You can describe this loss in a lot of ways — one step forward, two steps back; a case of the team not getting up for an opponent perceived to be levels beneath them, therefore resulting in them playing down to their level; or a team simply tired of these seemingly meaningless regular season games and not finding the motivation to give their all.
You can, however, most certainly describe this loss as downright ugly. Going into Sunday night, the Phoenix Suns had a record of 15-52 — the worst record in the Western Conference. It’s a position not too unfamiliar for the more tenured members of Dub Nation, who remember those cellar-dwelling days when the Warriors themselves were the proverbial punching bag for the rest of the league.