The games that seem the easiest are the ones that can hit you the most in the heart. You must win them or you will find yourself in a problem that projects beyond him. This is what happened to the Warriors on Thursday night at the Chase Center against the beaten Pacers. The locals trusted and paid for it with another defeat that sets off some more alarm within the franchise. They have stalled. It has not earned them the passage through their pavilion of a team without the important players, injured, and that had just played a dog-fight duel a few hours before in another room in the state of California, not San Francisco but Los Angeles, against the Lakers. To the confirmed casualties of the season of McConnell and Warren and the problem of stress in a foot that Turner has suffered, it was necessary to add for this day the non-appearance of Domantas Sabonis, Malcolm Brogdon and Caris LeVert. It was a simple approach for a well-coordinated team that has brought back one of its biggest stars, Klay Thompson, and has led the West for much of the three months we’ve been in competition this season.. Not even so. They even made them go through the expensive toll of playing five more minutes. Not even so. The Pacers, led by the Dominican rookie Chris Duarte (27), they charged the Warriors with a very good Stephen Curry (39) with a final result of 117-121. They are, with today’s, six defeats in the last nine games in the case of Golden State, which should open a period of reflection on this matter although the fact that Draymond Green cannot be with them speaks clearly both of the reasons for the defeats and of the importance of the player in the scheme.
The Pacers did not completely separate despite going down in the first half and that overexertion when they came badly was worth it. There it worked for the Warriors to combine some delicate plays, whether in shooting or passing, by Curry with the power of Payton or the forcefulness of Looney. It wouldn’t be like that in the second half. Surprising, on the visiting side, that same duality in the boys who had the opportunity in the paint: Bitadze worked the lower body and Jackson dumped them over the hoop. A triple by Holiday put the Pacers ahead (66-68, minute 28) and the doubts began to generate a spiral from which the Warriors could not escape. Lots of missed shots, a disappointing rotation and fear, a lot of fear, at what they saw could happen. Another triple by Holiday was the one that equalized the contest to send the game into overtime at 110-110. The temperature rose. Curry was not as fired up in injury time as he was in regulation and it was another rival player who came out to provide the answer: Keifer Sykes hit a three-pointer with a layup avoiding Andre Iguodala’s defense to shelve such a victory. heroic.
