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49ers NFC Championship report: Picking a winner in this one is a real hair splitter

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by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–For the third year in a row the San Francisco 49ers are playing for the NFC title and in the last two years their 1-1 so their going for their second trip to the Super Bowl and last Sunday they played a great game against the Carolina Panthers with a few bobbles early but the 49ers righted the ship later in the second quarter and really cruised to a victory and beat Carolina in the end 19-17. The game wasn’t particularily close.

Which is refresing because prior to that the previous three or four weeks there have been some nailbiters for San Francisco and they didn’t have to play a game that went down to the final seconds against Carolina going for the NFC Championship game against the Seattle Seahawks their nemisis, their arch rivals, a team they hate, a team they played already twice this season, a team their looking to win the rubber match against this Sunday at Century Link Field.

They have the season series split so they’re going to play the third and deciding game up in Seattle where the 49ers have had as much trouble winning and it would be facinating to see how San Francisco comes out and approaches this game. This is going to be a tough one. These are the two best teams in the NFL and either way nobody here should be an extreme favorite even if you think one team has a better chance of winning.

You have to admit that one team doesn’t have a bigger advantage over the other these two teams are the in the NFC if not the NFL and your going to see a really tight game and it’s going to be a rough game with a lot of good football. Some people give the 49ers a slight edge and their simply playing better right now over the last month and a half. Seattle’s offense has been in the doldrums part of it is that their passing game has been rather anemic.

Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson was not as great as he was like in October and November when he was lighting up the league. The Hawks have come back to earth a little when it comes to the offensive side of the ball and course they still have Marshawn Lynch whose been running everyone over in the last several weeks in the playoffs but against a team like the 49ers you can’t expect him to do it all by himself.

We saw in December when the 49ers played Seattle for that win the Niners were able to contain the running game and the 49ers had a good passing game for that razor thin victory. The 49ers Michael Crabtree wasn’t much of an impact player in that game. This is a 49ers offense that’s been getting better each and every week in the playoffs and really down the stretch in total. 49ers running back Frank Gore had a great week last week against Carolina, Crabtree and Anquan Boldin have had good games in these playoffs.

Running back Vernon Davis has a handful of touchdowns like he always does, having all those guys healthy and ready to go has made a big difference for this 49ers offense. In everyone of these meetings the 49ers have had the full compliment against Seattle. This is really going to be the first time the 49ers are really going to be at full strength against them. It might make a difference then it might not, Seattle’s defense is really, really good and they have the best secondary in the NFL.

So the curtain raises on Sunday in Seattle at Century Link Field for the NFC Championship, we’ll see whose the best team out of this contest.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for Sportstalk radio

Bulls win 5-4 in overtime against Eagles

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By: Phillip Torres and Kahlil Najar

DALY CITY-The San Francisco Bulls (14-19-4-1) hosted the Colorado Eagles (19-10-3-2) on Wednesday night at the legendary Cow Palace. The Bulls defeated the Eagles 5-4 in overtime on Dean Ouellet Bobble head night. It was a big win for the Bulls as they defeated a Colorado team that currently sits in second place in a very tough Mountain Western Division, only behind the Alaska Aces.

San Francisco started off hot as they put the first two goals on the board first to jump out to the 2-0 advantage in the first period. Ryan Garlock put the first puck in the net at 7:06 on a power play goal. Dylan King and Kalvin Sagert earned the assists on the power play goal. Garlock received the puck by he boards on the Eagles side of the ice. A quick slap shot got past the stick side of Colorado goaltender Adam Brown for the goal.

Luke Judson made it a 2-0 game with a backhand goal in front of the net at 10:47. Riley Brace and Scott Langdon earned the assists on the play.

 The second period was dominated by the Eagles as they scored three unanswered goals to open up the period. At 6:22 in the period Alex Hudson cut the deficit to 2-1 with a power play goal. Riley Nelson and Brock Nixon recorded the assists on the play. Nixon got the puck to Hudson, who missed on his first shot but snuck the puck into the net with a great second effort.

At 12:30 Mark Nemec  tied the game. Kyle Ostrow and Kevin Ulanski assisted on the play that seemed to have changed the momentum into the Eagles favor. Colorado took its first lead of the night with a goal by Ulanski at 16:23. Ostrow picked up the lone assist and Colorado held the 3-2 advantage until the wining seconds of the second period.

