Warriors push winning streak to 22-0

Golden State found motivation in every single perceived slight heading into the season, most notably when Clippers head coach Doc Rivers hinted that the Warriors’ playoff run was lucky.

Matthews made 12 3-pointers, 10 in the second half alone. It marked his third 20-point game of the season.

Guard Isaiah Thomas led Boston with 23 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter.

Down 75-70 with 3:10 left in the third, the Warriors were soon ahead 96-85 early in the fourth.

Guard Kyle Lowry led the Raptors (12-9) with 41 points and seven assists. Cleveland, now losers of three straight games, needs Love to re-discover his form in a hurry.

The Warriors’ run has become a national story and each of their games, whether home or on the road, has become an event. “So we just needed a little life”.

“We feel like we always have that big punch in us”, Curry said afterward. They had a lot of people making shots and if you look, they were 14 of 33 from three for 51 percent, I think they shot nearly 60 percent if you take away the threes.

The NBA is easing up a bit today after yesterday’s busy schedule, but we’ve still got five games to look forward to.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had a season-high 22 points and the Detroit Pistons scored the game’s first 15 points and cruised to their fourth straight victory 111-91 over the Los Angeles Lakers at The Palace. Walton may have moved pieces around the edges – swapping Brandon Rush for Andre Iguodala, Andrew Bogut for Festus Ezeli, and ultimately Klay Thompson for Leandro Barbosa – but the central players in both Warriors’ mid-quarter 8-1 collapse and late quarter 17-5 resurgence were the same: Curry and Green. And especially againt the great teams in the National Basketball Association, a balanced approach is a more practical and sustainable way to win. Last night, he had 44. “When he needs to he can and when he doesn’t need to he takes a backseat to those guys”. For us to have any chance against an elite team, we should be able to count on these guys.

“That’s what great players can do”.

“We’re a very intense team, a competitive team”, Draymond Green said.

These Warriors are so good, they were boring.

Walton’s famous father, Bill, is a former teammate of Nets head coach Lionel Hollins in Portland and the families spent time together over the summer in San Diego when Luke was a child. At times we got a bit confused on our matchups and transitions. Yet at the same time they are so deep when the starters leave the game the bench can maintain without having to bring the starters back in the game to close wins out. The Raptors were down by eleven, and that’s too much margin to allow a juggernaut like the Warriors.

“We expect teams to fight and come back when we are on the road and that is what they did”, said Curry. The Nets scored just 2 points in overtime and lost 107-99. That’s what they came out and did in the first quarter. In Brooklyn’s last home game against the Warriors in March, Jack hit a game-winning shot to beat his old team.

“We battled and scratched and clawed, but they just stayed with their game until they overwhelmed us later on”.

Led by usual suspects Steph Curry and Draymond Green, the reigning champions preserved their 100 per cent start to the season on Sunday. “When you shoot the ball as well as he does, none of those are bad shots”.