"Rocky" isn't really a Christmas movie, but it sounds like Warriors general manager Bob Myers might have rewatched some of the series leading into the holidays.
"The comeback story is the best in America,” Myers recently told The San Francisco Chronicle's Ann Killion. “This is ‘Rocky III,’ and we just got knocked out by Clubber Lang. We’re not ready for the fight."
An apt comparison. Much like Rocky, the Warriors have fallen from their lofty heights as champions, and now look up at the competition that so anxiously has been waiting for their downfall.
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After losing 24 of their first 29 games, the Warriors just recently have begun to experience some of that fun, having upset the Rockets on Christmas Day to establish their first three-game winning streak of the season. Nobody with Golden State -- Myers included -- was ready for the lengthy gap between emotional highs.
"Nobody could prepare for the abruptness or the degree of it," Myers explained. "We were at the top of the mountain. Instead of walking back down, we got thrown off the top.
"Now we're at the bottom, with broken limbs."
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To get back to the top, Myers envisions his current task as being similar to what he encountered when he first joined the Warriors' front office.
"When I showed up, we dumped all the puzzle pieces on the table," he said. “There's Steph Curry, he's a corner piece. That was the only one we knew. Then we sifted the pieces, put them together.
"Then Kevin (Durant) comes along and for the last three years the puzzle was done. Don't touch it. Don’t knock it off the table."
Myers himself didn't knock it off, but the puzzle was disassembled nonetheless. After tinkering with the Warriors' roster throughout the dynasty, he'll need to make some far greater changes moving forward.
"How are we going to fix it?" Myers asked. "For me, selfishly, I'm looking forward to that part."
Myers will be armed with a few valuable assets -- namely a high lottery pick and a sizeable trade exception -- to expedite Golden State's resurgence this coming offseason. In the meantime, the Warriors will be forced to play out a season far different than they've become used to.
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So different, in fact, that Myers isn't overlooking the significance of a regular-season victory, which was so easy to do in recent years.
"It's not like that anymore," he said. "You have to fall down to appreciate standing up."