It’s onerous to inform if the Warriors as a group or Steph Curry as a person is in a darker place proper now.
Golden State suffered one other preventable loss at dwelling to a group lacking it’s star participant after taking place 114-98 to the Miami with out Jimmy Butler.
Curry might be seen on the printed hitting a chair in frustration in the course of the a timeout within the second quarter after the Warmth took a 42-29 lead.
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After the sport, he was requested how he suppose the group can repair its struggling offense – one which has failed to attain 100 factors within the final 4 losses.
“I actually don’t know,” Curry mentioned. “We’ll attempt to determine it out. However I don’t have reply proper now.”
The sport had the identical tone because the one earlier than, for the reason that Dubs copped a 129-99 loss to the Kings with out De’Aaron Fox.
The frustration from Steph is totally palpable.
“Yeah, I imply, back-to-back no reveals just about,” Curry mentioned. “The onerous half is these are winnable video games towards groups that, for no matter purpose, are across the identical [spot in the] standings. …We now have nothing to indicate for it, nothing actually to latch onto like ‘Oh, we’re doing this nice if we will solely…’
“Looks as if each side of the ball are struggling. They’re most likely related, for those who make photographs often your confidence goes up, your perception you can win the sport goes up. It helps you play protection. When you lose that spirit it’s obvious how unhealthy we may be at instances.”
Head coach Steve Kerr says he can see how a lot the Warriors’ woes are affecting its star participant.
“I can see it,” Kerr mentioned. “I can see it with Steph. He’s continued to be good evening after evening however at his core, he’s a winner, he’s a champion, he needs to compete on the highest stage. We simply noticed it just a few months in the past in Paris. The most effective of one of the best. He takes over the fourth quarter when all the things’s on the road. That’s who he’s, that’s what he lives for. So he’s actually fighting the emotion of [the team] not being aggressive proper now. He most likely hasn’t needed to cope with this since his, I don’t know, his first couple years within the league. He’s undoubtedly fighting it.”
The Warriors have now moved right down to tenth seed within the West with 18-18 and .500 document after dropping 15 of their final 21 video games. Yikes.
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