The Warriors would have lost to the Nets on their opening night, even if Andrew Wiggins had a decent game. But they were defeated in a non-competitive way because Wiggins played a terrible game. He was a little better against the Bucks. But his trip changed at a time when competition worsened. So did the Warriors’ trip, crowned by a 116-106 victory over the Pistons in Detroit on Tuesday night.
Your record: 2-2. This was always the expected result, even when a pre-season playoff pick seemed safer. The Lakers are 2-2. Nuggets are 1-2. The Rockets are 0-2. The Warriors still have the worst points differential in the league: -54 in four games. But it goes down much easier when the record is 0.500 and a small surge of momentum is sending them into a seven-game house driven by the likely return of Draymond Green.
The Warriors had a bit of luck with the schedule. They were lucky enough to put the two best teams in front of the trip and the two …