Thompson would be tougher to replace, however, especially with the All-Star coming off a season-high 39 points against Indiana Pacers on Tuesday.
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“We’re obviously going to be cautious with it”, Warriors interim head coach Luke Walton said.
The Warriors are 23-0 headed into a game in which Harrison Barnes is also out with a sprained ankle. “It’s probably going to be sore for a couple days”, Thompson said, “but I should be back in no time”. “Hopefully, I’ll get the same progress tomorrow, and I should be good to go here soon”.
What the Warriors have done, by running the table for 23 straight games, is push our imaginations beyond the moment.
“We have confidence and faith in our whole bench”, Walton said, “and we have no problem going and playing 13 guys”.
After 10 season home games, Golden State are selling out the Oracle Arena in Oakland in the majority of their matches, while still attracting 98.8 per cent capacity crowds in their 13 season games on the road.
Just about two months into the season, defending champions, The Golden State Warriors seem to be on another level right now. Shooting comes and goes, but they own one of the league’s best defenses, and they have won three of their last four games. Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry accepts this and says that other teams can’t copy them.
“As swell as Golden State is, I’m not feeling a W streak “record” that incl. last season but skips over 5 playoff losses. A year ago when they were making their run, typically you would be upset”, he said.
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This Friday, the Boston Celtics have the seemingly impossible task other teams have been unable to accomplish. Thomas is this team’s leading scorer with 21 points per game and has been spreading the ball around more, averaging about six assists per contest. Bbut instead of dwelling on a shortened offseason, or letting the fact that Steve Kerr was not strolling the sidelines create an escape clause that allowed them to lose focus and stumble out the starting blocks, they have come together in pursuit of one common goal – winning that second ring. Meanwhile, Draymond Green is playing like a top ten player in the league right now if you actually watch the Warriors play, you’ll see how much Green does for the team on both ends of the floor every night. However, it is unlikely they are able to put up enough offense to keep up with even a slowed down Warriors’ attack. “More than anything I’ve just been trying to get adjusted here in Boston”. Welcome to the 2015-16 season, where only the Warriors could find themselves capable of breaking two records where everyone thinks there should only be one.
