The Golden State Warriors had been looking for an identification with out Steph Curry, they usually simply couldn’t determine it out.

Following Wednesday’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, head coach Steve Kerr talked with ESPN about what his opponents did proper.

“[The Timberwolves] guarded us on the perimeter. They had been making an attempt to remove our 3s. And that pressured Jimmy [Butler] to play quite a lot of one-on-one in opposition to a protracted, athletic workforce. They simply made the choice to not go away our perimeter guys, even our non-shooters on the perimeter,” Kerr mentioned. “As soon as Steph went out, it modified every part for our entire workforce, however particularly for Jimmy.”

The Timberwolves took benefit of Curry’s absence, and issues had been by no means the identical for the Warriors.

They hounded practically each participant for Golden State, irrespective of the place they had been capturing from.

However their dogged strategy to guarding on the perimeter actually damage the Warriors, who had been enjoying terrific basketball previous to Curry’s harm.

With out him, the workforce regarded and felt utterly totally different.

The Timberwolves had been greater, stronger, and extra aggressive on protection.

All of that added as much as the Warriors being restricted from the perimeter and past the three-point arc.

Kerr believes his workforce would have had an opportunity to win all of it if Curry had been wholesome.

As an alternative, this playoff run will all the time be an enormous “what if” for Warriors followers, who will eternally surprise how issues might have performed out in a different way if that they had this greatest and most impactful star.

The Warriors are so reliant on Curry that the Timberwolves had been in a position to simply manipulate and restrict them whereas he was gone.

In the long run, that made all of the distinction and ended the season for Golden State.

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