Golden State are also waiting to learn whether guard Klay Thompson, who is averaging 18.2 points per game, will be able to suit up as he recovers from a sprained ankle suffered on Tuesday – and his absence would be a major blow. The bench they have helps significantly, in addition to Klay Thompson being questionable for tonight’s game against the growing Boston Celtics.
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Boston will take to the parquet Friday night to take on the reigning National Basketball Association champion Golden State Warriors, a team that has set the record for the best start to an National Basketball Association season. Curry will play well, but Avery Bradley is a tough defender and may bother him a little bit. Especially when you have to put starters back in and a guy goes down. Teams will try to imitate it, but will never come close to what the Warriors have.
And even though there are other Warriors who score more and grab more rebounds, there’s no mistaking that his play is critical to the Warrior’s success as they invade the TD Garden to take on the Boston Celtics (13-9).
“One of the best teams that I ever seen, that I ever coached against”, said Celtics head coach Brad Stevens. Thomas has been great for the Celtics as he is averaging 21 points per game and 6.3 assists per game. “I don’t have a problem with it. At least we can relate on something, right?” Boston is playing really well right now, but the Warriors are a team that can make the Celtics take a few steps back as a team. As the Warriors showed yesterday vs the Pacers, you can’t be a pace and space team and beat the Warriors, they are better at that than you.
However despite the Warriors being on track to challenge the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls season record of 72-10, they are still not the most in-demand team with away fans. Curry is shooting 52.7 percent from the field, 46.8 percent from the three point line and 93.2 percent from the free throw line, he is also is third in the league in steals with 2.3 per game. The Celtics are becoming an offensive juggernaut and Stevens deserves a lot of the credit. That’s bound to change as the season goes on, but with the emphasis on conditioning and new-age rehab, the ability to limit minutes thanks to depth and accrued wins, and the absolute depth of this roster from No. 1 (Curry) to No. 12, the Warriors can battle through the kind of ailments that might sabotage a lesser team’s chances at playoff positioning.
“He’s obviously out there getting some shots up and shooting around”, Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said.
The Warriors have already won games in some pretty epic ways. Lam was dressed in Curry’s home white jersey and said he has been rooting for the Warriors since Monta Ellis and Jason Richardson played for the “We Believe” team in 2006-07. The crowd is going to be hyped for this game.
Winning 73 regular season games is definitely possible for Golden State, and that could be an intermediate goal if it proves to be within reach.
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“I’ve never looked at it as every game as a must win”, he added later. Comment your thoughts and predictions below and thanks for reading.
