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The Warriors trounce the Lakers, Make NBA History

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The magic continues. The Golden State Warriors made NBA history Tuesday night as the won the sixteenth game in a row to establish a new record for the best start by a team. The Warriors broke the record by a defending champion starting a season when they won their fifteenth game in a row Sunday night in Denver. Tuesday night, they broke the record shared by the  1948-49 Washington Capitals and the 1993-94 Houston Rockets. Those teams started the season 15-0. Never in the seventy-year history of the NBA has a team started the season 16-0. Not the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers or the Chicago Bulls. All those teams were great, but none of them ever did what the Warriors accomplished this season. The Warriors routed the lowly Los Angeles Lakers 111-77 at the Oracle Arena. The once-mighty LA Lakers were no match for the vastly superior Dubs. The tables have turned. The Lakers owned the Warriors for years. The Lakers, second in the NBA, with multiple championships to their credit,  have literally gone from the penthouse to the outhouse. The Dubs, on the other hand, are the toast of the NBA. They are fun to watch. The Dubs play the basketball the right way. They have no egos. They share the ball. They run the court, find the open man. They rebound. They are, in the opinion of many, the class of the NBA. In addition, they want to be better than the were last year and all they did last year was win the NBA Championship.

The Lakers starting five was made up of Julius Randle, Roy Hibbert, Kobe Bryant, D’Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson. Their aging superstar, Bryant, is having a subpar season so far. Bryant came into the game averaging sixteen points a game. He had, however, one of the worst games of his career. He hit just one field goal in fourteen tries and scored just four points in the game to match a career low. Injuries to his ankle, knee and shoulder have affected his play. Looks like it may be his last season. It is his twentieth season in the league and he has reached the advanced basketball age of thirty-seven.

The game was actually close for the first 3 minutes and twelve seconds of the first period. The score was tied at five at that point. The Warriors never trailed. The increased the lead to 8-5 and then went on a 15-0 run. The first period ended with the Warriors up by nineteen. The score at the end of one period was 30-11. The Dubs defense thwarted the Lakers at every turn. Draymond Green scored twelve to lead the Dubs.

In the second period, the Lakers played better and actually outscored the Warriors 27-24 but trailed 54-38 at the end of the half. It was the fewest amount of points in any half this year for the Lakers. The Lakers’ Lou Williams scored ten points to lead the Lakers. The Warriors had nineteen assists on   the twenty-two field goals made. This stat indicated how well the Dubs moved the ball and how well they found the open man.

The Warriors blew the game open in the third period. They scored thirty-five and held the Lakers to seventeen. The Warriors had an 11-0 run as Steph and Company blew away the Lakers. Interim coach, Luke Walton decided to keep Steph, Klay, Bogut, Green and Harrison Barnes on the bench for the entire fourth quarter. Final score 111-77.

Game Notes- Steph Curry tallied twenty-four points for the night. He hit four three-point shots and had nine assists. Draymond added eighteen, Klay had eleven and Leandro Barbosa, coming off the bench, had thirteen.

After the game, Steph had this to say when, if ever, did he think the Dubs would lose. Steph couldn’t really answer tat question but he said this about the team ” we play at a high level every night.” He also said this about setting the record “there have been a lot of great players in the league and no one has accomplished what this team did tonight.” Not Bill Russell, not Wilt Chamberlain, not Jerry West, not Larry Bird, not Magic Johnson, not Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and not Michael Jordan.

The Warriors will try to make it 17-0 Friday night. They travel to Phoenix to play the Suns.

CongratulationsGolden State Warriors Point Guard Stephen Curry in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to the Dubs for a record-setting performance.

 

 

 

 

Warriors Win Over Denver Punches Their Ticket To The History Books.

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By Shawn Whelchel

We’ve all known that the Golden State Warriors were good. You don’t become the reigning NBA champions, boasting the league’s MVP with a slew of talented young supporting cast members by being just alright. But on Sunday night, they weren’t good, they weren’t even great- they were historic.

Powering their way to a 118-105 win over the Denver Nuggets, the 15-0 Golden State Warriors cemented themselves in the history books for the best start to a season since the 1993 Houston Rockets and the 1948 Washington Capitols.

