Warriors: Golden State outscored its opponents by a total of 308 points in its first 20 games, the best margin in National Basketball Association history for that point in the season….
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Green, who tallied 10 points, was one of six Grizzlies to score in double figures. The Nets, who turned a 17-point first-half deficit into a five-point third- quarter lead, fell to the Warriors, 114-98, Sunday night at Barclays Center.
ABOUT THE WARRIORS (21-0): Two of Golden State’s three wins on the road trip have come by exactly three points as opponents line up looking to be the one to end the streak. Former Warrior Jarrett Jack made three free throws and Joe Johnson nailed a 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left. Shane Larkin led the charge with three steals and two assists.
Down 75-70 with 3:10 left in the third, the Warriors were soon ahead 96-85 early in the fourth.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope top-scored with 22 points while Andre Drummond added 18 points and 15 rebounds as the Detroit Pistons eased to a 111-91 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. They wobbled even further when Brooklyn opened the third quarter with a 12-4 run, going up 66-61 less than four minutes after the break. We were down three at the time or something like that, so we just needed a little life.
“I think everybody’s staying in the moment”.
Guard Stephen Curry scored 44 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Toronto Raptors 112-109 on Saturday for their 21st successive victory this season.
The Raptors trailed by as many as 13 points in the first quarter and by 10 points at halftime. “He doesn’t have to go out there and do it all the time”. Last night he had 44, two nights ago in Charlotte, he had 40. “He’s a great player”.
Nets forward Thaddeus Young said of what went through his mind when Curry went off in the third, “We’ve got to calm the flame down”.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the win moved Golden State past the St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association, a predecessor to Major League Baseball, for the best start to a season by a professional sports team.
The Brooklyn Nets will not be the first team to beat the Golden State Warriors.
“But it won’t be a disappointing effort if we don’t get there because there are so many talented teams in this league”. They’ve gone through six back-to-backs this season unblemished.
“I enjoy coming back here and playing; it’s a familiar setting”. They’ve faced pretty much every situation possible. “We like to close quarters out strong, and we were obviously able to do that, get a nice lead and not look back from there”. “But we also reminded them that it’s November”.
As an old friend of ours would say, “We battled”.
Yes, there was fabulous work by the trio of Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.
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“One of our biggest strengths is we are never out of the game and we are always one big run from putting the game away”, said interim coach Luke Walton.
