San Francisco-especially in modern NBA, sometimes a 3-point shooting eventually determines the result of a game.
This was the case in the loss of 128-110 roads of Golden State Warriors on Thursday night at the Chess Center.
Despite playing without Lebron James, Lakes (30–27) was matched or in many areas had some advantages on Warriors (28–26). They were more opportunistic to take advantage of the Golden State mistakes, scored 16 points from the nine turnover of Warriors, compared to the Warriors, compared to the nine points from the 11 givway.
He shot a uniform percentage from the floor, in which Laks’s 43 compared to 88 (48.9%) for 43 (48.9%) compared to 50 for 50 of warriors compared to 50 for 107 (46.7%). Both teams scored 58 points inside the paint.
But this was the advantage of warriors from behind the arc which gave them an edge.
Under the leadership of Steif Curry (32 points, six 3-pointers, eight aids), the hosts dropped 16 out of their 41 shots from the 3-point range (39%) compared to showing 10–35 of lackers (28.6%).
Lams was led by Anthony Davis, who had 27 points, 15 rebounds and three blocked shots. But Davis was in those who struggled with their shots, only 1 for 6 of the paint.
As a team, Lakes shot 14 for 50 (28%) outside the paint.
D’Angelo Russell had 18 points (6 -for -15 shooting), nine aids, five rebounds and two theft while Austin Reeves recorded 16 points and four assistance. Torian Prince, who once again started in place of James, scored 12 points. Rui Hachimura, who scored a career-high 36 points in the final game before the all-star break (even without James), was held for eight points in 32 minutes.
Lakes got stuck with Warriors for most of the first half of the first half, leaving 51–50 in the last few minutes of the second quarter.
But Curry led 15-3 runs to close the other and gave Warriors a 67-56 lead.
The warriors maintained their pace in the third.
With the first night of the back-to-back set with Lakes, the San Antonio was waiting for him with a domestic game against the spurs, coach Darwin Ham left his core rotation players behind his team 113-96 and left 5:52 with 5:52 in the game.
Andrew Wigins scored 20 points for Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga also added 12 points.
Ruki Big Man trace Jackson-Dewis had 17 points and five rebounds from the bench.