Warriors Can’t Wait For Bucks’ Visit On Friday, Says Klay Thompson: ‘They

Those are the same Bucks that handed the Warriors a stunning 108-95 defeat Saturday in Milwaukee, the only time the defending National Basketball Association champions have lost a game this season.

Winning 18 games in a row in one stretch, the Bulls also led the league in scoring at 105.2 ppg, were third in defense at 92.9 ppg for a spectacular +12.2 point differential. Former Warriors player Sonny Parker, who is the father of Milwaukee F Jabari Parker, got a nice ovation when shown on the scoreboard in a Warriors shirt and Bucks hat. Klay Thompson scored 43 points including 27 in a third quarter in which the Warriors led by as many as 40. And as they got ragged, their play turned stilted, sloppy.

Several Warriors players said they didn’t like how the Bucks celebrated their victory, with a sellout BMO Harris Bradley Center crowd cheering the home team’s feat. Klay Thompson and Draymond Green were crucial, and it showed that they are far from one-dimensional. You already know Thompson and Green will have a little added vigor while guarding the Syracuse alumnus. “So, it’s not quite common that you should be looking toward someone’s bench yelling”. While the Warriors had the first quality in their loss against the Bucks, the circus of the streak and fatigue of the road drip deprived them of the final two. Derrick Favors had 16 of his 22 points in the third quarter, added seven rebounds and matched a career high with five assists for Utah. “A lot of respect to their team”. “The guys played hard, but the ball did not fall for us”.

“We were kind of just laughing at some of the stuff that was going on”. We didn’t play our best for probably about three straight games.

As Barnes mentions, the Warriors want to use this lineup to blitz opponents – not let them game-plan for it for 48 minutes, despite its potency. They got, as Green put it, “too Steph heavy”.

Thompson hit back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Warriors the lead for good, eventually finishing 8 for 13 from beyond the arc. But I love the intensity. Golden State catching that L was a result of the schedule more than anything else; the contest in Milwaukee came at the end of a six-game road trip, and was on the second night of a back-to-back set following a double overtime win in Boston. Golden State still has one streak intact and picked up its 29th consecutive home win with the 128-103 thrashing of Phoenix.

“They did a great job on us”, Walton said. It’s like, ‘All right, you realize you see us next Friday and in our building, too, ‘ so that’s going to be fun…. “We wanted it and we got the win”. He missed both losses in Los Angeles to the Lakers and Clippers.

“That is why they won a championship”, Suns coach Jeff Hornacek praised of the Warriors. But he remembers MCW as the symbol of the disproportionate revelry that took place last week in Wisconsin. The source described the talks as informal. They are not elite yet, but certainly look better than the previous few years, with Jason Kidd in their foxhole for a second season.

In New York, Dwyane Wade scored 10 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter, and Hassan Whiteside had 20 points and 13 rebounds to help Miami beat Brooklyn.