Warriors Learn Nothing Comes Easy After ‘Slap in the Face’ to Start NBA Season

October 26th, 2016 by Erik Malinowski Leave a reply »

OAKLAND, Calif. — There will come a time during the 2016-17 NBA season when the Golden State Warriors are racking up wins with regular ease, where the offense is smooth and the defense smothering. At their best, they’ll change the way we think a basketball game plan can be conducted.

But there will be other nights, perhaps more than people expect, when it seems like all the gears, normally so in sync, are slipping just enough to throw the machine off stride. The golden egg the Warriors laid on their home court to the rival San Antonio Spurs Tuesday night proved that.

Golden State lost by the very real score of 129-100. The Warriors were out-rebounded by 20, committed more turnovers than the Spurs and took fewer free throws. They lost second-chance points by a disturbing 26-4 margin and only made 21 percent of their three-pointers.

This was no clear improvement over last season’s squad. This was, as Stephen Curry called it, a “nice little slap in the face.”



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