National Basketball Association Power Rankings: Warriors flawless after win over Minnesota

Curry, who has broken the league record for 3-pointers made in a season each of the last two years, is on pace to smash it again.

Curry, who shot 15 of 25 from the field, including 8 three-pointers, scored 21 of his total points in the first quarter on his way to collecting his second-highest tally of the season, following his 53 point performance against the New Orleans Pelicans on October 31. The rest of the National Basketball Association has zero.

Stephen Curry scored 46 points as the Golden State Warriors parlayed the ideal start to the season into the best in franchise history with a 129-116 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday.

“Shots aren’t going down, and that’s frustrating”, said shooting guard Courtney Lee, who shot 1-for-7 overall and 0-for-3 from 3-point range, finishing with three points.

To them, they’re simply 2-0 this week – having beat Detroit on Monday and Memphis on Wednesday – and need two more wins – with games at Minnesota on Thursday and against Brooklyn on Saturday. Ricky Rubio missed his second straight game with a strained left hamstring. The Warriors have really been the hottest team in the league and don’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. Nobody would have scoffed or blamed them for throwing in the towel at that point.

It is by no means easy, especially now that they have the “defending champions” target on their back.

“It wasn’t just me. When the team fights, anything is possible”. Gordon Hayward had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Alec Burks scored 24 for the Jazz, including a three-pointer as time expired. The 39-year-old pressured Steph Curry to half court, forced him to take a long, covered triple, and even knocked the ball from his hands on the way up. Today’s Fastbreak also mentioned that while we were busy debating if it’s LeBron James, Anthony Davis or the returning Kevin Durant, Curry never stopped working.

“I don’t want to talk about chasing record seasons and all that”, he said. “It’s lovely for the sport, and he’s somebody we got to deal with tonight”. “You sit there and wonder, if you don’t do those things and you just try to play him conventionally, he might get 60”.

“We’ve got different guys every night to step up”, said Warriors guard Klay Thompson, who had eight points.

More important than anything that happened on the scoreboard, we saw the players of the future put in meaningful contributions against a tough opponent.

Second-year Wiggins has put on a show averaging career-highs 19.8 points even though he is playing four minutes less than he did in his rookie season.

“Yeah, they came out hard. We didn’t come out ready to play”. Tried to take advantage of a few shots. It is just reads and the flow of the offense.

Towns on the difference in coming back… “That’s a testament to our coach and coaching staff”.