Unrecognizable, Golden State takes water against the Lakers – The Équipe.fr

The five defeats conceded by the Warriors this season have never been face heavyweights in the league. Dallas, Milwaukee, Detroit, Denver and Portland are teams that can legitimately claim to be not (some do not even make the playoffs). Golden State party on the basis of the best regular season in history, has been a tendency to adjust to the level of his opponent. He plays his best basketball against the best teams, but sometimes tends to lift the foot against the bottom of the table franchises (even Philadelphia had almost enjoy it).

The movement of men Steve Kerr at the Staples Center on Sunday confirmed this unfortunate disposition. Visibly tired, clumsy (4/30 three-pointers), imprecise (20 lost balls), the Warriors have never managed to impose their rhythm. Actually, they never entered the game, scheduled in early afternoon in Los Angeles. Conducted at the end of the first (21-22), second (49-60) and third quarter (73-84), they saw, powerless, the gap continue to widen in the final period. No Warrior has managed to ring the revolt, not even one of the two Splash Brohthers : the best back duo in the league, formed by Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson (1/18 long distance them), was dominated by a backcourt as young and promising qu’irrégulier, D’Angelo Russell (21 points, 5 assists) and Jordan Clarkson (25 4/6 points behind the arc).

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Either address three point Warriors (4/30) against the Lakers. Never franchise Bay was also clumsy this season.

Even more unlikely that the result is the way in which the Lakers have mastered their advance, never tremble, that surprises. In the beginning of the fourth quarter, when the Warriors should have initiate a return, Nick Young (13 points) is off the bench to permanently knock out the Western Conference leaders. Earlier, it’s Marcelinho Huertas (10 points, 9 assists), impeccable distribution, which had revived the Lakers.

Kobe Bryant back after not having played only eleven minutes during the last four meetings of purple and gold, did not even have to be used (12 points). He finished the game on the bench, smile, as surprised as the viewer lambda front of the screen. In the middle of a season of all records for Golden State, this disappointment will remain as a strange anomaly.