What we learned as Warriors’ emotional day ending with collapse vs. Jazz

What we learned as Warriors’ emotional day ending with collapse vs. Jazz originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

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With their watchmen striped and their Feelings spread like leaves in the windWarriors responded with a cruel performance that had a thoroughly unsatisfactory ending.

After Warriors took an 11-point lead on a couple of free kicks from Daymond Green with three minutes left, Utah Jazz closed with a 20-6 race to send Golden State to a 131-128 loss Wednesday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake Town.

Stephen Curry scored a team high 32 Point-Hans first match in three weeks with at least 30 points and Brandin Podziemski poured into a career high 29 to appeal Golden State’s violation.

This not only hurts the way it had finished, but because it sends Warriors (25-25) back to .500.

However, they will see another look at the last 32 matches. The acquired unhappy Miami Heat Star Jimmy Butler Shortly before Tipoff, with Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schröder, Kyle Anderson and Lindy Waters III, everyone went to new franchises.

Here are three observations from an evening when Warriors had 10 players available as they prepare to step into a new dimension:

The missing men

A little more than an hour before Tipoff, Warriors were shaken with the news of a significant watch count.

Wiggins, Schröder, Anderson and Waters were preparing to play when Coach Steve Kerr called the team into the dressing room in announcing that all four would leave the franchise.

Butler came to Golden State as part of a four-team trade that sent Wiggins and Anderson to Miami Heat, Schröder for jazz and waters for Detroit Pistons. Warriors gave up a protected first round in 2025 NBA draft.

Of Warriors ’10 available players came Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Gui Santos, Pat Spencer and the recent two -way Signee Jackson Rowe from the bench.

Podziemski is going to play

Podziemski started his first start since December 6th and continued his star play Since I returned from an injury two weeks ago.

When Warriors fell into a 14-point hole in the first eight minutes, Podziemski contributed to a 13-2 race that allowed them to close the first quarter after 28-25. He scored or assisted at 11 of the 13 points.

Podziemski finished with 29 points on 8-of-18 shooting from the field, including 3 of 10 in addition to the arch and 10 of 13 from the line. He added six rebounds and four assists.

The second year’s guard has scored in double in six out of seven games since returning last month.

Revamped Bench mob comes through

The Golden State’s five-man bench did more than what could reasonably have been expected, with all five ending with plus/minus hotels in the positive.

They combined to 32 points, on 12-of-21 shooting, including 4 of 6 from Deep. Payton scored nine to lead the package, and Looney Snagged a team high 10 rebounds in 23 minutes. Payton was plus-6 and Looney was plus-10.

While Santos submitted a Plus-11 and Spencer ended Plus-5, it was Rowe, making his NBA debut that stood out.

The 6-Foot-7-Frontter, which has spent five years switching among guards abroad and in the G League, played 14 minutes and made up six points (on 2-of-3 shooting from distance), five rebounds and one steal. He ended with game-best plus-17.

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