Green scored 21 points and Klay Thompson added 19 for defending champion Golden State, which has won its first three games this season.
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They’ll next try to spoil the Pelicans’ home opener while sending them to their worst start since dropping their first eight games in 2004-05.
Steph Curry with the shot?
“Tonight we fought like insane and competed, but we’ve got to get off to better starts”, Gentry said.
Ramon Sessions scored 11 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter for the Wizards. It gave the Warriors a 105-91 lead. But that’s something you expect from great players, they’re going to make shots. In the first meeting last Tuesday, the Warriors received their rings in front of an adoring crowd at Oracle Arena, and proceeded to run roughshod all over the Pelicans behind reigning League MVP Stephen Curry and his 40-point, six-rebound, and seven-assist performance.
Walton let the Warriors conclude practice on Thursday with a fun exercise he said he did in his playing days with the Los Angeles Lakers under Phil Jackson. But while Lawson may think this qualifies as innovating new defense, it’s nothing the Warriors haven’t seen before. “He’s a tremendous player, but we’ll move on and get better in practice tomorrow”.
If he had played more than 36 minutes, he might have shattered his current game career-high of 54 points.
Dwight Howard had nine points and seven rebounds for Houston in his first game after serving a one-game suspension for getting a fourth flagrant foul in the postseason.
For the Warriors, Stephen Curry had 25 points, Marreese Speights and Harrison Barnes scored 14 and 12 respectively.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Marcus Morris scored 26 points, Andre Drummond had 20 points and 20 rebounds and Detroit beat Chicago to improve to 3-0. Davis now has 100 double-doubles in his career.
They got solid play from Jrue Holiday, who went slightly over his raised minutes restriction – he was cleared to play 25 and played nearly 27 – and finished with 22 points and six assists. I thought we were very stagnant offensively, and we were better defensively doing what we practice every day.
Perkins played the first 2:26 of the first quarter, scoring two points, before being replaced by Omer Asik.
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James Harden finished with 16 points, but was just 4-of-18 from the field, hitting just 1-of-10 attempts from behind the 3-point line.
