The Warriors’ joy of an upset win against the Timberwolves in Game 1 was overshadowed by a Steph Curry injury.
It was a non-contact hamstring strain and Curry will miss at least one week because of it.
Now, Golden State faces a tough battle and will need to win at least one more game without their offensive weapon.
There’s no “win one for Steph” pep talk, head coach Steve Kerr says, because everything revolves around him.
“He’s like Tim Duncan in San Antonio, Michael Jordan in Chicago,” Kerr said. “None of it happens without Steph. And everybody knows that. The whole team understands that.”
Warriors fans are praying that Curry may be able to return for a Game 6 on May 18 in front of a home crowd, if the series gets that far.
“So we’re in that room right now talking about how we’re going to approach it, what the lineups will look like,” Kerr said. “And it’s all part of it. I mean, every year, playoffs are about adapting, whether it’s a game plan or an injury or lineup.
“So we just have to adapt. And we’ve done this before, and we’re confident we can do this again.”
Kerr wasn’t hiding the fact that Jimmy Butler will be upping his workload.
“We’re absolutely going to rely on Jimmy like we have when Steph has been off the floor the last couple of months,” Kerr said. “We basically run everything through Jimmy in those moments, so he’ll take on more responsibility. But we can’t just rely on him.”
Green told reporters on Tuesday night:
“I’m not gonna let that reality set in right now. We’ll start figuring that out tomorrow.
“Obviously, things get tougher if we got to go forward without Steph. But it’s the same mission. We’re trying to keep this thing going to win as many games as we can.”
