When the dust cleared, the Warriors’ second unit had re-established the 17-point lead the starters had previously squandered. Brooklyn did some good things where they changed it up with a really small lineup out there.
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Golden State found motivation in every single perceived slight heading into the season, most notably when Clippers head coach Doc Rivers hinted that the Warriors’ playoff run was lucky. They briefly got out of character, turned up the intensity, and kept on winning.
“I don’t think there’s any burden with us [trying to keep the win streak alive]”, Walton said. “Because there’s such a natural letdown in the National Basketball Association”. For us to have any chance against an elite team, we should be able to count on these guys.
Curry scored 16 of his 28 points in the third quarter and Green contributed 22 points as the Warriors won their 26th consecutive game overall in the regular season.
The Golden State Warriors maintained their incredible unbeaten start to the season after seeing off the Brooklyn Nets 114-98 on Sunday.
“We feel like we always have that big punch in us”, Curry said afterward.
Lou Williams led the Lakers (3-17) with 21 points.
Lopez missed from point-blank range at the regulation buzzer on November 14 and the Warriors beat the Nets in overtime at home. Ultimately, Brooklyn showed why it still has the second-worst record in the Eastern Conference.
“They struggled in Toronto as a group”, interim coach Luke Walton, speaking to reporters in Toronto, said of the bench mob, “but then they come out tonight and take the momentum we built in the third quarter and just run with it in the fourth”.
Then, the improbable happened.
Cleveland have lost three straight contests.
Nuggets 108, 76ers 105: Forward Danillo Gallinari scored 24 points, including the go-ahead dunk with 47.9 seconds left, as the Denver Nuggets rallied for a 108-105 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. On Sunday, Klay Thompson added 21 while Curry made 11 of 17 shot and had two assists, including a lob pass to the under-rated Festus Ezeli for a dunk.
But if asked to identify the basketball player I’d most want to watch for one game, or one quarter, or one possession, it’s Steph Curry. “And things started to click”.
In the third quarter, the Nets extended that lead to as many as five, and for a time it seemed as if they’d get another shot at halting history.
“Guys were making plays and getting stops on defense”, Speights said.
Meanwhile, Kyle Lowry with a career high 41 points in the loss!
Dirk Nowitzki had 19 points and Raymond Felton added 11 points and 10 rebounds.
The Warriors have won games in all types of fashion. “We were transitioning easy buckets for them, and they got the lead back”.
Forward Thaddeus Young led the Nets with 25 points, with two of his baskets giving the Nets leads of 66-61 and 68-63 a few minutes before Curry’s flurry.
By that point, given how they continue to find ways to win, a 25-0 record isn’t out of the realm of possibility. They didn’t worry about us.
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Players will usually receive a pair of tickets for each road game, but the team’s public-relations staff will handle additional requests. If we assume they’ll have some stretches where they run off 10 straight wins that gives them margin of error where they can go 4-2 in a separate six game sample. George also has reestablished himself as one of the best two-way players in the league by defending the opposing team’s best perimeter player.
