Assistant coach Ron Adams, renowned defensive guru, is not worried. That’s the wrong word. Hard to throw that word around when the Warriors have won 12 of their last 16 games.



Concerned? Not quite how Steve Kerr put it. Close, but concern implies a waning of confidence. They aren’t short on that.



Hmmmm. What’s the word that encapsulates how the Warriors feel about the terrible defense they’ve been playing? What’s the compromise between knowing it’s not acceptable and yet not even close to panic mode.



“It bothers me,” Andre Iguodala said after Monday’s practice. That’s it.



“I know we can turn it up,” he continued. “But it bothers me. Ron has a good point about if you’re a championship team, you’ve got to play up to that expectation night in and night out. And we haven’t been. We’ve got to have that mentality. We always talk about playing...