The march to the history book was solidified by an overall team effort, with five warriors scoring in double-digits throughout the course of the game. Klay Thompson led the team with 21 points on 7-of-16 shooting, while Steph Curry followed up with 19 of his own points. The total was Curry’s lowest of the season.

The defense may have left a little to be desired, but the Warriors more than made up for it from the field, as they shot 52.8 percent from the field overall, while doing most of their damage from beyond the arc with a torrid 15 triples made, good for 51.7 percent.

It wasn’t smooth sailings for the Warriors, as they led by just six points in the third quarter. But on a night where they were immortalized as a historic team, they used a team effort to break away in the later stages of the game, keeping their perfect season in tact.

The good news for Golden State- only the lowly Los Angeles Lakers stand in their way of claiming sole possession of a historical best 16-0 start. The game, which will take place at Oracle Arena on Tuesday, will be sure to match the team’s previous playoff run in intensity.

 

Warriors Closer to Record with Win Over Bulls

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By: Eric He

The Golden State Warriors remained unbeaten with a 106-94 win over the Chicago Bulls at Oracle Arena on Friday night.

They advance to a perfect 14-0, tying the 1957-1958 Boston Celtics for the best start to a season by a defending champion, and are two more wins away from setting an NBA record for most wins to start a season.

Stephen Curry finished with 27 points. Harrison Barnes added 20 and Klay Thompson had 15.

Up 96-92 with a minute and a half to play, Barnes stroked back-to-back three-pointers, the latter of which gave the Warriors a 102-92 lead and sealed the victory.

The Warriors started the fourth quarter with both Curry and Thompson on the bench, and it allowed the Bulls to climb within two points. They evened the score at 92-92 on a three by Kirk Hinrinch with under six minutes to play, but Curry answered for the Warriors, knocking down a trey in response. Curry had missed a three, but Thompson hustled to grab the rebounds before shoveling it to Curry who stepped into the triple.

A tight first half continued in the second, as the teams remained deadlocked through the third. The Bulls took 70-67 lead on a three by Doug McDermott, but the Warriors responded with a 10-3 run as they held the Bulls to just one field goal in the final four minutes of the quarter. Curry made a jumper with 50 seconds left to give the Warriors a 77-73 lead heading into the fourth.

The Warriors started the game slow, much like Thursday night. The Bulls raced out to a 23-12 lead with an early 9-1 run. Unlike Thursday, the Warriors responded quickly, starting with a three-pointer by Thompson. An 8-2 spurt to finish the quarter capped off by an Andre Iguodala jumper meant the Warriors were only down one at 29-28 after one.

Included in that run was another spectacular play by Curry, who ripped the ball away from Joakim Noah and set up Iguodala for an alley-oop dunk that cut the lead to one.

A back-and-forth second quarter featured strong performances from both benches, save for a 7-0 spurt by the Bulls at the midpoint. A jumper by Mirotic gave the Bulls a 42-40 lead, but the Warriors took the advantage into halftime. Iguodala and Barnes both made threes and Curry connected on a layup to give Golden State a 50-47 lead at the half.

Golden State Warriors Thursday game recap: Streak kept in tact in seven point win over Clips 124-117

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By Jessica Kwong

AP Photo Stephen Curry celebrates in second half near the Clippers Paul Pierce

LOS ANGELES – A 23-point deficit against their west coast rivals proved to be no problem for the Golden State Warriors, who overcame the Los Angeles Clippers 124-117 on Thursday to plenty of cheers at Staples Center and preserved their undefeated record, now 13-0.

The Warriors, who came back from a 10-point deficit in their first matchup against the Clippers on Nov. 5 at home, got off to a poor start, with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green getting into early foul trouble. Los Angeles, meanwhile, hit eight of their first 10 shots and closed the first quarter with a 41-25 lead.

Though they trailed, the Warriors at no point felt the game was out of their hands, said Draymond Green, who scored 19 points and 9 assists.

“I just told the guys that we had 42 minutes left in the game – that’s a lot of time. We just continued to fight and even when (the Clippers) were hitting everything, it still never felt like they were just controlling the game,” Green said. “When it’s like that, you’ve got a shot at winning.”

