Road Warriors hold on to extend win streak to 25

“We might not play our best game, but we found a different way to win”, Curry said afterwards.

Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry poured in 41 points in an attempt to upstage Curry. How the two All-Star point guards get to those similar results couldn’t be any more different. Dribbling with his left hand with Lowry on his right shoulder, he pushed the ball down the court, he pulled up at the 3-point line and took what should have been an awkward, off-balance shot.

Paul George contributed a career-high 48 points but it proved in vain as the Indiana Pacers lost 122-119 to the Utah Jazz after overtime, while Nicolas Batum scored 12 points in the fourth quarter in the Charlotte Hornets’ 102-96 win over the Chicago Bulls. As absurd as it sounds, it seems even more of Curry’s impossible shots are falling than ever before. At the Air Canada Centre, there were a few hundred people watching Curry’s pre-game dribbling and shooting routine, or a few hundred more than a routine non-Curry game.

One of Golden State’s toughest tests in its phenomenal 21-0 start was, surprisingly, a home game against Brooklyn earlier this season. The list of guards to win multiple MVPs is a short one: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Steve Nash. However, it is the team’s ethos, along with Curry’s brilliance, that makes them so captivating. Klay Thompson added 26, establishing a season high with six 3-pointers.

“It seems like he gets 40 points quietly”, Thompson said. “He’s truly a special talent that you might never see again”.

Lowry wasn’t backing down, though.

“Every guy in the locker-room, we genuinely isolate each game as this is another 48 minutes to try to get better. We have a bunch of good guys in the locker room”.

DeRozan finished with 16 points, while Lucas Nogueira had 14 points, and Luis Scola added 10 for Toronto (12-9).

Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony went 6 of 17 from the field while scoring 18 points. “It’s about other stuff, life stuff”, Jack said Saturday after the Nets practiced in East Rutherford prepping for the 21-0 Golden State machine. And I don’t think we’re unbelievably bad. If any team appeared to buckle under the weight of the moment, it was the Raptors tightening up with a lead, knowing how hard it would be to hold it. What the Warriors are showing right now goes beyond confidence.

And who was there to take advantage of those mistakes Casey referenced?

The game turned into something of three-point shooting contest between Curry and Lowry, with the reigning NBA MVP taking the personal duel and the game.

Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry (7) turns into Golden State Warriors’ Marries Speights as he looks to lay off a pass during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Toronto, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. Kevin Garnett once said that “anything is possible” and when you watch Curry play, that thought springs to mind.

Warriors: Golden State outscored its opponents by a total of 308 points in its first 20 games, the best margin in National Basketball Association history for that point in the season….

Orlando’s five-game winning streak came to an end in Los Angeles, losing 102-101 at the Clippers.

“It’s a shot I’ve done many times in practice is really the only way to explain it”, Curry said. “But when we’re out there on the floor, we’re very confident and very comfortable”. “Every night, trying to lock in and focus and bring the effort”.