They will need to summon every drop of authentic, exaggerated, barely existent and imagined optimism in the entire organization to make the rest of this Warriors season something more than a six-month journey through NBA purgatory.
They will need to almost willfully ignore the present reality — after Stephen Curry broke his hand on Wednesday night, which added to Klay Thompson’s torn ACL, Kevon Looney’s indefinite absence and the loss of Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala — to feel semi-decent about themselves.
The Warriors will absorb so many bad losses, just like three of the first four games of this season, including Wednesday’s 121-110 listless loss to the Phoenix Suns at Chase Center, that they will need to reset and recalculate almost everything about themselves or else things will get quite depressing.
Luckily for the Warriors in this regard, they are owned by one of the most committed optimists in the history of professional sports,…
