Knicks Fall to Stephen Curry, Golden State 116-95

Both the Warriors and the Knicks struggled to put the ball in the basket, but NY won the quarter 20-18. The free-flowing Warriors offense, with ball movement that makes your head spin and 3-point range that seems unfair, ground to a halt. Draymond Green added 10 points and 13 rebounds for Golden State, which opened a three-game road trip with their sixth straight victory while matching the NBA’s best start through 47 games.

He tied Tom Gola for most triple-doubles by a Warrior in a season and helped Golden State bounce back from Saturday’s sloppy showing against the 76ers in Philadelphia, where the league’s worst team almost rallied for an upset before the Warriors sealed a 108-105 win with a late three-pointer.

Context is everything. As Rosie Perez once said in White Men Can’t Jump, “Sometimes when you win, you really lose”.

“In other words”, he explained, “I was chasing a triple-double. We don’t care about the stats”. It’s that whoever is scoring that night, we’re all going to look for him.

It is even more important for the Knicks to stay right in this game given their recent form. Whatever anger Kerr was feeling in the first half was soothed by Green playing to perfection, going 9-of-9 and claiming his second ideal shooting triple double of the season (and only the third anyone’s claimed in the last 30 years).

“I felt like the physical side of the game overwhelmed us at the start”, Brown said.

Carmelo Anthony was the lone bright spot for NY, leading all scorers with 24 points along with 10 rebounds, on 8-18 shooting, his 9th game this season to stuff a stat sheet with 20+ points and 10+ rebounds. “I’ve never heard a player admit to that, but the reality is: Everybody could admit to that occasionally”.

If you are a Sixers fan, then it’s okay to believe in moral victories after Saturday’s game versus the Warriors. Thompson scored eight of his 17 second quarter points in the burst.

Klay Thompson’s 34 point performance and Draymond Green carried the Golden State Warriors over the New York Knicks 116-95.

The Warriors’ response? They shot 14 for 17 in the second, as Green collected seven of his assists. Rookie forward Kristaps Porzingis added 14 points.

Golden State has won in four of its last five visits to NY, and Curry scored a career-best 54 points in the 2013 defeat. The Sixers got out-rebounded by 17 points. The good thing in our industry is that you get a chance to do it again in 48 hours.

“We have a great chemistry”. Keeping Noel on the court with the wings allowed the team to play aggressively against Curry-centric pick and rolls and have enough athleticism to recover to shooters.

Center Festus Ezeli missed a third straight game because of a sore left knee and was scheduled to be re-evaluated Monday after the results of an MRI exam had been inconclusive, according to Kerr.