Golden State made only 40.9 percent of their shots from the field and it shot 6-of-26 from 3-point range.
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Attention on the Warriors and their likable cast of characters, led by MVP sharpshooter Stephen Curry, grew as the victories piled up. “Thirty-three wins was within our grasp”. They also halted the Los Angeles Lakers’ 33 game winning streak with a team that was powered by Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, back in 1972, still the longest winning streak in major professional sports history.
The Warriors also had to work with Klay Thompson coming back off of his ankle injury he suffered against the Indiana Pacers earlier that week (he missed the Boston game). He said it best: “We have fun together as a team”.
“That’s why it’s so hard to do what these guys have done so far. It caught up to us”.
The Warriors have been thriving on small ball, shooting teams out of games. “We were down. We felt like we could have played better basketball at half so we wanted to come out and make a run and that’s what we did”.
Golden State can now concentrate on chasing down the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ 72-10 season record, the NBA’s all-time best – after a 24-1 start, a 49-8 finish doesn’t seem insurmountable.
There was a flight bound for Charlotte that night as the C’s would have to play the second-place team in the East, the Hornets, the following night.
After 14 days on the road and on the final game of a seven-game road trip, the Warriors were just not primed to hit 25-0.
“We just needed a win, period”, Bucks center Greg Monroe said Monday. He never stopped moving and finished with a season-high 19 points (on 14 shots) and seven boards.
Boston led by four going into the fourth quarter, and though the Bucks took back the lead later in the quarter, the C’s fought back with points from Isaiah Thomas, Bradley, and Crowder down the stretch.
“It had to come to an end sooner or later”, Smith said. With a huge win in front of a packed house, this could be positive momentum that pushes the Bucks in the right direction and turns their season around.
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Draymond Green had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Warriors.
“With Giannis (Antetokounmpo), Jabari, me and Michael (Carter-Williams), Khris (Middleton), we’re all interchangeable in a lot of positions on the floor. But it is nearly like a sense of relief”, Green said.
The Warriors will be fine, and they’re still on pace to make history. They were a playoff team with a young and exciting core to go along with a coaching staff that crafted the second-best defense in the league. “Like if you start off bad, it feels like by the time you wake up, the game’s over”. “We try to step up and do what we need to do”. “Nobody wanted it to end”, he said. “But tonight it didn’t go our way. We ended up with our first loss but we can appreciate what we were able to accomplish”. My gut tells me that people were plenty ready to see the Miami Heat’s 27-game winning streak in 2013 end much quicker than this one.
They were not just unbeaten for 24 games this season, their winning streak was continuing from the previous season too.
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Inlcuding the final 4 games of last season, it has been a total of 28 straight wins for Stephen Curry and his team.