Jordan Morrison scored the “goal that changed the game,” according to head coach Pat Curcio with just 15 seconds remaining before the second intermission.

“It was a huge goal for us,” said Curcio.

“It was the goal that changed the game.”

Morrison’s goal tied the game at three and really gave the momentum back to the Bulls.

The third period consisted of both teams trading goals. Ostrow scored his 17th goal of the season, assisted by Dylan Hood, and Riley Brace scored on an unassisted goal 10:02 to tie the game at 4-4. The second half of the third period was a defensive struggle and the score at the end of regulation remained tied, 4-4.

The overtime period lasted a little over three minutes as Dale Mitchell sent the Bulls home happy with a game winning shot from Brett Findlay and Ouellet to send the Bulls off the ice with a 5-4 victory.

Ryan Garlock made his San Francisco Bulls debut Wednesday as he got into the city Wednesday morning. Curcio praised his new star player who scored a goal his first night on the job in a Bulls uniform.

“We’re extremely lucky to have Garlock,” Curcio said. “We haven’t had a player as talented as this guy ever play for us. He’s a star in this league”

The Bulls will be back on the ice on Friday January 17, 2014 as they will be hosted by the Bakersfield Condors. The puck will drop at 7:00 PM.

Stanford blows away Washington St

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By Jeremy Harness

 

STANFORD – The tail end of Wednesday night’s game proved one critical fact that in big-time college basketball, you don’t have a chance of winning when only two players score almost all of your points.

 

Washington State found this out the hard way against a much more balanced Stanford team that was coming off a big win at No. 13 Oregon on Sunday. After a pitched battle in the first half, the Cardinal raced away and never looked back in a 80-48 win at Maples Pavilion.

 

Stanford (11-5, 2-2 Pac-12) pretty much got whatever they wanted on offense, shooting 58 percent from the floor, which included 40 percent from 3-point range. Washington State, on the other hand, shot just 37 percent after going 44 percent in the first half.

 

Anthony Brown and Josh Huestis, who recently trimmed his trademark mini-Afro and sported the look for the first time Wednesday, each led the Cardinal with 15 points while two others, Dwight Powell and Marcus Allen, also scored in double figures.

 

Meanwhile, only two Cougars hit double figures, with Que Johnson putting up 21 points on 8-of-15 shooting while Royce Woolridge had 13 and made six of his 13 shots.

 

That was good enough for Washington State (8-9, 1-4 Pac-12) to hang around in the first half, as Stanford could not contain Johnson at all in the first half. The redshirt freshman diced up the Cardinal in the 15 minutes that he played in the opening stanza, scoring 15 points and connecting on all but one of his seven shots, including his draining each of his three 3-point attempts.

 

Stanford and Washington State traded baskets – and the lead – while Johnson was on the floor. After he took a seat at the 3:57 mark of the first half with Stanford holding a two-point lead, the Cardinal began to distance themselves from the Cougars to take a 40-29 halftime lead.

 

To say the least, the scoring was much more balanced for the Cardinal than it was for Washington State. Seven different guys scored for Stanford, with Anthony Brown leading the way with 12. Meanwhile, Royce Woolridge had 11 first-half points, but besides he and Johnson, Dexter Kernich-Drew was the only other Cougar to score with three.

 

The onslaught only increased for the Cardinal, as their lead swelled to 25 points by the midway point of the second half.

 

Washington State did not get its first bench points of the game until the midway point of the second half, when Ike Iroegbu made a layup to narrow Stanford’s lead to 27.

 

Stanford will host Washington Saturday night before heading down to Southern California to face USC and UCLA.

Cardinal shock No. 17 Oregon

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By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Stanford guard Anthony Brown netted 24 points Sunday, leading the Cardinal to a stunning 82-80 Pac-12 men’s basketball win over the University of Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene.

It was the third consecutive loss for the Ducks (13-3 overall, 1-3 Pac-12), and the win gave Stanford a split in its two-game conference trip to the Beaver State.

