The Warriors went on a 67-23 run over the second and third quarters to open up a 40-point lead after three frames en route to a 128-103 win.
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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.
Thompson, whose previous season-best was 39 at IN last week, hit 15-of-22 shots, including eight three-pointers. It is just about how we’re playing.
Mirza Teletovic scored 24 points off the bench to lead the Suns, whose poor showing sent the sellout crowd to the exits midway through the fourth. Neither Thompson nor Curry played in the fourth.
“When you get a stop or get a transition opportunity, you try to find him wherever he is”, said Curry, finished with 25 points and seven assists. Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis scored 11 points with six rebounds and a season-high seven blocked shots.
Steph Curry and the defending champion Warriors lost their first game of the season Saturday night. “As the defense, I don’t know how you stop it”.
There were so many buckets, in fact, Thompson couldn’t remember that exact one.
Thompson’s 43 points and Green’s fourth triple-double of the season showed how our “Big Three” can dominate when given the chance, as things weren’t predominantly run through Curry.
“It’s a lot of fun”, Curry said of his Splash Brother’s prolific night.
Despite the obvious disappointment of seeing the streak come to an end, there was arguably relief within the Warriors camp that they were no longer being targeted by their opposition who were bringing their best with the objective of ending their streak amid what was undoubtedly a draining sequence of games. He scored 12 when Golden State lost 108-95 in Milwaukee. “We were real sloppy in the first quarter”, Thompson said.
They just want to prove they deserve to be at the highest level and with this win they made it, plus having a legend as a coach, adds more prestige to a team that theoretically is weaker than most of the others.
“It was a nice celebration”. We can just play basketball.
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With the game nearly over things got a little heated as Ronnie Price hit Warriors big man Marresse Speights on the head, when he was on his way to the basket, and Bogut wasn’t happy, given that the game was already over. It became more about winning consecutive games than the ultimate goal of winning another championship, but fortunately that cloud lifted after the Bucks defeat and we were treated to a sensational performance on Wednesday night at the Oracle. It turns out that the one-loss Warriors look a lot like the team that opened at 24-0. And if they can enact redemption on Friday, they’ll have their second win streak of the year.
