by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The Warriors have just been playing amazing basketball lately and this might be the best that they’ve looked all season. That’s including that long win streak earlier in the first half of the season. This team is really clicking on all cylinders, they have the points and their just starting to pull away in the NBA Western Conference.

The W’s are ten games up on Memphis and their four games up on the Atlanta Hawks for the overall best record and they just beat Atlanta last week by just a dominating score 114-95. Then this last week the beat up on Portland 122-108, they then beat up on Memphis 107-84, they beat up on Washington 107-76, these are three playoff teams they beat up on.

They won those games and there was not a close match in any of those games the factor in all three of those games the Warriors kept it close through the first half and they just exploded in the third quarter and the fourth quarter was no contest to rest the starters for the most part. You watch these third quarters whatever adjustments they make and the feel they’ve got for the first half all comes to a head in the third quarter.

The Warriors just run away with it, especially in this game the other night against Memphis, their up by five in the half it was a good game. Mike Conley from Grizzlies had a very strong first half with 16 points and in the second half the Warriors made an adjustment to counter for him. Conley scored zero points in that second half.

Meanwhile Stephen Curry scored 17 points in just the third quarter alone and the Warriors just bombed the Grizzlies out of the building at Fed Ex Forum in Memphis this was a road game for Golden State. So to go on the road and beat Memphis by 20 and the Warriors hadn’t beat Memphis yet this season and they were the only team the Warriors haven’t beaten in the entire NBA.

When the Warriors faced the Grizzlies much earlier in the season it was the December 16th they lost 105-98, they didn’t dominate the game because there were just a few games where the Warriors have been blown out but it wasn’t a very close game based on how the Warriors have played this season. The Warriors are in Milwaukee on Saturday night and could clinch for the number one seed in the Western Conference.

David Zizmor does Warriors commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below