If the Golden State Warriors are to improve on their 23-0 record Friday night, they’ll have to do it without one of their best players.
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Navigating a long stretch of road games unscathed may start to bring talk of an undefeated season for Golden State. Every night is an opportunity to get a win and get better in the process.
Golden State’s remaining games are fairly evenly split between home (31) and road (28), and the count of remaining road games will drop to 26 by the end of the weekend. That’s definitely something to worry about for our short handed Warriors team. Turner said such requests started last week, but he had a simple message for anyone asking: If you haven’t been supporting the team all season, you aren’t getting tickets to this one. Because Golden State gets off shots fast – and they make ’em from everywhere.
The Warriors Streak is in danger for a number of reasons.
Which team will hand the undefeated Warriors their first loss of the season? But Golden State is outscoring opponents by 16.3 points per 100 possessions, an unfathomable mark a quarter of the way through the season. But if things go the way they’ve been going for the 23-0 Warriors, the little setback will just make Thompson’s ankle stronger. “They’ve got to stop us as well”. None of those teams have the superstar it’ll likely take to deny the Warriors a chance to tie the all-time record.
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“To say there’s not a team out there that can beat us, is disrespectful to the league”, Green said. Yes, with the Warriors freight-training their way through the schedule, it’s time to appoint him as the NBA’s best player, a spot formerly occupied by LeBron. The Warriors are playing as if they lost in last Junes NBA Finals. Interim head coach Luke Walton will have to dig deeper from his bench. So even if you catch Curry on an off night (which has been extremely rare the last 14 months), you still have to worry about Klay Thompson, Draymond Green or Harrison Barnes going off. For Curry to be shooting 46 percent from 3 is a joke for how tough some of his shots are, and just tells you how great of a shooter he is and how good he is with the ball, because his [shots] are all challenged. Only one quarter into the game school was open for the Pacers. They’re an easy-going group that takes basketball seriously, a collection of players who know their roles and show nearly no selfishness or jealousy, a force that’s blowing through the NBA with no signs of stoppage.
