Winning Warriors

Winning Warriors

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The Golden State Warriors capped off their 12th straight victory Saturday night against the Chicago Bulls, improving to an overall 17-2 start to the season. With such an impressive start to the season one naturally starts to wonder, ‘is this the team that can finally break the ’95-’96 Chicago Bulls 72-10 record?’ Though it is highly doubtful, it is still no surprise that the Warriors have an impressive squad are serious title contenders. 

They are led by Stephen Curry who is averaging 23.2 points per game and also Klay Thompson, 21.2 points per game. This is also a very physical team that has 5 players who average over 5 rebounds per game. They are 3rd in rebounds per game and Points per game averaging 45.6 rebounds per game and 107.1 points per game. One of the biggest factor to the Warriors’ offense is the ball movement, the 26.1 assists per game is 1st in the league. The Warriors play the floor excellent and do a great job finding the open shots and executing them. 

The only concern the Warriors may have is their defense, through this 12 game win streak they have struggled to control opposing offenses at times and have had to fight for close victories. Though the Warriors proved they could keep up defensively with the big teams after a big win against the Bulls where they were able to pull out a 10 point victory. 

There is still a lot of basketball left this season but the Warriors look to be a serious threat come playoff time. Golden State looks to continue their winning streak against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Monday, December 8, 2014. How long can they keep this up? Will they break the Lakers 33 game win streak will they go 73-9?….Only time will tell.