Bucks Hand Road-Weary Warriors First Loss

Which was surprising, because it wasn’t like he was toting an historic winning streak back to the Bay Area in there.

The Warriors had an off night, and a motivated Bucks team played their best game of the young season and Milwaukee ended the Warriors record-setting start 108-95.

The Bucks did so much right. To compound matters further, Golden State had just squeaked out a grueling double-overtime win over the Boston Celtics the night before at TD Garden.

What did the Warriors do wrong? For example, the * a href=”http://stats.nba.com/league/lineups/?ls=iref:nba:gnav#!/?Season=2015-16&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&GroupQuantity=2&TeamID=1610612744&CF=GROUP_NAME*E*ezeli|GROUP_NAME*E*speights&DateFrom=12%2F12%2F2015&DateTo=12%2F13%2F2015″ target=”_blank” *combination of Festus Ezeli and Marreese Speights at the big positions had only appeared together in seven previous games this season.

Still, to pick at them any more would seem out of line.

The NBA all-time record of straight victories was set by the Los Angeles Lakers with 33 consecutive wins in the 1971-72 season. Obviously, Coach thought we had a mismatch. – Walton, when asked if there a sense of relief that the winning streak had ended.

The widely-held consensus was that the mainstream public didn’t truly start paying attention until the annual Christmas Day games that had become such a ratings bonanza, meaning everything that came before was, in essence, expendable.

Moreover, a loss may have just made the Warriors more risky. Long live the season.

Some experts, and I agree, feel that Curry just had the best first quarter of an National Basketball Association season in history. They were locked in on D the whole game and got career performances from guys like O.J. Mayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo. “It happens. It takes nothing away from what they’ve done to start the season”. It was a lot of fun. It was the Admirals’ first win over the Moose in four games this season.

“If you told us going into the season we’d be 24-1 to start the year with some guys injured with the schedule we’ve had, we’d be pretty proud of that, which we are”.

The Bucks, meanwhile, would be happy just to catch up to their own.

The Warriors have a few days to recover from their exhausting road trip, ahead of opening a five game homestand against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday. “He’s one of the best defensive centers in the league, he’s one of the most skilled centers in the league”, Walton said.

The man who is being credited with the win against a formidable team like Warriors is Greg Monroe.

“For us, we didn’t talk about the streak”, said Kidd.

Coach Walton was probably trying to save the legs of both Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut for the stretch run, and that meant that he had to play some lineups that weren’t successful in the process.

“To me, they [the Bucks] looked like they wanted it a little more tonight”.

James Harden and Dwight Howard delivered a strong offensive double act as the Houston Rockets outgunned the Los Angeles Lakers 126-97 at Toyota Center. DeMar DeRozan had 27 points, helping the Raptors resist a second-half comeback by the Bucks, who reduced a 19-point deficit to five late in the game. Though, even for this team, that’s still a long way out.