The entire team has talked about Carter-Williams dunk, stare and smirk at the Warriors’ bench at Milwaukee last week, when the Bucks snapped Golden State’s 28-game winning streak. We do remember that stuff.
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So, it’s okay to celebrate if you win often, but if they’re harder to come by the team should just move on and go about their business?
The defeat to the Bucks could have been a blow to the confidence within the group and got them off track, but instead we got the ideal reaction from the players to get back to winning ways. “They were doing a lot of talking at the end of that game”.
But you know MCW’s act of defiance, or toughness or whatever it was, wasn’t lost on the ever-animated Green. If you look at the games that they’ve struggled they’re going at him offensively. You need a guy down low to get you easy some baskets. O.J. Mayo and Michael Carter-Williams each scored 17 points for the Bucks. They have lost 11 straight on the road.
As a result, it was always likely that the run would have an adverse effect on the players in some way, whether it was from a physical point of view, or in terms of the way that they were playing. We’re not going to go over there and back down.
“We do a great job of staying in the moment. And Friday will be a big game for us”.
Pragmatically speaking, it is impossible for even the most ideal team to go unbeatable for a whole year, thus it is normal that the NBA Champions were finally defeated. While the Warriors had the first quality in their loss against the Bucks, the circus of the streak and fatigue of the road drip deprived them of the final two.
Curry and Thompson each hit a pair of 3s, and Green dropped in a fifth during the run. One of those was Klay Thompson, who that night was participating in his first game back after an ankle injury.
The Warriors (25-1), who were coming off their first loss of the season Saturday in Milwaukee, have won a franchise-record 29 consecutive regular-season games at home. Golden State survived a double overtime game Friday in Boston before losing in Milwaukee. For that matter, what’s the over/under on Carter-Williams’ point total for the night? “We were excited about it; we worked hard”.
We’ve noticed. What the Warriors do is win.
Mirza Teletovic led the Suns with 24 points off the bench while top scorer Eric Bledsoe was held to six points on 3-for-12 shooting – the first time all season he scored in single digits. He missed both losses in Los Angeles to the Lakers and Clippers.
“You can’t just pinpoint one thing”, coach Jeff Hornacek said.
The 6-foot-9 Boozer, 34, has not played in the National Basketball Association this season.
In New York, Dwyane Wade scored 10 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter, and Hassan Whiteside had 20 points and 13 rebounds to help Miami beat Brooklyn.
Boozer is a 13-year veteran and also has played for Cleveland, Utah and Chicago.
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It will be interesting to see the point spread for this game at Oracle Arena.
