SAN FRANCISCO — Steph Curry sprained the thumb on his capturing hand within the Warriors’ most up-to-date recreation in opposition to the Cavaliers, placing him on the official damage report.
It was not possible to inform on Thursday evening.
Enjoying along with his thumb wrapped, Curry drained all eight of his 3-pointers. He completed with 30 factors, 10 assists and 6 rebounds.
The Warriors gained his minutes by 32 factors. He has the NBA report for video games with not less than eight 3-pointers, however he’d by no means made that many with out lacking a single one. His earlier report for excellent 3-point capturing was 6-for-6.
The 76ers had their whole large three of Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George wholesome for a change, however the Warriors (17-16) embarrassed them, 139-105. Curry led the cost because the Warriors shared the ball fantastically, performed with tempo and tamed Philadelphia’s three-headed monster.
Within the Warriors’ highest-scoring recreation for the reason that season opener, they assisted on 42 of their 52 made discipline objectives. Golden State shot a scorching 60.9% from the sector and 56.4% from behind the arc.
Heading into 2025, the Warriors have been optimistic they might put their roster-wide capturing woes behind them. The win over Philadelphia definitely appeared like proof of idea.
Dennis Schroder, who has struggled mightily on offense in his first few weeks as a Warrior, drained every of his first three 3-pointers. Jonathan Kuminga (20 factors, 5 assists, 5 rebounds) hit a yank-back 3 over Joel Embiid as a part of a seven-point burst in three minutes. Moses Moody made one other to interrupt Philadelphia’s zone. Even Buddy Hield, who had sank simply two of his final 25 3-pointers, canned a nook 3.
The Warriors shot 7-for-11 from deep in a 35-19 first quarter. On the opposite finish, the Sixers positive appeared like they have been on the second evening of a back-to-back. A step sluggish and uncalibrated, Philadelphia missed their first seven 3s and Embiid went 2-for-6 from the ground in opposition to Trayce Jackson-Davis and Draymond Inexperienced.
Steve Kerr desires to maintain the present beginning lineup — and substitutions behind it — largely intact in the meanwhile. Evne in opposition to Embiid, bigs Kevon Looney and Kyle Anderson remained out of the rotation.
A part of the most important keys with the present rotation is that includes Kuminga in varied methods: as the focus of the second unit, alongside Steph Curry and Inexperienced as a slasher and whereas taking part in starter’s minutes.
With the ball in his palms extra usually, Kuminga has had arguably the perfect few weeks of his profession. On Thursday, he dished 4 assists in his first stint (and will’ve had two extra).
Even when the Sixers discovered their outdoors stroke, the Warriors stored tempo, taking a 16-point lead into halftime. Their small-ball lineup with Kuminga at energy ahead subsequent to Inexperienced generated a myriad of unpolluted appears to be like, particularly in opposition to Philadelphia’s zone. Golden State had 22 assists on 26 buckets within the first half.
As they have been hitting photographs, the Warriors may feasibly play smaller even in opposition to 76er lineups with Embiid and Guerschon Yabusele. They drew these bigs away from the paint and labored outside-in.
Like at all times, it began with Curry. He hit his first six 3-pointers, together with a banked-in warmth verify over Paul George. After that someway went down, he put his palms on his head in disbelief.
Throughout Curry’s flurry, Kerr tried to sub him out. Curry refused and proceeded to proceed raining in photographs.
The subsequent possession, he skipped again on protection after threading a cross-court dime to Andrew Wiggins within the nook. Then he hit a step-back two over Eric Gordon to place the Warriors up 25 — then their greatest lead of the evening.
Curry scored 13 within the third quarter, planting the Sixers manner again on their heels. Only for the enjoyable of it, Curry nailed two extra 3s minutes into the fourth quarter, pushing each his scoring whole and Golden State’s result in 30. He and the remainder of Golden State’s regulars watched the final eight minutes of the sport from the bench.
