Run TMC weighs in on Warriors’ 0-7 road record
The last time the Warriors opened the season with an 0-7 road record,
Tim Hardaway was a rookie and the trio of him, Mitch Richmond and Chris
Mullin had yet to have earned its nickname, "Run TMC."
>Run TMC, from left, Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond
(John Green/Staff)
By MADELINE KENNEY | mkenney@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 14, 2022 at 6:43 p.m. | UPDATED: November 14, 2022
at 7:16 p.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/11/14/run-tmc-weighs-in-on-warriors-0-7-road-record/

SAN FRANCISCO — The last time the Warriors opened the season with an 0-7
road record, Tim Hardaway was a rookie and the trio of him, Mitch
Richmond and Chris Mullin had yet to have earned its nickname, “Run TMC.”

Hardaway remembered some of the growing pains that came with the start
of what ultimately became a Hall of Fame career. But what he didn’t
recall was that the Warriors didn’t win a road game until mid-December.

The Warriors opened the 1989-90 season with an 0-9 road record.

“Wow, really?” Hardaway said Monday when told his rookie campaign was
the last time the Warriors struggled this bad away from home. “Way to
bring us in.”

Hardaway, Richmond and Mullin weren’t at Chase Center to talk about the
Warriors’ early-season road woes. Instead, the iconic trio was there to
takeover the broadcast booth, in part, to celebrate Hardaway’s Hall of
Fame enshrinement this summer that officially immortalized Run TMC in
Springfield, Massachusetts.

But Hardaway and Mullin did offer some insight on to why the Warriors
are struggling to get their first win away from home.

Hardaway, known for his killer crossover, was still adjusting to the
transition from college to the NBA.

“We were still trying to learn stuff, each other and in my rookie year,
I was still trying to learn stuff, keep Nellie [Ball] happy and stuff
like that,” Hardaway said.

Mullin said Hardaway’s assessment of the 1989-90 start was reflective to
what the current team is going through. He noted that the Warriors are a
“very young” bunch with six players on the bench 23 and under. With that
inexperience, the secondary unit is still “trying to figure things out,”
he said.

“This is a unique situation with this group because you’re talking about
a dynasty and trying to extend beyond a dynasty and trying to extend way
beyond any dynasty we’ve seen in the past,” Mullin continued. “The
Celtics, the Lakers, the Bulls, they all broke up before this point in
time. So they’re trying to extend this run with Steph [Curry], Klay
[Thompson], Draymond [Green] and Andre [Iguodala] into their mid-30s.
That’s a tough thing to do. It’s very early in the season. So trying to
bridge that gap and find the connection with the first units and second
unit.”

Mullin said the adversity last season’s team experienced on its way to
the championship might’ve been tougher than what the current team is
dealing with. Thompson, Green and Curry played only 11 minutes together
in the regular season due to injuries before they were reunited in the
first round of the playoffs.

“They got it together at the right time,” Mullin said. “Even the Finals,
I thought that was somewhat a bad matchup athletically and they got
their defense together and figured it out.”

Mullin believes it might be better that the 5-8 Warriors is facing
hardships this early in the season. He believes it’s just a matter of
time before the group gets its season back on track.

“Between [Jonathan] Kuminga, Moses Moody, and James Wiseman, they’ll
figure it out,” he said. “It’s just trying to connect those starter who
have it figured out, they read and react on offense and defense
perfectly. They’ve been togehter for a decade, that’s a long time to
expect them to just figure it out and play the same way.”