And so it goes, the Warriors pushing their streak to 23, the Pacers failing to answer the league’s prevailing, plaintive question (“Can someone, anyone, stop these guys?!”).
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Guard Klay Thompson scored 29 of his season-high 39 points during the Warriors’ 79-point first half.
Although the perfectionist Warriors will view the fourth quarter as a sign that they need to improve, Tuesday’s contest was another demonstration of their historically great form.
George finished with 33 points as the Pacers reduced the Warriors’ lead in the fourth quarter.
“We’ve got to handle the end of the game better”, Curry said.
The defending National Basketball Association champions have made things look pretty easy in what has already been a milestone season. The 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers hold the record with 33 victories in a row.
He’s now made at least one 3 in 87 consecutive road games, tying the league record set by Rashard Lewis from 2007-09.
Thompson went 10 for 16 on 3s.
James added 10 rebounds and three assists, while forward Kevin Love scored 18 points and guard Matthew Dellavedova had 17 for the Cavaliers, who ended their three-game losing run.
“It was one of those nights where I got a lot of great looks”.
“Tonight, I was very selective with my shots”, Thompson said. I feel like the starters did their job.
For the Warriors there were only two big concerns.
X-rays in the bowels of Bankers Life Fieldhouse were negative, and Thompson said he believes he’ll be able to play Friday in Boston, where the Warriors play the sixth game of the two-week, seven-game road trip.
Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors spent the first three quarters playing as flawlessly as their unbeaten record. Golden State led by 28 in the fourth before in closed within six in the final 25 seconds.
Paul George had 33 points but missed 16-of-27 shots from the field and C.J. Miles added 24 points for the Pacers, which has now lost three straight games. “One of the lessons is when a team scores on you, you run down at them”. “Every guy is out there to make plays”. It’s not just Stephen, it’s not just Klay. Defensively, you might expect them to struggle due to their lack of height, but Green and Barnes have proved especially tenacious when guarding bigger players. Anything Indiana did through three, Golden State did better.
Sports talk radio hosts and ticket salesmen said they haven’t seen this much excitement or demand for a regular season Pacers game in 20 years.
You know you’re in trouble when you put up 60 first-half points and still trail by 19.
Curry called Thompson’s first half unbelievable. It was the first time IN allowed 130 points IN a game since January 3, 2010 against the Knicks. Interim coach Luke Walton has saved this killer lineup for the last few minutes of close games, and it has been instrumental in keeping the Warriors undefeated streak alive. The Warriors found their offense constrained without their elite floor-spacer and needed overtime to best the East’s bottom feeder.
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NEW YORK – Brook Lopez scored 24 points, Joe Johnson had 22, and Brooklyn beat Houston to sweep the season series for the first time in 14 years.
