The Golden State Warriors that showed up to the season opener against the Los Angeles Clippers noted a different feel about the Chase Center. Not quite as loud or intimate as the renown Oracle Arena, even as the team opened its new arena in San Francisco.

Yet a blowout loss gave the fans not much to cheer about, as Stephen Curry noticed, as his team trailed by 11 at the half and by a whopping 24 at the end of the third quarter.

“We didn’t give them much to cheer about,” said Curry after the game, according to Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. “We had some good energy. We had a couple runs, and it got loud. But we still want to get to a game where we have it all together and really give our fans something to cheer about. Give them an opportunity. There really wasn’t much of one tonight.”

Besides a searing personal 10-point run by D'Angelo Russell to christen the Chase Center and Curry's first made three in the arena, there wasn't many noteworthy moments that caused the crowd to erupt.

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Curry admittedly has had a tough time transitioning to this post-Kevin Durant era of basketball, knowing it will be a long journey ahead that will test him and his team.

“I was just replaying a lot of stuff in my head,” said Stephen Curry. “We understand this is going to be a long journey. We understood this was going to be a tough game with how good they are and how good they play. But I was coming to grips with the feeling of coming off the court and getting your heads beat in, understanding that it’s not OK. We got to figure something out.”

The Warriors ran into a juggernaut, a Clippers team that is expected to make waves in the West and already looks competent enough, even without one of their best players in Paul George. After five years of unprecedented glory, the Warriors are now due for their share of disappointment.