Warriors’ early mistakes doom chance to win close game vs. Mavericks – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

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If they do not reach the NBA end game, Warriors will look back Wednesday night in Dallas with a lot of regret for a long, long time.

Opposing an exhausted Dalla Mavericks team, which they hunt at the Western Conference, Golden State went a chance to keep his recent luck wealth rolling after being short in the team’s 33Rd Coupling games in the 2024-25 NBA season with a 111-107 loss at the American Airlines Center.

Many will point to the last two minutes of the game as Warriors missed three of their last four shots, including one that was blocked, Stephen Curry missed his first free throw in the last quarter all season, and Jimmy Butler III pulled one offensive error to the brace for a potential bonding bucket.

These last 120 seconds were undoubtedly crucial, but Warriors were only blamed for being in this position.

A team that has been proud to be fundamentally healthy throughout its championship years had difficulty ending the most basic tasks against mavericks in the first half. Warriors missed seven – seven – Layups, six in the second quarter.

It’s not so alarming, but given Dallas, all his big men were missing, including nine-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis, the middle of the paint should have been widely open. And in their honor, Warriors did a good job of attacking in the key and got almost 58 percent of their scoring sum inside the paint.

“We messed up with the game for too long, and then we left ourselves vulnerable,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “Obviously, they paid. We left the game in balance because of our bad games earlier in the game. “

It didn’t help that Warriors had another hard night of ball safety. They committed 16 revenue, three of Butler – his most in two months.

“If we take care of the ball, I think we’re in a much better position,” Butler told journalists ..

For a while, it looked like Golden State would be able to overcome the self -inflicted pain. Warriors closed the second quarter on a 17-5 race and ended the third on a 14-4 clip.

Each time, Warriors couldn’t bear the momentum over.

They could have been able to overcome it too if they hadn’t slipped up as often as they did earlier in the night.

“We fought down the stretch and tried to give ourselves a chance,” Curry told journalists. “But a team like Dallas … They played hard the whole game with really nothing to lose. It’s the hardest type of team to play. If you make mistakes you give them life. Especially at home it comes down to a possession here, a possession there.

“Didn’t go our way.”

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