became apparent during that time."
Even though the Warriors' small lineups have Green at center and Harrison Barnes at power forward, there's still collectively a lot of length on the floor in Andre Iguodala, Klay Thompson and sometimes Shaun Livingston.