Written by Sean Wagner-McGough at CBSSports.com
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
Those words of disbelief came from a fan positioned somewhere below me at Oracle Arena three or so minutes into the Warriors’ 139-115 victory against the Wizards on Sunday night. He was talking about a sequence that included a wild shot by Warriors rookie Patrick McCaw, a deflection, McCaw rescuing the ball before it went out of play, Draymond Green saving McCaw’s pass before it passed the halfcourt line by finding an open Stephen Curry in midair, and Curry drilling the 3 to put an end to the chaos.
It was that kind of night for the Warriors.
They won their 11th game in a row. After beating the Grizzlies, Rockets, Spurs, and Rockets (again) by a combined 40 points, the Warriors dismantled the Wizards. In five consecutive games against playoff teams, the Warriors posted an average margin of victory of 12.8 points — without Kevin Durant, of course.
Remember when the Warriors were an ordinary team without Durant? So much for that.
The Warriors are playing the best basketball across the league. In their 10 consecutive victories before Sunday night, they posted an NBA-best 96.1 defensive rating. On Sunday, their defense didn’t take center stage. It was their explosive offense. Golden State shot 56.4 percent from the floor and 44.4 percent from deep.
n recent victories, they relied on unsung heroes — JaVale McGee and Andre Iguodala to name two — to pull through. But Sunday night was about the stars. More specifically, it was about Curry.
Curry put up 42 points in roughly 36 minutes. He connected on 9 of 14 shots from 3-point land. He was video-game Curry.
A minute after that crazy sequence above, he did something mean to Wizards center Marcin Gortat.
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