It certainly affected how they chose to defend key crunchtime possessions.
The story of the night — and a statistic everyone will most certainly point their finger at as the culprit behind the Golden State Warriors’ 102-99 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers — is the Warriors’ collective failure at the free-throw line, where they shot an abysmal 9-of-19 (47.4%) as opposed to the Clippers’ 16-of-18 clip from the charity stripe.
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