Interim Kings coach Doug Christie took more than an hour to come out for his postgame news conference Friday night following an embarrassing home loss to the Golden State Warriors.

When Christie finally took the podium, he had calmness in his voice and intensity in his eyes. He didn’t offer a specific reason for the long delay, but it was clear he had delivered an impassioned message to his team.

“The message is not something I can say right here, but totally unacceptable,” Christie said. “I get down in a certain way and I expect you guys to represent that. I know what these fans appreciate and what they want, and I know what our organization wants, and that ain’t it. That ain’t ever going to be it.”

Christie sounded like a man who was sounding the alarm, demanding more from his team after suffering a 132-108 loss to the Warriors before a sellout crowd of 18,098 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. When asked what Christie said to the team, Kings guard Malik Monk provided a brief summary.

“We can’t get embarrassed like that at home,” Monk said.

Monk later added: “We can’t get punked like that at home. That can’t happen again.”

The Kings have struggled with turnovers since trading franchise cornerstone De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs in the three-team deal that brought Zach LaVine to Sacramento. They were 28th in the NBA in turnovers in their first seven games without Fox. They were even worse against the Warriors in their first game after the All-Star break, turning the ball over a season-high 24 times while getting outscored 38-5 in points off turnovers.

“Twenty-four (turnovers) for 38 points won’t win you a game, I don’t think, anywhere in the world,” Christie said.

Christie wasn’t sure how to explain why the Kings committed so many turnovers.

“I would like to say it was their defense — I have to go back and look at the film — but it just looked like throwing the ball to the guy in the third row,” Christie said. “That ain’t it. You’ve got to make sure the passes are on time and on target. You play off of two (feet). You pivot. You’re using all of the fundamentals to make sure that you are making the right play and taking care of the basketball like it was your child, like it’s valuable, and you have to treat it like it’s freakin’ valuable.”

Former Kings guard Buddy Hield and Moses Moody scored 22 points apiece for the Warriors (29-27), who have won four of five since acquiring Jimmy Butler in a blockbuster trade with the Miami Heat. Brandin Podziemski scored 21 points, Stephen Curry had 20 and Butler added 17.

DeMar DeRozan scored 34 points for the Kings (28-28), who fell from ninth to 10th in the Western Conference, one game behind the Warriors with a 1 1/2-game lead over the Phoenix Suns for the final play-in spot.

DeRozan made 10 of 14 from the field, 4 of 7 from 3-point range and 10 of 10 at the free-throw line with one turnover in 34 minutes. The Kings shot 50% from the field, but they went 11 of 32 (.344) from 3-point range, and because of turnovers they took only 78 shots while the Warriors took 93.

Monk said he doesn’t know why the Kings are turning the ball over so much.

“I’ve been trying to figure it out, too,” Monk said. “You’re probably not going to win a game when you have 24 turnovers and a team has 38 points off those. We’ve just got to look ourselves in the mirror and take care of the ball.”The Kings are trying to adjust on the fly after making significant roster changes. Sacramento acquired LaVine, Jonas Valanciunas and Jake LaRavia while sending Fox to San Antonio, Kevin Huerter to the Chicago Bulls and Alex Len to the Washington Wizards before the NBA trade deadline. Then the Kings signed Markelle Fultz, the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft, whose career has been plagued by injuries.

Monk is starting at point guard with LaVine at shooting guard, DeRozan at small forward, Keegan Murray and power forward and Domantas Sabonis at center. The talent is there and the depth is improved, but making the pieces fit is challenging with isolation players like DeRozan and LaVine playing critical roles in an offense designed for motion and ball movement.

“That’s why our offense is so stagnant right now,” Monk said. “We’re trying to find the middle ground and we really don’t have time to find that s---. The next three games, we’ve got to step it up or our season will be done, but I feel like we’ll figure it out though.”

Christie said opposing teams won’t wait for the Kings to build chemistry and continuity.

“We can keep saying we have a lot of new guys and we’re trying to find our way, but that excuse, no one checks for you in this league like that,” Christie said. “People will just run through you and beat the hell out of you, so it doesn’t matter what the excuse is. Take care of the basketball, play together, move the rock, and if we do that at a high level, we give ourselves the opportunity to win. We’re not even giving ourselves the opportunity with 24 turnovers for 38 points. It’s just not acceptable. It will never be acceptable. I said that to them man for man.”

The Kings were 13-18 when Christie was named interim head coach after Mike Brown was fired Dec. 27. They have gone 15-10 under Christie to give themselves a chance to contend for a playoff spot, but they will have to earn it.

“When this job was taken over, you were in a bad spot and however many games under .500,” Christie said. “And to their credit, they fought back and put themselves in position to fight, so now we’ve got to freakin’ fight.”

Christie said he won’t back away from the challenge with 26 games remaining.

“I’m not going to run from it,” Christie said. “I’m going to stand there and I’m going to say it. I’m going to say it in front of everybody. I want everybody to be on the same page because that’s just who I am, but I love every one of those guys. I truly, truly do.

“I have relationships with every single one of them, and they’ll be mad at me because that’s part of what this job entails. Everybody ain’t going to be happy. Who needs to be happy is the fans. Who needs to be happy is them as a team — a team, not an individual, as a team. You can not be happy as an individual but still be happy for your brothers. The bottom line is we have to come out and play with a sense of urgency, aggressiveness and physicality. We have to want to win more than we want to breathe.”