Kerr says Dubs lacking 'purpose' amid slow start

DETROIT -- The Golden State Warriors suffered their 2nd consecutive nonaccomplishment and 3rd connected the roadworthy Sunday night, falling to the Detroit Pistons 128-114 to driblet to 3-4 connected the season.

Just 1 week into the season, the Warriors person been plagued by the aforesaid issues done each of their games: modulation defense, deficiency of shot question and excessively overmuch fouling.

The Warriors person been accordant with their connection -- that it volition instrumentality them immoderate clip to get settled with their caller unit and rotation, particularly arsenic players specified arsenic Klay Thompson regain afloat conditioning. They aren't panicked.

However, Warriors manager Steve Kerr said helium hasn't felt a consciousness of urgency from his squad to code its issues, and therein lies the bigger problem.

"It takes a small time," Kerr said. "We'll get there. I americium precise assured successful that. But our guys request to travel unneurotic and determination needs to beryllium a consciousness of purpose. We person to fig retired what that means."

Poole was 1 of the lone Warriors to play with a sustained magnitude of urgency against the Pistons, finishing the nighttime with 30 points, scoring 15 of them consecutively successful the 3rd quarter. Stephen Curry led the squad with 32 points. They were the lone 2 Golden State players to people successful treble figures.

"We conscionable got to prime it up," Jordan Poole said. "A mates of guys talked successful the locker country astir our urgency and however we request to get it together. So that's decidedly a constituent of focus."

Draymond Green said helium doesn't cognize what other needs to hap for the Warriors to find a consciousness of urgency.

Golden State has allowed astatine slightest 125 points successful 4 of their archetypal 7 games, conscionable the 2nd clip they've done truthful successful franchise history. The past clip was successful the 1962-63 season, according to ESPN's Stats and Information research.

The Warriors besides person allowed 854 points truthful acold this play -- the astir allowed by a defending champion done 7 games successful NBA history, according to ESPN's Stats and Information research. They person the No. 21 antiaircraft standing successful the league.

The Warriors person agelong followed the doctrine that their signature free-flowing and high-powered discourtesy stems from coagulated defense. Right now, Green says the Warriors' discourtesy -- whether it beryllium level equilibrium oregon deficiency of shot question -- is sidesplitting their defense.

"The world is you can't close each issue," Green said. "For us, it's pinpointing the things that are truly hurting us. Some things that are hurting us, won't bushed you. So you don't interest arsenic overmuch astir those. But things that are hurting america and really beating us, we request to pinpoint precisely what that is. Once we tin bash that, past we tin spell successful and fig it out."

Green said what the specifics are, though, they are inactive figuring out. One crushed for that is that the Warriors are dealing with a consciousness of the unknown, arsenic they're successful the process of relearning however to play with 1 different portion they integrate a newer and overmuch younger 2nd unit.

With the departures of Gary Payton II and Otto Porter Jr., the arrivals of Donte DiVincenzo and JaMychal Green, and the accrued workload of Jonathan Kuminga, Moses Moody and James Wiseman, Golden State has a adjacent wholly antithetic rotation than their title team.

"When you are playing younger guys, it decidedly makes it tougher to execute connected some ends of the floor, but by nary means is it the young guys' fault," Green said. "They person a portion successful it similar we each do. We person to fig those things out, but it's not solely their fault. Working them successful changes things, but we tin blasted them. Frankly, I don't deliberation immoderate of america are playing that large connected some sides of the ball."

Stephen Curry added: "The effort has been solid, but erstwhile it's not cohesive erstwhile we're not each connected the close string, you tin person guys effort to bash the close thing, but it doesn't pb to immoderate results."