Warriors’ halfway point check-in: How they can improve after 41 underwhelming games | Basketball
, 2023-01-12 15:35:44,
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s easy for Warriors executives, coaches and players to hide in the Chase Center. A bunch of secret corridors and curtains connect and obscure the back rooms of the team locker room and practice facility.
However, a large group of grim-faced Warriors executives gathered for a powwow in plain sight following the team’s embarrassing loss to a Phoenix Suns team that played without any of its star players on Tuesday night. In a room next to the team locker room, majority owner Joe Lacob, his children and executives Kirk and Kent Lacob along with general manager Bob Myers and vice president of basketball operations Mike Dunleavy Jr. were among those surrounded.
One can only wonder what the think tank was discussing after a loss like that to cap off a disappointing first half of a title defense season. The Warriors’ bosses certainly have decisions to make after coming halfway through a game below .500, sitting as the eighth seed in a mediocre Western Conference.
The same team that imposed its championship will and DNA on an NBA title last season has no identity. That chip on his shoulder comes and goes. They are (mostly) a winning team at home and a disaster on the road. Their momentum is very uneven at a point where they need to go, go, go.
“We’ve been talking about it for a long time…
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