Klay Thompson injures ankle against Pacers

Klay Thompson hadn’t score over 30 points all season.

Golden State has won 13 straight road games this season, breaking a tie with the 1969-70 Knicks for the league’s best road start. And if even if Ellis does play, I still like the matchup because Thompson could go off on any given night. This is still a bench that will hold a lot of leads for the remainder of the season, and will probably help spark a Warriors run a few times when the adrenaline-fueled starters can’t get the engine to turn over. With that scoring average, they should have gone 3-0 for the week, but a team giving up an average of 112 points per game will not win many games unless that team is the Golden State Warriors. “…There’s no end in sight to the streak”.

Thompson said that Livingston “told me he’s got to be better, and I told him not to worry about it. They were great for us the other night, and it’s a team game”.

The Warriors have since improved to 22-0, remaining ideal more than halfway through the trip and a quarter of the way through the regular season. He made 11 threes in a game last season – the game he set the National Basketball Association record for points in a single quarter with 39.

The same tickets selling for $550 for the Warriors game are selling for the Pacers home game next week for about $100, Harrison said. “Demand for the Golden State game has definitely over-indexed, and that’s due to the undefeated streak”.

This time, it was largely because of Thompson who was 8 of 10 on 3-pointers in the first half.

One of the elements that drives the Warriors small-ball success is their fast break, which is devastating because it is impossible to guard Thompson and Curry as closely in the fastbreak as you would in the half court.

Warriors interim coach Luke Walton has noticed some not-so-subtle changes around the league.

Paul George has had a resurgent season so far as he is averaging 27.6 points, 8.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game while making 45 percent of his three pointers. The rematch game gives Warriors a chance to win over the Nets with Stephen Curry’s electrifying flurries and shots. The reigning MVP threw up a lob to Andrew Bogut for a dunk, hit two 3-pointers, and went around a defender for an up-and-under layup as the Warriors took a 37-21 lead. That’s the five the Pacers attacked in the fourth quarter to turn a blowout embarrassment into a respectable-looking 131-123 loss to the Warriors on Tuesday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

In other results, Kevin Durant’s 32 points and 10 rebounds guided the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 125-88 victory at the Memphis Grizzlies. The Warriors play on Friday (Saturday NZ time) at Boston.

Damian Lillard scored 33 points for Portland, which blew a late lead Monday in Milwaukee and appeared to run out of gas as Cleveland came back in the second half. Curry’s rookie numbers were even better, with per 36’s of 17.4 points, 5.9 assists, and 4.4 rebounds on. The Pacers were 14 of 33 on 3s.

He was walking under his own power after the game with a bit of a limp, and the team said X-rays were negative.