Thompson, Durant lead Warriors to 104-88 win over Celtics
It was a party for the Warriors, and an embarrassment for the Celtics.
The Los Angeles Clippers overcame the Sacramento Kings 121-115, while the San Antonio Spurs downed the Los Angeles Lakers 116-107. Both teams had to travel after their game on Friday.
One of the main factors that makes the Celtics a pretty good basketball team was on display last night. The Celtics are 2-4 on the road. Stan VanGundy has said that he may shake up their starting line up as the Piston starters. But then I started looking forward and seeing that I was going to be a part of this great team that’s been talked about for the past few years, and I just couldn’t believe it. He has begun some light work on the court but is still not ready to come back.
A makeshift Boston side missing both Al Horford through concussion and Jae Crowder, who has an ankle knock, were always struggling to contain the Warriors’ all-star offense.
In the third, most of the minutes got occupied by Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier, Tyler Zeller and Gerald Green.
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The star guard finished with 30 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds.
Morris kept the game close with 14 points.
The Celtics found themselves trailing by just two entering the fourth, however, scoring seven of the third quarter’s final nine points and getting a Tyler Zeller layup right before the buzzer. “They know there are areas where we can improve”. They have also already lost another game since then. The loose ball bounded into Stephen Curry’s hands around halfcourt. They hit 10 shots in a row, put a lid defensively on Boston and even Zaza Pachulia started dancing. “Obviously, the biggest thing is you can’t get caught up in is you’ve got to have a body, you’ve got to be on them. You can’t let a team like that go on a run like that and expect to come back”. Until they weren’t a couple minutes later.
Rebound – Rebounding takes effort and desire. The Boston Celtics were one of those teams. “If they don’t respect what I did, I can’t control that”.
Durant has received plenty of criticism since he signed with Golden State and if he wasted his time and actually cared about everybody’s opinion, he would be miserable.
Boston, realizing that Drummond was on the bench, didn’t call a timeout and it ended up being the difference in the game.
For the Celtics they are going to look to build on the momentum from their win over the Pistons with a Monday night game against the Minnesota Wild and their incredibly young and talented roster. “They missed and no one moved or blocked out”.