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Golden State Warriors podcast with David Zizmor: Right now Dubs have it all, Curry’s 40 footers, home floor advantage, and the fans behind them

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by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–When the Golden State Warriors Steph Curry can make a half court shot and make it it’s kind of ridiculous and the opposing defense can stay in front of him no matter where Curry is on the court and any distance is makeable for him. The fact that he’s making those shots and everybody knows this is pretty amazing and it’s got to be great for him to be headed for another MVP season.

This Warriors win streak at home has hit 46 straight wins and it’s an ongoing NBA record he’s awesome and it’s not just a test of how great this Warriors team is. It’s also a testament to these fans who help create home court advantage. The NBA is one of those leagues that creates the greatest home court advantages. You don’t see the disparity between the home records like baseball, football or hockey. Things usually work better at home for those leagues.

David Zizmor does the Warriors podcasts each week right here at http://www.sportsradioservice.com take a listen below

 

Golden State Warriors Wednesday post game wrap: The Warriors continue to win at home, defeat the Utah Jazz

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The Golden State Warriors continued to win at home Wednesday night. They beat the Utah Jazz by a score of 115-94. It was the Warriors 28th straight win at home this season and 46th in a row. The  Warriors leader and best player, Steph Curry, scored just twelve points in the game. He did make three three-point shots and one he made at the first half was the turning point in the game. The Jazz’ only hope to win the game was to slow down the pace of play and they were successful at it for most of the first half.  The Dubs led by two 23-21  at the end of the first period. The Dubs just couldn’t get their game going until late in the second period. Steph made two threes to put Golden State in the lead by eleven at the end of the half 52-41. Steph made a three-pointer from halfcourt at the buzzer to send the Dubs into the locker room to ignite the crowd and the team.

The story of the second half and the game was the impressive performance of the bench as well as starter Draymond Green. Green , who had been a shooting funk, knocked down seventeen points to go with five assists, seven rebounds, and three blocked shots. The other half of the Splash Brothers, Klay Thompson, led the Dubs with twenty-three. Mo Speights, Leandro Barbosa and Anderson Varejao all were terrific off the bench. Speights had sixteen points, four assists, and five rebounds. Barbosa pitched in with thirteen and Varejao added nine. The bench accounted for fifty-three points in the win.

Notes- Steph had ten assists and the Dubs recorded thirty-six assists in total for the game. Leading scorers for Utah were Trey Burke with eighteen off the bench and Rudy Gobert had fifteen rebounds.

The Warriors improved to 57-6 for the season and are looking forward to meeting the Portland Trail Blazers Friday night at the Oracle Arena.

Golden State Warriors Sunday game wrap up: Lakers make history beating the long odds with a 112-95 win over Warriors

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by Jessica Kwong
AP photo: A picture says a thousand words Golden State Warriors Steph Curry and teammates are stopped in their tracks by the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday

LOS ANGELES – In a shocker, the Golden State Warriors played more like the struggling Los Angeles Lakers and suffered a major 112-95 upset televised nationally at Staples Center on Sunday afternoon.

Instead of sweeping the Lakers for the first time since the 1993-94 season, the Warriors didn’t look ready to be on the court and let the game run away from them in the second quarter, ending the half trailing 60-49 and failing to turn it around.

“It was a bad performance all the way through, didn’t have much energy to start the game for whatever reason and (the Lakers) played well out there, very aggressive, executed pretty well,” said guard Stephen Curry, who finished with 18 points. “It was just one of those nights that we want to avoid at all costs. But it happened and we’ll be alright.”

Golden State tried to change the momentum in the third quarter, but missed shots they would normally make, and ended the period down 84-73. The Lakers’ shots were going in, and younger players including Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson, Larry Nance Jr. and Brandon Bass put on a slam dunk show that had fans on their feet.

“For them, a couple of shots go in and they build on that lead. That was the main issue in the second half,” Curry said.

Golden State head coach Steve Kerr put Curry back on the court at the end of the fourth quarter to give it one more push, but the Warriors could not cut into Los Angeles’ lead, so they decided to cut their losses.

While the Lakers, without Kobe Bryant for the final quarter, played with energy and chemistry, the Warriors committed 20 turnovers that Kerr called “careless” on the perimeter.

Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut scored early, but Kerr joked that the Millennials weren’t focused enough to get the ball to them for the remainder of the game.

“We play fast and if you’re rolling, yeah, quick shots are great. But when you’re missing (and) you’re not hitting anything, that’s when you have to figure it out,” the head coach said. “You (don’t have to) necessarily slow the game down, but you have to get the ball moving.”

The Warriors were also cold from the three-point range, making only 4-of-30.

