National Basketball Association roundup: Warriors move to 22-0 by pulling away from Nets

Curry made two free throws with 18 seconds remaining to put Golden State 108-105 ahead and, although Lowry quickly cut the deficit to one with a basket, Thompson sunk two free throws with seven seconds to play to seal the Warriors’ 25th straight regular season win. Now, after Sunday’s victory over the Nets, they are seven wins away from tying the all-time record set by the 1971-72 Lakers, who won 33 straight. “We battled and scratched and clawed but they just stayed with their game until they overwhelmed us later on”.

“Steph knows he’s going to be on the court for most of the game, and he’s going to have the ball in his hands for most of the game”, Walton said when it was over. “Just see if I could get some room, and impact the game”. “So we constantly keep bringing it. The bigger the stage gets, the better our guys play”. Even some of the players are marveling at the circus-like atmosphere that has enveloped this team in opposing arenas.

The man at the center off it all, of course, is Stephen Curry, the reigning MVP who continues to amaze fans across the country.

Jack said of how to characterize this loss with the way the Warriors have played, “I mean, they’re a tough team”. “And we rock out how we rock out”. Bojan Bogdanovic started in his place.

“It’s started since the streak began”, Rush said of the ticket demands. They played their game. We expect to win every night. But like the Clippers and Raptors games (especially the Raptors), Luke Walton somehow pulled another rabbit out of his hat and kept The Streak alive.

Hit us Bebe one more time: After a pretty awesome debut in Atlanta last week, Bebe Nogueira continued his assault on the National Basketball Association with another stellar performance. We have electrifying players.

Curry is the star everyone pays money to see.

Stephen Curry likes playing in Toronto, and it shows. Draymond Green had 22 and Klay Thompson had 21. Like a conductor of a Broadway musical, Iggy turned in all four directions and delivered a bow to each section of the crowd.

Nets forward Thaddeus Young said of what went through his mind when Curry went off in the third, “We’ve got to calm the flame down”. “Some nights you might not shoot the ball well for 24 or 36 minutes. Eventually we hope that it will click, and that’s what happened tonight”. In this game Curry had 14 points after five-and-a-half minutes; he had 21 at the half after running face-first into DeMarre Carroll’s shoulder and feeling, in his words, disoriented; he had a disquietingly quiet start to the third quarter; and he was the prime factor in escaping from the Raptors in the fourth.

Hollins was right. It wasn’t just Curry on this night. The Warriors are now 22-0. Kyle Lowry was great for the Raptors, but DeMar DeRozan (5-of-19 from the field) really struggled.

And while we can all talk about how the Raptors came close twice against this team and still lost…we would be foolish not to remind ourselves of how truly dominant this Warriors squad has been this season.

Hollins said of the Warriors being ready for the Nets after they took Golden State to overtime on November 14, “I think they are a great team that plays to their level”. Our group loves the pressure. They’re increasingly dependent on Curry’s heroics – of which there is no shortage – rather than a balanced team attack. But then again, I concluded my last blog post over two weeks ago by assuming that the Warriors would lose in my absence.