The new-look Golden State Warriors played very different in a season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers, spearheaded by a quick-firing Stephen Curry unable to hit the bottom of the net until late in the first quarter. For once, Curry was taking the floor without his backcourt partner Klay Thompson, now facing double- and triple-teams when handling the ball against a ready Los Angeles Clippers team.

Head coach Steve Kerr knows the workload will be this heavy through the course of the season, but he has faith Curry will navigate it successfully if he keeps an eye on his turnover problem.

“He's going to have a large offensive burden all year,” said Kerr that night, according to Logan Murdock of NBC Sports Bay Area. “Just the nature of what we've lost from a scoring standpoint and a playmaking standpoint.”

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Curry turned the ball over five times in the first half, ranging from careless ballhandling around defensive ace Patrick Beverley, to ill-advised passes that drifted out of his new teammates' hands. Solving that problem is, according to Kerr, the first item on the list.

“If he takes care of the turnovers,” said Kerr, “then the game will get easier for him.”

Curry could easily lead the league in turnovers this season is he keeps playing at this out-of-control pace, on top of the offensive fouls he's bound to get based on his sheer usage rate. Cutting down on those and making a safer, more fundamental play will result in more chances to attack, and therefore score.