Resilience-tested Warriors have reason to feel good after road trip

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Resilience-tested Warriors have reason to feel good after road trip originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Stephen Curry tweaks his right ankle and limps away. Gary Payton II bleeds from a gash on his nose. Jimmy Butler misses one game and is ineffective in another. Brandin Podziemski tweaks his right knee in one game and grabs his back in 44 seconds into another and never returns.

And Jonathan Kuminga plays not one minute.

The Warriors overcame all of it during a nine-day road trip on the East Coast, winning four of five games, punctuated Thursday night by a comeback 121-119 win over the Nets in Brooklyn that solidified their hold on sixth place in the Western Conference standings.

Stephen Curry’s fireworks notwithstanding, Golden State (35-28) would not be making such a triumphant return home without the contributions of Jimmy Butler III and his bustling band of buccaneers. Aside from the loss to the 76ers in Philadelphia, which Butler missed with back spasms, they did their part, often flourished and proved they can be pivotal.

They were exactly that on this night. After Golden State’s lethargic start sent the Nets out to a 27-5 advantage that allowed them to take a 35-15 lead into the second quarter, the Warriors gathered themselves and unleashed Butler and his bunch.

“Just being honest with yourself that we were playing horrible,” Curry said on “Warriors Postgame Live.” “We’ve got to be accountable, each and every one of us. We weren’t playing hard, and we weren’t playing physical. I think this is the first time I’ve ever gotten an offensive foul to show a little bit of fire to get us going. Whatever it took to kind of shock the system a little bit.

“And that unit that finished the end of the first the beginning of the second got us back into it where we had a chance and then we kind of all took it from there.”

Six minutes later, the Warriors were within nine and had seized the momentum in a quarter punctuated by Curry’s 38-footer inside the final second.

The Warriors outscored the Nets 40-25 in the second quarter, with Butler scoring 11 points and posting a plus-15 in eight…

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Publish date : 2025-03-06 21:37:00

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