With a starting lineup featuring four All-Stars and a former finals MVP coming off the bench, it's not difficult to consider the Golden State Warriors as the favorites to win the title this year.
The Dubs have reached the finals in each of the last two seasons and have started this campaign once again on fire with a 28-5 win-loss record. Even with their recent success and coming off a win against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, Kevin Durant still sees a lot of opportunities for their squad to improve on.
One of them is limiting their turnovers as they had 20 on the night which he believes was caused by being too unselfish.
“We're just overpassing, to be honest. I was the worst. I threw the ball away when I had a wide-open three, just dropping the ball.”
“It's the stuff we can control. It's not like they're getting into us and turning us over themselves. We're doing a lot of just overpassing and getting into the lane and trying to make the second or third pass when we have a layup on the first or second one.”
It's definitely hard to blame their players for giving up open looks and opting to pass to their teammates as they are established stars in the league and have the ability to dominate a game at any point. However, if the Warriors want to make it even easier for them to win games, it will help them hold on to leads if they just trust the system and run the plays head coach Steve Kerr designed.
Despite committing a number of unforced turnovers due to oversharing the ball, Durant remained positive and made it clear that it's a good problem for them to have.
“We have to do a better job of that, but it's a good problem to have. It shows a lot of unselfishness from us,”
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