Warriors Battle Back to Beat Bucks

Stephen Curry added 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting and seven assists as Golden State returned home from its two-week trip that ended with its lone defeat, 108-95 on Saturday night at Milwaukee.

“I’m not satisfied because I thought we should have been better”, Green said. With the bench unit starting the second quarter for the Warriors, the Bucks maintained and built upon their lead.

“We were trying to hit home runs and shooting the fireballs from deep, things like that”, center Festus Ezeli said. After the game, he was right in the middle of the action as he appeared to jaw and shove back and forth with Bucks players before the teams separated.

Green didn’t want to talk about the incident with reporters afterward but did allude to the fact that Mayo touching his head was not a good move for the Bucks guard to make.

The Bucks played the Warriors tough, as they did on Saturday when they broke Golden State’s 24-game winning streak, thus creating the NBA’s most inexplicable rivalry of the season.

Mayo told Spears, “Little love tap”. “At the end of the day, he felt that Michael [Carter-Williams] did something that wasn’t much class. He went even further with class speaking on our team situation”. With eight minutes left, the Bucks led 100-89, and appeared to be about to embarrass Golden State for the second time in a week.

O.J. Mayo approached the Warriors’ Draymond Green following the game and challenged him on comments Green had made about the Bucks’ Michael Carter-Williams. “If you’re going to say that about another team you should expect… they’re not going to fold”.

“We were searching”, Green said. “We did it pretty decent for 18 minutes but you have to do it for all 48 minutes because they put them up quickly”. “Now we can focus on what we need to focus on”. Their young, long athleticism hasn’t translated into a lot of wins, but it gives them an advantage over a small Golden State team. “When he gets it clicking, there’s no better thing to watch”.

Major contributions also came from forward Draymond Green, who also just missed a triple-double with 21 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. “We needed to pick it up on the defensive end”, Green said after Golden State held the Bucks to 19 points in the fourth quarter. Mayo is simply saying that Green and the Warriors shouldn’t be mad when an opposing team celebrates against them. There is no doubt that he has always been talented but this year, he is averaging over 30 points per game through the entire first quarter of the season, according to ESPN. The Bucks have lost 11 straight on the road and won’t have top scorer Greg Monroe for a third consecutive game due to a Grade I MCL sprain in his left knee.

The Warriors, defending National Basketball Association champions and owners of a 25-1 record, have found a new motivation in the form of the Milwaukee Bucks.

When it came down to it, he wanted individual defenders to know who they were guarding.

Golden State fans showed they can get into the T-shirt message game, too.

The Warriors will get another crack at Milwaukee when they host the Bucks on Friday.