Warriors star Jimmy Butler’s defiant take amid Stephen Curry fatigue issue
Jimmy is embracing the Warriors’ longtime ethos.
On Monday night, the Golden State Warriors’ seven-game winning streak came to an end at the hands of the Nikola Jokic-less Denver Nuggets, 114-105. The Warriors had all of their key guys except for Brandin Podziemski, and yet they couldn’t extend their winning streak, unable to overcome a rough 6-21 shooting night from Stephen Curry, who also turned the ball over seven times to further compound the Dubs’ issues.
This was a rather uncharacteristic off night from Curry, who’s been playing excellent basketball especially after the Warriors brought in Jimmy Butler via trade. Head coach Steve Kerr said that this poor performance was the result of fatigue that piled up for the Warriors star.
Nevertheless, for Butler, he feels like it’s his and the rest of the Warriors squad’s job to pick up the slack when Curry isn’t at his best.
“It’s okay to be tired. That’s on myself and that’s on us as a unit to pick up the slack for him,” Butler said. “As [much as] everybody wants to think that he’s superhuman, he’s not. He is our leader, and we must protect him at all times. That’s on myself for sure. But everybody else [has] to make sure that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing to give him a break.”
