“This 21-game winning streak is surreal because it doesn’t make sense”. On Saturday in Toronto, the Warriors moved to 21-0 with a thrilling 112-109 victory.
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Objectively, there’s a good case to be made that the Warriors’ ferocious attack is little less fearsome than it was earlier in the season. “It’s tough when you had the opportunity to [beat them]”. “But at the end of the day they still won and we lost”.
Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry poured in a career-high 41 points in an attempt to upstage Curry, scoring the most points of any player the Warriors have faced this season. For Curry, it was another night at the office.
The lead was down to one when Scola made two free throws with 6.2 seconds left to finish with 10 points. He was incredible, yet again.
The Nets swept the series last season for the first since winning all four games in 2006-07.
The reigning MVP tied his season-high with nine 3-pointers while posting his seventh game with 40 or more points. “I mean, that’s part of the game”. Defensively, the Raptors yield 96.3 points against the opposing teams.
“He does (still surprise me)”, Thompson said. Every point guard in the league coming in here is trying to match [Kyle]. He joined their organization during the offseason as a player-development consultant, the sort of amorphous job title that lets him pick and choose his responsibilities.
“Once we do that at the defensive end, we know we can play with that team, no question about it”, DeRozan said. Lowry dragged them back into it. “The first one is turnovers for us”. “Kyle had a good offensive (game)”. But in both games, the Raptors fell just short. After watching an 11-1 run by Toronto to take the lead, Luke Walton didn’t hesitate to deploy the Warriors’ signature small-ball line-up. Curry hit 14 of 18 shots, and went 8-for-11 from three-point range. DeRozan – who had a rough shooting night, going 5-for-19 from the field – missed a crucial free throw, as did Lowry. The Raptors had a possession to tie the score with five seconds left, but Curry sealed the win after providing the pressure on an inbound pass that went for a Cory Joseph turnover.
“No, not at all”, Utah point guard Trey Burke said Friday, denying that those devastating injuries had the team feeling snakebitten.
“And hopefully two months from now, four months from now, next year, it makes us even better”. “We’re gonna compete tonight, I promise you that“, said coach Dwane Casey before the game. “When he’s doing things like that, it carries us and it just picks up everybody else”. The Warriors defeated the Raptors 115-110 in the first meeting between the teams November 17 at Oracle Arena….
The Warriors do not play with anger, though; they do not wear the black hat like LeBron James’ Miami teams or Kobe Bryant’s Lakers teams did, save for the occasional Draymond Green quote. They play great team defense.
Yet here they are, the best team in professional sports.
Curry was 14 for 24 from the field and 9 for 15 from beyond the arc as Golden State pushed its league-record start to 21-0. “I thought our effort was there but again consistency”.
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The Golden State Warriors are chasing history. On Saturday night, their manifest destiny continued to bring the rest of the National Basketball Association nothing but misery. Get a glimpse of his rigorous pregame shooting routine and it becomes slightly more understandable.
