The Golden State Warriors held a pregame players-only assembly earlier than their 115-113 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas Day. Following a 12-3 begin, the Warriors have misplaced 11 of their previous 14 video games.
“It’s an inflection level on clearly which course our season can go,” Stephen Curry mentioned after scoring his private better of 38 factors for a Christmas sport. “Our final 14 video games, it is simply been powerful looking for any sort of momentum or consistency, and thru that, you simply cannot lose spirit and perception that we’re a adequate workforce to determine it out as a result of this league is ruthless.
“This league modifications from window to window of what you possibly can fall again on, and once you dig your self a gap like that, typically it may be arduous to drag out of. So, we’re proper in that window the place we are able to nonetheless regain some momentum nonetheless many weeks earlier than the [All-Star] break are pivotal or else [we are] in a state of affairs the place we’re chasing down the stretch. And no one needs to be there.”
Curry may sit the Warriors’ subsequent sport as they play on the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday within the first sport of a back-to-back.
“We’re down,” Steve Kerr mentioned of the workforce’s morale throughout this droop. “All people’s dissatisfied. We have misplaced some confidence. You’ll be able to really feel it. We had an important vibe early within the season, and we’re going by it proper now.
“However I like our guys, high-character guys. They care. They care about one another. I imagine in them. I imagine we will get this factor rotated, so that is all a part of the season, a part of life.”