Chasson Randle added 23 points for the Cardinal (10-5 overall, 1-2 Pac-12), who chalked up their second win over a ranked team this season, the first time Stanford has done that since 2009.

Mike Moser paced the Ducks with 24 points.

Stanford held a 41-37 halftime lead and never trailed in the second half. However, the Ducks came close when Moser hit three 3-pointers that pulled Oregon to within 64-62 with 11:38 remaining in the second half.

Oregon pulled to within 77-74 on a jump shot by Jonathan Loyd with 2:12 left, but Brown answered with a long range jumper. The Ducks had two chances to tie the game in the final eight seconds, but Loyd missed a jumper and Dominic Artis had a layup rim out as time expired.

Randle, who popped in 30 points against Oregon State, was 8 of 14 from the field. Dwight Powell added 14 points and six assists for Stanford. Jason Calliste and Damyean Dotson added 12 and 10 points, respectively, for the Ducks.

Oregon opened the season with a 13-game winning streak, but hasn’t won since an overtime triumph over Utah on Jan. 2. The Ducks lost to No. 15 Colorado and California before falling to the Cardinal.

The Cardinal return home for a Wednesday night Pac-12 contest against Washington State. Tip off is at 8 p.m.

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Bulls Fold To Aces 5-2

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By Kahlil Najar

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Bulls (13-19-2-1) were defeated by the Alaska Aces (21-9-2-1), 5-2 on Saturday night at the Cow Palace. Brett Findlay and Sebastian Stalberg scored for the Bulls on their second annual LGBT night where the team wore special jerseys to show their support for the LGBT community in San Francisco.

Coming off an impressive win the other night against the Aces, the Bulls and their fans were looking forward to another hard fought, nail-biting night of hockey. Unfortunately, the game played out exactly as it did on Friday night but without the impressive comeback.

In the first period the Bulls were getting quality passes off to the front of the Aces goal however no one was there to put the puck home. Meanwhile the Aces seemed to skate into the Bulls zone with ease and set up plays nicely and wait until they got the numbers they needed to mount an attack. The Aces got on the board first when Shawn Skelly scored by coming around the back of the net and jumped on a rebound off a Nick Mazzolini shot and beat Beskorowany to the far post and gave Alaska a 1-0 lead. Less than two minutes later, Mathew Sisca and a fellow Ace were bearing down into the Bulls zone on a two-on-one and after a quick fake pass, Sisca beat Besko through the five hole and gave the Aces a two goal lead.

The Bulls got their first goal of the game and cut the lead in half in the second period when Dale Mitchell picked up the puck from behind the net and shot it out in front of the goal to Brett Findlay who scored into a wide open net. The goal was Findlay’s 26th point of the season and moved him into the fifth position of top rookie scorers in the league. The Bulls were taking shots on Aces goalie Roy however they weren’t quality shots at the all sailed on the ground or saw little flight in the puck at all. Findlay did have a beautiful drop pass to Jordan Morrison but even that shot was turned away by Roy. With 7:01 remaining in the second, the Bulls gave up the puck in their zone to former Bull Peter Sivak who found Tim Coffman in front of the net one-on-one with Besko and beat him top shelf to bring the lead back to two with a score of 3-1.

At the end of the second; after the buzzer sounded, Brett Findlay shot the puck down ice and head referee Stephen Reneau took exception to it and appeared to think he thought it was a knock at him and called an unsportsmanlike misconduct on him to put the Aces on the power play to start the third.

It didn’t take the Aces long to respond as 37 seconds into the final period, Sisca scored his second goal of the game with a nice feed from Coffman and bring the lead to three. At 3:36, Sebastian Stalberg scored his first goal with the Bulls on a nice feed from Dean Ouellet who found him streaking to the net and made it a 4-2 game. The Aces responded quickly when Coffman scored his second of the game when he picked the pocket of a Bulls player and beat Besko top shelf to give the Aces the 5-2 victory.

It was a messy loss for the Bulls as they had more than enough opportunities to capitalize on Alaska’s mistakes. The Bulls weren’t able to connect on a few two-on-one’s and even missed on a few nearly wide open nets when the Bulls had Roy scrambling from in front of the net.

The Bulls now take a few days off before they play again on Wednesday when they take on the Colorado Eagles at 7:30 pm.

