Our offseason has been really good, we’ve had some decent acquisitions and our bench is much better this season in my opinion.

We think we have a really good line up, a really deep squad and we’re working on being a perennially good team in the West.

Offensive changes

We haven’t changed a whole lot under Steve Kerr, his biggest emphasis on offence is moving the ball.

Last season we averaged the least passes per possession in the league so he’s just trying to increase our ball movement before we take those shots and keep the defence honest.

It’s shown in the preseason games so far that when we move the ball and work in the new philosophies, we’ve been able to score around 110 points more than a few times!

The guys are now confident to make that extra pass.

The more times we make that swing, swing, swing pass three times along the perimeter when you’ve got Steph Curry and Klay Thompson out there it puts a lot of pressure on the opposition’s defence.

Quite often David Lee and myself will get an easy dunk from it.

We don’t want just good shots, we want great shots and we’re all buying in.

I feel more involved offensively this season also.

They want me to create up top and sometimes when we’ve been a little stagnant offensively, they like to move the ball through myself or David and I enjoy being a passer, I don’t need to try and score or shoot all the time, I’m happy to facilitate.

Defensives fixes

Defensively, we haven’t changed too much.

We were a very good defensive team last season and I think if we work well offensively and don’t turn the ball over it will help us defensively also.

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The biggest thing for us on the defensive side is to have better close outs as a team.

It’s so important to get better at this so that we don’t get blown by or give up an open three.

It’s something that we’ve been stressing in the preseason and in training camp, just working out the correct technique of simple close outs.

Learning under Steve Kerr

As a team, we've been really impressed with how everyone has progressed in a short space of time under Steve.

We've learned a lot from him but I had to remind him the other night against Houston that he's losing some money receiving all those technical fouls.

Other than that, he’s a cool, calm and collected guy.

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We have a very well-balanced coaching staff.

Alvin Gentry has helped us a lot, Luke Walton and Jarron Collins who have played in the league have also added a lot so I don’t think Steve is ever going to be that coach that needs to bark out orders.

He knows the game very well.

Feeling good

I've said in my column the last few weeks that I'm starting to move really well and feeling really positive about this season.

Still, I have to be rested at times during the preseason and the coaching staff has made those decisions so that we don't burn out at this time of year.

This week, you’ll see us ramp it up with our starters against the Clippers and in our last game on Friday (US time) against the Nuggets to get us into a rhythm for the start of the regular season.

I've also been trying out something new with my free throw shooting.

Shooting left-handed from the free throw line is something I’ve tried in the preseason (I'm sure you've all noticed by now).

I haven’t completely decided if it’s going to be something I’ll continue to do, it’s just something I’ve had a crack with before the season starts.

My stroke hasn’t been as consistent as Id' like, so it’s something I’ll weigh up before the season starts.

I feel the release on the left side is much straighter than the right elbow, so it’s a matter of getting the depth right and the direction right.

With my right side I feel the direction is alright but then my elbow gets a little bit grumpy and it can fall away a little bit and go left and right.

I’ll keep working at it and see what happens; I'm still 50/50 on which way I'll go.

Helping out the younger guys

Earlier on, I mentioned how excited I am about our squad and the added bench depth we have.

So far this preseason, it's been really nice to see a young guy like Ognjen Kuzmic continue to develop.

As a young centre just entering his second season, I feel it's my duty on the team to take up a development role with him.

I don’t think he realises just how big he is, he’s a massive body and I think he doesn’t quite feel that when he’s on the court sometimes.

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So I keep telling him that he is big and he needs to continue being a presence out there.

He’s improved so much from last year, he’s been playing some big preseason minutes and he has a great touch around the basket.

He is still learning his way through the feel of the game and most importantly, he’s always keen to ask questions and learn.

We see him in the gym before we even get in there sometimes, doing the hard yards and learning how to be an NBA pro.

He started basketball very late, around 17 or 18 which means he’s only being playing the sport for four or five years.

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He’s not that confident with his English yet, he’s only been here around 18 months but I think he’s feeling more comfortable hearing me say some things in Croatian out there to him.

A lot of times at practice he’ll need to ask me what coach has told him and I like to be able to help him out with that stuff.

Experimenting

We’ve experimented a few things so far in the preseason.

Without Shaun Livingston being available in our second unit, we have trialled Andre Iguodala as the sixth man.

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He's played really well in that role because he's so versatile but you'll see him return to his starting spot.

I think heading into the season our starting line up will remain the same but regardless of that, Iggy is a pro and he’ll play whatever role the team needs him to play but I can’t see things changing too much.

Shaun is a pass first guy with a high basketball IQ and we’re looking forward to having him play for us.