The Warriors are in unfamiliar territory in the first round against the Sacramento Kings. The defending champs are returning home down 2-0 in the series.
Though the status of Draymond Green remain undetermined as the team waits to see if any punishment is levied by the league following his incident with Domantas Sabonis, ESPN’s JJ Redick isn’t giving up on the Warriors.
Redick said on Tuesday that while the Warriors’ margin of error is much smaller than it has been in previous years, the talents of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson could still turn around the series in the Warriors’ favor.
“My big takeaway from this Warriors team, this season in particular, their margin of error night-to-night is much different than it was in the past. Certainly we can talk about the ’17, ’18, ’19 Warriors teams with Kevin (Durant)], but they always had connectors coming off the bench, role players. Whether it was Andre Iguodala or Shaun Livingston or Zaza (Pachulia).
They’re missing those guys, and so a lot of times they’re losing the Steph minutes, which they did again last night and they did in Game 1. And so if your margin is ‘we’re not going to get to the free-throw line, we’re a high turnover team, and we foul a lot’ … then you’ve got to shoot extremely well.
And luckily they have two of the greatest shooters ever, I think the two greatest shooters ever. And so far they’re shooting 32% from three for the series. So their margin of error is small, but I still think they can come back and win this series.”
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