Warriors’ 7-1win rocks the NBA! Will the Cabs be able to recover?

Curry stated, “We genuinely feel that we are in a position where we can be a relevant team early and give ourselves a chance to compete” while addressing the media at Golden State suspension day in September.

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The Warriors overrode the Boston Celtics 118-112 at the TD Garden on Wednesday to improve to 7-1 thus leveled with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Phoenix Suns for the best record in the Western Conference around the same duration when Curry made the statements. After beating the champions, Curry however was not ready to give Golden State much credit. The Warriors had ranked the third highest offense in the league, second dkf in defense, and had the most favorable net rating of plus 15.5 points for every 100 possessions.

“We haven’t done anything yet,” stated Curry who had 27 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 steals in 34 minutes, an hour after the contest while enjoying a dry sarcasm in the visiting locker room. A good person or team keeps their winning games at stake, goes on the road to win a few, plays the tough ones at home and still wins that.
Of course, I feel great about our current situation. There is still a lot of work that can be done.”

The Warriors season so far have played less than ten percent, and yet the results at the onset are better than expected. After winning his first championship with the Warriors in 2015 under Steve Kerr who promoted the ‘Strength In Numbers’ concept, Golden State is able to field as much as 13 players a game this season. Golden State managed to use 11 players on Wednesday, where Brandin Podziemski was ruled out sick. Each played for not less than 13 minutes.

The Warriors were able to dismantle Boston’s offense because they had an unending supply of new opponents for different periods. The Celtics managed to meet their average from 3 point range as they shot 19-54 from 3 point range but turned the ball over 12 times and more importantly struggled with their offense for prolonged periods except for a 41 point barrage in the third quarter.

The coach of the Celtics Joe Mazzulla remarked about how tough the opposing team is, and how it forces you to fight for the area. They were able to make a lot of deflections in that half because their hands were really active. Sure, they got some good stuff there, but I felt in the second half we accepted the physicality better and just had to put — again, physicality is as much defense as offensively. That was a bit of an adjustment. After that, we performed very well. It concluded with a few things.”

A few possessions went through the process as Gary Payton II dived for a loose ball and 4:18 remaining made it Golden State’s possession trailing Boston, 97-96. It was in the final four minutes that Golden State outscored Boston 15-7, making numerous sequential scoring possessions, thanks to offensive rebounds that were grabbed by Warriors center Kevon Looney, including one on a missed shot corner 3 by Draymond Green who warmed up to the air.

As such, it also reminded of Looney’s impressive rebounding in the 2022 NBA Finals when Golden State was crowned league champions after six games with the Boston Celtics, and illustrated how the Warriers managed to win this particular game through physicality and resorting to force equally on both ends of the court.

The two biggest shots in the game were Gary and Kerr thought his defense was good in the last five minutes of the game.
floor and Loon making two putbacks. Then, Steph found Buddy [Hield] in the corner for that 3, so it was all good. We connected, got stops, scored, and closed it off.”

Kerr was roundly jeered for not allowing Tatum to play in two games against Serbia for Team USA during their fifth straight gold medal campaign at the Olympics and leading the Warriors to the title.

On a dangerous stretch at the start of an early season, the Warriors demonstrated they were not a faded apparition. They hit the travel to Ohio on Friday, to Oklahoma City on Sunday, back home for Tuesday’s Klay Thompson debut against the Dallas Mavericks and meet Ja Morant and the Memp

Curry was pleased with the visuals as well as the performance of the warriors but it is not apparent how long they will be able to sustain this with so many people in the mix.

“Curry said that they played that way until proven wrong. We talked about that. The coach has been going on and on about it. Every video session, every practice, is the same. So we have to be who we have to be right now. You know how rotations go, as the season wears on. It happened this evening, also. Tonight was a different story, in the second half you are trying to win and fit in the pieces so the rotation is very short. But every single day is different and everyone has to be active, which makes it fun and productive.”