Warriors must address post-trade kinks Steph Curry cautioned of – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

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SAN FRANCISCO – Everyone was warned that this would happen, and Curry thought it might happen soon, considering the significant midseason roster reconstruction. But the Warriors did a commendable in the initial weeks after Jimmy Butler’s Feb. 8 arrival. The new energy lifted spirits and their status in the standings.

Now that a month has passed, the kinks are creeping into performance. They were visible again in Golden State’s latest win, a 130-104 dispatching of the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night at Chase Center.

The victory was as flawed as it was decisive, much a few other recent wins. The turnover issue that for years has clung to the Warriors like lint on black wool – and was under control for until the past couple weeks – is back and it is harmful enough that they know they must address it to make a deep playoff run.

“It’s something we’ve got to control,” Moses Moody said after a light practice on Friday.

“Yeah, the last couple days, they’ve been showing us our blooper reels of us turning the ball over,” Kevon Looney said. “We had some crazy ones, but we know we need to get better.”

The Warriors are 13-2 under their revamped roster, but a troublesome trend is developing with turnovers. After averaging 11.9 per game in February, they’re up to 15.3 in March. They committed 70 giveaways (17.5 per game) over the last four, donating 86 points (21.5 per game) to their opponents.

The Kings scored 20 points off 16 Warriors turnovers, with most of the damage coming late in the second quarter and early in the third. The Warriors made six donations in the final five minutes of the first half and three more in the first three minutes of the second half. Their 23-point lead was whittled to four in eight minutes.

“Carelessness and risk – too much risk,” coach Steve Kerr said. “That was the main point of our offensive film session today. We had that game totally under control, up 23 in the first half, and then kind of lost our mind down the stretch, that last two minutes of the of the half.

“The message is, against the best teams we’re not going to get…

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