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After all, Jimmy Butler did not solve all Warriors’ problems.

After winning the first two matches in the Butler era, Warriors fell one of their worst losses of the season. In Dallas, in front of an audience still rolling from Luka Doncic-commerce, against a team without seven of its best players, Golden State’s comeback in the fourth quarter came up.

Revenue, unanswered layups and defensive collapse celebrations of Warriors’ slip back after their 12-3 start-facing even with butler in the fold. Warriors had a golden chance to serve their first winning row since November, and they blew it in a 111-107 defeat.

Although Mavericks did not have a healthy center, Warriors (27-27) could not hit a shot on the edge and walk 31-for-58 (53.4%) in the paint and played Matador defense on the circumference. Kyrie Irving put his depleted team on his back with 42 points on 15-for-25 shooting, and partyed on overpowered defenders all night.

“Not good,” said Steve Kerr Postgame when asked about the state for his team’s circumference defense. “My mistake was probably not to beat Kyrie earlier and get the ball out of his hands. I think we did a pretty effective job with it in the fourth quarter. I should probably have gone to it earlier. “

Butler logged 21 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to support Steph Curry’s 25 points, but Warriors shot only 28.6% from the 3rd Klay Thompson, the former Warrior icon, had it early and scored 17 overall.

There is no shame by losing to mavericks but to lose to these Mavericks are brutal.

Anthony Davis, who arrived at the shocking Luka Doncic trade, is expected to miss several weeks with a left abducted tribe. Dereck Lively, Daniel Gafford and Dwight Powell are also injured, letting Mavericks play five-out for most of the game. Butler, 6-foot-7, was often the highest player on the field.

Even when Warriors dominated on the glass and with second chance points, their 3s did not fall, nor their layups. Revenue and defensive collapse allowed Dallas to take a 14-point lead in the first half.

Warriors were so frustrated, Terry Stotts and Draymond Green had to hold Kerr back from an official in a timeout after picking up a technical error.

Irving poured into three 3-Pointers in 40 seconds in the third quarter and took over the game. Without Andrew Wiggins, now a Miami Heat, Warriors will leak against dynamic scoring screens such as Irving and Damian Lillard, who went in 38 against the Golden State in Milwaukee.

Warriors had no good defensive options against him. Buddy HIELD spent too much time trying to check him. Butler is still not in good enough to chase him around. Gary Payton II typically doesn’t give Golden State enough offensively to play heavy minutes. Moses Moody is better at dimensioning larger opponents than faster.

Irving continued the trend in a larger way.

Moses Moody helped the Golden State Weather Irving’s warm hand reach double -digit score for the 12th time in his last 14 games. But Warriors have not been a team that can mount comebacks throughout the year, and they are now 1-21 in play where they trace in the fourth quarter.

After a bisarr unanswered call for a kick-ball overgrazing, Kerr called a timeout with his team nine early in the fourth.