The Warriors circled up in the locker room following a disappointing loss to the Dallas Mavericks to re-group.
The message from team leaders is for players to re-focus on the collective and push individual needs to the back burner. Without throwing any teammates under the bus, some Warriors and coach Steve Kerr insinuated that some players are splintering off to tend to personal agendas. Kerr, at the podium after the team meeting, mentioned some players have a pressure to perform that’s become palpable.
“We need to get back to playing for each other,” Gary Payton II said Monday at practice.