by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The game that the Warriors played against the Toronto Raptors on Friday night was a fun game and it was against the number one team in the east versus the Warriors the number one team in the west. The Warriors came away the winner at the Oracle arena and this one was expected to be a little bit close 126-105 for the W’s win. We’ve seen a lot of interesting games between the Warriors and Raptors in the last few years. Especially last season almost a year ago, a little over a year ago where Toronto came into Oakland and promptly opened up a 27 point lead.

The Warriors stormed back and the Warriors won that one by double digits in a 30-40 points swing in that game which was really crazy. This game was a little bit different as Toronto jumped out to a lead somewhere in the second quarter but they were never able to maintain and they were trailing by a few points going into the half. The Warriors just had an amazing third quarter they shot the lights out all game long the Raptors just couldn’t figure out the W’s on defense.

No matter what Toronto tried to do they couldn’t hang with Golden State they just couldn’t stop the Warriors shooting. The Warriors went big, they small, they went middle no matter what they tried they weren’t able to defend the Warriors. When your the number one team in the east conference and your playing really great on the road like the Raptors have been you don’t figure your going to come into another team’s house and kind of lay a big egg like they did.

Toronto didn’t play a bad game but the fact of the matter is the Warriors played a great game and Toronto had no counter for it. That’s what the Warriors are doing these days team’s come in and give their best against the Warriors and end up losing that’s a sign of a great team. The Warriors after that big win streak (16) you would think “are they going to have a little bump in the road here are they going to slow down?” yes they lost a couple games and they came against some really good teams.

Games coming up vs. OKC and Indiana: The Warriors host the OKC Thunder on Monday night which is an exciting game as they have Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to deal with and other guys like Serge Ibaka but the W’s feel like they can hang with anybody because they can. They’ve proven it. The Warriors are 26-5 on the season, that’s absurd there are recent seasons where the Warriors haven’t come close to 26 wins all season. Here we are this just past New Years and they have 26 games in the win column.

The Warriors have earned it, they’ve beaten all these teams already, they’re just playing confident basketball and it’s just not on the offensive side and they have the offensive fire power. Last season they were a very good defensive team let’s not sell them short the dubs are playing fantastic defense and that’s one thing they haven’t done in the past that you really notice when your watching this team. Their fantastic switching up their assignments.

The Warriors have OKC on Monday night and the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.

David Zizmor does commentary on Warriors basketball each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com Dave talks Warriors basketball on the podcast scroll down below to listen