Los Angeles led by as many as 23 points in the second quarter but the Warriors closed in as the game progressed. By the end of the third quarter, the Clippers’ lead was down to 91-85.

“That was pretty fun to watch our guys fight back like that after the first quarter the Clippers had. We kept telling them, ‘Just keep chipping away,’” said Warriors Interim Head Coach Luke Walton.

The real excitement – and kind of basketball expected of the nationally televised contest between the top California teams – played out in the fourth quarter.

It was a three-point contest. The Clippers’ Chris Paul hit a 25-foot jump shot to keep his team up 105-96, but immediately out of a Warriors timeout, with about six minutes remaining, Curry nailed a three. Paul responded with a corner three and less than a minute later, Curry hit another three. Then Paul Pierce and Andre Iguodala joined the three-point match, with 25-foot and 24-foot jumpers respectively. 

Golden State finally gained the lead, 113-112, when Klay Thompson hit a 24-foot jumper with about two-and-a-half minutes remaining. It was all downhill from there for Los Angeles – the team struggled to score and sent Curry and Thompson to the line. A sizable contingent of Warriors fans chanted “MVP” as Curry made all four of his free throws.

“We finally got stops and stopped turning the ball over, which starts with me,” said Curry, who scored a team-high 40 points but had 7 turnovers. “We know the recipe against the Clippers is that you can’t give them easy points. Whether they shoot well or not, that’s what fuels their offense – easy buckets in transition off of turnovers.”

Thursday’s game was the Warriors’ toughest on the road so far, Curry added.

“We just had confidence down the stretch and maturity that we relied on starting from last year and continuing into this year,” he said.

The defending champions return home for a back-to-back against the Chicago Bulls with a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.

 

Warriors Beat Raptors, Advance to 12-0

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By: Eric He

It was a pretty first half followed by an ugly second half, but the Golden State Warriors emerged out of Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Raptors with a 115-110 victory to remain perfect at 12-0.

Much of the second half was played at a halfcourt, slow tempo, and the Raptors were able to keep the Warriors at bay and stay in the game.

With 38 seconds left, DeMar DeRozan made a layup to cut the Warriors lead to 109-108. After a defensive stop, the Raptors had a chance to take the lead but a questionable foul was called on Lowry.

After a pair of free throws by Stephen Curry, the Raptors, without a timeout, needed a three to tie but Kyle Lowrie went for a layup instead of a three-pointer, and was still denied at the rim.

That allowed the Warriors to come away with a tight win to become just the seventh team in NBA history to start the year 12-0.

Toronto didn’t score a field goal for nearly nine minutes in the fourth, but still managed to take the lead with free throw shooting, as the Warriors got themselves in foul trouble.

Lowry’s foul shots at 5:54 put the Raptors ahead 98-96, their first lead since the first quarter.

But the Warriors responded with a quick 7-0 run out of a timeout, starting with a lob from Draymond Green to Andrew Bogut to tie the game back up. Curry made a three, and Green’s floater put the Warriors ahead 103-98.

The Raptors’ first field goal since the 11:26 mark came from Lowry, whose three cut the lead to 105-103 with under three minutes to play.

Curry finished with a game-high 37 points to go along with nine assists. Klay Thompson had 19 points. For the Raptors, Lowry and DeRozan both recorded 28 points.

Up 16 at halftime, the Warriors allowed the Raptors back in the game on the strength of a 20-8 spurt. Toronto knocked down some open shots to cut the lead to six at 73-67 midway through the third.

Curry kept the Warriors ahead and Andre Iguodala’s late basket gave Golden State a 90-83 advantage heading into the fourth quarter.

The Warriors went on a scintillating 28-10 run in the latter portion of the second quarter to build up a comfortable halftime advantage.

With the game tied 35-35, the Warriors took over. Thompson heated up with several jumpers, and his three with 3:25 to play gave the Warriors an eight-point advantage. The Warriors then ripped off 10 unanswered points, starting off with a steal and layup by Curry on the ensuing inbounds pass.

