SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry left within the last minute of a 104-100 dwelling loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday evening, hobbling to the locker room with what the group known as a proper quad contusion.
Curry may have an MRI to find out the extent of the damage.
“After I heard it was a quad, I used to be truly relieved,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr mentioned. “Higher than an ankle or a knee.”
Curry got here up limping after a sequence of fourth-quarter collisions. He tried to take a cost on Rockets guard Amen Thompson with 3:24 left and was bulled over with an elbow. After overview, Curry was known as for a blocking foul.
Two possessions later, Curry drove into the lane for his personal crashing layup try and was known as for a cost. Kerr challenged the decision, and it wasn’t overturned. Within the aftermath, Curry moved round gingerly the following couple of minutes in apparent ache.
Throughout a timeout with 35.2 seconds left and the Warriors down 5, Curry had a dialog with Rick Celebrini, the group’s lead medical decision-maker, who waved to the bench that Curry was completed for the evening. The 2 then departed to the locker room.
“If Steph has to overlook [time]?” Kerr mentioned. “It clearly modifications every thing — our rotations, how we’re taking part in, who we’re taking part in via. We’ll see.”
Curry’s damage comes at a shaky time for the Warriors. Wednesday evening’s loss dropped them to 10-10 via 20 video games after a 4-1 begin. Within the aftermath, each Jimmy Butler III and Draymond Inexperienced had been important of the group’s latest defensive effort.
“We do not field out,” Butler mentioned. “We do not go along with the scouting report. We let anyone do no matter they need — open pictures, get into the paint, free throws. It is simply unhappy.”
The Rockets made solely 39 of their 99 pictures in opposition to the Warriors, however they grabbed 25 offensive rebounds, punishing Golden State with superior measurement and physicality. Houston outscored the Warriors by 16 factors within the second half.
“Our protection is s—,” Inexperienced mentioned.
The Warriors even have a good defensive ranking of 112.2 via 20 video games, rating tenth out of 30 groups. They have been worse offensively, with a 113.2 ranking, which ranks twenty second.
“It is not essentially the numbers,” Inexperienced mentioned. “How do you’re feeling while you on the market? It is simply letdown after letdown. It is greater than the numbers. Protection is about demeanor. If there’s letdown, it kills your demeanor, it kills your bravado. You then’re only a mushy group.”
Inexperienced and Butler have been important of the group’s play after just a few of their latest losses, together with Inexperienced’s call-out of particular person agendas following a blowout loss in Oklahoma Metropolis. Inexperienced wished to ensure after Wednesday’s loss that he was grouping everybody.
“We’re individually — I do know everybody likes to twist phrases — I mentioned we’re individually f—ing terrible,” Inexperienced mentioned.
Butler known as it “front-running.”
“Plenty of our hustle is dictated upon our offense,” Butler mentioned. “After we’re making pictures, oh, man, we’re celebrating, we’re cheering, doing all these issues. After we’re not, when the sport’s not going our manner, we put our head down and we mope and we do not field out, and we do not get again. We foul. We do all of the unhealthy issues.”
Warriors ahead Jonathan Kuminga seems to be near returning. He scrimmaged Wednesday afternoon and informed ESPN that he was aiming to be again for Saturday’s dwelling sport in opposition to the New Orleans Pelicans. However, pending the MRI outcomes, it is attainable the Warriors can be with out Curry.
“We will must be rattling close to excellent [without Curry],” Butler mentioned. “We aren’t going to have the last word bailout on our group.”