Steph doesn’t hold back, says ‘losing sucks’ amid Dubs’ struggles originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
The Warriors still have a championship core, but as a whole, the roster has spent the first three months of the 2022-23 NBA season searching for an identity.
The habits built during their NBA Finals run last June are gone and have to be relocated. So far, this year’s team hasn’t been able to stack good games together. They haven’t found any consistency, and through 47 games, they are 23-24, in 10th place in the Western Conference entering Monday’s slate of games.
It looked as though the Warriors had figured something out over the last week, with a win over the Washington Wizards, a hard-fought overtime loss to the Boston Celtics and an impressive short-handed win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
But the Warriors took a step back with a brutal 120-116 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night at Chase Center.
After the game, a frustrated Steph Curry didn’t mince words about the current state of the team.
“Losing sucks, no matter what the reason is,” Curry told reporters. “Losing is a terrible feeling and we hate it. Being 23-24 past the halfway mark of the season, we’ve experienced a lot of it, so we need to bottle it up and do something about it. Feel like no one is letting go of the rope, nobody’s thinking we can’t do it. Again, that’s our challenge to not be in the situation we’re in where every other night, we’re explaining why we couldn’t get the job done.”
On several occasions this season, the Warriors have shown the fight and resolve they exuded during their NBA title runs, but they haven’t been able to sustain it. The latest indication that they have what it takes to defend their championship came Thursday in Boston when they almost beat the Celtics in a Finals rematch.
The next night, without Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, the Warriors managed to beat the Cavs, who didn’t have Donovan Mitchell. Still, it was an impressive two-game stretch that garnered attention.
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Publish date : 2023-01-24 02:51:30
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