The Golden State Warriors had a bad loss on Sunday. A really, really, really bad loss. An embarrassing loss. A pathetic loss. I’m sure you’ve publicly and privately said about 25 other adjectives and qualifiers for said loss, a 52-point shellacking at the hands of the Eastern Conference’s elite, the Boston Celtics, which brought their eight-game road win streak to a rubber-burning screech of a halt.
Bad losses happen. Hell, really bad losses happen. Admittedly not usually like this — this was only the sixth time in franchise history that the organization had lost by 50 or more points, with a 53-point loss to the Toronto Raptors in 2021 being the only other time it’s happened in the last 50 years.