Draymond growls

Only one being is missing and everything is depopulated! Since Stephen Curry’s shoulder injury, the horizon has suddenly darkened for the Warriors.

Already not very comfortable outside since the start of the season, Golden State recorded five losses in six games during its recent road trip, with two large defeats conceded on the floor of the Knicks (-38) then the Nets (-30). For Draymond Greenthese two “blowouts” illustrate the mental flaws that his team is currently experiencing.

“Right now, I think we are very fragile. When you start going through this stuff, you can start to believe it. And once you start believing it, it just creeps into you… The only way to break that is to be mentally strong”said the interior.

Before this road trip during which the Warriors only won in Toronto, there was however this demonstration against the Celtics in the remake of the last NBA finals with this 16-point victory. A success that could have definitively launched Steve Kerr’s troops in their quest for “back-to-back”.

“Looking back on that win, it’s one of those matches where you feel like you can take advantage of a click and it’s time to turn the page. That’s what we did, but we turned the page in the wrong direction., he added.

No time to wait for Stephen Curry to react

The forces involved have completely changed since then, since in addition to Stephen Curry, the Warriors currently have to deal without Andrew Wiggins (adductors) as well as Donte DiVincenzo and JaMychal Green, who are ill.

Despite everything, Draymond Green does not budge, the Warriors are better than the two roustes received in New York and the problem is above all mental, especially on away games since the Oakland franchise currently displays a worrying record of 16 losses in 19 games away from its bases.

“I think the team had been struggling since the start of the road trip. It’s a bit more frustrating. You can do whatever you want about losing away to home, but it’s mostly mental. We are a team that struggles mentally. And it makes it hard to overcome anything else.”he continued.

He who gave advice to the Raptors to get out of their bad patch a week ago will now have to find the right ingredients to help his team find the right path. Like what everything can go very quickly in the NBA.

“It’s not something that will be resolved in a snap. We have to work on these issues to regain that confidence. It just doesn’t show. Even if we would like to think that such and such will come back and that everything will be back to normal… No. We have to work to find positive results and feelings, which will give us this renewed confidence”.