Monte Poole - NBC Sports
The Warriors have struggled out of the gates in many games recently, but they’ve become the league’s best in the third quarter.
Early in the month of March, the Golden State Warriors find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Their unbridled regular season success of the past three seasons hasn’t carried over to this season, and they’re stuck looking up at another team in the standings.
The 50-13 Houston Rockets currently sit a half-game up on the 50-14 Warriors and have the tie-breaker in-hand. This is the first time since Steve Kerr was hired in 2014 that the Warriors have been anywhere but first in the league’s standings this late in the season and, barring a Houston slump, the first time they won’t have home-court throughout the playoffs.