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SAN FRANCISCO – A disturbing and potentially season-ruining trend continues to thwart their efforts as the Warriors rack up losses they don’t deserve to be defending champions. And it was again on Sunday.

They lose the identity they started building in 2014 and ran all the way to winning their first NBA Finals in 40 years.

The Warriors use their player movement to its best, circling Stephen Curry as a catalyst and overwhelming opposing defenses with sharp passes. Their ideal possession is 6 or 7 passes and 3 uncontested balls.
In a 120-116 loss to the Brooklyn Nets and in front of a bewildered and disheartened crowd at the Chase Center, the Warriors stayed true to their identity in the first half but abandoned it entirely in the second.

“It’s not about having the moment in terms of execution,” Curry said. “It’s a vague term, but it means not missing a switch, not neglecting communication, missing a box-out, and fouling instead of letting a tough jumper take away.

“Aggressive, stagnant, little ‘hero ball’. We could put it on a bit of a list, but it all seems to happen at the wrong time. “

Golden State in the first half: 18 assists, 3 individual turnovers. With four players recording at least three turnovers for him and no one attempting more than eight of his shots, the Warriors locked in his room and he took a 72–60 lead.

Golden State in the second half: 10 assists, 7 individual turnovers. Donte DiVincenzo and Draymond Green had nine dimes and Curry had one more. was.

Too many possessions consisted of 1 or 0 passes and individuals were put in a ‘bag’ in turn.

What coach Steve Kerr despises is the low IQ and radical offensive approach.

“We played pretty good all-inclusive in the first half, and they brought it to us at the top of the third quarter,” Kerr said. “We flipped it over a few times. After taking some bad shots, it suddenly became game.”

It was as if the Warriors decided to abandon the offense that fed them before halftime.

The 17-point lead they built up in the first half was shattered, largely due to a scattered offense (44 points) and an off-script defense, with Brooklyn shooting from deep 58.3 percent.

“We weren’t executing as well as we could,” Kevon Looney said. stagnant.”

Please do not make any mistakes. There were some bad shots, including Splash Brothers Curry and Thompson guilty. Golden State scored 44 points after halftime.

“It gives the team the ability to win possession here, possession there,” Curry said. “It’s the NBA and we were on the wrong side of beating ourselves in certain parts of the game and giving life to other teams. That’s what happened.”

That brings the Warriors’ double-digit lead to seven games this season. What makes this particularly poignant is that they were in relatively good health, with a shock win in Cleveland on Friday that brought a positive vibe to the franchise as a whole.

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If this feels familiar, it’s because of the way encouraging victories dissipate, often under maddening losses, against struggling or physically compromised opponents. The Warriors (23-24) haven’t been below .500 in more than four games, but they haven’t been above .500 in more than two games.

“You can’t just focus on one thing,” Rooney said. “We have a habit of playing 42 or 40 minutes well, getting lost, losing focus, just stretching a little bit at a time. And , it’s definitely hard to do that in a league like this, to win that way.”

It was visible on Sunday, neither the first nor the sixth time. If the Warriors won’t extend his season until his June for the second year in a row, it’s no mystery why.

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