Curry, pass-happy Warriors rout Lakers this time, 149-106
The Golden State Warriors were blasted by the Lakers on November 4 and then they played eight games before meeting the Lakers again on November 23, which included a four-game trip to the East. “No, not unless somebody else tells me something different”, Walton said before Wednesday night’s game against the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena.
“We were very bad”, kind of sums up Kerr’s position in a nutshell. The people who bought tickets should get their money back honestly. “When I try to fight it or move with sharp movements, and plant and do stuff like that, it aggravated it”. “It was a frightful basketball game”.
Now, it’s amusing that Kerr was so blunt and harsh in a blowout win when everything is rolling for the Warriors, but it’s also a telling quote. Draymond Green contributed 12 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists before leaving the third quarter with an ankle injury. “I was just trying to figure everybody out in that starting group and just play”, said an Orange County Register article. “Sometimes our defense looks great and at other times we’ve really struggled”, said Walton, whose team was 27th in points allowed at 112.1 per game and last in defending opponents’ field-goal shooting at 48.5 percent. “But. he’s a coach”. Ian Clark added 21 points off the bench while only missing one shot (7-of-8) and burying all five of his triples. “They only want to do one thing, and that’s to win”. “That’s what I’m looking at”, Durant said.
Walton said that Randle tried to play through his injury in their victory over the Thunders.
Golden State took care of the ball, too, committing just 10 turnovers. The Lakers led the entire game. With the Lakers’ strong start, TNT added the Lakers’ game in Miami on December 22 in place of Boston at Indiana. The Warriors, though, were so utterly ordinary they needed a 14-3 closeout run over the final five minutes to put a shine on the scoreboard numbers. “He misses a couple weeks of that, but yeah we’ll definitely miss what he’s been doing for us so far this year”. The contenders like the Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs are around where we thought they’d be, as are the bottom-feeders like the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns. I know he played through it; I don’t remember the day or for how long, but he was playing through it for a while there and playing good.
Nonetheless, Russell insisted: “It’s not that big of a deal, I’m all right”. They must make proper shot selection, there is no room for mistakes if you play the Warriors. With plenty of young talent going against one of the best in the league, they can take this game and grow from it. Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Klay Thompson were the three leading scorers. They brought back their chant of “Luuuuuuuke!” that kind of sounds like boos.
Warriors: Green sustained a corneal abrasion to his left eye but is expected to play Friday.