Game Links #44: Golden State Warriors 120 vs Minnesota Timberwolves 121 - Warriors forgot to bring some defense, lose to a .500 team

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Associated Press: Martin's shot lifts Wolves over Warriors, 121-120 | Photo Gallery
Sports Network: Martin helps Timberwolves edge Warriors
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Diamond Leung: Warriors lose to Minnesota Timberwolves | (Mobile)
Jimmy Durkin: Game 44 rewind: A bad, bad loss for the Warriors
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Monte Poole: Rewind: Warriors' defense rests in loss to Wolves
Feltbot: Timberwolves 121 Warriors 120: Beat Up

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- Last time, Monte Poole dished out the midseason "player" awards. This time, it's the "team" awards, in a photo gallery.
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- Here's instructions on how to make Ayesha's Easy Pan Steaks.
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- Previews of the game.
Monte Poole: Fast Forward: Lee, Bogut questionable for W's vs. Wolves

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Postgame News

- No postgame news.

Postgame Videos

- Postgame quotes and stuff from warriors.com recap:
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Mark Jackson
On tonight's win:

“I think we are not defending at a high level to start the game. We’ve been bad and that’s on our starters. We have to do a better job. Tonight we gave up 36 points in the 1st quarter, 28 in the 3rd quarter – we haven’t been ready and it’s disappointing. The proof is in the pudding. The history of this franchise and the history of this basketball team – you are not going to get anywhere attempting to outscore people. That’s not who we are or who we are going to be. We’ve lose three games with us scoring 121, 120 and 116 points. We are not going to win games scoring the basketball. You can fall in love with your ability, but we’ve done a poor job of defending lately.”

“We’ve done a bad job – everybody on the floor, breakdowns. There is not one guy that is doing their job defensively. Everybody in uniform has been bad defensively for us and it’s disappointing right now.”

On their final shot attempt:

“It was a pick-and-roll action with Steph (Stephen Curry) and David (Lee). We got a great look, but I’m not concerned about that. We had a great look.”

On the team's slow starts:

“The teams I’ve been on, the way you can tell if the scheme is good or bad is if you get after it 100%. You can’t tell if the scheme is wrong if you don’t execute it. We are falling asleep. There are times where a guy falls asleep and Kevin Martin hits a jumper, you fall asleep and Kevin Love slips in, or you fall asleep and don’t square up (Ricky) Rubio. It’s not all game long, but it allows a team to establish a rhythm. There is a price to pay at the end. You look up and three guys have 20 something and the other guy has 16 and the other guys are in rhythm. As a young basketball team you can think coming home can make a difference. You have to play the same way we played on the road to win those games and we are not doing that right now.”

On losing five of the last seven games after winning 10 straight:

“Former great coach Pat Riley told a team I played on ‘You have to have the disease of greed and you have to want more’. You can’t be satisfied. At times we are satisfied or at times we think we are good enough to go through the motions and win ballgames. We do not have Kevin Durant or LeBron James. The way we win games is collectively, getting it done defensively, and having special nights by individuals. At times we are not getting after it and not staying true to our identity and that is a defensive minded team.”

Stephen Curry
On the final play:

“It started out as a pick-and-roll with me and D-Lee (David Lee) to see how they played it. They switched and I tried to go one-on-one with the big and that’s what happened. I got to sizing him up and trying to get to a spot to get a shot off, saw two guys in my way and knew somebody was open, made a decision to try to find an open guy. HB (Harrison Barnes) was wide open, great shot, one that we’ll take, and obviously if it goes in things are different, but it didn’t and it’s a tough loss for us for sure. I think we handled that last play well but we can’t be in a situation like that at home, that’s the biggest takeaway from this game.”

On not giving up so many points:

“It’s not winning basketball and we’ve got to figure it out. There’s not much else to really say about it, just we’ve shown we can do it and good teams do it every game. Three losses in the last four or five games where we’ve scored over 115 points, so scoring the ball is not a problem. Defensively we’ve shown that we can do it this season, so we’ve got to get back to that effort. I don’t know what it is but we’ll figure it out.”

On Sunday's game against Portland:

“It’s big, you’ve got to establish yourself. Obviously the records will be what they are but you remember the impressions you leave on teams throughout the course of the season. They came in here earlier this year in a pretty testy game so we’ve got to be up for that challenge to make a statement against one of the top three teams in the West on our home floor, a team that we may see down the road. It’s even more important, especially after tonight.”

Andre Iguodala
On the talent level in the NBA:

“I don’t know if we’re just content with outscoring other teams. At times we can play to the level of the competition on paper. But we’re in the NBA and some guys are going to have great nights, some guys are going to have bad nights, but at the end of the day there’s a lot of talent out there on both sides and on paper we look like a great team so we can get comfortable with thinking we’re going to pull it out at any given moment and we’ve got to do a better job of just having that killer instinct no matter who’s coming to play.”

On consistency:

“Just about the level of basketball you play. It can’t be a rollercoaster ride, playing really great teams well and then something doesn’t go your way, you get a loss and you play a lesser and lower your level of play, then it doesn’t go your way and you lose the game. That can trend, we’ve just got to break that habit.”

Notes

- No interesting notes tonight.

What's next?

- These Blazers haven't flamed out yet - they're still hanging around the top of the West. Fortunately for us, they'll be traveling on a back-to-back. Now, if we don't bring some defense and defend our home floor, expect another L on Sunday.

Full broadcast schedule at warriors.com/schedule.

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- Notes from practice.
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- With another playoff contender coming into town tomorrow, Jimmy Durkin looks at the Warriors recent issues.
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- Monte Poole looks at the issues surrounding Harrison Barnes' slump.
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- The Santa Cruz Warriors played @ Texas Legends tonight.
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