Curry finished with 40 points as the Warriors hit eight of nine three-pointers in the final frame to take the lead before closing out the win with a few solid foul shooting.
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Patty Mills chipped in from the bench for the Spurs with 11 points on a night where only Kawhi Leonard (22) and LaMarcus Aldridge (20) got it going for the Texans.
“Our guys know how to win”, Warriors interim head coach Luke Walton said. “We have a good chemistry with that five-man group”. Chicago is a good team.
As Rivers said after Green dropped three of them on the Clippers in the comeback, “You’ve got to live with something”. “And the team that beat us looks more hungry than we are”, – Walton deserves a few credit for not letting the fire wane.
Jimmy Butler starred for the Bulls and approached a triple-double with 28 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.
The Bulls, despite playing without Derrick Rose and Aaron Brooks, were too for long stretches, mucking the game up, playing physically, limiting the Warriors’ runouts. He averages 18 PPG, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists, but he is obviously the heart and soul of this roster if you watch the team.
The Clippers shot 71 percent in the first quarter, when Paul scored 18 points and was ideal from the floor, the 3-point line and the free throw line. Chicago was held to just 39.8 percent.
After the Suns hit 15-of-27 shots from 3-point range Friday, Malone called his team’s perimeter defense “a joke”.
It was the Stephen Curry show again last night against the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Bulls led by 10 in the first before the Warriors roared back and got the sellout crowd at Oracle Arena rocking on Curry’s over-the-head lob pass to Andre Iguodala for a dunk. Let’s hope the extra day off pays off, and that Golden State is celebrating on national TV when the horn sounds putting their name in the record books.
Cleveland led by 15 at the half, but the Bucks more than halved the deficit going into the final frame before Cleveland again pulled away in the fourth quarter.
It would be a seesaw battle over the next 30 minutes. Other teams hope that they won’t only be a better matchup and put up a bigger fight, but also that they’ll be the ones to hand the Warriors a loss. There were 13 lead changes and 15 ties. They evened the score at 92-92 on a three by Kirk Hinrinch with under six minutes to play, but Curry answered for the Warriors, knocking down a trey in response.
Thompson’s train of thought: They’re so bad that the Warriors won’t take them seriously.
Curry broke the 89-all tie with five straight points.
Steph is now on a roll astonishing even for him, on pace to beat his record 286 3-pointers in a season…by 130. Green made the layup possible with his great feed to a cutting Curry.
Barnes followed by delivering the knockout punch. The “Black Falcon” made back-to-back 3-pointers, one from each wing, in a span of 33 seconds to put the game out of reach.
The Bulls’ 113-111 overtime win on January 27 snapped Golden State’s then-franchise record 19-game home winning streak. “When it’s winning time, it’s incredible how well our guys rise to the occasion and bring home the win”.
The Best Lineup in Basketball is pace-and-space on hyperdrive – a spectacle that stacks up with the best the NBA has ever seen.
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“We just have to keep giving effort on the defensive end”, Nuggets guard Gary Harris said. “We had a very brief discussion (about the coaching job), but it really didn’t get anywhere”.
