Warriors’ gradual begin looks like ‘championship hangover,’ Steve Kerr admits

Steve Kerr had no challenge saying what many had been eager about the Warriors’ gradual begin to the 2022-23 NBA season. 

Golden State’s 130-129 loss to the Orlando Magic on Thursday night time at Amway Heart was its fourth straight loss and dropped the Warriors to an unpleasant 3-6 report. 

In chatting with reporters after the sport, Kerr admitted that the group’s gradual begin to the season is beginning to have an ominous feeling and that no person will save them aside from themselves.

“It looks like slightly little bit of a championship hangover,” Kerr stated. “I do not suppose even our major guys have performed nice protection. After which there’s some inexperienced younger guys, new guys on the roster, so we’ve not constructed that defensive identification and cohesiveness but and that is gotta come. However I instructed the blokes, now we have to avoid wasting us, as a result of no person else is coming. Each group cannot wait to play us. Orlando was nice tonight, Miami was nice the opposite night time, Charlotte, Detroit. We are the defending champs, we are available in right here they usually cannot wait to play us. And if you happen to’re not defending and also you’re fouling, you are placing your self in a harmful spot.”

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The Warriors are too proficient of a group to complete the season with a dropping report and sure will discover a approach to flip issues round sooner fairly than later. 

Nonetheless, as Kerr talked about, any turnaround must be generated by these in-house, and Golden State’s probabilities of repeating as champions lie solely in their very own fingers. 

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