Warriors vs. Rockets: Golden State does not really care about the regular season

The Rockets went to Oracle Arena without James Harden and beat the Golden State Warriors, 118-112, in one of the biggest setbacks of the regular season. The Warriors defeated their five starters without success, losing for the first time in 11 attempts against Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and DeMarcus Cousins.

Houston had the game since the jump, scoring the first 15 points of the game. It took more than four minutes for Golden State to score for the first time, while Eric Gordon, PJ Tucker and Chris Paul brightened the scene. The Warriors made a late comeback, with less than four points in the last 30 seconds, but that was too little, too late.

Subsequently, the Warriors were remarkably calm despite the loss of their country. Almost too calm. The biggest success of the evening was not the way they lost, it's the way they flatly expressed their boredom with the regular season.

1. Kevin Durant kept real

Draymond Green injured his ankle after stomping on Cousins' foot in the second half of the match and did not return. After the match, Green said he did not expect to waste a lot of time.

When Durant was asked about his concern for Green, he replied, "I mean, he'll be back for the playoffs. That's the only thing that concerns us here, is not it?

It's … rather simple. Durant has reason to think so and most of them probably agree, but it was shocking to hear the language so little actually.

2 Draymond Green said that this game "did not feel that it was important"

It is obvious that Golden State is tired after three titles in four years, but we all know that this team is ultimately too talented to miss the final. And they know it too.

"We'll be fine," Green said. "We have to focus and lock ourselves. The game must count. From the beginning of the match, tonight, it did not seem to matter. It was not like it was important. The game must count more. "

Green then mentioned poor practice the day before.

3. Klay Thompson is not afraid of Houston

A television reporter asked Thompson if this loss against the Rockets was even more frustrating given the problems faced by the Houston Golden State over the last two regular seasons. The Rockets won two out of three games in the last regular season and won all three victories this year. There is only one match left for March.

"Guess what," said Thompson. "We did not have a problem to overcome the bump in the playoffs."

Golden State won the Western Conference final last year, but only after the Rockets pushed them to seven games. An injury to Chris Paul in the fifth match helped, just like Houston, missing 27 free kicks in the seventh game.

The Warriors want to simulate the rest of the season as fans do with NBA2K franchises, but they can not. You can understand why they become lethargic.

But they let that mentality cost them an easy win at home against a Harden-less Rockets team, which continues to raise eyebrows.