Steph Curry is trying everything he can to prevent the Warriors from spiraling.
After Saturday’s loss to the Lakers, Golden State has now dropped four in a row and eight of 10.
“If the playoffs started tomorrow, we would be in some trouble,” Curry told reporters.
But he doesn’t want the Warriors to cede to a “losing mentality.”
“We’re not that team and I’m not going to let us be that team,” Curry said. “… We cannot give in to this losing spirit of just finding different ways to lose basketball games.
“We have 18 games left, we have to figure out how to turn things around pretty quick.”
On Saturday, the Warriors were overcome by a 56-point performance from LeBron James. But that doesn’t overshadow issues that have plagued them of late.
“This has kind of been a pattern during this bad spell for us,” head coach Steve Kerr told reporters. “We are not stepping on teams when they are down. We are making mistakes and allowing teams to hang around. And when you do that in this league, you’re dead.”
Kerr pinned late-game execution as the issue that doomed them against the Lakers. But that’s not the only thing the Warriors need to fix ahead of Monday’s match at Denver.
“It’s rough right now,” Curry said. “Keeping it plain and simple, it’s rough. We’ve got to find a way to claw our way out becauses obviously, you’ve seen in the last four games, it’s self-inflicted wounds.”
