San Francisco – Only two weeks ago that Dayand Green promoted the benefits of a few days off, pointing how “rejuvenated” his teammate of the Warriors, Stephen Curry, took care of an absence letter with a pelvic contusion.
For Sunday night, with his hopes of a free week throughout the team that hastened for three losses at home, Green gave a different tone.
“We are not the elderly,” he said after a defeat for extra time 124-119 that sealed the fate of Golden State as a game team. “There is no lack of respect for the elderly, by the way. We love our older people. But we are not there yet. We will be fine.”
When it comes to that, the Warriors had to win five minutes of basketball to avoid playing another 48. They ran out of gas on Sunday against the clippers and must turn Tuesday for a gain game and start against the Grizzlies of Memphis.
It is worth noting every additional minute of wear for a team that fought against Toth-Anail in the last two months to avoid this exact scenario.
“That is what makes Tuesday’s game really important,” said coach Steve Kerr.
To Green’s point, Warriors are barely members of AARP. “We are high -level basketball players,” he added. “We train all year for this.” But they are the older statesmen of the game tournament, if not the playoffs as a whole.
After all, there is only another player to add a fifth ring to his collection, and LeBron James, 40, will begin his search with a full week to cure any persistent ailment. Curry, 37, won the same benefit. The support cast will not do so that the most remunerated list of the West Conference looks for clippers (average age: 28.6).
“If we are worried about that,” said Curry, “then we are worried about wrong things.”
“I only see it as another opportunity to play the game we all love,” added Brandin Podziemski, 22.
Golden State was more concerned with overcoming a less-17 rebound deficit in Sunday’s defeat (Memphis results in the NBA; the clippers are 17) and their spiny story in two previous game experiences.
The Warriors are 0-3 of all time, but that was without Jimmy Butler III.
Butler led the Miami Heat until not. 7 seeds to the NBA finals in 2023. Een lost their first game game.
“We are just where we want to be,” Butler said. “We still have an opportunity in which we control our own destiny. We will be fine.”
Butler, now 35 years old, played almost 40 minutes per game while averaging 26.9 points. 6.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists in the Playoffs of 2023. Apply a Miami -manifest race.
“He entered the game packaging for two months,” Curry said. “We would love to have that opportunity … it’s going to take a lot. But I think we have it in the tank.”
Age is not the only thing that works against the Warriors; They are also beaten.
Butler experienced the other side of the play last year, when he ran his knee in the first game of the Heat and had to miss the next round, and had a scare of a letter the day for Sunday’s game. Hey, to greatly favor his right leg in the middle of the extra period of time, but then said that he simply throw a knee to the thigh and was not worried about his availability on Tuesday.
Curry played Sunday’s game with his right thumb wrapped in athletic tape; He aggravated a problem that has bothered him throughout the season when he put him in a defender’s leg on Friday night in Portland and, for his credit, he did not allow him to affect him against the clippers.
“I’m not worried about Steph,” Kerr said. “Thumb pain, and goes 7 of 12 of 3 by 36 points. So, Steph is Steph.”
Even Green spent a part of the first half in the locker room after attacking to adjust his neck in a fall before playing 38 minutes.
Then he was asked if there was any rise in the fast change.
“The rhythm, the child keeps you in the rhythm, the flow you have leg battery for the whole season,” Green said. “But there is not much positive for us playing on Tuesday, apart from the fact that we need to win the game.”
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