Jerry West talked about how Steve Kerr's offensive system was created out of playing for Gregg Popovich and Phil Jackson compared to how Mark Jackson had success as a player.

"Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were," said West. "Mark was a real pick-and-roll guy and very, very good at it. Steve played for two championship coaches, and I think the coach obviously he has replicated is [Gregg] Popovich. He liked his style of play, even if he had great success in Chicago. Moving the ball, moving your body, all the little things you do to get defenses to make mistakes and to try to be able to counter. I think that's been his philosophy offensively."

Turning the Golden State Warriors offense into one of movement was important to the front office.

"I would say that one thing that was going to be difficult for us was teams were really going to gang up on Steph [Curry] and Klay. Steve was a great hire by our owners with his emphasis on getting more people involved."

Strauss asked West if Kerr's playing days as a role player helped inform his system.

"Steve is very bright. I don't think it has anything to do with being a role player. He would have figured it out regardless. He knew what he wanted to do when he got here. And a big emphasis with our internal people, [general manager] Bob [Myers], [majority owner] Joe [Lacob], who essentially hired him. He wanted more ball movement, wanted more people involved, wants more people touching the ball. And I think that's what we saw."