Warriors kicking off another win streak

Seventy-two and ten. That’s where the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls set the bar for the best single-season record in National Basketball Association history.

Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson celebrates a score against the Phoenix Suns during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, in Oakland, Calif. “We do remember that stuff”, Curry said. On the other hand for the Golden State Warriors, this is a game that seems to be taking on an absurd level of importance.

The Suns trailed by as many as 41 points.

“It’s been a long time, “Walton said”.

“I know Steph (Curry) is mad. We’ve got to go there and hold our own”.

Milwaukee, an under-.500 Eastern Conference team, broke the streak and beat the Warriors on Saturday after Golden State had arrived in Wisconsin at 3 a.m. following a double-overtime win in Boston.

Former Cougars star Thompson hit 15 of 22 shots and 8 of 13 three-pointers in his first 40-point game this season. He added that they are going to have a big game come Friday.

Thompson will be coming off a season-high 43-point performance against the Suns, 27 of which came in the third quarter.

Winning 18 games in a row in one stretch, the Bulls also led the league in scoring at 105.2 ppg, were third in defense at 92.9 ppg for a spectacular +12.2 point differential.

“You have to be able to do a lot of things right to beat them”, Hornacek said, noting his team’s 21 turnovers.

As a result, it was always likely that the run would have an adverse effect on the players in some way, whether it was from a physical point of view, or in terms of the way that they were playing.

With the game nearly over things got a little heated as Ronnie Price hit Warriors big man Marresse Speights on the head, when he was on his way to the basket, and Bogut wasn’t happy, given that the game was already over. Golden State still has one streak intact and picked up its 29th consecutive home win with the 128-103 thrashing of Phoenix.

“We’re human”, said center Festus Ezeli after the Warriors’ morning shootaround before the rematch against the Milwaukee Bucks at Oracle Arena. We thought, at the time, they could have won with a little more class – some of those guys. If you get screened fight over screens.

As Barnes mentions, the Warriors want to use this lineup to blitz opponents – not let them game-plan for it for 48 minutes, despite its potency. “They’re keeping everybody involved”.

The Suns’ final bus departed San Francisco at 5:15 p.m. and got stuck in the snarl of the Bay Area’s rush-hour traffic, arriving 1 hour, 10 minutes later just 70 minutes ahead of tipoff.

Magic 113, Hornets 98: Channing Frye had a season-high 17 points and all five starters scored in double figures to help Orlando rout Charlotte.

It was just Thompson’s second game since spraining his right ankle late in the win over the Pacers. Green, a defensive force all game, pumped in 11 points, six boards, seven assists, and three steals during those two quarters. The Warriors’ 11-0 home start is one win shy of the all-time franchise best of 12-0 accomplished in the 1975-76 season….