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During a recent radio interview on 95.7 The Game, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr addressed criticism regarding how the organization has handled the development of its young players in recent seasons, according to NBC Sports Bay Area.

The coach acknowledged that the franchise recognized areas needing improvement and made structural changes to better support player growth.

“I think we’ve really addressed that over the last four or five years,” Kerr said. “We felt like there were some improvements we could make, and we changed some things organizationally. We brought in a couple of people to put them in charge of player development.

“I think we’ve done a pretty good job with that over the last few years. … I think part of the frustration of our fans probably stems from the fact that we have the three lottery picks coming at a time when we were winning a championship.

“And it’s just hard to play 19-year-olds on championship teams. The development that comes is going to be different than it would come on a team that’s in the lottery, where you just put a guy out there for 35 minutes and let him make his mistakes.”

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