Steph Curry has addressed the Golden State Warriors’ 140-88 loss by the hands of the Boston Celtics on Sunday.
Curry completed with a season-low 4 factors and didn’t play in the second half, however gave Boston a whole lot of credit score and stated the 52-point thrashing was the results of a “perfect storm”.
“The way that they’ve been playing, they seem very sure of themselves in their identity and who they are,” he informed reporters after the sport. “Give them credit. They came out and whooped us tonight from the jump, and it was one of those perfect storms of a rough [day] on our end and them taking it to us.”
It was a depressing evening for Curry, taking pictures 2-13 from the sector and 0-9 from past the three-point line. He even hoisted consecutive airballs throughout the first quarter.
Elsewhere, one of the crucial fascinating subplots of the evening was the Warriors’ lack of protection on Jaylen Brown on the three-point line. Brown completed with a game-high 29 factors on 11-19 taking pictures from the sector and 5-10 from deep.
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— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) March 4, 2024
Postgame, Draymond Green defined what occurred:
“We implemented our strategy like 15 minutes before we left the locker room,” Green stated. “So I don’t necessarily think we put together a full defensive strategy. I thought it was fun to try. I was actually all for it, like, ‘Let’s try it and see if it works.’ If it doesn’t, oh well. If it does, we found something. All right, it didn’t work, so we move on.”
Brown himself also spoke on the matter.
“First time it’s ever happened to me,” Green stated. “Honestly, I was a bit surprised… For the most part, my job is to get to the paint. We got enough three-point shooters on our team… but if you want to dare me to shoot, we can do that too. I thought it was a little disrespectful but we took advantage of it and didn’t look back.”
The Celtics and Warriors have now break up their season collection 1-1 and won’t play once more this season.
