The Warriors suffered a 128-120 loss to the Nets on Monday night time, the workforce’s second loss in a row and head coach Steve Kerr has addressed Steph Curry’s minutes.
Curry had a team-high 28 factors in 29 minutes, however the workforce fell to items when he wasn’t on the ground and allowed an 18-point comeback.
Like each recreation, Steph went to the bench with 4:33 remaining within the third and the Dubs have been up by 9 factors.
As soon as he checked again with 7:29 minutes to go within the fourth, the Nets had gone on a 25-11 run – a deficit even Steph couldn’t overcome.
After the considerably preventable loss, Kerr was queried about Curry’s minutes since he’s averaging lower than half-hour per recreation this 12 months.
“We normally pencil him in for 32 [minutes], and we prefer to hold it round that quantity,” Kerr instructed reporters.“We have been capable of give him a superb relaxation within the first half as a result of the second unit was enjoying very well.
“I don’t like to run him the entire fourth quarter and I prefer to have him shut with some power, and so which means if we may give him that final eight minutes – usually, I really feel fairly good about that. However at that time, Brooklyn was rolling, and we couldn’t gradual them down.”
Kerr’s feedback are pretty attention-grabbing, contemplating how troublesome it has been for Golden State to shut out opponents within the second half.
Nevertheless it doesn’t look like the storied head coach has any plans to alter his present technique in relation to Steph’s enjoying time.
The Warriors are sitting on a 12-5 file and are second seed within the West, regardless of the back-to-back losses.
Their subsequent recreation will likely be an enormous take a look at in opposition to primary seed OKC, who defeated the Dubs earlier this month.
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