He scored 21 points, pouring in 12 in the first quarter to help the Warriors build their 17-point lead.
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The Nets and Warriors exchanged buckets in the third, but Steph Curry scored six points in the last 27 seconds and put Golden State up seven. “We took a couple of untimely tough shots, they came down and made 3’s”.
With one of his electrifying flurries, Stephen Curry changed things in a hurry.
Stephen Curry made nine 3-pointers and scored 44 points, leading the undefeated Golden State Warriors to a 112-109 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday.
Fresh off of calling the game, Matt Devlin and Jack Armstrong break down the epic match-up the ACC was treated to when Steph Curry and Kyle Lowry faced off in a duel of all-star guards.
They sure did, as Curry scored 11 points and threw a lob for Festus Ezeli’s dunk during a 15-4 run to close the third. Great players don’t become great overnight.
“That’s what great players do”, Nets coach Lionel Hollins said. He doesn’t have to go out there and do it all of the time.
Clippers-Magic: The Magic looked primed for a win over the Clippers in L.A. last night, but the home team used a 29-22 fourth quarter to eke out a 103-101 victory. “When he needs to he can and when he doesn’t need to he takes a backseat to those guys”.
Thompson added 26 points for the Warriors, while Green had 16 points and nine rebounds. They are now one shy of the 2012-13 Miami Heat for the second-longest streak in National Basketball Association history. “They wouldn’t be 22-0 if they weren’t a good team, and they wouldn’t have won the championship, so you’ve just got to find a way to run them out of the 3-point line, make plays and make other guys mess up”.
With a 12-0 road score, Warriors matched another record by tying the New York Knicks in 1969-70 for best road start.
They’re coming, Indiana Pacers fans.
Warriors (21-0) at Nets (5-14) 6 p.m. – This may be a mismatch on paper, but every game the Warriors win comes with more pressure. 23, 1991. The Nets, of all teams, were a Brook Lopez lay-in from stopping this streak, and dealing the champs a defeat, on November 14 when they held Golden State to 97 points in regulation, only to fall in overtime, 107-99.
Toronto led 98-95 when forward Luis Scola made two free throws with 4:13 to play in the fourth, but Curry tied it with a three-pointer.
But with a season-best 38 points on 78 percent shooting in the second period, the Nets trimmed it to 57-54 at halftime, then opened a five-point lead late in the third.
“There’s no words to explain”, said Leandro Barbosa, in his wide-eyed way, when it was over.
“We expect teams to fight and come back when we are on the road and that is what they did”, said Curry.
Brooklyn (5-15) has hit the quarter mark of the 2015-16 campaign on pace for about 20.5 wins, which has swingman Joe Johnson feeling very frustrated. The Nets’ last longer one was seven games in February and March 2011….
The Nets were shorthanded, as rookie Rondae Hollis-Jefferson sat out Sunday’s game with a sprained right ankle. Bojan Bogdanovic started in his place.
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.
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“Mentally I feel like we had a little bit of a letdown in the second and third quarters, which obviously you don’t like to see”, Walton said.
