Curry needed only three quarters to rack up 41 points, eight assists and six rebounds.
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San Antonio matched a season high with nine 3-pointers in winning its 18th consecutive home game against Atlanta and 10th straight overall against the Hawks. The streak stretches to 20 when the end of last season is taken into account.
Warriors have outscored their opponents by +269 points, the most in National Basketball Association history through the season’s first 17 games (via @GSWStats). “We’ll try to figure out who those five best defenders are and those will be the guys who are going to be out there for us because putting up all of those points – and I’m not just saying this about T.J., just any of our guys – we don’t care about the points, we’ve got to get stops and the points will come”.
“You’ve got to have some kind of internal conflict thing”, Bryant said after the Warriors’ trouncing Tuesday. “So we shoot a lot of them, but hopefully we shoot a lot of good ones that lead to high percentage”. They fought to stay within three points of the Dubs, trailing 43-40 with 5:48 remaining in the first half, before an Ezeli dunk and Klay Thompson trey began to push their lead out of Sacramento’s reach.
Draymond Green led the way with his second straight triple-double, posting a line of 13 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists. The Warriors led 44-27 after their highest-scoring first quarter since March 25, 2011. “It’s not about how many regular-season games we win”. Pelicans center Anthony Davis scored 14 of the Pelicans’ 16 first-quarter points and finished with 36.
PHOENIX (AP) – The Golden State Warriors rained 3s in the desert and pushed their NBA-record start to 17-0.
Covington buried the first of three consecutive Sixers threes before forward Jerami Grant (18 points) carried the torch with two free throws that tied the score at 93 with 9min 32sec left.
Dating back to the 2014-15 campaign, the Warriors are 49-0 when holding the opposition to fewer than 100 points in the regular season. The bench did its job with a much-appreciated contribution of 51 points, led by 21 from Leandro Barbosa. This time, with Ronnie Price attempting to pressure him, Curry evoked three gasps on one play from the “away” crowd. The only thing the Suns did wrong was not take advantage of a couple of opportunities earlier in the game and got baited into attacking mismatches when the Warriors switched everything.
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Green had 13 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists. Rather than focus on his own hot shooting night, Curry emphasized the team’s ball movement, crediting that teamwork over his own undeniable ability to drain shots off the dribble. Barnes permanently left tonight’s contest in the 3rd quarter after a taking an awkward spill leaving the former North Carolina Tar Heel in a considerable amount of pain, and the Golden State Warriors a man down. However, the father of one player on the team suggests they may fall short at the hands of one of the league’s worst teams.
