The Warriors crush the Nets and send a message in the NBA

With 37 points and 9 triples from their star Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors beat the Brooklyn Nets 117-99 this Tuesday and confirmed that their return to the NBA elite is very serious.

The Warriors, after two seasons out of the playoffs, have rebounded to the current leadership of the Western Conference with 12 wins and 2 losses, but this resurrection has been called into question by the weakness of most of the rivals they have met. faced.

In Brooklyn, the Warriors taught one of the ring candidates a lesson and did so 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,” Curry stressed after the victory.

The point guard got his repertoire of impossible triples and Draymond Green (11 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists) was key in defense to force the lowest score 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 than the last, as 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 forward Bruce Brown (14 points) also reached double-digit 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 get vaccinated against the covid-19.

Canadian Andrew Wiggins (19 points) hit a spectacular 3-pointer on the halftime horn, heralding the avalanche that was coming down on Steve Nash’s pupils 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 shots from the field in the fourth, and Harden no longer jumped onto the court in the final quarter, in which the Warriors substitutes went to extend the lead to a maximum of 28 points.

The Warriors maintain the best winning record in the NBA and hope to bring back injured James Wiseman and Klay Thompson, another pillar of the team’s recent dynasty that has not been on the court for two seasons.

On the other hand, the Utah Jazz crushed the Philadelphia 76ers 120-85, thanks to an excellent work by Bosnian forward Bojan Bogdanovic, who overflowed with 27 points.

Bogdanovic was seconded on offense by Frenchman Rudy Gobert, with 15 points and a whopping 17 balls recovered in the rebounding fight, as well as Jordan Clarkson with 20 cards and seven sacks off the bench.

For those of Philadelphia, Shake Milton and Tyrese Maxey stood out with 18 and 16 cards, respectively.