The Golden State Warriors have struggled to show a glimmer of the dominance they once displayed during the past few seasons, most recently dropping an overtime shot at beating the Portland Trail Blazers due to a head-scratching amount of misses and a night to forget at the free-throw line. Stephen Curry stressed the process the team is undergoing trying to get it right:

“A lot of different reasons. Injuries and mixed lineups and now we've got close to a full squad just trying to get our momentum back. But I guess if it's not one thing it's another night to night,” said Curry, according to ESPN's Nick Friedell. “Tonight was kind of offensive… it was just kind of stagnant in the first half. Not a lot of thrust and energy and aggressiveness. Defensively we were ok after the first three or four minutes.

“Other games it's been indecisiveness in certain stretches of the game. We're getting teams best shots so we got to fight our way through it. And just claw and scratch and get to that 48 minute level that we dominate teams, and we can get there.”

The Warriors have just looked sluggish, often putting emphasis in one aspect while forgetting all others. Thursday night was a manifestation of that very problem, as Golden State did almost everything by the book — out-rebounding and out-playmaking the Blazers while racking up 10 steals and nine blocks — all while limiting Portland to 36.2 percent shooting throughout the game.

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Shooting a woeful 42.5 percent from the field and a ghastly 29.5 percent from deep (mostly on open looks) was only the start of their downfall in a 110-109 loss to Portland.

A late Curry turnover in overtime helped spoiled a potential win, which set up a Damian Lillard game-winner. Yet even after that gaffe, the Warriors still had the chance to win before the end of overtime, but the cumulative misses just piled up, including shooting an “unacceptable” 40 percent at the foul line as the second-best foul-shooting team in the league.