“If we are playing defense and then we are missing shots, we are still in the game and we can fill the basket up very quickly,” Bogut said. “Tonight we didn’t even give ourselves that opportunity because the lead was insurmountable by the three-minute mark.”

Golden State is still two-and-a-half games ahead of the San Antonio Spurs in the western conference and one game ahead of the pace set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, who hold the NBA record of 72 victories.

For Warriors players, the highlight on Sunday seemed to be playing one final time against Bryant, who’s retiring at the end of this season after 20 years in the league.

“It’s always special. Obviously he has done so much for this game. I grew up a huge fan of Kobe, so playing him for the last time, I am thankful that I got to play him,” Green said. “That’s history and I am proud to be a part of it, a small part of it.”

Golden State returns to Oracle Arena, where they haven’t lost since Jan. 27, 2015, on Monday to face the Orlando Magic.

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Warriors beat Thunder again, 121-106 at home

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By: Eric He

The Golden State Warriors once again proved their rightful spot atop the NBA, defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder for the second time in less than a week, 121-106 at Oracle Arena Thursday night.

It was the Warriors’ 44th consecutive home win, tying the record set by the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls.

Stephen Curry led the way with 33 points while Klay Thompson poured in 21 points. Both Curry and Andre Iguodala returned the lineup after missing Tuesday’s game against the Hawks.

The Warriors trailed 83-82 heading into the fourth quarter, but scored the first six points of the final stanza to take the lead and never look back, opening up a double-digit lead with under four minutes to play. A three-pointer by Curry put the Warriors up 114-100 and sealed the victory.

The Thunder once again played the Warriors tight for much of the game. They were led by 32 points from Kevin Durant and 22 from Russell Westbrook.

The Warriors have now won seven straight. They face the Lakers on the road Sunday afternoon.

 

Golden State Warriors podcast with David Zizmor: There’s Thunder in the house as Dubs get set for battle with OKC

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by David Zizmor

photo credit: smartegrades.co–Golden State’s Stephen Curry gets his ankle worked over by a trainer as he sat out Tuesday night vs. Atlanta

OAKLAND–Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry who rolled his ankle in a game and sat out last Tuesday and he should be back in the line up tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Oracle Arena. It was a rough looking ankle injury and Curry came back after the Thunder’s Russell Westbrook landed on his leg and rolled his ankle and Curry ended up coming back and played great down the stretch in Oklahoma City last Saturday.

The ankle was still sore on Monday and it was still sore on Tuesday and the Warriors wanted to take every precaution because he’s Steph Curry. He’s a difference maker he’s an MVP the Warriors don’t want to risk any long term injury obviously if it were a really bad injury he would have never came back into the game last Saturday and it shouldn’t be considered a serious injury. What the Warriors were doing last Tuesday they were banking on taking the Hawks on that first game back off the road trip at Oracle and they were resting Curry so they’d be ready to go with Curry when OKC comes calling tonight.

This was a matter of the Warriors playing it safe and Curry is out of the line up, the starters they played pretty well early on and they started struggling because the Hawks started playing pretty strong defense. The Hawks are a good team they’re not as good as they were last year but their still a good solid basketball team.

David Zizmor has the rest of the Warriors podcast please take a listen down below right here at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

 

 

Warriors protect homecourt without Curry, Iguodala

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By Joe Hawkes-Beamon

photo credit: news.yahoo.com Golden State Warriors Steph Curry sat out with an ankle injury for Tuesday night’s game in Oakland

OAKLAND, Calif — Without the reigning MVP in Stephen Curry (ankle) and valuable reserve Andre Iguodala (hamstring), the Golden State Warriors pulled out all of the stops in a 109-105 victory over the visiting Atlanta Hawks Tuesday night in Golden State’s first home game since Feb. 9 after completing a 6-1 road trip.

Draymond Green hit an off-balanced 3-pointer with the shot clock expiring with 40.2 seconds left in overtime to push Golden State’s lead to 107-103. Playing primarily as a point-forward, Green finished two assists shy of another triple-double scoring 15 points, 13 rebounds, eight assists, and four steals.

Klay Thompson scored 26 points, but struggled for most of the night shooting just 8-of-27 from the floor including 6-of-16 from 3-point range. Thompson did knock down the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:54 left in the fourth quarter, and another key basket with 11.4 seconds remaining.

With the win, Golden State (54-5) picked up its 43rd straight win at Oracle, and improve to 25-0 at home. The Warriors’ last loss at Oracle Arena was to the Chicago Bulls 113-111 on Jan. 27, 2015.

After getting boat-raced 137-105 in Portland in the first game after the NBA All-Star break, Golden State have won six straight games overall, and have a chance at tying history Thursday night.

With a win over the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State would tie the Bulls’ 44-game unbeaten mark at home from March 30, 1995, to April 4, 1996. They are also chasing the `95-96 Chicago team’s record 72-win season.

