ESPN reacts to G.S. Warriors losing to Sacramento Kings 134-133 despite Steph Curry’s 33 Pts
And we’ll talk all about it here on Toyota Warriors Plus game live live here at the gate house at Thrive City with Hall of Famer Warriors Insider Monty P NBA champion D all right I am Bon Hill he had the ball in Steph hand Steph’s hands there at the final possession
Doesn’t even get a shot off and you heard it from Fitz there just it’s a bass heit there JK rushes on the previous possession and the Warriors lose a heartbreaker yeah that’s a tough way to to lose a game after you fought all game I felt like every time the
Warriors Got close uh the Kings made a big three or had an n one it was something so uh to have a opportunity at the end of the game after fighting back the whole game almost uh you know that’s what that’s the chance you want but
Right there a timely double team at half court basically took the ball out of Steph Curry’s hand he couldn’t make a play yeah you didn’t see a championship finish there by the Warriors you know you saw the defensive breakdown let simonis get the dunk you know and then
You you get the rebound after you foul curter play gets the rebound and I get not calling a time out there you know you catch him in Scatter you know and try and get some in step lost the ball so um the double team was you know it
Was perfect what it had to be but I mean come on this is Harrison Barnes went for 39 wow career high wow career high Harrison came that comes out of nowhere he never done that before so um Harrison Barnes was let go by the Warriors seven
Years ago you think he forgot no it would have been nice if he was reminded in game four the first round series money would he missed a wide open three well there you go I mean delayed delayed delayed here’s the bar 7 to 12 for the
Three-point line what a game for him and the Kings still went down here Chase Center let’s go to the crutch St tape because the kings were up 128 to 121 looking to pull away from the doubs but JN de kaminga what else can you say
About this kid the A1 right here to get the warriors with the four look at that tough move d right that was tough right there big JK man he’s been bringing his hard hat every single night I know it was four straight 20o games but tonight
He cracked that 30 ball and he had a great one and then speaking of 30 there’s Stephen Curry with the three right there Warriors down one Harrison Mars there that guy again little Revenge game midy nasty Harrison getting buckets against everybody he I mean he got play
A couple times he got he got Wiggins I mean he tonight this the game of his life oh yeah no it is you know this is the game of his life so he followed that up with 32 against Atlanta again a career high 39 for HB but you see Steph
Curry trying to take batters and two Nets what a move right there by Keegan throw to Yu for JK that was nasty watch your head d right two hands for safety as well and then JK again nobody wants to jump with him he scored a career high
31 points off the right there that was huge a total defensive breakdown by the way the referees missed the foul on uh bonus there lose B foul B did they did they did right here D we’re discussing this in real time maybe JK slows down there he’ll learn from that moment yeah
He’ll definitely learn from this moment the coach having uh you know him in that last play is big time anyway yeah that’s a it could be a confidence builder for sure it tells JK that we believe in all right here’s the last play of the game
JK with the rock passes to Stephie Curry you see fox h picks him up red velvet hder with a great double team right there it’s death nowhere to go loses the ball and the Kings Escape Jas center with a win to even up the series season
Series at two games a piece backto back thrilling wins for the Sacramento Keys against the goto State Warriors this season again this was a first round rematch between the two clubs and the Warriors clutch games now 15 and 16 on the season you got to win some of these
Games here if you want to make the Western Conference playoffs you definitely have to and uh good teams win these type of games when they’re that close you find ways to win games uh you did it on the defensive end you know a coaches always tell you always tell you
Hey let’s get two stops in a row and they did that they got the they got the one stop and then they miss two free throws then you get two opportunities for a game winner or you know to go ahead and uh the Warriors fail to do so
They made this game really hard on themselves that first half let the Kings shoot over 60 % up 75 points y you know the warriors were fighting all game to try and catch up try and catch up they led by as much as four the Kings had double digit leads and so you’re
Fighting all game long um it’s a tough way to try to win a game when you it’s almost like when you when you’re the team that Trails most of the game and you win it like you stole it almost you know and they were trying to steal the
Game tonight and they couldn’t do it so uh give the warrior the Warriors defense continues to be a major issue not just in that in that first half there but on that last play there which someone’s getting a dunk right wide open dunk right you mentioned the 70 points right