Sharks fall at home to Bruins

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By: Phillip Torres

SAN JOSE-The San Jose Sharks (28-12-6) hosted the Boston Bruins (29-14-2) at the SAP Center in San Jose on Saturday night. San Jose was handed a rare loss at home as they fell 1-0 to Boston. The loss dropped the Sharks home record to 16-2-3. San Jose had not lost at home December 10, 2013 against the New York Islanders. That loss came via a shootout. Bruins goaltender, Tuukka Rask, pitched a shutout and recorded 26 saves on the night.

Antti Niemi played stellar all night recording 22 saves on the night, but one got past him in the third and final period, the lone goal of the game. Niemi played well throughout the entire game and kept Boston off of the board until Carl Soderberg scored a goal at 12:25 in the final period.

The first two periods of the game were a defensive showcase as both teams played extremely well and held the offenses scoreless for a little over the first 47 minutes of the contest.

Both teams had opportunities to put the puck in the net but great play from both goaltenders prevented that from happening. The Sharks seemed to play better in the first period, and the Bruins seems to have outplayed the Sharks in the second period. Either way both teams failed to get the goose egg off of the scoreboard until the third period.

Ultimately, Rask played slightly better than Niemi as Soderberg was able to push across the lone goal of the game   midway through the third and final period. It was Soderberg’s sixth goal of the season. Soderberg knocked in the wrist shot with assists from Loui Eriksson and Ryan Spooner.

The Sharks will be back on the ice on Tuesday as they will travel to Washington to take on the Capitals.

NHL COMMENTARY: Thirteen a lucky number for Ducks’ Hiller

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By DANIEL DULLUM
Sports Radio Service
Saturday, January 11, 2014

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Leave it to a goaltender not to be superstitious about any connotation involving the number 13.

With a little luck, and a consistent rotation ot talented teammates in front of him, Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller is enjoying the kind of hot streak keepers thrive on. The Ducks’ 5-3 win over Phoenix Saturday night gave Hiller his 13th consecutive win – the longest such streak in the NHL since New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur won 12 straight between Oct. 23-Nov. 20, 1997.

“I hope 13 is not an unlucky number,” Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau said. “He’s playing tomorrow too (at home against Detroit).”

In the month of December, Hiller was 9-0-1 with a 1.96 goals against average.

“It’s definitely a great thing, but at the same time, I’m really excited about winning with the team,” Hiller said. “That’s what’s the most fun right now. Personal things are like cherry on the cake, but you need the whole team to win.”
“If you take each day as its own entity, you don’t think of it as the number 13. You just come in and play hard, and it’s our turn to go out and play hard tomorrow. That’s the way we look at things.”

“If the guys score four or five goals every night, it’s not too tough to win as a goalie,” Hiller said. “I think those things come because we work hard, keep on forechecking, keep on doing the things we need to do. We have four strong lines and that’s tough to contain.”

Defenseman Hampus Lindholm scored twice in the Ducks’ win – the first goal of the night against Thomas Greiss and the only tally allowed by Mike Smith.

“It was unbelievable,” Lindholm said of his first career two-goal game. “I don’t think we played our best game, but we got a good win. It’s always good to win in someone else’s rink.”

The Ducks have won eight of their last nine road games, and have averaged 4.8 goals over their last six games since losing 3-1 to San Jose on Dec. 9.

“We have a game plan out there and we know we’re a good team,” Lindholm said. “When you do things right out there, you know you’re going to get a couple of goals.”

On this night, the Ducks put together a three-goal flurry in the second period, including Ryan Getzlaf’s 23rd goal of the season that chased Greiss. But Anaheim’s defense also allowed Phoenix to score a couple of late goals, one on a two-man advantage with less than two minutes to play.

“We’d like to play a more complete game,” Boudreau said. “We don’t have the luxury in the third period of not playing hard up to the end. Tonight, I’m not saying we didn’t play hard, but we took a couple of dumb penalties.

“It was a sloppy finish and sure, we’re concerned about it. It’s still not the 60-minute game you want, but it’ll get there.”

