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The Golden State Warriors suffered a historic loss in Game 2 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night, blowing a 31-point lead in a 135-131 defeat.
Afterward, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said he was not surprised by the loss:
“It doesn’t feel strange to me, no,” Kerr said, according to Tim Kawakami of The Athletic. “At this stage, nothing surprises me that happens with our team and where we are.”
Kerr went on to say that he was actually concerned about his team before Game 2 even began:
“I was very concerned coming into this game. And in some ways, we had this coming,” said Kerr. “And we’ll see if we can actually respond to it and do something good with it.”
He added that he thought Golden State gave Los Angeles too much life, and once that happened, the Dubs couldn't really recover:
“Once you lose momentum in a game, against a really good team, it’s hard to get it back,” he said. “So we really lost this game mid-third quarter when we stopped playing. … As soon as we got up 31, we shut down.”
That's for sure.
Stephen Curry led the way with 29 points for the Warriors and Kevin Durant chipped in with 21, but Durant took just eight shots. Also, DeMarcus Cousins left the game after just four minutes after suffering what Golden State would later call a “significant” quad injury. If the Warriors are going to respond in this series, it looks like they will have to do it without Cousins.