The Warriors give up 70 points in the first half they’ve given up 70 points in a half five times All Season that’s happened five times in the last nine games so defensively we had Mike Dunley be on during the pregame show they fallen off the cliff here defensively
One of the worst teams defensively when it comes of defensive rating D you right yeah they got to do a better job and the thing that sticks out the most is the three-point line you got to run guys off the off the line this era now is a
Three-point shooting game the guys guys who make more threes going to win a game and to give up 13 threes in the first half you always that’s a big hole to dig yourself out of when you see guys most three-point Shooters need Rhythm yes and they get a rhythm going and they when
They start banking those threes early in the first quarter there it’s like okay alert we got to make sure we get on that line right now and it just never really happened to the satisfaction of the of the Warriors so you look at that and the
Fact that that this the kings were you know the Kings have had their own issues this thisth it cost four or five but I mean the Warriors their their defense has not been attentive at the right time and that’s why this for this month of January they are dead last the NBN
Defensive rating yeah yeah I mean you lose a game Monty they shoot 56% from the floor 51% from the three-point line the score 133 the score 134 last night yet still you still lose because the kings make 22 threes 22 threes I should say and some of them came from Harrison
Barnes what had a career high 39 points and he lit it up early and often he’s a guy who wasn’t even on our Scout report today d right we’re thinking Malik monk we’re thinking sabonis but it was Harrison bars who stole the show against his former Club you either play really
Well against your old team or really bad and tonight HB got it going he was feeling it and I’ve been in one of those zones before when everything you should throw up there goes in he got to his spots he kind of got whatever he wanted
To tonight you know you see right there going under on the three and he just popped and then in the mid post that’s a tough shot right there this is the Harrison Barnes the Warriors hope they get when they drafted him seventh overall yeah you know back in 2012 uh
And HB um you know his career has been up and down he’s traveled to several different teams now uh he’s been the Kings for a while now and he stays in that starting lineup even though he’s had some pretty bad games this course of the season but tonight I mean without
Harrison Barnes the Warriors win this game by 15 points well now they’re lighting beam in Sacramento right now buddy hey they deserve it they do play like this when you come into another team’s building and you start lighting them up from three and they don’t stop
You you get what you deserve which is a victory yep dear Fox he started off slowly tonight we talked about his January splits he’s been struggling his month from the three-point line just 35% 41% in the month of January but look at his last 13 games against it go to State
Warriors 22 and a half points per game the assist numbers are down but that doesn’t tell the story he’s been a factor and really after the first quarter T night d right he got rolling 29 Points five assists he was eight of eight from the free throw line his speed
Really caused a lot of Havoc from the Warriors defense man he got to his back Bonte like you mentioned and his speed is just Next Level so it’s hard to keep this guy out the paint that’s why I mentioned in pregame you got to show him a wall one-on-one is just like LeBron
One onone it’s going to be hard to stop him he got that clutch player of the year last year award for a reason so uh yeah he got to his bag he got it going yeah you watched dear and he’s one of those guys that there’s fast guys and
There’s quick guys he’s both oh yeah he’s both you know so yeah I don’t know that there’s any defender in this lead that can guard him one-on-one no he’s got that midrange jumper too he sh him shot over JK there Klay Thompson that mid-range from 10 to 15 feet even when
He doesn’t have the three ball rolling he knows it gets with spots inside the Y there and get cooking there speaking of JK Jonathan kaminga look we asked Mike Dy who’s Untouchable is JK still on the Block it would be hard to trade away a guy like Jonathan kaminga especially
With the way he’s playing let’s Che out his last six games here JK okay JK you were playing big JK as D says JK 23 points a game five and a half rebounds two assists shooting over 64% from the floor and 53% from the three-point line
Hard to imagine this guy being out a rotation just over six weeks ago wow they were down by double dig supportless Steve K says well what the heck let’s go to John the kaminga well I don’t think he’s been out of the rotation since he’s been hooping here his 23rd straight game
Scored over double Figures it’s tonight 31 points of career high for big JK big JK brought his game tonight uh 22 consecutive games with 10 plus points but I just love the fact that the game is slowing down for him as a young player in this league the game can go a
