The Warriors have dropped yet another road game, this time to a Denver Nuggets team missing NBA MVP candidate Nikola Jokić.
Despite facing a depleted Denver squad, Golden State saw its double-digit lead disappear in the 112-110 loss, a loss which Warriors coach Steve Kerr was very critical of.
"In the second quarter, we had total control of the game and we stopped playing and we just lost our focus at both ends," Kerr told reporters after the game. "Gave up a ton of offensive rebounds, missed box outs.
"Offensively, had several mindless possessions in a row, throwing the ball away, a bunch of shot turnovers, just bad shots."
Speaking of that second quarter, the Warriors had a 15-point lead, 46-31, with 9:17 remaining. The Nuggets then outscored them 27-15 to end the half to cut Golden State's lead to three, 61-58.
Denver took that momentum in the second half and parlayed that into an 11-point advantage, 107-96, with 5:17 left in the fourth quarter. Golden State then went on a 14-5 run to close the game, with Klay Thompson missing two game-winning attempts from 3-point land.
Warriors star Steph Curry tried to analyze exactly what went wrong for Golden State while speaking to reporters after the loss.
"We understood that without Jokić out there, we're going to try and guard -- kind of picked on them really with ball and body movement," Curry recalled. "We were getting wide-open layups off of cuts, we were getting good looks, we missed some shot we probably still could've made and could've been a bigger lead."
Curry notes that turnovers, missed shots, allowing offensive rebounds and committing unnecessary fouls doomed the Warriors during that important period.
"It's like clockwork -- they took advantage of those mistakes and then it's just a ballgame of 'shot here, shot there' and on the road, you never want to be in that kind of situation if you can control it," the 35-year-old said.
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Still, Curry still has faith that Golden State can figure out its road woes with only three games remaining in the 2022-23 NBA season.
Although the Warriors' disastrous end to the second quarter and mediocre play in the third and partway through the fourth quarter certainly is something to be concerned with, Kerr said he was proud of the way his team fought back.
"I love the way our guys finished the game, we gave ourselves a chance," Kerr said. "Steph made a great pass to Klay, he back rims a 3 with a chance to win. So the guys really fought those last four minutes but from mid-second quarter until those last four minutes, we were mindless out there.
"We weren't tough enough, not disciplined enough and ultimately didn't deserve to win the game."
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And if Golden State isn't able to cut down its mindless mistakes in the next three games, the title defense in the playoffs could be a very short one.