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Warriors play middle school defense, lose to Kings

The Golden State Warriors knew they had their work cut out for them facing the Sacramento Kings, as they were without their best offensive player (Steph Curry, out due to tailbone inflammation) and their best defensive player (Draymond Green, out due to illness).

As wild as it might sound, they ended up missing the latter even more than the former.

The Warriors played surprisingly solid offense in their 141-119 loss to the Kings, but as the score would suggest, their defense was atrocious. Sacramento scored at least 34 points in every single quarter and .