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 at power forward and Domantas Sabonis at center. The talent is there.