Million miles per hour and you can tell JK is finally taking his time he’s playing with much better footwork as you can see right there that was tough the the uh Up and Under to a dunk that’s tough right there yeah you’re seeing JK
Now I mean you know when you talk to JK it’s like he seems to think that he hasn’t you know he’s doing the same thing he did a year ago two years ago he’s not no this dude is playing at a level now that he’s never played at
Before which is what you want to see you know so you’ve been looking for sort of progress from him since he got here the first year there were some bumps last year there were some bumps even early this year there were some bumps but every year he got a little bit better a
Little bit better but now it’s like man his explosion lately in the last five weeks it’s been incredible incredible might be your secondary score right now your second option offensively alongside Stephen Curry that’s not a bad option to go to because you know you can put him
In the mid post he can make plays he is a willing passer but he’s always has a mismatch as well just because his athleticism his strength and his will to do whatever it takes to get a basket now he’s hitting free throws too five six from a charity strike yeah I mean you
Look for weaknesses in JK’s game and I think every player no matter how good they are there’s something there’s a thing or two you say okay he can probably be had here or there and he still can I mean there’s going to be times when maybe he puts his head down a
Little too much and doesn’t see what’s going on the floor but by and large when you watch him play now you’re seeing a guy that really kind of feels the game at a level he never felt it before for sure I mean he’s seeing his teammates most of the time defensively he’s making
Smart plays the silly fouls he used to make a lot frequently back in the day I mean even three months ago right now he doesn’t make those as many you know every now and then yeah there was a foul he a reach foul but for the most part
He’s doing smarter things now and he’s being powerful doing powerful things on the court and that’s why he’s been a ter terrific player these last few weeks and for all the plus minus geks out there he was a plus 16 a team high so there you
Go with JK speaking of which let’s go to Stephen Curry tonight Stephen Curry number 30 got off to an explosive start in the first quarter he scored 18 in May 5 threes alone be surprised uh uh Mr Bean there Smith for second under career rebounding list in Warriors franchise
History sorter team High 33.6 rebounds but Steph all night Long’s going to think about that final possession to right oh you all we all know how what type of player Steph Curry is that’s going to eat him up he can’t wait to get back on the court because he know he
Could have got a better opportunity in that last possession but Steph Curry continues to do Steph Curry things making shots around the perimeter you know mixing it up getting to the basket so another solid night from Steph Curry yeah I mean the thing about Steph is
That the ball got to the right guy he’s the guy you want to have the ball but and people will look at that last play and yeah he didn’t get up a good shot and W he lost the ball but I mean I still say that this game they didn’t win
This game early enough yeah yeah and they they tried to win it late and it didn’t go right you know and so you look at the last minute or so and there were things that went wrong at both ends of the court and so in the end I mean the
Warriors they kind of got what they deserve tonight yeah battle yeah all night long all night long 33 points six rebounds here but speaking of which Harrison bar stole the show right now he’s at the podium you got a long NBA career what’s it like to uh set a new career high and
Do it against your former team uh you know I think the biggest thing is honestly uh just getting this road trip start off right and we talked about the importance of where we’re at in the season um how we’ve been playing lately and I think really just starting off this this road
Trip with the win was was important for us your teammate was looking for you tonight you’ve been hot for the last couple games but tonight they were really looking for you you can see that you could feel it had y’all been talking about that no honestly I mean we’ve
Always felt that the way we play in our style of offense the way that fox and domas um you know create shots for guys you know guys have to step up and be open uh be aggressive you know whether it’s Kevin Malik Keegan myself whoever
It may be on a given night I try to maximize those opportunities so uh when the ball finds you just shoot with confidence way fore spe speee Lan tower under attack i’ got eyes and ears everywhere First Blood enemy double Kill en deated enemy an enemy has been deated an enemy has defeated an enemy has defeated double kill hold me down got and ears everywhere your tower has been destroyed an ally has deated our base is under attack Ally has defeated you have defeated an enemy has deated eyes and ears everywhere
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ESPN reacts to G.S. Warriors losing to Sacramento Kings 134-133 despite Steph Curry’s 33 Pts
