The Nets as a whole hit just as many threes as Stephen Curry. While our team “won” the next three, the gap was too large.
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Matthews scored 36 points against the injury-plagued Wizards, who were missing Kris Humphries and Nene. One large-scale study of university hockey teams found that winning a first game in a two-game weekend series didn’t increases the chances of winning the second. The Nets rallied mostly against Warriors starters.
It’s unsafe to chart wins in advance; the 72-10 Bulls lost to the expansion era Raptors. But Golden State once again showed it will take a full 48 minutes, possibly more, for an opponent to take it down. A NBA Finals rematch with Kyrie Irving returning to the lineup versus an undefeated defending champion is real possibility. Green responded with two foul shots for Golden State.
The Brooklyn Nets played hard on Sunday night. Also Steph Curry was playing at his best. Forward Terrence Jones scored 16 points off the bench.
The real player who is indispensable is obviously the MVP. They played their game.
Backup guard Will Barton added 16 points and nine rebounds for Denver, which reeled off 10 straight points late in the fourth quarter to win its second straight after an eight-game losing streak.
Second quarter, Raps down 34-21, Lowry drops the three ball, that made it a ten point game.
Then Curry unleashed a storm of three-pointers, impossible finishes in the lane and perfectly placed passes.
By their own impossibly high standards, the Warriors have played mostly uninspired basketball so far.
Curry had 28 points, Green added 22 and Thompson had 21. The burden just like the ball is shared. Those two players finished with 17 points each for the Hornets, who played their first road game in 18 days. They’ve gone through six back-to-backs this season unblemished.
The Thunder won their fourth straight home game. The salary cap era with punitive penalties for over spending has watered down the league and makes the power more balanced.
Protecting the historic streak adds motivation going into each game for some players, like Thompson.
Where this new era does help them is in the rest department.
Curry admits that when he’s been on the bench at the end of games, sometimes he’ll turn to Walton or his teammates and just talk about how remarkable this run has been. Draymond Green was another Warrior that contributed to the victory.
What does research say about the Warriors’ ability to keep a streak like this going? The Warriors continued to pour it on and built a double-digit lead halfway into the fourth and cruised to their 22nd victory of the season. They wake up when they are challenged.
By that point, given how they continue to find ways to win, 25-0 isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
It was Curry’s seventh game of the season with at least 40 points, but the first time in his career that he had accomplished the feat in consecutive games.
Statistically, the Warriors are on pace to set even more records. Generations hold on to what they knew and retell it as if it is better than it actually was. They’ve faced pretty much every situation possible. If you don’t believe me believe the data.
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It’s those types of performances that enable the Warriors to stay ideal.
