"Kelenna (Azubuike) was going to play anyway. He was always in our rotation. It's the guys out of our rotation who got a chance to play more than any of them. We have too many guys. The 2-guard is going to be the problem.

"There's not enough minutes to play everybody. Somebody is going to get their feelings hurt. That's part of playing. They just have to accept it, that's all."

Morrow sounds as if he will still receive playing time, but it would seem difficult to fit Stephen Jackson, Jamal Crawford, Corey Maggette, Morrow, Azubuike and Marco Belinelli all into the shooting guard and small forward minutes.

"I don't really know," Nelson said of how he'll divide the playing time.

"It depends on Belinelli, when he comes back, how good he is early. We just have to wait and see. Right now, we know Crawford is going to play a lot. Monta (Ellis, the starter at point guard) is going to play a lot. I'm going to have a back up. Guess what, that's about it."

--The Warriors failed to score 100 points for the third consecutive game after topping 100 in the previous 14 games. They averaged 92.3 points in the three-game road trip.

--The Warriors, second in the NBA in free throw attempts per game with an average of 30, shot just 23 against the Rockets a night after they went to the line just 22 times against the Hornets.

--The Warriors' bench scored 41 points, led by Corey Maggette's 17 points and C.J. Watson's 12. In the previous game against the Rockets in Houston, the starters scored 94 of the team's 112 points.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "We're having to adjust on the fly since we're just getting some guys back into action. Sometimes it looks OK and other nights it doesn't. I thought we had a rhythm going the last three or four weeks. We have a lot of scorers and that is just what we do." -- Jamal Crawford, on the team's depth on the perimeter.