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Kurtenbach: It’s one game, but… Why the Warriors’ embarrassing opener can’t be brushed off

SAN FRANCISCO — We didn’t learn anything in the Warriors’ season-opening 141-122 loss to the Clippers that, deep down, we didn’t already know.

Yes, all that preseason wishful thinking, all those happy thoughts of the Dubs’ dynasty continuing on into 2019-2020 season, and all those clouds in the sky for this first season in San Francisco were dealt a fatal blow of harsh reality on Thursday.

The Warriors’ loss to the Clippers was a reckoning — an epiphany of the worst kind — as Thursday’s contest served as a worst-case scenario of sorts for the Dubs.

One that — if you were paying close attention — seemed destined to show up after an inauspicious preseason.