Closeout games are always the toughest. A phrase that has always been uttered by playoff analysts in every sport, but one that has now been made into a reality for the Golden State Warriors, who were unable to top the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of their first-round series.

Head coach Steve Kerr wasn't thrilled with the stagnation of this team and their iso-heavy dominance on offense, preferring to start their offense in isolation, rather than the ball movement that has helped them to a 3-0 lead in the series.

“Poor execution for us means the ball stopped moving,” said Kerr post-game after the Warriors registered only 19 assists in the 103-90 loss on Sunday. “I'm anxious to see our passing totals for the game. I don't think it's very high.”

Originally, when Steve Kerr took over the helm of this Warriors team in 2014, he devised a heavy motion offense that would give better results with a heavier dose of passes. The number was 300 passes per game.

So far Golden State reached 303, 309, and 306 in Games 1, 2, and 3, but fell short with only 256 passes on Sunday — according to Anthony Slater of The Athletic.

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This showed in-game, as Klay Thompson struggled for the first time in this series, forced to create his own shot, mired in a 4-of-16 shooting night that gave him a team-worst minus-18 for the game.

That resulted in a poor all-around game for the Warriors, despite destroying the Spurs on the glass after a playoff-high 18 rebounds for Draymond Green, who fell a point and an assist shy of a triple-double.

Yet despite all the extra possessions generated by a whopping 24 offensive rebounds, it was all counteracted by 16 turnovers — 15 of them coming from the starters.

“We had seven turnovers in the first four or five minutes,” said Kerr. “They forced a few of them, they forced a shot-clock violation in the first possession of the game, which set the tone.”

“Seven turnovers in the first minutes of the game, in a playoff game, on the road… yeah, good luck.”