The basketball gods have blessed the Golden State Warriors with a baby-faced assassin, 15 ride-or-die teammates and a coaching staff that can keep up.
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Golden State comes in at 167-0 on the season after wins over the Lakers and Suns and the team has a pretty soft schedule moving forward. Warriors maintained their ideal start to the season intact and successfully equalled Houston Rocket’s record in 2007-2008 with 22 consecutive regular-season win. “Often times you need to try to do what you do, just do it better”.
“We shoot a lot of threes, but we like to shoot a lot of good ones”, said Curry, whose team shot a season-high 57.9 percent from beyond the arc.
I watched live on TV the famous game where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Milwaukee Bucks stopped the streak at home but the Lakers went on to win 69 games, a record at the time, and dominated the Knicks in five games in the NBA Finals, the crowning achievement for title-thirsty superstars like West and Wilt.
Still, they won by 19, 135-116. They all featured either Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain.
The Warriors set the record for the best start in league history by going 16-0.
Stephen Curry just scored 19 points and made three threes before sitting out the game. Golden State is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against Chicago. Against the Clippers he had his first game over 30 points this season scoring 33.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, left, and Draymond Green…
Walton was pleased the Warriors won again but wasn’t happy with one particular season high, as they committed 24 turnovers.
In the first half, Curry went 7 of 9 on 3s and scored 27 points. Steph Curry is now averaging 32.6 ppg, despite playing just 34.5 minutes a night. Barnes is one of the most intriguing young talents in today’s game, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens with his free agency this coming summer. The Jazz are 1-7 in their last eight games against the defending champs. Jazz coach Quin Snyder said of Hood’s 3-point attempt. Jahlil Okafor has played well and those three are the top options for rookie of the year this season. He was able to pull more points in the fourth quarter and improved the team standings with 18-0.
Showing off their firepower, the Warriors were 15 for 20 from 3-point range in the first half and finished with a season high in points scored. The Jazz are in deep trouble without a huge offensive night from Hayward.
Kobe Bryant is steadily declining as one of the elite players in the game but his passion and aggression can simply mean that he is still very unsafe on the court. Elias Sports Bureau research shows that that ties J.R. Smith for the most games with nine or more threes.
Green picked up his third career triple-double on a tip-in with 2:55 left in the game.
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The contest stayed close throughout, with the Jazz actually taking leads at a few points in the fourth quarter. An unholy torrent of 3-point shooting had snuffed them.
