“I’m lucky to play with a group of unselfish guys”.
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Draymond Green needed only three quarters to rack up 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season and umpteenth time he’s shown the potential to be an All-Star selection this season.
“They’re double-teaming us with 20 seconds left, and then Mo (speights) gets nearly taken out on a lay-up, so some questionable things went on late in the game, but we got the win”. “They do a great job of looking for me when I’m hot”. He was eventually snapped up by the Warriors with the No. 35 pick – the third pick Golden State had that night, after taking Barnes at No. 7 and Ezeli at No. 30.
The Warriors eclipsed the previous second-best National Basketball Association win streak of 27, set by Miami in the 2012-13 season. The bench held down the fort in the 2nd quarter as well, with Mirza Teletovic (11 1st half points) and T.J. It was the seventh fourth quarter Curry has sat out this season. We got a bucket on it, too.
And oh, by the way, none of those three players played a second in the fourth quarter, as their blitz in the first three frames led to a 40-point lead.
Curry and Thompson each hit a pair of 3s, and Green dropped in a fifth during the run. Curry also had a pair of two-pointers, giving him 10 of the Warriors’ 21 points.
They began a stretch with just five games in two weeks and all at home, which includes a highly anticipated Christmas Day home game and NBA Finals rematch with LeBron James and the Cavaliers. “Let’s come protect our court.’ It was important to get back in the swing of things”. It was Thompson who starred, going off for 43 points, 27 of them in the third quarter alone, as the Warriors picked up their 25th win of the season halfway through December. So far this season, through 24 games, he’s flushed 127 shots from behind the arc on 277 attempts, good for about 45 percent – the best in the league among those who have attempted at least 106 three-point shots. “We all have to do our part”.
Walton obliged, and so did Klay Thompson.
Then the Splash Brothers got it going, and that was all she wrote. “I don’t know how you stop it”. He totaled just 12 points when the Warriors lost at Milwaukee to end their winning streak.
Curry had a tame but solid night by his standards, scoring 25 points and dishing out seven assists. It became more about winning consecutive games than the ultimate goal of winning another championship, but fortunately that cloud lifted after the Bucks defeat and we were treated to a sensational performance on Wednesday night at the Oracle.
In this match that was from the halfway point of the second quarter to the end of the third as they outscored Phoenix 69-25 through that period. The Warriors will get another crack at Milwaukee when they host the Bucks on Friday.
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Bogut had an absolutely stellar game with 12 rebounds, three assists, a block, a steal, and a plus-43 over 21 minutes.
