Curry hit 13 of 23 shots, including 5 of 10 3-pointers, for his latest high-caliber game. Lowry and DeRozan scored 28 apiece for Toronto, which fell to 7-5.
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The hard-fought victory was Golden State’s 25th straight at home during the regular season.
Muttering under their breath and punching their fists into their palms, the Warriors walked out of Oracle Arena and into the cool night frowning in triumph.
Toronto’s offensive plan against the Warriors at times appeared to be the inverse of the Warriors’ usual style.
So there was Klay Thompson, slightly pleased with his 18-point first half but pacing the postgame locker room, jaws clenched in frustration over his 1-point second.
“It was actually too close down the stretch, but we got the job done”, said Curry, whose Warriors are closing in on the all-time best season start of 15-0, achieved by Washington in 1948-49 and the Houston Rockets in 1993-94. Whether by allowing the Warriors to become the best defensive team in the league via positional versatility and the attendant option to switch across multiple defensive assignments on any given possession, or the selflessness that allows Bogut (and Andre Iguodala before him) to come off the bench rather than demand reinsertion to the starting lineup, the ability to marry Curry’s transcendance within a larger cooperative framework is what takes them from “exciting and good” to “historically great”. “Last year with Bogut out there, we did win a championship and a ton of games”.
The Golden State Warriors have spent the summer listening to plenty of doubters after beating LeBron James’s Cavs in the Finals last June, and it looks like they are out to prove a point. What we need to get to the bottom of is what on Earth Andrew Bogut was doing in celebration. Leandro Barbosa also was back after missing two games to tend to a family matter, but the Warriors definitely missed Shaun Livingston, who sat out with a strained left hip flexor. “But he woke up the next day and (felt it.) This is what happens the older you get in this league”. The body fails on you once in awhile.
For more on the Warriors, see the Inside the Warriors blog at. But Walton said Speights will still have a prominent role going forward.
“He’s going to get his chance again”, the coach said.
The notion that multiple players on Golden State’s roster are capable of leading their own team is hyperbole, but Thompson’s overarching point still stands.
_The Warriors wore uniforms denoting “The City”, the first time in nine years that the club has donned the popular retro jerseys worn regularly by the club between 1966-71. The uniforms were revived during the 1996-97 season, as well as 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2006-07. Are they starting to wear down during the streak?
In the middle of it all, as usual, was Draymond Green. “Those uniforms are nice”.
“I think we made the necessary plays we needed to”, Green said. This is the second game of a five-game Western Conference road trip for the Raptors, and the Warriors average 12.2 threes per game.
“The skill level is already prodigious and it keeps getting better”, Nash told the Mercury News.
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The Warriors hate their legitimacy being questioned.
