It’s going to require us to clean up that area for us to advance in the playoffs.
We’ve been at the bottom of the league in turnovers all year. That’s what allowed New Orleans to get back into the game tonight. They won five in a row despite averaging 14.4 turnovers, off which opponents averaged 20 points per game.Īsked what the team will focus on this week, Kerr gave a familiar response. They committed 17 on Sunday, gifting the Pelicans 23 points. If only that were all the Warriors will try to repair this week before taking the floor against Denver on Saturday at Chase Center. It doesn’t matter who is playing, we’ve got to find ways to finish the game and play all 48.” “Everybody is capable of giving you a challenge, night in and night out. “We just got to play until the final whistle,” Jordan Poole told me on NBC Sports Bay Area's Warriors Postgame Live. The Warriors led by 19 with 10 minutes remaining. Report: Dubs expect Dray to opt out, will push to retain him 27, the Mavericks did the same – only worse. Denver wiped out a 10-point deficit in the final seven minutes to defeat the Warriors on Feb. The Pels on the floor for the bulk of the game were mostly marginal NBA players. That's all it takes in this league, even against a team that's resting all their starters. “We made some very poor decisions,” coach Steve Kerr said. Though they recovered and held on, it’s not a comfortable feeling when a bad habit is not broken by Game 82. The Warriors took a 29-point lead three minutes into the third quarter, and then allowed New Orleans to fight back and get within 11. They have a few bad habits – most of which surfaced in the second half of the season – that if retained will be their undoing in the postseason.Įven as they closed the regular season with a five-game win streak punctuated by a 128-107 victory Sunday night over a partial roster of Pelicans in New Orleans, it was evident that Golden State’s coaches and players might need every hour of preparation this week to uncover the best of themselves.įinishing has been an issue all season, and there it was again against a Pelicans team that used the evening as a training session. While discussion rages about the pros and cons of facing the Denver Nuggets in the first round of playoffs, the Warriors must first confront the much more intimate challenge that is mending themselves.
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