{"id":5053,"date":"2024-11-27T03:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2024-11-27T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:52:22","slug":"breaking-warriors-still-steph-currys-team-with-a-bit-more-freshness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Warriors Still Steph Curry\u2019s Team \u2026 With a Bit More \u2018Freshness\u2019.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2185855754-e1732661154629.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2185855754-e1732661154629.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2185855754-e1732661154629.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2185855754-e1732661154629.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Warriors star Stephen Curry\" width=\"780\" height=\"437\" data-img-load-time=\"558\" data-dom-ready-time=\"724\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Warriors star Stephen Curry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clearing a few notes from the table to make room for Thanksgiving\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Even some around the Warriors\u00a0have been caught a little by (pleasant) surprise. This is, after all, a team that finished 10th in the Western Conference before Sacramento bounced it by 24 in the play-in game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there was some feeling of trying to hold on to what we had instead of turning a corner,\u201d one source close to the situation told Heavy Sports. \u201cWith\u00a0Buddy (Hield) and playing a deeper rotation now, there\u2019s a freshness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always going to be\u00a0Steph (Curry)\u2018s team, as long as he\u2019s here, but more people are contributing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things got difficult in a hurry for Golden State just months after they won the 2022 championship. Jordan Poole chirped at Draymond Green at a practice, and\u00a0Green punched him in the face. Poole was traded to Washington the following offseason, but one Warrior source told us, \u201cThere were trust issues after the incident. Guys were saying the right things mostly, but you wondered what some people were thinking when it got quiet. It just felt uncomfortable at times, and that bled over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After winning 44 games that year, the Dubs won two more in 2023-24, but the season was a nightmare. The collapse and death of assistant coach Dejan Milojevic at a team dinner cast a cloud over the club. On the court, things were just out of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had Klay (Thompson) still coming back from injury, and it was hard,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe was trying to do things to get himself going and show that he could still be what he was, and that seemed to get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could understand a lot of it. Klay was such a big part of the success, and everybody wanted him to get it all back. It had to be hard on him mentally. He was trying so hard, but when it\u2019s going like that, it makes it hard to play with that easy flow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have had a smoother go of it this year, securing a very nice win in Boston and hanging in second place in the West as the holiday approached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key,\u201d said a rival assistant coach, \u201cis whether they can play this many people and play the same style when the playoffs get here and every minute is magnified. Is Steve (Kerr) going to keep spreading the minutes around, or does he have to lean heavy on, say, a top eight?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Payton Pritchard\u2019s Earned His Place<\/h2>\n<p>Payton Pritchard was happy to learn that some high school and even college coaches have checked in to say they\u2019ve used the recent story on him here to point out the work ethic needed for their players to grow.<\/p>\n<p>But it was an NBA coach who said, \u201cI wish you\u2019d have talked to me for that story. I\u2019d have given you a damn comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re playing the Celtics and no one has all that much time to prepare for one game in the regular season,\u201d he said. \u201cSo obviously at shootaround and before the game you\u2019re focusing on (Jaylen) Brown and (Jayson) Tatum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen,\u201d he added through a laugh, \u201cthis little (expletive) comes into the game and starts lighting us up. That (expletive) ain\u2019t fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Pritchard\u2019s preparation, we joked with his workout guy, Celtic assistant Craig Luschenat, that it must be hard on his self-esteem to get scored on so much during drills. But he said he gets all the therapy he needs for his \u201cwounds\u201d when he sees Pritchard burying shots during the games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Larry Bird, Still Hating the Lakers<\/h2>\n<p>Nice story from eight-year\u00a0NBA veteran Jim Petersen, who was in Boston Sunday as a Timberwolves broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The former Rocket, King and Warrior was at the recent Hall of Fame festivities in Springfield and recalled a scene from the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a lot of Lakers there because Michael Cooper was getting in, and a bunch of them were standing around,\u201d Petersen said. \u201cThen (Larry) Bird comes walking through, and he didn\u2019t even look at them. These players today are all friends, but Larry didn\u2019t want anything to do with those guys. It was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyWarriors star Stephen Curry Clearing a few notes from the table to make room for Thanksgiving\u2026 Even some around the Warriors\u00a0have been caught a little by (pleasant)&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Warriors Still Steph Curry\u2019s Team \u2026 With a Bit More \u2018Freshness\u2019.. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5053\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Warriors Still Steph Curry\u2019s Team \u2026 With a Bit More \u2018Freshness\u2019.. - 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