The Golden State Warriors walked slowly off the Bradley Center floor, exchanging handshakes with the victorious Milwaukee Bucks on the way back to their locker room.
Advertisement
The Golden State Warriors perfection ended Saturday in Milwaukee as they lost for the first time this season to fall to 24-1. The Bucks beat the Lakers 120-104 on January 9, 1972, snapping Los Angeles’ NBA record 33-game winning streak.
Green said that since the start of the seven-game, 13-day trip that he thought the team had stopped getting better and kept racking up wins more because of its experience and talent.
Milwaukee improved to 10-15 with the win. “We turned the ball over too many times tonight”.
Greg Monroe led the Bucks with 28 points.
Klay Thompson, who sat out Friday’s game with a sprained ankle, was cleared to play and tapped to start.
From an individual standpoint, Curry was his usual outstanding self, dropping 38 points along with 11 rebounds and eight assists, coming just shy of a triple-double. Winning just one game in the National Basketball Association is hard enough, but winning 24 in a row?
The setting was ripe for Golden State to be toppled. Thompson’s presence augments a 24-0 Warriors team that seeks to keep its historic streak alive.
Stevens told reporters in Charlotte: “This is a great test of will for our team because of the minutes (we played last night), and also the fact that we’re playing a really good team who’s rolling”.
Can anyone stop Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors? It has been 2 1/2 weeks since they set the record for the best start in history at 16-0. The Warriors looked smothered by the physical Bucks defense as they barely cracked 40 percent from the field and didn’t make a quarter of their 3-pointers.
O.J. Mayo led the Bucks with 14 first-half points.
Advertisement
According to GSWStats, Saturday’s halftime deficit was the second-largest of the season for the Warriors, trailing only their November 19 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
