The Golden State, after two seasons out of the playoffs, have rebounded to the lead.
With 37 points and 9 triples from his star Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors they crushed this Tuesday 117-99 to the Brooklyn Nets and they confirmed that his return to the NBA elite is very serious.
The Warriors, after two seasons out of the playoffs, they have rebounded to the current Western Conference lead with 12 wins and 2 losses, but this resurrection has been called into question by the weakness of most rivals those they have faced.
In brooklyn ante los Nets by Kevin Durant and James Harden, los Warriors They gave a lesson to one of the candidates for the ring and did it with the spectacular style with which they won three titles between 2015 and 2018.
“We have a champion DNA but we have not shown it for two years and now we have to take advantage of every opportunity, “said Curry after the victory.
The point guard took out his repertoire of impossible triples and Draymond Green (11 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists) was key in defense to force the lowest scoring of the season from Kevin Durant, with 19 points.
The forward, with a 6-19 shooting from the field, ended his streak of 14 games with more than twenty points.
Game lesson
Durant, a former member of the best Warriors, and Curry entered the duel as the top two scorers of the season and both scored 12 points in a vibrant and even first quarter at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Curry nailed his first four attempts from the line of three, each one further away than the last, while the Warriors began to impose their dynamic game. Up front, the Nets’ strategy began and ended in the hands of Durant and Harden, who finished with 24 points.
Only the eaves Bruce Brown (14 points) also reached double digits in scoring for Brooklyn, which has not finished starting this year without Kyrie Irving, the third member of its ‘Big 3’ who is separated from the team due to his refusal to be vaccinated against covid-19.
The canadiense Andrew Wiggins (19 points) achieved a spectacular triple on the horn at half time, which heralded the avalanche that was coming over to the pupils of Steve Nash in the third quarter.
Curry scored 9 points in a row as the Warriors escaped with a 35-18 run in the third quarter, culminating with another triple in the final second by veteran Andre Iguodala.
Durant, who missed all eight of his field goals in the fourth, and Harden no longer took to the field in the final quarter, in which substitutes for the Warriors got to extend the advantage up to a maximum of 28 points.
The Warriors maintain the best winning balance in the NBA and hope to recover the injured in the coming weeks James Wiseman and Klay Thompson, another pillar of the recent dynasty of the team that has not been on the courts for two seasons.
On the other hand, Utah Jazz they crushed the Philadelphia 76ers 120-85, thanks to excellent work by the Bosnian forward Bojan bogdanovic, who overflowed with 27 points.
They seconded Bogdanovic on offense on French Rudy Gobert, with 15 points and a whopping 17 balls recovered in the rebound fight, as well as Jordan Clarkson with 20 cards and seven sacks coming off the bench.
By those of Philadelphia they stood out Shake Milton y Tyrese Maxey with 18 and 16 cartons, respectively.
Results of the day:
Brooklyn Nets – Golden State Warriors 99-117
Utah Jazz – Philadelphia 76ers 120-85
LA Clippers – San Antonio Spurs 106-92 (D)
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