Chances are you won't be hearing any Queen or David Bowie at Oracle Arena over the next couple of weeks.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Saturday his team is starting to feel the pressure as it continues its quest to set a single-season record for wins.
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Following Friday night's 109-106 loss to the Boston Celtics, who snapped Golden State's 54-game home win streak, the Warriors (68-8) can lose just one of their last six games to set an NBA single-season record of 73 wins. That total would break the 72-10 mark set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls.
"I think they want the [wins] record," Kerr said, via ESPN, following Saturday's practice. "But I think what they probably realize is maybe all the talk and all the focus on the record has gotten us away from the process of who we are.
"I do think the constant questions and talk about — whether it's home win streak or record or whatever — I think all that stuff does take its toll, whether the players know it or not, whether it's a conscious thing or not, and it probably has taken a little bit away from, as I said, our process or our work."
Two of Golden State's remaining games are against the San Antonio Spurs, who are 64-12 and a perfect 39-0 at home. Golden State's next game is Sunday night against the Portland Trail Blazers (40-36).
The Warriors were inconsistent the entire month of March, winning seven games by single digits — including two in overtime — and losing three times. Those losses were to the lowly Los Angeles Lakers, an 87-79 loss at San Antonio on March 19, and Friday's home loss to the Celtics.
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Kerr was a player on the record-setting Bulls team and said this season's Warriors are going through the same thing.
"It's exactly the same," Kerr said. "Honestly, it was exactly the same. Constant media questioning about the streak.
"In fact, if you look back at that season, we lost two home games in the last week, 10 days of the season, both by a basket or one point," Kerr added. "We were, I think, I want to say 37-0 or something that season at home, and we lost two of our last four. When we did break the record, in Milwaukee, I still remember it. It was a horrendous basketball game. We won like 85-80 or something. So yeah, it was like the same kind of thing. Constant scrutiny, little slippage in our execution, eking out wins, so it does feel the same way."
The Bulls went on to win the fourth of six championships in the 90s. The Warriors are going for their second straight title this season, single-season record or not.