“Sure, there are some areas where we can always get better,” Lindholm said. “You can’t expect to play super good out there every game. You want to improve on the small things going toward the playoffs “

The Ducks have 73 points (34-8-5), best in the NHL as of January 11, a mark that includes winning 16 of their last 17 games. Anaheim is also the first team to reach 70 points-or-better this season. Though it’s early January, Saturday’s game was the final meeting of the season between the Ducks and Coyotes, with Anaheim sweeping the season series 5-0-0.

“You always want to win those series because we might face them in the playoffs,” Hiller said. “You want to make sure you have that confidence that we can play against them and win.

“When you win, you want to just forget about yourself,” he added. “Here, everybody believes we can beat anybody in any stadium.”

That’s a point the Ducks are driving home on a nightly basis. A return to the Stanley Cup finals for Anaheim is not an unreasonable goal for this squad to pursue.

How good are the Ducks? We’ll know within the next week or so. There’s a couple of home games coming up against Detroit and Vancouver, followed by a two-game road swing to Chicago and St. Louis. That four-game stretch will say a lot about the NHL West overall and the Anaheim Ducks lofty perch in particular.

Daniel Dullum covers the NHL West for Sports Radio Service.

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Bulls win in overtime thriller

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By: Phillip Torres and Kahlil Najar

DAY CITY-The San Francisco Bulls (13-18-4-1) hosted the Alaska Aces (20-10-1-1) on Friday night at the Cow Palace. The Bulls rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to beat the Aces 6-5 in overtime. The victory evened up the three game weekend series at one win a piece and gave the Bulls a chance to win the series on Sunday.

Alaska started of hot as they opened up the scoring just 18 seconds into the contest. Eli Zuck scored his second goal of the season. The assists were earned by Tommy Mele and Peter Sivak. Sivak, the former San Francisco Bull had a huge game against his old team as he racked up four points on the night. He scored his tenth goal in an Alaska uniform at 13:37 in the first period to make it 2-0 Aces. Drew MacKenzie made it a 3-0 advantage with a goal of his own with assists from Ross Ring-Jarvi and Sivak.

The Bulls got red hot in the second period as they scored four goals within a span of 1:31. Jordan Morrison put the Bulls on the board first with his eighth goal of the season at 8:49. Brett Findlay and Dale Mitchell assisted on the play. Forty-two seconds later Mitchell scored a goal of his own on a power play. Mitchell put the puck right in the corner of the net on the glove side of goaltender Oliver Roy. The goal was assisted by Dean Ouellet and Eriks Sevcenko.

With the Bulls down just 3-2, Mitchell scored his second of the game seventeen seconds later to tie the game at three goals each. The play was assisted by Findlay. Findlay broke away with the puck and passed it to Mitchell at the last second as the defender could not get to the puck on time.

Ouellet scored the fourth goal within the span to give San Francisco its first lead of the night, making it 4-3 Bulls. Ouellet scored at 10:20 with assists from Sebastian Stalberg and Riley Brace.

Beskorowany appreciated the offensive explosion by his team in the second period.

“It was great,” the goaltender said.

“It was great to play with lead. We haven’t played with the lead for a while now and it was great to create some offense tonight,” Beskorowany said with a laugh.

Alaska tied the game with a goal from Tim Coffman past starting goaltender Tyler Beskorowany. Brad Richard slipped Coffman a nice past to earn the assist on the play.

Morrison capped the combined six goal second period with his second goal on the night and in the period. Beskorowany shot the puck back in after making a save to Mitchell deep down the ice and Mitchell flicked it quickly to Morrison as he put the puck on the net to give the Bull the 5-4 lead heading into the third period.  

The third period contained only one goal, and it came early as Sivak struck again to tie the game at five. Mele assisted Sivak on the play. The Bulls played stout defense as they defended the penalty kill great in this period.  Alaska threatened to score on a five on three power play late in the frame. The Bulls killed the penalty with Beskorowany making a couple of tremendous saves to save the game for San Francisco.

“That’s what won us the game,” head coach Pat Curcio said after the game.

“I don’t remember the last time having to kill a five on three power play two nights in a row.”

The score at the end of regulation was notched at five and the game went into overtime. Dean Ouellet put in the game winner exactly one minute into the overtime period with a put back goal into an empty net.

