![]() ![]() The team struggled in the 1980s, then became playoff regulars at the turn of the decade with stars Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin, nicknamed " Run TMC". In 1975, star players Barry and Jamaal Wilkes powered the Warriors to their third championship, widely considered one of the biggest upsets in NBA history. Their rebuilding period was brief due in large part to the Warriors' drafting of Rick Barry four months after the trade. After the trade of star Wilt Chamberlain in January 1965, the team finished the 1964–65 season with the NBA's worst record (17–63). ![]() The Warriors won the inaugural Basketball Association of America (BAA) championship in 1947, and won again in 1956, led by Hall of Fame trio Paul Arizin, Tom Gola, and Neil Johnston. The club plays its home games at the Chase Center. Founded in 1946 in Philadelphia, the Warriors moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962 and took the city's name, before changing its geographic moniker to Golden State in 1971. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. It's his best way to draw Davis out of the paint, for starters, and it will ensure that Curry gets in rhythm, and stays there.The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. But Kerr has to be willing to put the ball in Curry's hands sooner. We've seen many a team flame out by burning their creator's candle too hot for too long. Like Game 7 against Sacramento, when he put it in Curry's hands to create from the start and Curry, not coincidentally, hung a 50-ball. Kerr hates running offense through Curry as a self creator until he has absolutely no other choice. When Curry finally brought the ball up the court with the intent of creating off the dribble with some momentum and space on his side, it was no accident that he scored nine straight points in the fourth quarter and Golden State's offense broke loose. Often, it ends with someone else shooting without Curry ever even touching the ball, which is a win for the Lakers no matter how the possession ends. Jarred Vanderbilt is an extremely physical defender who is crowding Curry off ball and tracking him as he runs around screens, and the Lakers are not fooled by a lot of those maze routes that Curry takes. With the advantage the Lakers have on the inside in this series, the Warriors are going to have a tough time winning with Curry scoring three points over two quarters of play. Curry got hot late, when Steve Kerr finally started letting him create for himself, and scored 14 points over exactly an eight-minute stretch of the fourth quarter, but it was just a little too late. He didn't score his next point until the seven-minute mark of the third quarter. Stephen Curry scored 10 points in the first quarter. In other words, the Lakers bet that by sagging Davis into the paint and forcing the Warriors to make a ton of 3s, that they could score enough from inside the paint and at the free throw line by being more physical and bigger to win out. That's plus-20 for the Lakers, and plus-five overall, the exact margin of victory. Finally, the Lakers made 25 free throws to Golden State's five. As mentioned, the Lakers won the paint battle by 30 points. That's a 45-point advantage from beyond the arc. ![]() All told, the Warriors made 21 triples as a team to the Lakers' six. True to their identity, the Warriors bombed away from deep in Game 1, attempting exactly half their shots from beyond the arc and becoming the first team in playoff history to boast three players (Steph Curry, Klay Thomson and Jordan Poole) with six made 3-pointers each in a single game. Golden State tried to make enough 3-pointers to offset Davis' interior dominance, and they came close. Kevon Looney tallied 23 boards of his own, seven of which were offensive, but this matchup went to Davis, who is just too big and too athletic for Golden State's undersized and athletically inferior frontline.ĭefensively, Davis basically roped off the paint, where the Warriors scored just 24 points to the Lakers' 54. ![]() Anthony Davis was dominantĭavis was an absolute monster with 30 points, 23 rebounds, five assists and four blocks. In the previous four, the Warriors have come back to win three of them, including the first-round series against Sacramento and last year's NBA Finals against Boston.īelow are three big takeaways from Game 1. It marks just the fifth time during the Steve Kerr era that the Warriors have lost Game 1 of a playoff series. The Los Angeles Lakers stole Game 1 of their second-round series versus the Golden State Warriors with a 117-112 victory on Tuesday. ![]()
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