The Golden State Warriors were again blown out on their home floor against a team without their best player with the Miami Heat beating them 114-98. The Warriors have lost 15 out of their last 21 games and Stephen Curry has become increasingly frustrated visibly.
“I can see it,” Steve Kerr said. “I can see it with Steph. He’s continued to be brilliant night after night but at his core, he’s a winner, he’s a champion, he wants to compete at the highest level. We just saw it a few months ago in Paris. The best of the best. He takes over the fourth quarter when everything’s on the line. That’s who he is, that’s what he lives for. So he is really struggling with the emotion of (the team) not being competitive right now. He probably hasn’t had to deal with this since his, I don’t know, his first couple years in the league. He’s definitely struggling with it.”
Curry finished 11-of-22 shooting, made eight 3s and scored 31 points in 33 minutes. Curry was asked if this is the low point of the season.
“Yeah,” Curry said. “I mean, back-to-back no-shows pretty much. The hard part is these are winnable games against teams that, for whatever reason, are around the same (spot in the) standings. … We have nothing to show for it, nothing really to latch onto like ‘Oh, we’re doing this great if we can only … ‘
“Seems like both sides of the ball are struggling. They’re probably connected, if you make shots usually your confidence goes up; your belief that you can win the game goes up. It helps you play defense. Once you lose that spirit it’s glaring how bad we can be at times.”
