The Golden State Warriors had a chance to lean into their dynasty DNA and close out the...
“This,” Thompson said Friday after the Warriors’ dreadful Game 6 performance, “is probably the worst loss of the season.No, no time at all. By the time the Warriors iced and showered and ate and straggled out of Chase Center afterto the bouncy and resilient Kings, they had only about 36 hours until they would have to be back on the court at Golden 1 Center for warm-ups.
Friday’s setback was only their second playoff loss ever at Chase; the first was Game 1 of the NBA Finals last year. It was only the fourth time they failed to win a close-out game on their home court. The other times were Game 5 of a first-round playoff series against the Clippers in 2019 and the historic Games 5 and 7 Finals losses to Cleveland in 2016.“Everybody is down right now,” Kerr said. “The game just ended. This is all part of it. We’ve been through everything.
Maybe it was because of the tip time — a strange 5 p.m. start due to ESPN wanting the game in its primary slot across the country — or because of the quick turnaround between Games 5 and 6, but the overall energy was low. The energy in the building was depressed and the Warriors’ miscues never allowed it to build, never got their fans fully involved.
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