It took teamwork to make the Warriors this bad this fast

December 2, 2:22 AMGolden State Warriors ExaminerMatt Steinmetz

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It’s all their faults. All three of them.

No one of them bears any less or any more responsibility than the other. Each one of the three is equally responsible for this sad, sad turn of events.

Warriors president Robert Rowell, executive VP of basketball operations Chris Mullin and coach Don Nelson: They are the ones to blame for this.

Those are the three men who took a 48-win Golden State Warriors basketball team and turned it into that team we watched play the Miami Heat last night at Oracle Arena.

Last year’s Warriors weren’t just any 48-win basketball team mind you, but one of the most exciting, peculiar and unpredictable 48-win teams ever.

Sure, they were flawed. Hell, they had glaring shortcomings.

But the Warriors were fun. More than fun, actually. They were wound up and emotional, and they really seemed to like to play together.

Of course they weren't built for the long haul. But they weren't OKC, LAC or NYK, either.

And who are this year's Warriors exactly?

Well, this year’s Warriors lost their seventh straight game on Monday, a 130-129 overtime job to Miami, dropping their record to 5-13.

Just like that … the Warriors aren’t good anymore.

And here’s a fact and don’t let anybody tell you different: Nobody knows when they’ll be good again.

Certainly not Rowell, the meddlesome bean-counter who has sabotaged the keen basketball decisions of his front office.

Certainly not Mullin, the GM who has overpaid run-of-the-mill players and hasn't drafted well, to boot. 

And certainly not Nellie, the divider, not uniter.

It doesn’t really matter how much, if any, of the above is true. Any of it. Some of it. All of it. None of it.

All that seems to matter is that each of them has a camp, and it’s important how many people are in them.

Who cares?

It’s December 2, and the Warriors are lousy again. So lousy, in fact, that it’s not just one guy’s fault.

So lousy, in fact, that it took three guys.