Willie Cauley-Stein explains how Warriors' environment helps him thrive

[NBC Sports BayArea]

Year 2 is a player option, and Cauley-Stein sounds like a man eager to exercise it. It's not the big contract he had hoped for, but Cauley-Stein believes he is in the right place to raise his value should he go back on the open market. Coach Steve Kerr raves about Cauley-Stein's willingness to be coached, and sometimes that comes with criticism.

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[ESP47]

"Most of the time when I get a block, it will go right back into their hands and they'll lay it up," he said. "If I get a block, it goes right back into their hands and they dunk it. I got a block. I got a stat, I guess, but they got a bucket.
"But with steals, it normally translates into a 3 or a dunk. I be trying to scheme on them steals."

Still doesn't get it. Never has and never will.

 

[VF21]

"Most of the time when I get a block, it will go right back into their hands and they'll lay it up," he said. "If I get a block, it goes right back into their hands and they dunk it. I got a block. I got a stat, I guess, but they got a bucket.
"But with steals, it normally translates into a 3 or a dunk. I be trying to scheme on them steals."

Still doesn't get it. Never has and never will.

UK must be so proud.