The Warriors suffered a 128-120 loss to the Nets on Monday evening, the crew’s second loss in a row and head coach Steve Kerr has addressed Steph Curry’s minutes.
Curry had a team-high 28 factors in 29 minutes, however the crew fell to items when he wasn’t on the ground and allowed an 18-point comeback.
Like each recreation, Steph went to the bench with 4:33 remaining within the third and the Dubs had been up by 9 factors.
As soon as he checked again with 7:29 minutes to go within the fourth, the Nets had gone on a 25-11 run – a deficit even Steph couldn’t overcome.
After the considerably preventable loss, Kerr was queried about Curry’s minutes since he’s averaging lower than half-hour per recreation this yr.
“We often pencil him in for 32 [minutes], and we wish to preserve it round that quantity,” Kerr informed reporters.“We had been in a position to give him a very good relaxation within the first half as a result of the second unit was taking part in very well.
“I don’t like to run him the entire fourth quarter and I wish to have him shut with some power, and so meaning if we can provide him that final eight minutes – typically, I really feel fairly good about that. However at that time, Brooklyn was rolling, and we couldn’t gradual them down.”
Kerr’s feedback are pretty fascinating, contemplating how tough it has been for Golden State to shut out opponents within the second half.
But it surely doesn’t seem to be the storied head coach has any plans to vary his present technique with regards to Steph’s taking part in time.
The Warriors are sitting on a 12-5 file and are second seed within the West, regardless of the back-to-back losses.
Their subsequent recreation can be an enormous take a look at in opposition to primary seed OKC, who defeated the Dubs earlier this month.
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