Paul Milsap finished with 19 points and seven rebounds, Al Horford had 17 points and nine rebounds, and former Warriors’ guard Kent Bazemore recorded 15 points and nine rebounds for Atlanta (33-28), who had won two in a row before entering Oracle Arena Tuesday night.

Tonight’s game marked the beginning of a stretch for Golden State in which it will play 17 of their next 24 games at home.

 

 

Curry’s 12th three wins game in less than a second

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~ By Pearl Allison Lo

~ As Oklahoma City Thunder’s Enes Kanter’s hands went down with 0.6 seconds left, it was a sign of the unbelievableness that is Golden State’s Stephen Curry, in a 121-118 win Saturday.

The left ankle that took Curry out in the third for five minutes was gone in the rearview mirror, as Curry broke his own NBA single season record for three’s, was the first with ten three’s back-to-back (tweet by Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle) and tied the NBA record for most three’s in a game. His double double stat included 46 points.

Another footnote was the Warriors’ guaranteed playoff spot during the fourth quarter after the San Antonio Spurs beat the Houston Rockets.

The Thunder’s Kevin Durant fouled out for the first time in three years with 4:13 left in overtime. He ended with a season-high seven three’s and a second straight double double, this one 37 points and 12 rebounds. Oklahoma City was +15 with Durant on the floor.

The Warriors trailed for most of the game, but perhaps the short times when they came close were a sign.

Oklahoma City got off to an 8-0 run to start, their biggest lead of the game reaching 14 points with 2:58 left in the first.

Golden State’s Andre Iguodala was their best player in the first. From the bench, he led with eight points, a perfect 4-of-4. Iguodala would also be the one to lead the game to overtime.

Three 3’s from Curry with teammate Marreese Speights in between, made it 41-42 with 4:25 left in the half.  That only lasted 19 seconds.

Curry left the game at 10:29 in the third after an assist to Harrison Barnes. The pass was followed by a consecutive fall with the Thunder’s Russell Westbrook. Westbrook landed on Curry’s left ankle. Curry came back with 5:10 left and his first play was a steal off Westbrook.

The Warriors got to within one again with 3:35 left and tied the game with 2:27 left.

Curry’s seventh 3 pointer with 1:22 left to make it 78-77, gave Golden State their first lead.

Durant doubled his first half three point total with three in the third to lead his team that quarter. His fifth and sixth three at the end of the third gave him 30 points.

Curry and teammate Klay Thompson scored in the double digits, as Golden State scored 32 points.

The Warriors stalled a bit in the fourth, not scoring until 8:56 left.

Another three by Curry made it 92-96 with 2:53 left. Teammate Draymond Green made it 93-96 with a free throw.

With 1:37 left, a Curry three pulled Golden State to within two points.

Thompson then joined the three party with his first, as the Splash Brothers continued the clutch shots, this one with 35 seconds left. Durant hit a three with 14 seconds left, Thompson hit a two, then defensively, stole the ball from Durant as Green saved the ball. Iguodala was then fouled and hit two clutch free throws with 0.7 seconds left. Green defended Durant as he missed Oklahoma City’s last attempt in regulation. Green and Iguodala finished a +10 for the game.

In overtime, a steal by Green precipitated Curry’s 10th three. Curry’s 11th tied the game at 110 with 2:29 left. Thompson hit another three with 1:29 left. He finished with 32 points.

Game notes: The Thunder outrebounded Golden State by 30 and had 20 more paint points. Other double doubles in the game were earned by Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka, a season-high 20 rebounds and 15 points and Westbrook, 26 points and 13 assists. Green’s, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, had a little more to it. He tied a season-low in points with two and had a season-high six steals. Both teams were 3-0 in overtime before it started. The Warriors will be back at it, kicking off March against the Atlanta Hawks at 7:30pm

Golden State Warriors podcast with David Zizmor: Can Dubs realistically claim Bulls all time best record of 72-10?

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by David Zizmor

Of the five loses of the Golden State Warriors the losses to Portland and Detroit were real games where the Warriors lost rather than the other team fighting back to win it. There could be circumstances where Steph Curry, Draymond Green, or Klay Thompson not playing. In the Portland game the Warriors lost their composure if you watch that game the refereeing was bad and it didn’t help and the W’s let the bad officiating got in their head.

It took them out of their game and it ended up getting really sloppy and it just kind of got away from them at that point and let’s be fair their a good team. The Trailblazers if the season ended today they’d be in the playoffs. The Blazers aren’t a team to trifle with their a very good team and Damian Lillard he’s from Oakland and he led the Blazers in scoring in the Warriors last visit to Portland.

