Steph Curry goes cold in hard loss to Suns – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

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San Francisco – Warriors’ search for three consecutive victories continues. After losing to Phoenix Suns 130-105 Friday night at the Chase Center, Warriors have not won a third straight match since November 15.

It’s exactly 11 weeks ago when Warriors improved to 10-2. They are now 24-24 after they have passed 14-22 since.

Golden State pulled Phoenix with three points after the first quarter, 11 points at the break and 19 points that went into the fourth quarter. Warriors’ lonely victory as they dragged through three quarters this season were against Suns on December 28, when they deleted a five-point deficit to get a four-point victory.

A comeback -Se victory was never in store this time.

Steph Curry couldn’t get started and scored only 14 points in 31 minutes on 5-of-14 shooting and 1 out of 6 from long distance. Andrew Wiggins and Moses Moody each scored a team high 17 points.

Meanwhile, Suns-Stars combined Kevin Durant (19 points), Devin Booker (31 points) and Bradley Beal (21 points) to score 71 points on 27-of-48 shooting (56.3 percent) while doing 13 of their 23 3-point attempt (56.5 percent).

Here are three takeaways from Warriors again to take a step back after gaining momentum.

Take two

The first start of the Quinten Posts NBA career Wednesday was not one to remember. Post was brought to Wolves, and Oklahoma City Thunder attacked. They put him in an Alley OOP situation right away and post was called for a mistake 15 seconds into the game.

Here’s the statistics from Post’s first career start: eight minutes played, no points, no shot attempts, no rebounds and no assists – but two revenue and three errors. Numbers to forget, but not numbers to get Coach Steve Kerr losing confidence.

Despite the harsh viewing, Kerr stuck by mail as his starting center for the way he complements Gary Payton II in Frontcourt as a stretch 5. Immediately the results were much better.

Post drained a 3-pointer from the top of the arch on his first shot attempt. By the end of the first quarter, post had three points, two rebounds and two assists. In the first 30 seconds of the second quarter, Post made its second three of the night.

Rookie Center ended with nine points and a team high eight rebounds in 19 minutes. He was a minus-18.

Lack of early Steph shots

Although Warriors only pulled with three points in the first quarter, there was a clear inconsistency in styles. Especially when it came to the teams offensive stars.

Booker took seven shots in the first quarter. Durant took six. Curry had only one shot attempt. His second came first before the 7:38 mark in the second quarter. At that time, Booker was up to 10 shots and Durant was still six while watching the bench, but Beal had taken four shots.

Curry’s second shot attempt, which brought his first two points into the game, wasn’t from him running out of screens. The ball was simply in Curry’s hands at the top of the arch before beating his husband for a disputed layup that stumbled through. After entering the break, Curry had scored only two points on 1-of-5 shooting.

A total of 11 warriors played in the first half, and six had as many shooting attempts as curry or more.

Curry then took Warriors’ first three shots to open the third quarter and connect the first two times. But his first made three was only before the first minute of the fourth quarter.

Paint of a brick house

Suns Center Nick Richards opened the second half and threw back-to-back dunks, the first one was on the head of the post. These two dunks summarized how the warriors were consistently crushed.

Their lack of size, athletics and ability to finish were shiny. Warriors couldn’t create a set -up, all with Suns partying around the edge. The numbers do not make them favors.

Per PBPStats went Warrior’s 10 out of 24 shots within four meters of the basket (41.7 percent). Suns missed only twice from this distance and went 16 out of 18 (88.9 percent). On shots ranging from four feet to 14 feet, the warriors were 8 of 23 (34.8 percent) and Suns were 14 of 28 (50 percent).

Warriors made three fewer 3-pointers than Phoenix, and their inability to find variation on offense was ugly.

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