Steph Curry, Warriors: Revenge vs. Bucks a dish best served cold

“We were kind of laughing at some of the stuff going on”. “That’s fine. I mean, I have no problem with them celebrating the win”. “Just because these guys are beating up on inferior competition, don’t overreact now”. Meanwhile, the Warriors are the Warriors and are 8-3 ATS when a double-digit favorite. On the other hand for the Golden State Warriors, this is a game that seems to be taking on an absurd level of importance.

The defeat to the Bucks could have been a blow to the confidence within the group and got them off track, but instead we got the ideal reaction from the players to get back to winning ways. “When he gets it clicking, there’s no better thing to watch”. He scored 27 points in the third quarter, in what feels like the norm now, and not something that is more or less record breaking for everyone else. “We do remember that stuff”, Curry said. “We all have to do our part”.

The key point is that they beat the National Basketball Association runners-up, the Cleveland Cavaliers, in a thriller, something that made them able to compete equally with more capable teams than them.

Despite Thompson’s heroics. It was not even his best performance in 2015.

“It’s really incredible what [Curry and Thompson] do”, Walton said, “and the hard shots that they make look so easy. So we’ve just got to stay with it, play as a team and stay composed”.

The entire team has talked about Carter-Williams dunk, stare and smirk at the Warriors’ bench at Milwaukee last week, when the Bucks snapped Golden State’s 28-game winning streak. Curry poured it on with two 3-pointers, a layup and an assist for a Green 3-pointer. They’ll face the Warriors in a rematch Friday night in Oakland, and Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson sound like they’re very excited about getting their chance for revenge.

“That is why they won a championship”, Suns coach Jeff Hornacek praised of the Warriors. They had us on our heels.

Backup forwards Mirza Teletovic and T.J. Warren had 24 and 19 points, respectively, and point guard Brandon Knight added 17 for the Suns, who have lost three of four. Thompson is averaging 26 points on 51.2 percent from the field and 51.4 percent from 3-point range.

“Obviously it doesn’t feel great to lose but it was a good time to reflect on what our guys had just done and what they accomplished”, Walton said. “We started the second half and I think we had five turnovers in those first three minutes”. “Cool moment. Big-time regular-season win”.

The Warriors dragged into Milwaukee at 3am Saturday morning, having played a double-overtime game in Boston Friday night. Harrison Barnes missed his sixth straight game with a sprained left ankle…. For that matter, what’s the over/under on Carter-Williams’ point total for the night?