SALT LAKE CITY – During a timeout in the Warriors’ preseason win over the Detroit Pistons, a meeting of basketball minds took place between assistant coach Bruce Fraser and two of the game’s greatest shooters. While Steph Curry was in a blue sweatsuit sitting out the game, Buddy Hield was lighting up the Pistons, going 4 of 6 from three in 14 minutes, and listening to every word of advice his new teammate was sharing.
“We were talking about feet,” Hield revealed Friday after Warriors shootaround ahead of their game against the Utah Jazz. “He was trying to figure out how I caught the ball and shot it, and what he’s comfortable with, what I’m comfortable with. We were talking about feet and balance.”
Curry and Hield are both elite shooters on the run. They’re weapons that can’t be stopped in transition. Automatic three points without perfect defense, and even that isn’t enough at times…