Sure enough, the Warriors’ practices this week started with film sessions in which Kerr and his assistant coaches interlaced the tape with visual gags and jokes. The workouts were conducted behind closed doors, but thunderous rap beats blasting from speakers inside rattled through the hallway outside the gym, drowning out the normal screech of sneakers on hardwood.

Image Kerr directing the Warriors as coach. Credit... John G. Mabanglo/European Pressphoto Agency

“It’s a thing I’ve thought a lot about over the years: What’s my style going to be?” Kerr said. “I think the guys — you’d have to ask them — but I think they enjoy it, enjoy the variety, the different things we do.”

Still, in some ways, Kerr’s introduction to his players has had to be careful, and not at all boisterous. When Kerr signed his five-year, $25 million contract, he inherited a team that won 51 games last season under Mark Jackson, who was let go despite the support of numerous players.

Grant Hill, who played for the Phoenix Suns when Kerr was the team’s president and general manager, said the situation reminded him of what happened when a new front office regime was brought in after Kerr stepped down in 2010. The team had just lost in six games in the Western Conference finals, but, he said, the message from the new team president, Lon Babby, and the new general manager, Lance Blanks, was nevertheless centered on changing the team’s culture.

“It was a mistake,” said Hill, who is now an analyst with TNT. “We all had pride, and it was implying that what we had before wasn’t good. And what we had before was being two games from the N.B.A. finals.”

In line with Hill’s comments, Kerr said he has tried hard to emphasize to the Warriors how much he respected what they did during their three seasons with Jackson in charge. The team’s talent and play, after all, were among the reasons he decided to join the Warriors and not the Knicks, despite the recruiting effort by Jackson, who became the Knicks’ president this year.

Kerr was enticed as well by the chance to be close to his family, which is largely scattered along the West Coast, and to be part of a franchise that has been more stable than the Knicks.