It will raise the bar for other teams to over-perform.
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The flip side to this streak ending is that everyone can relax now.
Klay Thompson, who had returned to the lineup after sitting out a game with an ankle injury, expressed disappointment because he felt the Warriors had beat themselves. “I would be cheating the situation, I would be cheating the progress by worrying about a Christmas Day game when we’re not there yet”, James said. The Bucks led 80-77 to start the 4th quarter before running away to a win. But, it’s hard to say the Warriors weren’t bringing the same excitement into every arena they played in. Social media interactions – the league has more than 920 million likes and followers across all platforms – increase during the games, since more people are awake, and TV partners are putting more resources into pregame and postgame studio shows to serve their larger audiences. Small ball is now the order of the day. He added 11 rebounds and 5 assists. Twice, they have accomplished that task in the fourth quarter. Every time the Warriors punched, the Bucks counterpunched with greater authority.
Pistons 118, Pacers 96: Reggie Jackson led six Detroit players in double figures with 21 points and the Pistons rolled to a 118-96 victory over the Indiana Pacers at The Palace. The Cavaliers are making some headlines with their inconsistent play, but there would be a whole lot more criticism for Cleveland if it were not for the Warriors historic start that we are all privileged to witness. But even the best misfire on occasion.
Milwaukee took all the lessons Jason Kidd has taught them the past year and a half and applied them in the first game Golden State hadn’t scored 100 points all year. Curry had a long shooting night vs the Celtics as well, going 9-27 for 38 points. He also had 11 rebounds and five assists. He joined Hakeem Olajuwon and Derrick Coleman as the only three players to ever put up a 20/10/5/5/5 stat line. “Everyone contributed and did different things down the stretch”. With the 6th game being a double overtime grinder, the 7th one was set to be a challenge. His mouth ran, too, and so the Warriors could only laugh.
“Well, we knew the streak had to end at some point”, the Warriors posted on their Twitter account.
One is that the loss dragged them down to reality and served as a harsh wakeup call that the team is not “perfect”.
Speaking of win streaks, The Bucks have a curious record as streak killers. When the wins keep coming, 24 in a row, who among the winners cares to dwell on the fine print?
Boston snapped Charlotte’s four-game winning streak with a 98-93 road win, moving within one game of Atlantic leader Toronto. Whiteside’s still got a ways to go, but with his huge league lead in both total rejections (90) and blocks per game (4.1), they are setting him up to join some elite company.
2006-07 Spurs – 13 game win streak ended. Utah hasn’t won there since 2010. Going by history, which is basically just a coincidence in this case, the Bucks seem to have the power to bless teams with championship parades.
“It had to come to an end sooner or later”, Smith said.
The Warriors still rule the Western Conference standings and the National Basketball Association with their 24-1 record. “Remember the big picture of the season is be our best come April and chase another ring”.
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In a odd twist of fate, the Bucks were also the team that ended the Lakers’ run with a 120-104 victory on January 9, 1972.
