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SAN FRANCISCO – Couldn’t shoot, couldn’t defend, too often treated the ball as if it were worthless. For 16 minutes in the heart of the game Friday night, the Warriors were at their messiest against the one team they’d never beaten at Chase Center.

And still haven’t.

They once again bowed to the Indiana Pacers, who extended their perfect record (5-0) in Golden State’s home building by seizing the game late in the first half and never giving it back, pinning a 123-111 loss on the Warriors that leaves their postseason hopes at cliff’s edge.

“Ain’t nobody going to feel sorry for us,” Chris Paul said.

A deep NBA playoff run by the Warriors appears ever more farcical.

The No. 6 seed in the Western Conference, still coveted, is fading from out of view.

Even a successful NBA play-in tournament, which they’ve never wanted but now would accept, seems a stretch for these Warriors, who would be “on the bubble” if there were a selection committee.