“He can score in so many different ways”, interim coach Luke Walton said.
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“There’s no reason for anyone to hang their heads in that locker room for losing that game”.
The Milwaukee Bucks now have a distinction no other National Basketball Association team in the 2015-16 season has thus far, they have beaten the Golden State Warriors.
Greg Monroe led the Bucks with a double-double of 28 points and 11 rebounds. They didn’t shut us down. When I made a decision to sign an extension, I told myself that was the right decision for the moment. Guards OJ Mayo and Michael-Carter Williams made their own important contributions, with Mayo hitting four 3’s en route to his 18 points, and Carter-Williams shooting 7-10 from the field along with 5 steals.
Australia’s Patty Mills had seven points and five assists for the Spurs. “Everyone contributed and did different things down the stretch”.
“We’re not used to it”, center Andrew Bogut said of the Warriors’ first regular season loss since April.
Draymond Green scored 24 points with 11 rebounds, eight assists and five blocked shots.
Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors shoots a three pointer during the second …It had to end eventually.
The NBA’s best 3-point team shot 23.1 percent (6-of-26) from beyond the arc.
“It’s disappointing”, Thompson said. That is, until the Dubs ran into the young Milwaukee Bucks. What they met was an energy that they just couldn’t match for 48 minutes.
Golden State gets a well deserved rest before taking on the Phoenix Suns at Oracle on Wednesday.
I bet there will be a little relief mentally going forward from this point on.
“In 82 games, you’ve got to focus on getting better if you want to reach the point where we got past year”.
Milwaukee, meanwhile, is hoping this game can be a spring board to turning around what has been a disappointing start to the season.
“We knew this about our guys”, Walton said. “He’s just pushing the bar right now and we’ll see how high he can take that bar”.
Bucks: G Jerryd Bayless (L ankle sprain) and G Greivis Vasquez (R ankle soreness) were placed on the inactive list.
The Hornets had a chance to tie the game late but Nicolas Batum’s 30-foot jumper off a side inbounds play with 6.6 seconds remaining missed everything, and Evan Turner put away the game with a layup.
Monroe, the free-agent center from Detroit who chose Milwaukee over NY and Los Angeles, scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, thriving against the champs’ bigs and, more impressively, their smalls. Milwaukee snapped the Los Angeles Lakers’ 33-game win streak in 1972 as well.
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The win makes it the sixth time in franchise history that the Bucks were able to knock off a team with a streak of at least 10 games.
