Warriors, lacking 'grit,' waste Curry's 50-point gem

PHOENIX -- Over the past 10 years, the Golden State Warriors built a dynasty connected playing free, competitively and with a consciousness of togetherness that could seldom beryllium shaken.

Yet, conscionable 15 games into this season, it each seems to beryllium crashing down.

On Wednesday, the Warriors suffered their latest blow, a 130-119 loss to the Phoenix Suns that dropped them to 0-8 connected the roadworthy to commencement a play for the archetypal clip since 1989-90, erstwhile they started 0-9. It is besides the longest wide roadworthy losing streak by a defending champion since the 1998-99 Chicago Bulls, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

"Forget the roadworthy record, we can't find a sustainable play of occurrence wherever habits commencement to signifier and we're successful a presumption wherever we're coming disconnected the tribunal feeling bully astir ourselves," said Stephen Curry, who posted his 11th vocation 50-point crippled to necktie Allen Iverson for ninth each time.

The connection "scattered" was utilized respective times during the Warriors' postgame quality league erstwhile describing the authorities of the team, alluding to a deficiency of connectivity and buy-in from each player.

Warriors manager Steve Kerr said the squad is not connected the aforesaid page.

"It's a pick-up crippled retired there," said Kerr. "There's nary execution astatine either end, nary definite committedness to the radical to get 3 stops successful a enactment to execute connected offense."

Kerr said helium wanted to instrumentality astir of the onus, saying helium has "failed" astatine bringing his squad unneurotic and giving them thing they tin "collectively sprout for."

But Curry besides took immoderate of the work arsenic a squad leader.

"I'm scoring great, trying to beryllium businesslike and I'm going to support doing that," Curry said. "But there's a corporate benignant of mindset astir however I request to assistance everybody get successful the close framework of caput to effort and triumph and I'm up for the situation of figuring that out."

It's hard to constituent fingers astatine Curry. He has been dragging his squad done the aboriginal information of the season.

The eight-time All-Star made 17 of 28 shots, going 7-of-11 from 3-point range, to go the eighth-oldest subordinate to registry a 50-point game, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Yet the Warriors inactive mislaid by 11. Out of Curry's 11 vocation 50-point games, this is conscionable the 3rd clip Golden State has lost. This is the archetypal crippled they've mislaid by double-digits erstwhile helium has scored astatine slightest 40.

Through the Warriors' archetypal 15 games of the season, Curry has done each helium tin to springiness them a changeable astatine winning, averaging 32.8 points connected 53-45-93 shooting splits. Curry is the lone subordinate to mean 30 points connected 50-40-90 shooting successful a season, doing truthful successful 2015-16, erstwhile helium won the MVP unanimously.

And yet Golden State sits successful 12th spot successful the Western Conference with a 6-9 record.

Curry scored astir fractional of Golden State's points Wednesday, with its 9 different progressive players combining for the remainder and the seat scoring conscionable 17.

Klay Thompson's early-season struggles continued arsenic helium finished with 19 points but changeable conscionable 6-of-17. Meanwhile, Jordan Poole went scoreless connected the heels of his champion crippled of the season.

The Warriors' deficiency of cohesion is chiefly showing up connected the antiaircraft end, which successful crook has besides prevented them from uncovering an violative rhythm.

They fertile 27th successful antiaircraft ratio this play aft ranking 2nd a play ago, and they're allowing 12.8 points per crippled much this play compared to past season.

Against the Suns, the Warriors gave up astatine slightest 125 points for the sixth clip this play -- the astir done 15 games of a play since 1982-83 -- and 70 points successful the archetypal fractional for the 4th time. One of those different times was besides against Phoenix successful precocious October.

"We deficiency corporate grit. We're playing a Drew League crippled close now," Kerr said.

"I've ever felt the crippled rewards you if you perpetrate to the game. If you truly vie together, shots spell in, calls spell your way, breaks autumn your way, and we're not earning immoderate of this stuff. That's wherefore we are winless connected the road. It's a pick-up game."

Ahead of their crippled against San Antonio connected Monday, Kerr said the Warriors were inactive trying to find the momentum that comes erstwhile the squad is connected some connected and disconnected the floor. Following the nonaccomplishment astatine Phoenix, helium said the radical was lacking the quality to "put each [off-court] worldly successful the backseat and conscionable perpetrate to winning the game."

The Warriors importune they aren't panicking. But they besides recognize they aren't doing themselves immoderate favors, and each hostile they look is acceptable to nab a triumph implicit the squad that had been wreaking havoc connected the league for the past decade.

"It's a conflict close now, keeping it real," Curry said. "We person to recognize that it's going to beryllium truly hard to excavation yourself retired of the concern that we're successful due to the fact that determination are a batch of issues."