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Despite a brilliant effort in Game 4 by the Golden State Warriors, head coach Steve Kerr refuses to call his heralded five-man lineup as “The Hampton's Five,” as they have become known since 2016.
“I still am amused that we just matter-of-factly call them the Hamptons Five,” Kerr said of Kevin Durant and the four Warriors who famously showed up to the Hamptons in July 2016 to recruit him during free agency, according to Marc Stein of The New York Times.
“I just feel really strange as a coach to say, ‘The Hamptons Five played really well tonight.’ I can’t say that, but you can.”
Tim Kawakami of The Athletic coined the term as a practical way to refer to the five most influential players on the team, (Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and Durant) who all took the court as starters on Sunday afternoon against the New Orleans Pelicans, logging a season-high 18 minutes as a unit and a blistering plus-26 differential during their time together on the court.
Not only was the difference staggering, but also the collective effort, which Kerr eluded to as the key reason for a rousing 26-point win to put them up 3-1 in the series.
Iguodala, who had gone back to the bench after Curry returned to his usual starting spot, was re-incorporated in Game 4, providing a much-different look for this team.
“We’ve been doing this for a long time and people can say, ‘How do you get bored of winning?’” Iguodala said. “But with everything that comes with it, it can be a mental drain. So sometimes it’s good for us to lose.”
“It was good for us to kind of get punched in the mouth and see how we responded.”
And boy did they respond.
The Warriors will take on the Pelicans once more at home on Tuesday, with the chance to close out the series and move on to the Western Conference Finals for a fourth straight season.
