Stephen Curry just won’t stop scoring and can’t be stopped putting up the points. It seemed as though he never missed.
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His continued development was one display against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Curry has not scored less than 20 points in a game this season, while he has scored 30 or more on five occasions, including a 53-point haul against the New Orleans Pelicans last month. So then you sit there and you wonder, okay, if you don’t do those things and just try to play conventionally, he might get 60.
It isn’t exactly urgent-bulletin material that Stephen Curry is good, but the National Basketball Association MVP may have topped himself Wednesday night, but two of his third-quarter shots were wowsers even by his standards. He made 15-of-25 shots from the field, including 8-of-15 on his three-point attempts.
“He was decent tonight. He was OK”, Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said of the guard with a smile. At any time, he can go on a 6-0, 8-0 run just off of transition and getting a steal and putting it up for three. “He’s always in attack mode”.
Nothing the defending champions have seen this season has been able to throw them off as they have surged to the best start in franchise history. The Warriors have jumped out to a 9-0 start and have been seemingly unstoppable in the process. “I still believe we can win, and we will down the line if we keep playing this hard”. Most players have enough trouble hoisting 27-footers with their normal shooting motion.
Memphis put up more of a fight than nine days earlier at Oracle Arena when the Warriors won by 50 points, but the Grizzlies still were held to 34.3 percent shooting and committed 21 turnovers.
Derrick Favors led Utah with 25 points and 12 rebounds. They’re not only 10-0, but they’re defeating opponents by an average of 17.1 points per game.
Shabazz Muhammad scored 13 of his 16 points in the second quarter to cut Minnesota’s deficit to single digits, but Curry kept his team comfortably ahead 75-63 at halftime.
Curry made back-to-back 3-pointers to help extend the lead to 97-76 late in the third quarter. “I feel like it went alright”, Jones told reporters. “He played a few big minutes last night but obviously it was going to depend on how the game went. They are.” As the second half commenced the Wolves offense looked good as Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins played well.
The visiting Warriors can get off to the franchise’s best start Thursday night when the otherwise surprising Minnesota Timberwolves hope to end their worst home start in 21 years.
Four other Warriors scored in double figures — all starters — as Draymond Green put in 23 points, Klay Thompson had 15, Harrison Barnes finished with 14 and Festus Ezeli added 10.
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Brandon Knight matched his career high with 37 points, Eric Bledsoe fell an assist shy of his second career triple-double and the Phoenix Suns rolled past the severely depleted Los Angeles Clippers 118-104.
