Stephen Curry On Warriors Loss vs Dallas Mavericks | Dec. 30, 2023

Stephen Curry On Warriors Loss vs Dallas Mavericks | Dec. 30, 2023

I know part of what you kind of talked about this offseason was the need for this year everything to be about like winning everyone collectively it all kind of had to be about that some of the talk tonight you know particularly from Steve postgame was at times you know I

Don’t know if various agendas or what are getting in the way but but this team collectively needs to you know focus on trying to get the win do you feel that that that’s wavered or it has been wavering at times this year in particularly right

Now um I mean when you lose like you search for why you’re losing right like and for the teams that are struggling like we are to find consistency um you know you try to pinpoint whatever it is that that is correctable or is you know a solution to the problem so right

Now I I don’t necessarily think it’s uh agendas or um kind of emotionals getting in the way I think it’s when you’re not playing well you start to uh that’s like a human nature default you start to look at like and I would come up here and say I need to play

Better I need to shoot the ball better I know um everybody could probably speak to something that they could do better to help us win and that’s the situation we’re in so um until we start winning there’s going to be more nitpick and everything to try

To figure out what the solution is and until we find it we’re going to be uh you know sitting right here in this situation at this point in the year is it hard or frustrating that there doesn’t seem at least to be a clear-cut group of Five Guys you can put out on

The court and just know like we can rely on these guys to build a lead get it done do whatever needs to be done yeah it’s the nature of this team um and what’s kind of materialized throughout the year we’ve experimented a lot some for you know forced reasons some for us

Again just searching for an identity of of you know what are our strengths and playing into that and you know we haven’t found it collectively so it’s frustrating for sure you know 30 what are we 15 32 games in and you know any team that is a serious you know seriously competitive Contender

Or good team usually can answer that question so we have to get to that point for sure uh before it’s too late you you’ve obviously hit a little bit of a rough stretch shooting um did I mean can you pinpoint why you think so no I mean been in a situation before where

You know you start off hot and cool down a little bit I again hold myself to a high standard and you know know I need to shoot the ball better play better more consistent uh provide that punch that you know scares teams and gets us going you know we’ve stayed somewhat

Competitive even you know with my numbers down but I think uh confidence always remains you know high and you know it’s hard to be perfect for all 82 but you still play the same way and know that over the course of the Season uh you know law of averages take

Over and I’ve proven I can do that so that’s where my confidence remains were were you intentionally aggressive in the first quarter you took seven shots uh and did the lineup changes to start help with that with the looks you got uh we talked about a little bit in

Practice yesterday just around getting the ball moving a little bit it’s usually going to find the right person you know create good shots I think I forced two of them and the first uh the two two-pointers ironically uh but the mo had some decent looks didn’t didn’t go down but it

Started to figure out a rhythm I think at this point it’s um the lineup changes kind of the Kendra question is you’re trying to figure it out on the Fly because we’re making a lot of adjustments from starting lineup and rotation perspective and all that so

I know I got to be aggressive doesn’t mean you know you have to shoot it every time you touch it but allow you you know the threat on ball off ball whatever it is to you know create good shots for myself and for my teammates and that was

Better tonight so uh you just want to make make some more shots Steph you all tied it up I think twice and it seemed like you was you all were going to be be able to come back and take the game and what happened where you were where kind of slipped away

Again there are other uh others obviously they’re you know a team it’s not just Luca but the guys that were you know were killing us all night uh exm hit some threes Josh Green hit some threes um you know Tim Hardway hit a couple big

Ones and then they got a lot of drives um when we were sending maybe a double or not getting back in transition so they they play well and they made the shots that kept the momentum on their side and think in the second quarter there was a a stretch where it seemed

Like we were going to get over the hump and get our crowd back into into it and they hit three straight threes and change momentum again so they played well it wasn’t like this wasn’t a game where we didn’t play well and lost it was they just played better if that if

That makes sense um compared to how we played uh against thank you Steph Steve and couple of guys talked about the need to be more connected on defense um and I think Steve mentioned his motivation for the lineup change partly to get CP in there

To help unlock you was the way he put it seems like those are things that Draymond does particularly well now you guys obviously won five straight without him but do you feel like these last couple games you maybe missed him in the sense that the things you guys are

Talking about are things that seems to be his Specialties I guess yeah we haven’t talked about him much since he’s been gone you know for for a reason just the space and you know allowing him to make the progress he needs to make but it’s not lost that when we came into the

Year nobody said we were going to be a great team without Draymond um and that obviously is our belief like we’re way better with him um because of the things that he does you know when he’s out and since he’s been out we’ve been trying to stay competitive and we’ve won some

Games we lost some tough ones um but with all the players that we can throw out there and that we have um in the way that Draymond was playing before the suspension like it’s clear he’s a huge part of what we do and we’re better with

Him for all the intangibles and the way that he was playing but we have to stay you know competitive while he’s out for us to you know not lose too much ground and I think we can still do that for sure do you personally feel it in terms

Of trying to get get the looks you’re used to getting because you you and he obviously have a unique Bond on the court it’s a little different of um most of the off ball stuff especially with him as like the point forward type looks and then you

Obviously not other guys have had those reps so it’s it’s a tough transition um so yeah but still try to be versatile enough to I’ve had some you know games where I’ve played to The Standard that I I expect and I’ve has some Duds for two and that might happen without with

Draymond out there but it is a lot easier when you have your pet plays and actions that you’re used to we’ve had for the last decade but got to make the adjustments while he’s out is is the new year like a a checkpoint for you in a

Season I know you mentioned something I think it was in Oklahoma City about wanting to correct stuff by the new year I mean do you view this as a time to step back and and assess Uh I think the situation we’ve been has forced us to do that on a much more consistent basis of you know it’s not like you’re just coming in thinking you can just keep doing the same thing and expect different results like we’re trying to actively trying to figure things out and

Having a lot of conversations and practice in the locker room on uh what those adjustments need to be and how we need to correct it but you know thankfully if you look at the standings and where we’re at it’s not not as you know it’s

Realistic for us to go on a run and close some space but you got to win games so uh we have what five more games on the homes then uh I think after this stretch you’ll know what kind of situation we’re in positively or negatively based on how we uh get

Through this then this home stand um um because at 15 and 17 like you start to you know feel a sense of urgency on where you are to try to set yourself up for being a playoff type team which is you know what we expect we

Expect it coming in we expect you know moving forward thank you

Stephen Curry meets with the media after the Golden State Warriors vs Dallas Mavericks loss on Warriors ground.