The Warriors ‘big’ problem has been exposed. Can practice fix it?

SAN FRANCISCO Basketball is often lauded as a match of skill Gifted ball-handlers jet through the open court Talented shooters turn slivers of space into spectacular shots Deft passers transform slight openings into assists The Warriors at their best have turned hoops into an art form But as the Blazers displayed in their - domination over Golden State at Chase Center on Friday night sometimes the largest part effective tactic in basketball is the simplest Being tall and being fast can be just as un-guardable as the majority intricate play Might can sometimes make right The Warriors missing Al Horford hamstring tightness in the fourth quarter were pounded on the boards They surrendered offensive rebounds and a whopping second-chance points So we know we re small out there at times but we got to play bigger than we are declared the - Steph Curry who often played next to - Brandin Podziemski and the - Gary Payton II Quinten Post Draymond Green and the rest of the Warriors bigs were unable to corral the - Donovan Clingan and the - Robert Williams as Golden State fell to - Fuming from the podium Warriors coach Steve Kerr bluntly assessed what went wrong That s the championship Kerr stated of the offensive rebounds A lot of them turned into -pointers - second chance points So that s the event They re an athletic band even missing a couple of their guys they re super-athletic They crash and put a lot of pressure on us The visiting Blazers were missing every guard but benchwarmers Caleb Love and Rayan Rupert The Warriors supposedly wished Jrue Holliday and Shaedon Sharpe were available Instead they had to contend with an endless wave of -foot- athletic wings and Golden State did not handle it well The Warriors tried - Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green at power forward at times and neither Post nor Horford now considered day-to-day were particularly imposing in the middle Undersized and old the Warriors deficit in the size and athleticism categories were starkly apparent especially as Jonathan Kuminga missed his fifth encounter in a row The Warriors entered the championship ranked st in rebounds per tournament They were outrebounded - but the issues went beyond Golden State just being smaller than the super-sized Blazers We re just not guarding anybody and from what I can tell that s never been the formula here to win a championship Butler explained You ve got to take each and every matchup personal Related Articles Warriors instant analysis Steph Curry s big night not enough to lift unit past towering Blazers Five decades later the championship Warriors are a gang still worth remembering Longtime Warriors assistant DeMarco to lead WNBA s New York Liberty Kurtenbach The Warriors survived the hard part of their schedule Now it s time for a run Short-handed Warriors battle without Curry Butler and Green but Miami surges late for - win Getting beat off the dribble meant bigs had to help off their man which left the company susceptible to offensive rebounds Kerr hoped that a inadequate good days of practice will help solve specific of those issues Because of the club playing games in the first days of the season the Warriors have not been able to practice more than a scant times Now the schedule lightens up Five games in days and ample time to focus on the little things Will that make much of a difference That remains to be seen and it will not be the only part of the Warriors short-term plan that changes before the Warriors take on Utah Houston and New Orleans this week We ll think about going back to Quinten Post to get more size out there that s a definite possibility Kerr explained We ll just have to get a good guage on our organization here during this coming week watch the film and see if that s something we want to do