By Geoff Lepper
48minutes.net

It’s too bad the Warriors had a chartered bus ready to usher them out of AT&T Center on Saturday after Golden State’s dismal sleepwalk through a 123-88 defeat at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs.

It would have been fascinating to count up just how many cabs were needed to deliver them back to the team hotel.

Thanks to two championships in the last five years, the Boston Red Sox have shed their decades-old label of a team that requires 25 cabs for 25 different players due to a lack of unity and camaraderie, both on the field and off.

Based on what took place Saturday in San Antonio, it looks as though that mantle has been taken up by the Warriors. Things seem like they’ve gotten to the point where it’s time to declare “every man for himself” on the S.S. Nelson, which is taking on water at a frightening rate.

Check out what transpired over one 6-minute stretch of the first quarter, during which time the Spurs raised their lead from 8-6 to 28-16.

Golden State had 17 possessions during that timeframe:

** On one possession, the Warriors made three passes, going counter-clockwise around the perimeter until the ball reached C.J. Watson in the right corner. Watson used his agility to change direction quickly enough that Matt Bonner was forced to concede the non-shooting foul.

** On 11 possessions, the Warriors made only one pass in the frontcourt before the receiver would either make a move to the hoop or hoist a jumper. As a team, the Warriors went 3-for-9 from the floor on those possessions, with one trip to the foul line (two shots converted by Jamal Crawford) and one non-shooting foul drawn (Andris Biedrins on Tim Duncan).

** The remaining five possessions involved no passes at all. Twice, Crawford took an outlet pass and called his own number on jumpers, going 0-for-2. Twice, Corey Maggette collected rebounds and dribbled the length of the court, once getting fouled (he knocked down both FTs) and once missing a pullup jumper over Michael Finley. The fifth possession came about when Biedrins grabbed an offensive board and was whistled for knocking over Fabricio Oberto while trying to score the putback.

All told for those 17 possessions: 3-12 FG, 4-4 FT, 1 TO, minus-10 on the scoreboard.

And the good times were only beginning.

It was shortly after that hideous stretch that Maggette corralled a loose ball in the…

By Geoff Lepper
48minutes.net

Before Cleveland shipped Larry Hughes out of town last season as part of an 11-player, three-team trade, one disgruntled Cavaliers fan was so moved by Hughes’ continuing legacy of inaccuracy that he started a Web site with the following address: heylarryhughespleasestoptakingsomanybadshots.com.

Friday, the Warriors wanted Hughes to stop shooting, but for a very different reason: The ex-Warrior hit five of his seven 3-point attempts en route to a team-high 26 points in the Chicago Bulls’ 115-110 victory.

Though their first 10 games, the Warriors were doing pretty well at defending the 3-pointer. This week, that’s all changed. Thanks to a combined 22-for-45 performance on treys by the Trail Blazers on Tuesday and the Bulls on Friday, Golden State has gone from a top-five spot in the league (31.1 percent) to 15th-best (34.9).

To see Portland, the league’s best 3-point shooting team, have success at the arc is understandable.

But to be battered outside by the Bulls, who are strictly middle-of-the-road when it comes to that discipline (35.0 percent, 16th in the league), demands some further investigation. Especially when you consider that Hughes, Thabo Sefolosha and Lindsey Hunter, who hit for nine treys against the Warriors, came into the game having shot a combined 2-for-19 in that zone.

The details:

10:07 remaining, first quarter, Sefolosha, left wing: This one wasn’t quite cricket, as the Brits would say; Chicago took advantage of the fact that Corey Maggette fell down while scoring on the Warriors’ previous possession and Sefolosha took his time before draining the shot.

6:31, first, Sefolosha, right corner: The possession started to break down for the Warriors (as so often was the case Friday) when point guard wunderkind Derrick Rose blew past his man (in this case, C.J. Watson). When Andris Biedrins slid over to provide help, Rose fed the ball to Biedrins’ man, Drew Gooden. Gooden steamed down the lane, and when Maggette left Sefolosha to stop penetration, Gooden found him for the open look.

2:33, first, Hughes, left wing: Anthony Morrow, Hughes’ defender, stumbled trying to avoid crashing into Maggette while the play was developing. Sefolosha swung the ball to Hughes, who immediately pulled the trigger.

11:18, second, Hughes, top key right: Maggette, who is covering Hughes at this point, gets sucked into the lane when Hunter misses a long 2. Andres Nocioni grabs the offensive rebound and kicks the ball out to Hughes.

5:48, second, Hughes, top key left: Stephen Jackson stands at the free-throw line and watches while Hunter…