San Francisco – Welcome to the Basketball Purgatory, Warriors.
Or should “Welcome” say?
Yes, the Warriors will participate in the NBA game tournament for the third time in five years.
They just have to blame that.
Everything was so avoidable, this additional game or two Warriors will have to play this week.
And regardless of the result of this mini week tournament that leads to the Royal Tournament, everything is so terrible unfavorable for the hopes of the Warriors fading title (can you see a blink?).
This team could not take care of business when the business proved to be the most important.
How does that play good things for playoffs, if the Dubs arrive?
The Warriors lost to the Clippers 124-119 in extra time on Sunday in a final contest of the regular season that was as intense and high as a playoff game.
It was a bad loss for the Warriors, who had an advantage of 111-107 with just under minutes to play on Sunday, but did not talk about a bigger problem. His opponent was a playoff team of the playoffs with two Warriors of the Families Hall, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden, at All-NBA levels. Leonard scored 33 points on Sunday. Harden was for 39 points.
No, you cannot scare on the wrong side of a high -level game like Sunday to even the Warriors (correctly) hated their offensive execution of the late game.
The Warriors’ problem was that the fate of their season lasted until Sunday’s game.
Less than a week ago, we were having reasonable conversations about the Warriors that land a seed of the first four in the playoff group of the West Conference and the host of the game 1 of a series of first round playoffs, such was the rise of the team since it acquired the deadline of Jimmy Butler.
The warriors celebrated and celebrated for their excellence in the middle of a truly “significant” basketball.
They could have a bit high Goths in their own supply.
Because when the games had the greatest meaning, they slipped. The finish line is still in front of them, just after 82 regular seasonal games.
Once again, Sunday’s loss is understandable, perhaps only acceptable, if he narrows his eyes hard enough.
But the defeat at Wednesday’s house against the San Antonio Spurs? That has proven to be unforgivable.
The Warriors lost their last three games at the house of the season, with a bad execution of the games in each.
After Wednesday’s defeat against the Spurs, the Warriors star, Steph Curry, said: “A good team takes care of business by the next two [games] And it goes from there. We have to show that we are a good team. “
So what does that do to Warriors who go to an additional game on Tuesday?
We know where he leaves the warriors: in despair mode.
The Warriors were empty at night in Sunday’s game.
Certainly they were not executing offensive sets. Curry spent the last minutes of the fourth quarter and all the extra time trying to drip through three, four, five clippers as if it were a challenge to recreate his shot of all time from March 2015.
Defense? Credit to Clippers’s shooting game skills, but Los Angeles made four of their five shots in the last three minutes of regulation on Sunday, sending the game in extra time, where they touch total control.
All the time, Curry (37 years old) was being thrown like a shock test doll while breastfeeding a right thumb, Green (35) tok a blow to the head in the first half and was going to go to the head to Touter Forter (35 Foter failed to score from 8:23 in the room until the end of the strange hour of a moment of the left.
And that was just a playoff game: it was just a preview of one.
Tuesday brings another view.
And if this team can find any form that I had a few weeks ago, on Friday, a Victorias or Go-Casa contest will be a consecutive third.
This team could have avoaid all this.
This team could also have used a little rest.
Now, they will receive a marginal amount at best.
Green said the Warriors will be ready for Tuesday’s game: “We are not third -age citizens,” Green said, with great gray patches at the beard, he said. “Train all year for this. There is no lack of respect for older people, by the way, we love our older people … but we are not there yet, so we will be fine.”
Green may not see himself already his team as about the hill, but I will say this:
These game games that Warriors seem to play every year are, surely, aging.
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