Jeppesen’s mother, Holly Stettler, didn’t just drive her 13-year-old son to Salt Lake City on a Monday morning so he could get an autograph from Curry outside the team hotel. “I read a quote that Steph might be the most improved player in the league this year and the MVP”. Veteran Brandon Rush has seen an increase to his role on the team’s five-game road trip and had 13 points in a season-high 25 minutes against the Pacers.
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The Bucks will play the Warriors on December 12 and are 5/1 to hand Golden State its first loss, while the Suns have 10/1 odds on December 16 and Milwaukee is 20/1 on December 18.
Last season, the Golden State Warriors emerged as the most impressive team in NBA, engineering a style of basketball that many thought would not even work out. That’s what it’ll take to prevent the Warriors from matching the Lakers’ 33-game winning streak, which would happen on Christmas Day against LeBron James (ratings prediction: bonkers).
Brad Stevens could not have imagined back then what Stephen Curry would become, but understood he should fear Davidson’s baby-faced killer. So why, if the Warriors have only won 23 games, have you seen people saying all over the place that the Warriors have won 27 straight? You have to embrace it and appreciate the moment.
“We’ve got to handle the end of the game better”. “We’re very comfortable, and we expect to win every night”.
And that level of focus makes an already tough team even tougher to beat. “The way that they’ve started is incredible. We’ll give it our best shot”. In Golden State’s past 11 games, Thompson is averaging 20.8 points and shooting 50% on threes. “And I just couldn’t do it”, he said. He can post a smaller guy. “And I don’t know if there’s anybody better who makes plays from that power forward/center position”.
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“He seems like a gentleman to me”, Stettler said of Curry. “I played guard when I was a kid”.
“It’s just another kind of testament to the changes we made”.
The All-Star landed awkwardly in the closing stages of the 131-123 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night and he was immediately forced to come out of the game. We play at a fast pace. Going in I felt great. What about this rotation starting in 2016-17: Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green, Iguodala, Andrew Bogut, Festus Ezeli, Shaun Livingston and maybe Barnes?
And success; the unprecedented kind mind you.
George, afterward: “They have a championship confidence, from one through 15. They’ve got to stop us as well”.
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“This team is good”.
