What a difference two duds make.
The Warriors, playing on the road and with half their roster in orthopedic supports and devices, lost consecutive games last weekend. Such a turn of events would be little noted nor long remembered in almost any other NBA outpost. But it turned heads in the Bay Area given that in the four years Steve Kerr has coached the team, the Warriors rarely have chased a loss with another loss.
It also turned heads at FiveThirtyEight, the numbers-crunching website that endeavors to predict the outcome of everything from college hoops to presidential elections.