The Golden State Warriors won the first game of the second round of the series Tuesday against the Minnesota Timberwolves, claiming their home advantage is a lower seed, but at a high cost. As ESPN's Shams Charania reported, the first grade stress was diagnosed Wednesday after leaving the game with a hamstring injury.

The Warriors are expected to play without a Curry game next week, meaning at least the next three games they missed and they will have to find a way to continue their success following Tuesday's shooting-driven success after Curry left the game to win the series position.

Let's break down how Golden State handles Curry's absence in Game 2 and how quickly the Warriors might need to return to the finals for the first time since Curry's 2022 title as the final MVP.

The Warriors' unsustainable shooting edge

Shortly after Curry made a three-pointer, he scored 13 points on the court and got 10 points shortly after giving him 13 points. Extended The lead was as high as 23 points ahead of the fourth quarter of the Minnesota campaign.

Without the greatest shooter in NBA history, the Warriors still scored 9-point five points on a key three-point shooting percentage in the third quarter, while Buddy Hield scored three points to continue his hot streak, which dates back to Sunday's seventh game defeat to the Houston Rockets. Draymond Green also made a fair impression, making four 3-pointers (highest in the playoffs since 2017), two of which were after Curry left the court.

Meanwhile, despite their 3-point three-pointer in Game 5, the Timberwolves' inaccurate shot beat the Los Angeles Lakers five games. Timberwolves scored 5 of 29 (17%) on the 3s, which is their second place in Game 5 for only the entire season.

This will not continue until Game 2. In fact, you might be surprised by the very few first-game shooting percentages in the 3-point range, telling us what will happen in the future. There has been no relationship between the three-point percentages in the first two games of the series over the past decade.

Golden State's arc outside the first game exceeded Minnesota's 39 points. Even with this difference, the Timberwolves are certainly favored without curry.

How to adjust without Stephen

Scoring without Curry is a problem for Golden State, dating back to the team's five consecutive finals and three championships in 2015. Throughout the regular season, the Warriors did not have Curry's offensive rating that ranked 11% of the 11% game.

However, Jimmy Butler's joining offers Golden State the opportunity to piece together a competitive offense during the trade deadline. Butler is not only better than any other fighter option for point guards — where natural wings Brandin Podziemski was a backup for Curry for most of the first half — he has the ability to get the efficiency of backing the free throw line Golden State.

The lineup with Butler but no Curry scored at league average after the deadline, cleaned the glasses each time, and scored an impressive 12.8 points per 100 innings with a 99-level defense.

In the next game, Warriors coach Steve Kerr's biggest challenge is probably to avoid running butlers entering the ground. After all, he missed the third game in the first round against Houston due to a pelvic contusion, and he is also dealing with the injury. Butler averaged 20.4 PPG since returning, but shot just 42% from the field.

Kerr and the Golden State coaching staff will have to carefully manage when to rest without leading organizers. The Warriors intersected with Green in the second half and sat more than three minutes of the third quarter. In that span, Golden State is a plus 1.

Curry's absence also forced Kerr to go further in Tuesday's rotation as regular season firm Moses Moody and Quinten Post struggled. Jonathan Kuminga played 13 minutes and scored five points, Pat Spencer became a source of energy with four points and two steals after playing against the Rockets in the last eight seconds of Game 7.

Curry's absence makes Minnesota favored

Often, the Warriors act like the first game of the toss series on the road will give them a clear advantage. Instead, Minnesota is now bigger on ESPN BET than the series due to Curry's injury. Their negative 200 odds meant winning the series was 65%.

Combined with Curry's absence, trends with the team that lost the first game in Game 2 and Minnesota's favor on Thursday was a 10.5-point win. I hope they are also a favorite of Bay 3 and 4 games, albeit narrower.

Apart from the time Curry would miss, another question for the Warriors is how he performs when he returns. If Curry rushes back, his mobility may be compromised to some extent.

As an extreme example, James Harden returns early to what he described, a more severe Division 2 hamstring strain in Game 1 against the Brooklyn Nets in the 2021 semifinal after teammate Kyrie Irving suffered an injury in Game 4 of the series. His mobility has been strictly limited in the last three games, with an average of only 14.3 points in the last three games, while Brooklyn lost the series in Game 7.

Severe blows are also the focus of hamstring strains. Any additional wins in Golden State can be obtained from now until he is cleared, which will make him as close to 100% as possible when he returns home. Either way, Curry's injury gave the Warriors an impossible first game with a very different perspective.