Golden State Warriors rout Phoenix Suns, improve to 17-0

“They’re on a magic carpet ride right now”.

At Houston, Rockets guard James Harden drained a season-high 50 points to condemn Philadelphia to a 0-17 start.

“They start blending together after a while”, Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said of the 3-pointers when informed of the records. But we can not jump the gun and already crown them this season’s National Basketball Association champions just yet. I mean I can tease everyone we can make every night Filipino Heritage night because if you look at the crowd, it is really a very strong fan base. That is why we have two heritage nights for the said teams. We take a few stabs at how the team will get its first loss. We are okay playing like that for a little bit.

Golden State outscored Sacramento by 11 in the quarter to take a 92-71 lead into the fourth quarter, which consisted of a lengthy amount of garbage time. Curry nailed five 3-pointers.

The Golden State Warriors’ 135-116 win over Phoenix was nothing short of a shooting fest, which can be expected when tuning into Warrior basketball, but another expected aspect of the defending NBA champs has surfaced: the dreaded vulnerability to the injury bug.

But they still walked away shaking their heads in amazement at what the Golden State Warriors are doing this season.

Curry had 27 points and eight assists on only ELEVEN shots in the first half. The only blemish the Warriors had was missing nine free throws. Klay Thompson had 15 points, Marreese Speights 13 and Festus Ezeli 11 with 11 rebounds.

Eric Bledsoe led the way for the Suns with 16 points on efficient 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and 2-of-3 from long-range.

Here are some of his 3s from the first half (thanks to SLAM for the video). The Warriors finally snapped their offensive funk when Bogut found a cutting Andre Iguodala for a wide-open dunk.

Still, the biggest issues against the Warriors came on the defensive end, where Warren and the rest of the Suns fared poorly, all-in-all. However, the father of one player on the team suggests they may fall short at the hands of one of the league’s worst teams.

View more photos from the Warriors’ Saturday night victory. He had been one rebound short when he was subbed out by Walton 79 seconds earlier.

“We’ve got so many options, so many weapons”, Barbosa said. “He’s such an unselfish player and work so hard”. “He’s just a guy that you never know what he’s going to do at any particular moment – when he’s on TV, everybody is glued in because, as soon as he gets a touch with the ball, something special could happen”.

Green finished with 14 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. He was also a game-high plus-24.

At halftime of the Warriors game itself, a cultural dance number presenting Fil-Am children garbed in colorful ethnic costume was presented to the delight even of the non-Filipinos among the crowd.

Curry, who scored 17 pf his points in the first quarter, said he understood it made sense for him to sit out the entire fourth period of the blowout with the Warriors about to embark on a two-week, seven-game road trip.

Curry has scored 555 points on just 358 field goal attempts in 587 minutes this season. The Hawks’ starters finished with 38 points.

It wasn’t all positive Friday, as the Warriors starting small forward Harrison Barnes sprained his left ankle in the third quarter. Barnes jumped to contest a turnaround jumper by Morris when his foot landed on Morris’ foot.