While Stephen Curry Need two 3 points to reach the symbolic bar of the 4,000 career successes, these are two awarded shots of Draymond Green (23 points, 4/7 to 3-point) and two of Quinten Post (10 points) which launch the Warriors (17-6)! The duo Zach Lavine-Demar Derozan stabilizes the Kings but their five ball losses allow Golden State to go to +15 behind a diabolical address (30-15).
Five 3-point of Keon Ellis (18 points), Trey Lyles (11 points, 5 rebounds), and Jake Laravia (13 points) limit the breakage but Green, post, and Gary Payton II again answer the 7m25 to put the Kings to -20 (50-30). The defense of Golden State dictates his law in this first half, but Stephen Curry and Draymond Green chain several lost bullets and the Kings inflict a 12-0 before returning to the locker room to relaunch the match (61-51).
Stephen Curry is waiting for the 2nd half…
In the wake of Demar Derozan and Zach Lavine (14 points), Sacramento continues on its momentum and returns to -4 (67-63). Feeling the danger, Stephen Curry stops hemorrhage by reaching 4,000 3-point career. However, the Kings remain in ambush thanks to their address and 13 free throws. The wrists of Moses Moody (17 points) and Buddy Hield (16 points, 4/6 at 3 points, 5 passes, 4 rebounds) take to see the Warriors resume 13 points ahead before the last quarter (96-83).
Sacramento then went into defense of zone 2-3 to cut the rhythm of his opponent, but the game of passes and movement of Golden State disseminates this strategy with a 3-point shot and from basket to the circle. Two dunks from the ghost Jonathan Kuminga (18 points) then arrive as an exclamation mark (117-100)!
The Warriors chain a sixth victory in a row and inflict a third defeat in a follow-up to the Kings who almost condemns them to the play-in.
What to remember
-4,000 3-point for Stephen Curry the day before his birthday. The leader of the Warriors needed two 3-points tonight to reach the symbolic bar of the 4,000 3-point marked in career. Faced with Kings who have used a defense “everything except curry” again, he did not forced. His first award-winning first shot arrived in the middle of the first quarter, and the 4,000th arrived in the middle of the third quarter on an action he has made thousands of times. He received the MOODY MOODY ball at 45 °, eliminated TREY LYLES from a fire feint, before making “Splash”. Stephen Curry is the first player in history to reach such a bar. James Harden, 2nd, is… 873 successes further! Happy Birthday!
– Golden State has found its rhythm in defense. The Warriors finished the meeting at 57% at the shots, and 56% at 3-point (22/39), and it was their defensive aggressiveness that put them in orbit. They caused 8 lost kings balloons in the first 18 minutes of match, allowing them to run and adjust the target to take 23 points ahead! Ironically, it is the same way that the Kings returned to the meeting. They forced 5 ball losses in the last four minutes of half-time to change the physiognomy of the match. But it was the defense of Golden State who had the last word, killing the match once their intensity has been found.
– Domantas Sabonis still absent, Jonathan Kuminga back. Injured in the ischios, the Kings star missed his sixth game tonight. An absence that hurts while the Kings are fighting for the play-in. However, his coach, Doug Christie, wanted to reassure himself before the meeting, announcing that the Lithuanian could return quickly. On the Warriors side, it was the opposite. Absent since 31 games, Jonathan Kuminga has made his comeback. The winger was effective and convincing, ending the meeting with 18 points at 7/10 at 20 minutes of play.
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How to read the stats? Min = minutes; Shots = successful shots / tempted shots; 3pts = 3-point / 3-point attempted; LF = Successful free throws / tempted free throws; O = offensive rebound; D = defensive rebound; T = total rebounds; PD = assists; FTE: Personal faults; Int = interceptions; BP = lost bullets; CT: against; +/- = Differential points when the player is on the field; Pts = points; EVAL: evaluation of the player calculated from positive actions – negative actions.
