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SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Steph Curry may have been away from the postgame podium<\/a> after Thursday night\u2019s victory over the Knicks, but the team does not expect their franchise player to miss any time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteph, he\u2019s good, yeah,\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr<\/a> said after Friday\u2019s practice. \u201cHe\u2019s fine (for Saturday\u2019s game against the Hornets).\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors are winners of 10 of their last 14, and as always, Curry has had an outsized impact on the run of positive results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has averaged 26.9 points per game while also averaging 6.2 assists per night during that stretch.<\/p>\n

Though Curry avoided a serious injury, the same could not be said for forward Gui Santos, who exited the victory over the Knicks with a left ankle sprain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWon\u2019t play (Saturday), and it looks like it\u2019s not a really bad sprain, so I\u2019ll give you an update in a couple of days,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big loss, the energy, the offensive rebounding, but also the size, when we go to him and Gary Payton II, we\u2019re generally playing him at the four next to Draymond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santos has become a fixture in the rotation over the last 10 games, averaging 3.2 rebounds in around 16 minutes per game, a number that understates the impact he has made with his hustle plays.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aside from Santos, though, the Warriors are expected to be at full strength for Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Importance of practice<\/p>\n

Kerr is a product of another era, the 1990s, a time when teams practiced regularly even during the heart of the season. Teams nowadays, with a schedule that rarely has the extended two-to-four day gaps between games that were once plentiful, practice at a much lower frequency than Kerr would like.<\/p>\n

So during the team\u2019s current eight-game homestand, chock full of one-day breaks between tipoffs, the Warriors\u2019 coach has made sure to take advantage by having practices as often as he is allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is good reason for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re sharper for what we did for just over 20 minutes,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt may not seem like much, but it matters, just to clean up little details, they go into the game tomorrow a little sharper with our execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the team travels, finding time to get those practices in is much more difficult, so Kerr has been happy to get a few practices in when the schedule allows. <\/p>\n

Horford finding his rhythm<\/p>\n

The long homestand has done more than just given the coaching staff more opportunities to put together practices. It has also helped Al Horford finally find something of a rhythm after spending the first third of the season dealing with injuries and restrictions with back-to-backs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just not really overthinking plays, and I\u2019m just going out there and playing and executing the things I need to do,\u201d Horford said. \u201cYou get into a routine and you can stay consistent, and avoiding those back-to-backs are always helpful, since I can\u2019t play them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horford has played the past six games, with the Warriors\u2019 last back-to-back being Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, where he played the first game and sat the second. He has made 8 of 23 triples during that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Steph Curry may have been away from the postgame podium after Thursday night\u2019s victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,160,479,164,4025,4024,6,162,66,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-541651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115907561502817039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}