SAN FRANCISCO – Stephen Curry began his Christmas Day at Chase Center by speaking at a players-only meeting of the Golden State Warriors before facing the Los Angeles Lakers, then backed up the speech with his best performance of the holiday.

Curry scored 38 points, including eight points in a frantic final 25.7 seconds of play, only to watch Austin Reaves score a layup with 1.7 seconds left to give the Lakers a 115-113 victory over the Warriors bestowed.

After a 12-3 start, Golden State has lost 11 of its last 14 games. That’s why Curry and his teammates came together to talk about how they could get out of this crisis.

“It’s obviously a turning point in the direction our season can go,” Curry said after setting his personal best for a Christmas game. “Over the last 14 games it’s just been difficult to find any kind of momentum or consistency and you just can’t lose heart and faith that we’re a good enough team to figure it out because this League is ruthless.” .

“This league changes from window to window what you can fall back on and when you dig yourself a hole like that it can be difficult to get out of it sometimes. So we’re right in the window where we can still win something back.” However, the momentum is crucial many weeks before the (All-Star) break, otherwise we’ll find ourselves in a situation where we’re in the home stretch and no one wants to be there.

There’s a chance Curry won’t be available to help Golden State (15-14) snap a two-game losing streak when the Warriors play the LA Clippers on Friday at the Intuit Dome. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the team will try to rest Curry at some point in the next two games to treat bilateral tendonitis in his knees. The Warriors play back-to-back games, starting in Los Angeles and at home against the Phoenix Suns on Saturday.

“We’re down,” Kerr said of the team’s morale during this crisis. “Everyone is disappointed. We lost some confidence. You can feel that. We had a great atmosphere at the start of the season and that’s what we’re experiencing right now.”

“But I love our boys, boys with strong character. They care. They care about each other’s lives.”

Curry did everything he could to change the Warriors’ momentum. Golden State trailed 104-94 with 3:27 left. Curry then scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter, tying the game at 113-113 with 7.6 seconds left. He hit two 3-point bombs in five seconds and sent the Chase Center into a frenzy as his Christmas showdown with LeBron James lived up to the hype.

Curry was 14 of 24 from the field, including 8 of 15 from behind the arc. But it wasn’t enough.

The Warriors continue to look for a way to turn things around after slipping to eighth place in the Western Conference standings.

“We’re at a point right now where you can either let go and drop a few more,” Warriors center Trayce Jackson-Davis said. “Or you can get back on the horse and start winning.”

Kerr, Curry and Draymond Green have repeatedly stated that they believe the Warriors are a good team and will get through this stretch.

“I still have hope, confidence and belief that we can do it,” Curry said. “So I’m built that way and I feel like you go out there and talk about it, but also how you do it, how you show up every night, the lengths we go to, even considering how long our record has been .” In the final stretch, it’s a team desperately trying to figure it out. So yeah, until things change, you have to keep that mentality.