Curry stars as Warriors snap skid, Westbrook and Thunder frustrated

Curry hit five 3-pointers, passing Chauncey Billups for 10th place, and added eight rebounds and six assists. The Warriors will continue to learn to play without their superstar forward as he recovers from a knee injury. It changed everything. You get used to playing a certain way.

Even Warriors coach Steve Kerr did not love the experiment. If so, then perhaps they should have attended a UCONN women’s game instead of making the National Basketball Association richer. It’s a good trip.

As the Hawks led at the half, 66-61, Golden State did what they did best and came out guns blazing.

MAVERICKS 104, THUNDER 89: Seth Curry scored 22 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 18 points and 12 rebounds as Dallas won at home. “The second group kept us in there”.

Derrick Rose scored 28 points to lead NY (25-38), which lost two straight and three of the last four games.

There was plenty of controversy to go around for Atlanta.

“I thought our bench was tremendous; did a great job getting us back in the game in the second quarter”, Kerr said. Despite the troubles in the offensive zone, Golden State trailed by just 1 point at halftime (50-49). The Hawks scored 42 points in a single quarter.

NY clawed its way back within one point with a little under six minutes remaining but couldn’t keep even this incarnation of the Warriors off the scoreboard.

Trailing by two with 25 seconds remaining, Leonard nailed a 25-foot three-pointer to give the Spurs a two-point lead. Howard and Dennis Schroder began bickering about who the pass should have gone to.

But, as we all know McCaw’s size is a big concern for the Warriors, he weighs 185 pounds, who is razor-thin undersized shooting guard making him a lightweight among other small forwards, Bulls tried to post him up with Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler on Thursday and found continued success.

However, Schroder was hooked with 9:30 left in the third quarter, with coach Mike Budenholzer clearly unhappy with his defensive work. With its defense uncharacteristically porous, Golden State finished 20-for-44 from beyond the arc. It’s one thing to set Twitter on fire with “3-1 lead” memes and lose to LeBron; it’s quite different to have Marcin Gortat and Paul Zipser contribute to Warriors losses. On the other, Schroder is the team’s point guard and it his job to lead the team.

“It’s not about one guy”, Curry said.

“Just us staying together is the bigger point”, Budenholzer said of his decision.

Should Iguodala maintain this level of play sans Durant – and the Warriors hold on to the top seed – he should be seriously considered for Sixth Man of the Year honors. That was followed by a corner 3, for which he got himself into form with a dribble.

“They need to trash that, because that’s exactly what it was”, Green said.