An alley-oop from Thompson to Andre Iguodala incited a Raptors’ timeout, but that did little to slow the Warriors’ momentum. In almost mirror, Festus Ezeli and Iguodala both grabbed tough rebounds that led to threes by Thompson and Curry, respectively to give the Warriors an 18-point lead.

The Warriors led 63-47 at halftime. Thompson had 18 points to lead the way.

Warriors Avoid NBA Trap, Down Brooklyn Nets In Overtime.

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By Shawn Whelchel

The Golden State Warriors narrowly avoided an upset at Oracle Arena on Saturday, as the Brooklyn Nets squandered an early lead to fall in overtime by a score of 107-99.

The Warriors kept their perfect streak alive, as they moved to 11-0 on the season in a tightly contested matchup. Nobody expected the 1-9 Brooklyn Nets to contest the reigning NBA champions at home, but the Nets used a first quarter offensive flurry to back the Warriors into an early corner on Saturday.

Despite lackluster frames in the first and third quarter, the Warriors biggest playmakers were able to force an overtime showdown after clutch play from Andre Iguodala led to a 97-all tie at the end of the fourth quarter. Nets C Brook Lopez had the chance to hand an upset to the Warriors, but barely missed the tip-in to complete the win.

After allowing the lowly Brooklyn offense to take charge at multiple points throughout the game, the Warriors defense stepped up big in overtime, allowing just two total points to the Nets while outscoring them by eight in the overtime frame to secure their 11th win of the season.

Steph Curry led all scorers with 34 points, despite a lackluster night from the field, where he shot just 13-of-31. Draymond Green followed for the Warriors with a triple-double featuring 16 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists.

Leading the charge for the Nets was a familiar face in Oakland in PG Jarret Jack, who dumped in 28 points on 9-of-20 shooting.  Followin Jack was SF Thaddeus Young who scored 26, while Lopez finished with a respectable 18 despite the missed tip.

The win was the first overtime bout for the Warriors, who have been steadily dispatching their foes in the NBA while contending their NBA title. Despite falling prey to the early trap, the Warriors rebounded with their usual stout defense and clutch offensive play to stay perfect on the season.

The team will take a brief hiatus before returning to action against the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday at Oracle Arena.

Warriors Beat Timberwolves Behind Curry’s 46

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By: Eric He

Behind 46 points from Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors poured it on in a 129-116 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night.

Curry went 8-of-13 from three-point range and made all eight of his free throws. He scored 21 points alone in the first quarter as the Warriors dropped 40 points to lead by 13 heading into the second.

An 8-2 run to start the second gave the Warriors a 48-30 advantage. Minnesota cut the lead down to as little as six, but a run by Golden State to end the quarter, finished off with a Curry layup at the buzzer, put them back up by double digits.

The Warriors fended off several pushes by the Timberwolves to climb back in the game, especially in the end of the third quarter when an 13-0 spurt threatened the Warriors’ large advantage. A putback by Kevin Martin with 9:47 to play trimmed the lead to 99-94.

But Curry and the Warriors regained command, as a barrage of threes and quick baskets built up the lead again as the Warriors wound up winning comfortably.

The Warriors advance to 10-0 while the Timberwolves drop to .500 at 4-4.

Warriors tie franchise-best 9-0 start with win in Memphis

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By Joe Hawkes-Beamon

MEMPHIS, Tenn — Anchored by league MVP Stephen Curry’s 28 points, the Golden State Warriors tied a franchise-best 9-0 to start a season (held by the 1960-61 Philadelphia Warriors), with a victory over the Memphis Grizzlies 100-84 Wednesday night at FedEx Forum.

Andre Iguodala scored 20 points and Harrison Barnes added 19 points for Golden State, who shot 41 percent (11-of-27) from 3-point range. Curry, who is human after all, shot just 9-of-21 from the floor (3-of-10 on 3s).

Marc Gasol finished with 26 points and seven rebounds, while Zach Randolph scored 19 points and seven rebounds for a Memphis team that has dropped their fourth straight game.

Golden State destroyed Memphis 119-69 on Nov. 2 in Oakland, the worst loss for the Grizzlies in franchise history.

