Coach Kerr unhappy with Warriors' wasteful lapses

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the reigning National Basketball Association champions are under .500 because they can't "close out games" after squandering a double-digit lead for the third straight game.

Royce O'Neale buried a go-ahead three-pointer with 28.5sec remaining, Kyrie Irving capped a 38-point performance with a pair of clinching free throws 14sec later and the Brooklyn Nets defeated the Warriors 120-116 on Sunday night in San Francisco.

With the win, Brooklyn completed a two-game sweep of the season series against the Warriors.

Kerr told ESPN: "We're 23-24 for a reason. We're not good enough to close games... it feels like we're getting close and then we have a lapse."

His star guard Stephen Curry added: "Losing is a terrible feeling... That's our challenge, to not be in the situation where every other night we are explaining why we didn't get the job done."