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Curry goes for 51 points in Warriors’ win over Magic

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By: Eric He

Stephen Curry drained 10 3-pointers en route to a 51-point performance as the Warriors beat the Magic 130-114 on the road.

Curry also finished his 128th consecutive game with a 3-point field goal, setting a NBA record.

The Warriors dropped 40 points in the third quarter to give themselves breathing room. Curry buried triple after triple, including a bank shot from half-court at the buzzer to give the Warriors a 99-91 lead heading into the fourth quarter.

Much like last night, the Warriors were locked in a tight battle in the first half as the Magic shot at a high percentage and were competitive with the defending champions.

Curry paced the Warriors with 22 points in the first half, but Golden State trailed 63-59 at halftime. The deficit meant nothing for Curry, who shined again and delivered his third 50-point performance of the season.

The defending MVP largely carried the load, as the next-highest scoring Warriors player was Marreese Speights, who had 14.

The Warriors wrap up their seven-game road trip against the Thunder on Saturday.

 

The Warriors win it down the stretch, defeat the Miami Heat

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by Jerry Feitelberg

AFP photo: Golden State’s Stephen Curry drives past Miami’s Goran Dragic in Wednesday night’s game in Miami

They did it again. The Miami Heat were not gracious hosts as they gave the Warriors all they could handle. However, it was the Steph and Klay, down the stretch in the fourth quarter, that provided the firepower to propel the Dubs to their 51st win of the season as they beat the heat 118-112.

The Dubs did not play well in the first quarter. They shot just 30%from the floor. Miami, led by Dwayne Wade and  Hassan Whiteside had a 31-18 lead with about one second left in the period. Steph made a forty-foot three-point shot as time expired to close the gap to nine. Steph led the Dubs with fourteen points, but none of the other Warriors were playing well.

The Heat had a ten point lead with just 2:45 left in the half. The Dubs went on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to four. The first half ended with the Heat leading 55-51. Curry led the Dubs with eighteen and Klay Thompson added twelve. Draymond Green had seven rebounds. The Heat’s leading scorer was Dwayne Wade with eighteen. Whiteside had fifteen points off the bench, and he was a force all game long. Rookie Josh Richardson added eight, also coming off the bench. Miami scored twelve-second chance points in the half as they outrebounded the Dubs 31-29

The second half was twenty-four minutes of terrific basketball. The Dubs trailed by one when Draymond Green made a layup to make it a 55-54 game. Steph hit a three to give Golden State their first lead of the game. The Dubs led by four 63-59, but Dwayne Wade made a three-point shot. Neither team could get anything going, and the lead changed several times before the Heat pulled slightly away as the third quarter ended with them holding a three-point advantage 83-80.

The fourth quarter was a thriller. If you like basketball, you had to love the play of both teams in the last twelve minutes of the game. There were, at least, thirteen ot fourteen lead changes. The game was tied several times, too. The Dubs’ Klay Thompson was hot, hot and hot in the fourth period. The Splash Brothers were at the top of the game in this period. Klay and Steph made several key three-point shots in the stanza. The Warriors led by three with 3:05 left in the game. Luol Deng tied the game with a three-pointer. The Dubs went ahead by one 107-106 with just sixty-five seconds left. The Heat scored a bucket to put them ahead 108-107. Steph then hit a three with twenty-four seconds left to play. Draymond made two free throws to give the Dubs the lead 112-108. The Heat made two free throws. With 18.5 seconds left, the Heat fouled Steph. Steph made the two free throws.  Klay Thompson then made the defensive play of the night to secure the win for Golden State. The Heat took a timeout so that they could put the ball in play from the forecourt. The pass to Goran Dragic was intercepted by Klay. As he headed down the court, he was fouled. The refs ruled that he”had a clear path to the basket.” He was awarded two free throws and possession. Klay made the free throws to put the Dubs in the driver seat. The Warriors win 118-112.

Game Notes- Steph Curry tied an NBA record when he made another three-point shot in the game. Curry tied Kyle Korver’s record of 127 straight games making a three-point shot. the Warriors improve to 51-5. Curry led all scorers with forty-two points, and he also made six three-point shots. Klay Thompson also had a big night.Klay tallied thirty-three and was the man in the fourth quarter. Harrison Barnes added eleven. The Heat had five players in double-figure in a losing effort. Luol Deng scored sixteen. Goran Dragic had thirteen and Josh Richardson knocked down fifteen. Dwayne Wade had a season-high thirty-two and Hassan Whiteside tallied twenty-one.

Warrior coach Steve Kerr had this to say  about his dynamic duo “when they both do it on the same night, we are tough to beat.” Kerr also said he “didn’t like the start of the game.” We”were not playing our style.”

The Warriors play the Orlando Magic Thursday night in Orlando.