Earlier today, the Warriors sat in their home Chase Center to meet the challenge with the Spurs, due to the last game with the Celtics suffered a foot ligament damage, Curry will also be sure to miss all the next regular season games of the team, so this game, the Warriors can only rely on Wiggins, Klay and Poole to fill Curry's holes in the offensive end, it is true that these three people combined to cut 68 points (Klay 24 points, Wiggins 16 points, Poole 28 points), but with spurs player Kelden Johnson's layup score, The Warriors were also brutally killed by their opponents, and swallowed the defeat 108-110.
It is true that the Spurs currently only rank 11th in the West, and after cleaning up veterans including Guy, Mills and DeRozan in the offseason last year, they have become an uncompetitive rebuilding team this season, but under Popovich's leadership, this blood-changing Holy City youth army still maintains the tenacity and bloodiness of the unyielding. But even so, this can not be an objective reason for the Warriors to lose, to know that this season the Warriors in the splash brothers + Green again combined, is to put the championship in the primary goal, the result is facing such a 11th re-established team in the West are not competitive, I have to say that Curry's absence, for this Warriors is really too deadly.
According to relevant statistics, Curry has missed a total of 7 games this season, during which the team lost 5 of them, in addition to today's Spurs, but also in the Nuggets, Timberwolves, Raptors, and even pelicans such as weak teams. Without such a tactical core, Cole is indeed a bit stretched in many tactical deployments. Before this game against the Spurs, the Warriors had only had a record of 18 wins and 57 losses in the past three seasons without Curry, but in the games he played, the team had 83 wins and 49 losses. It can be seen that without Curry, the Warriors are completely two completely different teams.
After losing this game today, the Warriors have suffered a wave of two consecutive losses in the recent past, and currently continue to rank third in the West with a record of 47 wins and 24 losses, while the Grizzlies, who are in second place in front of them, have won 122-98 against the Rockets in the absence of Morant today.
The Warriors still have 11 games to play, the opponents are not lacking in heat, Grizzlies, Suns, Jazz and other strong teams, and the soft persimmons that can be pinched are probably only the Kings and Magic, which are not competitive, but according to the current situation that the Warriors lack Curry is not competitive, the team is not impossible to "upset" and lose these games that should be won.
At present, the fourth jazz and warriors in the West are only 2 wins away, the latter has recently achieved a wave of 3 consecutive wins, the momentum is strong, which is undoubtedly a great threat to the Warriors, if the Warriors in the future game, still as weak as today, can not play the due competitiveness, it is likely to give up their third position in the West. From the initial top of the league list, to now falling to the third place in the West, and even may continue to slide to the fourth place in the West, it has to be sighed that the Warriors want to return to the top, really have a long way to go.