Golden State, who built a 15-point first-half lead, got bullied in the post by Randolph in the third quarter, allowing the bruising power forward to score 12 points in the quarter pulling Memphis to a 55-53 deficit.

But the Curry and the Warriors, who looked sloppy at times committing 23 turnovers, had other plans.

Curry knocked down a 40-footer at the horn to end the third quarter, giving the Warriors a 74-63 lead. Curry, who also drilled a 62-footer in Game 6 of the Western Conference semi-finals that sent Golden State to the conference finals, also added five assists and five rebounds.

Back-to-back 3s from Klay Thompson and Draymond Green in the fourth quarter proved to be difference maker for Golden State, who found themselves up 86-71 with 6:29 left.

The Warriors (9-0) seems to have the Grizzlies (3-6) number after picking up their sixth victory in seven regular season games Wednesday night.

Golden State continues its back-to-back road trip Thursday in Minneapolis, while Memphis hosts Portland Friday.

The Warriors continue their winning ways, defeat the Detroit Pistons

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by Jerry Feitelberg

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The Golden State Warriors continued their winning ways Monday night by defeating the Detroit Pistons 109-95 at the Oracle Arena. The Pistons, coached by Stan Van Gundy, entered the game with a 5-1 record and had won three straight on the road. The Pistons’ stars are point guard Reggie Jackson and center Andre Drummond. Jackson scored twenty and Drummond had fourteen points and fifteen rebounds in Monday nights’ game.

The Warriors’ Steph Curry had a tough night as he missed five of his first seven shots and finished the night 7 for 18 and 22 points. Klay Thompson led the Dubs with 24. The Warriors led 27-15 after the first period and 55-46 at the half. The Dubs played good defense and were able to keep the Pistons at bay but could not put them away. Golden State led by 15 with seven minutes left in the third period but the Pistons clawed their way back due to the play of Stanley Johnson and Marcus Morris. Johnson, coming off the bench, notched twenty points for Detroit. The Pistons trailed by just four points 80-76 at the end of the third period. The Warriors then outscored the Pistons 29-19 in the fourth period to ice the win. They were able to run the court. The Pistons could not keep up with the pace, and the Dubs pulled away. Final score 109-95 for Golden State.

Game notes- The Warriors improved to 8-0 for the season and remain the only unbeaten team in the NBA. Detroit drops to 5-2. The Warriors had five players in double figures. Andrew Bogut was cleared to play, and he had 8 points in nineteen minutes of action. Festus Ezeli and Mo Speights played well and kept Andre Drummond under control.

The Warriors defeated the Piston for the ninth straight time, and they won their 23rd straight home game. The Warriors will be Memphis on Wednesday to play the Grizzlies for the second time this season.

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Flags scoreboard (you can measure the frontrunners)

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–With every Golden State Warriors win(undefeated this young NBA season)you can see more and more yellow and blue Warriors flags flying in cars around the Bay Area. However interestingly enough the San Francisco 49ers flags, are not seen as often. Could it be the Bay Area is your “front-runners’area for sports teams? Furthermore; Giants flags are in storage for the winter, but the San José Sharks are still flying high in the South Bay, interestingly enough they are not selling out every game like they used to at the tank.  Of course, everybody wants to be identified as a winner, and it is just human nature, but sometimes its so obvious that the only thing you can do is laugh.

Notice I didn’t mentioned Oakland Raiders. I think the Raiders fans are in a conundrum, since it could be soon the famous logo could have L.A underneath, a possible move of the Raiders Back to The Future flag could be in the foreseeable future, although they are also competing with the Rams. That make the Athletics fans dream of a ‘nicer and gentler’ Oakland Coliseum,without sharing it with the Raiders, maybe even Mr Wolff would even considering remodeling the maligned park?
These are very interesting times in the Bay Area, a football team with uncertain future, another one with no quarterback, a basketball team that refuses to lose and two baseball teams licking their wounds because less that memorable seasons, and a hockey team celebrating their 25th season but with more empty seats.
Buckle your seat belts, it is going to be a bumpy ride this winter.
Amaury Pi Gonzalez is a talk show host on Sports Radio Service and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com