OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors attracted enviable accolades with their historic win streak, but everything about sustaining success turned burdensome.
"I'm not going to miss it, not at all, started to get draining,” Draymond Green said of the bygone streak on Tuesday, at practice. The very thing that garnered the Warriors so much praise was the very thing, perhaps, weighing them down. And as they got ragged, their play turned stilted, sloppy. They got, as Green put it, “too Steph heavy.”
Wednesday night’s hosting of the Phoenix Suns, Golden State’s first home game in two weeks, displayed an unburdened Warriors team.