And Golden State was properly on the best way to creating a run at the flawless one-season document in National Basketball Association historical past, the 72-10 mark set by the Chicago Bulls in 1995-96.
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The Warriors will get another crack at Milwaukee when they host the Bucks on Friday. “And we only see them twice”.
The Warriors improved their record to 25-1 after winning their 29th straight regular season home game.
There’s not much explanation needed for the Warriors’ dominant second and third quarter performance against the Suns. We got a bucket on it, too.
“They came out, they wanted a piece of the champs and we weren’t fighting back”, Walton said. “One thing about them, they’ve got a championship confidence”, George said.
Then Thompson turned his attention to the Warriors’ next game, which he said had been circled on the calendar. “We all have to do our part”. I will take the Warriors if Klay Thompson plays, but if he don’t I may lean towards the Celtics. “When he or Steph get going, they are such great shooters, it’s really wonderful”.
“You never know in this game”, Wade said.
It was just his second game since spraining his right ankle late in the win over the Pacers.
The Los Angeles Clippers overcame center DeAndre Jordan’s ejection to down the Milwaukee Bucks 103-90 after Chris Paul had 21 points and eight assists. Green played a pivotal role in the comeback down the stretch, as he scored 21 points with nine rebounds and eight assists. – the Bucks were astoundingly the better team for about 42 of 48 minutes on Friday night, leading by as many as 15 in the second half and 11 in the fourth quarter before eventually running out of gas against the relentless ball movement and limitless shooting of the defending champs.
“You have to do everything right against these guys”, Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. Whatever it is, we probably won’t find out if this will hurt them until the postseason.
Backup forwards Mirza Teletovic and T.J. Warren had 24 and 19 points, respectively, and point guard Brandon Knight added 17 for the Suns, who have lost three of four. He is a threat to score from nearly anywhere on the court, hitting nearly 46 percent of his three-point shots and an wonderful 58.4 percent of his two-point shots this year. “If you’re going to say that about another team you should expect… they’re not going to fold”. The zip returned to the Warriors’ ball movement – and with it the daunting explosiveness of their offensive capabilities.
“We circled that game last week”, said Klay Thompson, still damp from his post-game shower – or maybe from scoring 43 points in 31 minutes against Phoenix.
The win moved Golden State to 25-1 for the season and saw them record their 11th straight win at Oracle Arena for the season, a venue they are yet to lose at. The home game was the Warriors’ first since November 27, an 18-day span that was the club’s longest since moving west in 1962….
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_Former Warriors player Sonny Parker attended the game wearing a Warriors sweatshirt and a Bucks hat. Suns C Tyson Chandler made his first start since the previous meeting between the teams on November 27. He missed one game this season because of lower back spasms.
