The Warriors, meanwhile, enjoyed the previous three days off. Perhaps showing the rust of the relatively long layoff following a marathon, seven-game trip, the Warriors (25-1) trailed 42-38 in the eighth minute of the second quarter before exploding past the Suns (11-16) over the course of the next 17 minutes.
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Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green combined to make eight consecutive shots, including five 3-pointers, during a three-minute flurry late in the second quarter Wednesday night, propelling the Golden State Warriors to a 128-103 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
1995-96 Bulls’ record through 26 games: 23-3.
Then the Splash Brothers got it going, and that was all she wrote.
Milwaukee (10-15) begins a four-game West Coast trip Tuesday against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Mirza Teletovic netted 24 points for the Suns.
Those predictions were looking pretty good in the first half, as neither team could get any separation from the other.
One thing was evident: The Suns never figured it out. “When he starts clicking, there’s no better thing to watch”.
Green and Curry essentially took turns running the point the entire game, as the Warriors tried to run ace Celtics defender Avery Bradley through as many screens as possible to try and get Curry free for a few moments. In the second and third quarter, the Warriors scored 79 total points. Every opponent knows to key on these two players, but it often doesn’t matter when they’re at their best.
The win moved Golden State to 25-1 for the season and saw them record their 11th straight win at Oracle Arena for the season, a venue they are yet to lose at.
While the Warriors can’t exactly plan for another quarter like their third against the Suns – when they scored 46 points on 80% shooting from the field – they can make sure the ingredients remain a fixture of these upcoming games.
Bucks vice president of marketing Dustin Godsey told ESPN the team owed the win to the “home crowd” and the “excitement around this game and coach [Jason] Kidd”.
As fun as that may have been to read, it’s far more fun to see him do it. And it concludes as the Warriors’ smart, unselfish ball movement punches through whatever weak spots are found in the opposition – be they backdoor cuts or weakside threes. If this coaching staff wants to go back to the All-Star game, and you would think they do, this team has to hold off the Spurs.
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After the Bucks broke the Warriors’ 27-game win streak Saturday, handing them their lone loss of the season, Golden State did not take kindly to how Milwaukee celebrated the victory. “We did it pretty decent for 18 minutes but you have to do it for all 48 minutes because they put them up quickly”.