Morrison went in for the score but got tripped up with Roy on the side on the net. With a great second effort Morrison got the puck to Ouellet who tapped in the game winner and sent the Bulls off of the ice as 6-5 winners over Alaska.

“I really didn’t do much on the goal,” Ouellet said after the game.

“It was Morrison’s second effort that got me the puck and I had empty net right in front of me.”

The Bulls and Aces will finish the weekend series on Saturday. The puck will drop at 7:30 Pm at the Cow Palace.

Bulls Rally Falls Short, Fall To Aces 3-2

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By Kahlil Najar

SAN FRANCISCO – In their first meeting in San Francisco since the playoffs last year, the San Francisco Bulls(12-17-4-1))  were defeated by the Alaska Aces (9-9-1-1(,  3-2. Steven Tarasuk and Dean Ouellet scored for the Bulls and Tyler Beskorowany stopped 31 of 34 shots. Martin, Molle and Sisca put up the tally’s for the Aces and Olivier Roy stopped 17 shots from the Bulls.

The Bulls came out fast in the first period as they pelted Roy with four straight shots before the Aces got their first shot on goal. However that first shot got the Aces on the board. James Martin took a nice wrist shot and beat Beskorowany with 8:03 gone in the first.  With a little over three minutes left in the first Dean Ouellet scored on a nice feed from Dale Mitchell that Ouellet was able to lift over a sprawled Roy.

In the second, the Aces kept pounding the puck towards Beskorowany and while Besko was laid out on the ground Dustin Molle was able to life the puck over the Bulls goalie and gave the Aces the 2-1 lead with 4:58 left in the period. Less than three minutes later, the Bulls had the puck in the Aces zone and it looked like they were applying a ton of pressure on and had the Aces on their heels. Then the Aces Brad Richard stuck his stick out and intercepted a Bulls pass and found a streaking Mathew Sisca who was one-on-one with Besko and beat him top shelf with a quick wrister to give the Aces a two goal lead at the end of 40 minutes.

In the final period, Steven Tarasuk, who was recently picked up by the Bulls continued his hot streak as he was able to catch the puck on a crazy bounce in front of the Aces goal and push it in to bring the deficit to one goal and make it 3-2. With a little over one minute left in the game and on a power play Pat Curcio pulled Besko and even though the Bulls were able to take three quality shots, Roy was able to turn them all away and hand the Bulls their 17th loss of the season.

“We looked lazy at times but I thought towards the end we battled hard. We could have got lucky and got a point and took it into overtime. We had an opportunity there at the end but Dale (Mitchell) missed it and that’s the way it goes,” said Head Coach Pat Curcio on the final minutes of the game. “It is what it is. We need to be a bunch that overcomes adversity and we’ve done it all year. We’ll look to rebound tomorrow.”

The Bulls and Aces head back at it tomorrow night at the Cow Palace at 7:30pm.

Warriors 10-game winning streak snapped in Brooklyn

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by Joe Hawkes-Beamon

BROOKLYN — Stephen Curry led all scorers with 34 points, but it wasn’t enough as the Golden State Warriors (24-14) saw their 10-game winning streak come to an end in Brooklyn, 102-98 Wednesday night. The Warriors finished tied for an NBA-record 6-1 on their season-long seven-game road trip.

David Lee finished with 20 points and seven rebounds, Klay Thompson scored 14 points, and Andre Iguodala added 10 for Golden State, who committed 18 turnovers in the game. Curry was responsible for seven turnovers, but did have seven assists while playing a game-high 45 minutes.

Andrew Bogut finished with 10 points and nine rebounds.

Brooklyn (14-21), playing without start point guard Deron Williams, got a huge boost from Joe Johnson, and Kevin Garnett.

Johnson led Brooklyn with 27 points on 8-for-17 shooting from the field, including 9-for-11 from the free throw line.

Garnett scored 11 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter, and stole Curry’s pass with the Warriors trailing by three with 30 seconds left to play.

Brooklyn added a pair of free throws while Thompson’s desperation three-pointer as time expired fell short, helped the Nets pick up their season-high fourth straight victory.

Golden State returns home to Oracle Arena Friday when they host the Boston Celtics.