Kevin Durant leads Warriors past scrappy Hawks, 105-100

And true to form, they are scoring a league-high 117.6 points per game – nearly three points more than last season, when they won a record 73 regular-season games – with Durant, Curry and Thompson all reaching the 20-point plateau in Monday’s win over the Atlanta Hawks.

“It’s an All-Star team”, LaVine said of the Warriors. The difference was the Hawks’ ability to maintain possession of the ball, and capitalize on Golden State’s inability to do so. As the Warriors have recently won games easily, they’ve settled at times for low-quality shots. But after bringing in Kevin Durant this summer, it’s clear Golden State has bigger plans in store.

Yeah, the Warriors, are on pace for 73 wins.

The hype started to cool down when the Warriors dropped their first game of the season in embarrassing fashion to the San Antonio Spurs at home, which started the jokes about Durant asking for a trade to the Spurs.

“People have kind of counted our defense out, with Bogut leaving”, Green said. And who did Golden State call upon? He’s shooting a dismal 38 percent from the floor in the last five games.

The clip shows that Green is a power forward making huge defensive plays with his footwork, timing and quick hands against two speedy guards. That free-loving nature makes them a balanced force that should run heavy for the rest of the regular season. Eastern Conference teams after going 27-3 against the East last season.

The Warriors will be lukewarm about the win because they didn’t really look themselves offensively. While their one-point deficit was quickly erased, the hint of adversity and a well-coached opponentprovided the Warriors’ with a decent late game test. Can LeBron James upset the unstoppable Warriors again? And that kinda pisses me off.my goal coming into this season is to win a championship and to win a championship we gotta play defense. If the players jointly decide to chase another 70-win season, then Kerr will let them.

While Draymond Green vented post-game over the stories of the Warriors’ defensive demise, there’s no denying that the Warriors lost important defensive pieces when Andrew Bogut and Harrison Barnes packed their bags for Texas.

It was a slow start by both the Hawks and the Warriors.

It wasn’t an efficient night for Green, who finished last among Warriors players with a -14.00 nERD, per numberFire Live. He’s too good to be passed over for the award for much longer and if he keeps playing like this, there are precious few that could take it from him.

Riley: This team was assembled exclusively to win another ring. It’s title time in the Bay Area now. Turnovers plagued both teams it was Atlanta that capitalized off turnovers. Schroder gave the Warriors all they could handle. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a players only meeting happened, but perhaps wasn’t as life-changing as it should have been.