Golden States’ streak stands as the second longest in league history and the longest to start a season.
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His team, which normally makes 13 3s a game, was 6 of 26 from behind the arc.
Interim coach Luke Walton – filling in for Steve Kerr, who is still recovering from complications after back surgery, added: “Losing still sucks, just as I remember as a player and I remember as an assistant coach, it’s never fun to lose”.
Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded a triple-double for the Brewers, which shot as a team just a shade under 50% from the field and drained six-of-14 three-point attempts.
Golden State dropped to 24-1. “Thirty-three wins was within our grasp”. Walton and the players have made no secret of the fact that they went to eclipse the record of 33 consecutive wins held by the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and to also surpass the 72-10 season the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls accomplished.
People are asking me to draw parallels between the Bucks stopping the Warriors winning streak because when I was a Buck we stopped the Lakers winning streak. Reigning MVP Stephen Curry scored 28 points.
“We missed shots. They didn’t shut us down, man”, guard Klay Thompson said after the loss. “That’s why it is so hard to do what these guys have done so far”.
“The schedule and the road trip kind of caught up with us”.
However, they have another challenge ahead of them – four West Coast games, a gauntlet they have rarely succeeded in.
The Golden State Warriors did something for the first time this season: practice following a loss.
Mayo’s outstanding play on both ends of the floor – and the 108-95 victory brought confetti inside the Bradley Center, which had a lower-bowl crowd pregame equivalent of a typical in-game audience.
UW-Milwaukee beat Judson, 125-74: Seven players scored in double figures, and the Panthers set a school points record and tied its record for assists in a game in a blowout of the Eagles, an NAIA team.
New Orleans native Greg Monroe led the Bucks with 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting and he pulled down 11 rebounds and had five assists. Later, Curry and these Warriors admitted: Give the Bucks credit. “We wanted to come out with a lot of effort and energy”. 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. “It was a great opportunity for us”.
“They’re 24-1”, Heat guard Dwyane Wade said.
Forward Draymond Green said: “I am not happy it is over because at the end of the day what we did was pretty cool”.
“We have this road trip and another at the end of the month. 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. Who is going to stop them? “Like if you start off bad, it feels like by the time you wake up, the game’s over”. “By doing that, you don’t get the same focus and growth on the little things”.
Curry said they can be proud of their achievement, but now it is time to move on. “We wanted every night to put another notch in the belt of that streak”. “But tonight it didn’t go our way”.
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Even without the Warriors’ unbeaten streak concluding on Saturday night, the matchup between the two current Conference leaders in Oakland will certainly force some rescheduling of Christmas dinners in many households due to its 5 p.m. ET start.
