(My Sportsbook) - After stunning the San Antonio Spurs in the season-opener, the Golden State Warriors have dropped three straight and once again resemble that forever-immature squad we've become accustomed to.

It hasn't been all ugly for the Warriors, who have been in virtually every game this year, most recently a tough 107-100 loss at Dallas.

With five minutes left in Monday's game, Gilbert Arenas sank a three-pointer to pull Golden State even at 89-89. But Dallas responded with a 10-2 run, highlighted by Nick Van Exel's trey over Mike Dunleavy, Jr. that all but sealed the victory for the Mavs.

First-year coach Eric Musselman feels the problem lies in his team's bad habit of falling behind early.

"If you look at all of our first quarter scores we've come out behind in every game," Musselman said after the loss to Dallas. "We need to figure out a way to come out more mentally ready. For a ball club as young as we are there's not a lot of teams that would have fought back after being down 20 and competed the way they did."

The Warriors fell behind Dallas 32-20 after the first quarter and trailed 63-45 at the break. Golden State trailed 24-16 after the opening quarter in its loss to Utah and the Warriors found themselves in a 34-22 hole entering the second frame against Seattle.

But lack of mental toughness is something that should be expected from a team But lack of mental toughness is something that should be expected from a team currently starting three second-year players (Arenas, Jason Richardson, Troy Murphy).

After scoring just eight points on 2-of-15 shooting versus Utah, Richardson poured in 39 points against Seattle. Richardson's total was one shy of his career-high of 40, which came against Sacramento back on April 16 of last season.

Another sophomore turning heads is Arenas. The Arizona product is averaging 18.0 points, 6.5 assists and 6.0 rebounds in his first full season as the team's starting point guard.

"The offense is going through Antawn [Jamison] and Jason most of the time and I take my shot when I feel I'm open or when I have a great opportunity to get into the lane," said Arenas.

In Richardson and Arenas the Warriors have their backcourt of the future. But the word "future" is all too synonymous with this stalled franchise.