Brandon Schneider, the Warriors senior vice president for business development, knows the team’s ticket history inside and out and he believes the club set another record Tuesday night in addition to their 16 straight victories to start the season. The “Black Mamba” also shot 1-of-14 on November 14, 2014 against the San Antonio Spurs. “At the end of the day, it’s (just) 16 regular-season games”. At some point, he will start resting players to preserve their legs for the long haul. His floating jumper stretched Chicago’s lead to 78-65 early in the fourth quarter, but Portland rallied within 78-76 on Ed Davis’ tip shot. “We’re trying to play at a high level every night”.
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“It feels great, especially the way we did it”, Walton said. Like I said, at the end of it, it would be very interesting.
Lakers Coach Byron Scott said he still had “a lot of faith” in Bryant and wouldn’t reduce his minutes to try to increase his efficiency.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, Bryant is the first player this season with four or fewer points on 14 or more field goal attempts.
Bryant claimed he would rebound from this, which sounded familiar, perhaps hauntingly, from some of his other poor nights this season. “I was asked a question about it and they said, how do I think they would do?” A solid reputation as one of the best shooters and ball handlers in professional basketball.
Via ESPN, the Warriors have spent more time this season leading by more than 15 points (167 minutes) than they’ve spent trailing by any margin (149 minutes).
“Now, we have to make sure we don’t drop off and give a game away just because we broke this record”.
Golden State has outscored its opponents by a total of 260 points (an average of 16.3) this season.
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“I’ve seen stranger things happen“, he said, but there was nothing odd or unusual about Tuesday’s game.
Because hitting this milestone was by no means the conclusion of anything for the Warriors players, their coaching staff, this franchise and its legion of fans. The Lakers had none. The final score after one quarter was 30-11 and it could’ve been worse if not for a couple of easy shots that went awry.
The Warriors dominated the Lakers 111-77 at Oracle Arena for a historic win, overtaking the 1993-1994 Rockets and the 1948-1949 Washington Capitals, who started their campaigns 15-0.
At least one piece of the Lakers’ past was satisfied. But their ideal record doesn’t even do justice to how hot Stephen Curry & Co. are right now under interim coach Luke Walton, who’s filling in as Steve Kerr recovers from complications from back surgery. “But am I going to say it’s not possible?”
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It took six games for the Lakers to do it, but Mikan and company manage to do enough to ensure that the Capitol’s fairy tale start ended on a bitter note. It was their brush with history for the night. This would a tie a record set previous year by (who else?) the 76ers.
