“We’ve got to handle the end of the game better”.
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The Thunder, who needed a late jumper by Durant to beat the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, spent the majority of the game against the Grizzlies with a double-digit lead.
Thompson sank eight of his three-pointers by half-time, a statistic which left team-mate Curry in a state of awe. We want to spread the floor and we want to have guys be able to make plays on the perimeter but we don’t have the personnel they have.
They’ve won 27 straight dating to last spring, tying the 2012-13 Heat for the second-longest streak in National Basketball Association history. Reigning MVP Steph Curry logged 29 points to go along with 10 assists and seven rebounds. He scored 29 points, made 8 of 10 threes, and was the key to a 22-0 run that forced IN (12-8) to play catch-up the rest of the night.
“One of the best teams I’ve ever seen”, Stevens said.
“I felt a lot better than last night,” Thompson said. The Cavaliers beating the Warriors wouldn’t be shocking, but Golden State will still be the favorite to win.
“They’re light-years ahead of us in all the executions on both sides of the ball, with their switching game, their rim-protection, their open-court game, how they use the 3-point line to set up basket attacks and rolls to the basket”, Frank Vogel said. A victory against Golden State would help make that happen.
The other: Letting Indiana back into the game. The Pacers made a stirring fourth-quarter run, but cutting 32-point leads to six won’t get you very far.
Pacer superstar Paul George finished the game with a team-high 33 points.
“This team is good”. The energy with which they play is incredible, and as skilled as they are, it seems that that’s how much fun they have and how connected they are as a team.
“It’s impressive. I don’t know if anybody was expecting them to get off to this hot of a start”.
“If Klay and/or LB can”t go, it”ll just be more minutes for different guys to step up.
“You have to respect and appreciate the selfless way they play”, he said. Instead of playing a bruiser like David West at power forward they now play the 6’6, three-point-launching C.J. Miles. They allowed a franchise-worst 80 points in the first half at the Lakers in November 1978.
Acknowledging the fact that they have learned to win games in all sorts of ways, Curry in the interview says, “Individually, everybody’s taken their game up a notch”.
“We’ve obviously going to be cautious with it”, interim head coach Luke Walton said, per the Chronicle. “And then you watch Golden State and they may be the most-improved team from last year to this year, and they won it all”.
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With this astonishing start, the Golden State Warriors have the whole world buzzing. The Pacers are now on a three-game losing streak, where they conceded over 120 points in all three games. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Warriors’ 21-0 record moved the team past the St. Louis Maroons of Union Association, a league in Major League Baseball.
