Golden State Warriors at Brooklyn Nets — NBA Sunday Odds

Try telling that the Golden State Warriors who have started their post-title run like Usain Bolt chasing Olympic gold in the 100 meters.

In six career games at Toronto, Curry is averaging 30 points. But those moments don’t take away from the perspective of a team that’s looking to repeat as champions, while silencing doubters along the way.

Golden State looked like a team with exhausted legs as it played its second game in as many nights.

The Warriors won’t go 82-0 and shouldn’t aspire to go 82-0, if for no other reason than maintaining perfection over six months isn’t exactly chicken soup for the soul.

Regardless, more significant factors arguably are the fundamental skill of the team itself and, over time, ability of its biggest contributors to avoid any injuries that might sideline them. They’re a good team. Also Steph Curry was playing at his best. Draymond Green is the player now everyone is looking floor.

Utah’s Derrick Favors scored a career-high 35 points as the Jazz rallied to win 122-119 in overtime against Indiana.

The real player who is indispensable is obviously the MVP.

The research is divided, though it mostly suggests that such momentum-the idea that being on a winning streak improves the odds of continuing it-isn’t a significant factor.

I don’t want to overstate this at all, but what Curry is doing here would be pretty much like God following up the creation of the world with the creation of a disease-free, cable-ready parallel universe with a bowling alley on every corner.

While the Curry and Green-led squad pulled the Warriors even again with the Nets, it was an all-reserve line-up that finally blew open the game once again.

No Warriors starter played more than four minutes in the fourth. Brandon Rush and Ian Clark have recently featured in crunch time for the Warriors.

Curry was a touch better, and for him it was just another night. While it seems like it could go on like this forever, there will surely come a night where Curry can’t find the spark, or Draymond Green is in foul trouble, or some other mundane detail that gets left unattended, and leaves the Warriors with their first loss. Steph Curry played a huge part in the Warriors big win, according to ESPN. The burden just like the ball is shared.

The Warriors blew a 17-point lead. They play so well and so efficiently they don’t have to play their stars long thus keeping them fresh and healthy. “We were transitioning easy buckets for them, and they got the lead back”. Cleveland, now losers of three straight games, needs Love to re-discover his form in a hurry. Still, with less than two minutes remaining in the half, the Nets barely were within shouting distance, trailing by 15. It’s harder to acquire and keep elite talent.

Protecting the historic streak adds motivation going into each game for some players, like Thompson.

Where this new era does help them is in the rest department.

Curry admits that when he’s been on the bench at the end of games, sometimes he’ll turn to Walton or his teammates and just talk about how remarkable this run has been. But the Warriors closed the quarter on a 17-5 run. I’m a perfectionist, so it’s a gift and a curse for me – I don’t enjoy it like I should. Over the span of two seasons the organizations regular season win streak is streak is now 26 straight. These incremental milestones make challenging 72 palatable.

– Without Harrison Barnes, the Warriors can’t go all insane with their lineups against Boston. The Warriors continued to pour it on and built a double-digit lead halfway into the fourth and cruised to their 22nd victory of the season. They wake up when they are challenged. They rank first in offensive efficiency and fifth in defensive efficiency.

Statistically, the Warriors are on pace to set even more records.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, Rick Barry, Isiah Thomas: I’ve seen ’em all from a courtside seat on what once was known (oh, those were the days) as press row.

It’s those types of performances that enable the Warriors to stay flawless.