Warriors go for 14th straight against the Bulls

If you fell asleep before the end of the Warriors/Clippers game last night, you missed two things.

“Those numbers are insane”, said Clippers star Blake Griffin, who had 27 points. “They’re the better team. We’ll see them again”. “We did a good job of taking them out of that in the second half”. To them, it must feel like they already have.

With 5:41 left to go in Thursday’s game, Barnes checked in for Festus Ezeli and the lineup was in place.

The Warriors got off to an inauspicious start as Curry committed two fouls in the first two minutes of the game. From there, Curry hit a 3, Green scored on a cutting layup and then Curry made four straight free throws for a 122-115 advantage. But Kerr did go to it a lot more frequently in the playoffs, when it logged 111 minutes over 16 of the Warriors’ 21 postseason games.

Included in that run was another spectacular play by Curry, who ripped the ball away from Joakim Noah and set up Iguodala for an alley-oop dunk that cut the lead to one.

If you have read my other article: http://marquelaries.sportsblog.com/posts/7124251/why-the-golden-state-warriors-will-head-into-2016-undefeated.html, you will know I pick the Warriors to keep on winning until 2016. The Clippers were forcing turnovers and disrupting Golden State’s liquid passing. Golden State is one of the league’s top scoring teams off turnovers with an average of 20.4 points per game. But the tide was begining to turn at that point and the Warriors cut the gap to 91-85 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Draymond Green. A big game from Thompson through all four quarters would make the Warriors almost unbeatable (as if they aren’t already).

Down 23 in the first half, Stephen Curry never had any doubt the Golden State Warriors would come back.

This story will be updated with quotes and post-game material from the Warriors locker room at Oracle Arena. Per ESPN Stats and Info, the Warriors are 3-3 since the start of last season when they trailed by 20 points at any point in a game.

Shooting guard Klay Thompson added 15 points for Golden State, which made 10 of its 29 3-point attempts and shot 49.4 percent overall against a Bulls team that began the night No. 1 in the league in opponents’ field-goal percentage (40.8).

Redick sits out again for Clippers because of his balky back: J.J. Redick certainly looked like someone preparing to play when the Clippers held their morning shoot-around Thursday…

Philadelphia’s losing run stretches back into the final 10 games of last season. Going into training camp, the coaching staff wasn’t sure that was going to be the case.

Needless to say, the Warriors have nothing to worry about from a coaching standpoint, and at the rate they’re playing, Walton could easily mold them into a back-to-back championship team. “But from the first day of camp, the players were on the court ready to work and were competing”.