Steve Kerr Calls Out Warriors After Another Winnable Game Slips Away

The Golden State Warriors just cannot seem to catch a break right now, and head coach Steve Kerr knows it.

After Golden State fell to the Chicago Bulls 130-124 in overtime on Tuesday night at Chase Center, Kerr was honest about the state of his team and the tough stretch they have been on.

"Both very winnable games. Had the lead late tonight obviously one we should have had but this is how the NBA is. Especially when you're beaten up you're not going to blow anybody out, games are going to be tight, you got to finish and we didn't finish either of the last two nights," Kerr said after the loss.

The loss to the Bulls came less than 24 hours after Golden State dropped a 119-116 game to the Utah Jazz on Monday night, a game where the Warriors shot just 14-of-21 from the free throw line against one of the worst teams in the league.

Against Chicago, the Warriors had a chance to close it out in regulation but let it slip away when Jalen Smith hit two free throws with 1.4 seconds left to send the game into overtime.

From there, Bulls forward Matas Buzelis took over and poured in a career-high 41 points while Josh Giddey added a triple-double with 21 points, 17 assists and 13 rebounds.

Brandin Podziemski has been one of the few bright spots during this stretch and is averaging 12.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game this season, but his efforts have not been enough to keep the Warriors from stumbling.

Pat Spencer and LJ Cryer each put up 17 points, and Kristaps Porzingis added 17 points and four blocks, but without their best player on the floor the Warriors simply could not finish the job.

That best player is Stephen Curry, who has not played since January 30 due to right patellofemoral pain syndrome, also known as runner's knee.

In his 39 games this season, Curry has averaged 27.2 points, 4.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 39.1 percent from three-point range, numbers that show just how much Golden State is missing without him.

The Warriors announced that Curry would be out for another 10 days early on Wednesday as well.

Even that timeline feels optimistic considering Curry himself has called the injury "unpredictable" and said it has not healed the way he or the team had hoped.

On top of losing Curry, Golden State already lost Jimmy Butler for the season back in January when he tore his ACL, and the injury report has only continued to grow in the weeks since.

With the back-to-back losses, the Warriors have fallen to 32-33 on the season and now sit in ninth in the Western Conference.

The Bulls improved to 27-38 with the overtime win and sit 12th in the Eastern Conference, making this the kind of game Kerr was talking about when he said these were "very winnable."

Golden State did pick up a huge upset win over the Houston Rockets last week even with a shorthanded roster, which showed that this group can still compete when things go their way, but the problem is that things have not been going their way nearly enough.

The Warriors have 17 games left in the regular season, and without Curry on the floor, every loss stings a little more than the last.

If Golden State wants to make a playoff push, they will need Curry back soon, and they will need to start finishing the games that Kerr says they should be winning.

Their next game comes Friday at home against the Timberwolves, and it is shaping up to be another must-win for a team that is running out of time.