Klay Thompson sets Spurs ablaze in Game 2 win

“But I was mistaken”.

“You better bring it – that’s what I’d be saying”, Kerr said.

Curry averaged 26.4 points, 6.1 assists and 5.1 rebounds for the Warriors, who have played without several top players during the season due to injuries.

Kerr was sitting in the Warriors practice facility trying to think like Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

Durant was close to a triple double in the Warriors vs Spurs Game 1, having 24 points to go with his nine rebounds and seven assists.

But a San Antonio win on Monday would change the entire mood of this showdown. San Antonio, which had only two turnovers in the first two quarters, had eight steals in the first half.

Thompson bombed in five three-pointers and Andre Iguodala added four, helping Golden State outscore San Antonio 45-12 from beyond the arc.

Best Online Sportsbook Picks: The odds on Golden State straight up are too lopsided to take. “They did what they’re supposed to do, which is protect home court”. I think we came out not mentally prepared.

The Celtics’ lone remaining healthy All-Star was at his absolute best in Boston’s thrilling 113-107 victory against Milwaukee, providing tremendous defence against Giannis on one end while being the centre of the offence on the other.

The Warriors’ Game 1 performance was both commonplace and incredible. I thought we were not mentally prepared.

The Warriors made passive play a habit in the regular season – how many times did they spot their opponent double-digit leads because of apathetic play early in the contest?. Those two, coupled with the added intensity from reigning Defensive Player of the Year Draymond Green and the usual solidity of Thompson, completely stifled the Spurs. “Some were a little bit strong”.

“They had more grunt, more physicality in the first quarter, and we looked like deer in the headlights”, Popovich said.

San Antonio entered the postseason considering itself an underdog against the defending champion Warriors.

TORONTO (AP) — Serge Ibaka had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Delon Wright scored 11 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, and Toronto snapped a 10-game losing streak in playoff series openers by beating Washington.

From the opening tip, Golden State was executing smart plays. It wasn’t that the Spurs were less physical, it was more that the Warriors attacked so quickly that they didn’t give the defenders a chance to do the same damage they did in the first half.

“We’ve got to regroup, feel hurt, upset, kind of desperate”, veteran guard Manu Ginobili said. Would we see “the Warriors” in their full, domineering glory now that the “real season” was starting? “We know that there’s some moves coming”, Kerr said.

“We are underdogs. We’ve talked about it”.

Starting bankrolls have reset to $10,000, with the maximum bet being to win $1,000 and the minimum wager $300. But he doesn’t have a lot of shooting around him to space the floor, so he might hit a cutter on the pass, but the Spurs come away with two.

According to oddsmakers at YouWager, the Warriors are a 9.5-point favorite to win on the moneyline.