Warriors’ streak spoiled, bid for 25 is over
The streak is over. The Warriors played from behind for nearly the entire game and their bid for 25 straight wins to open the season was squandered with a 108-95 defeat on Saturday night in Milwaukee.
Playing the back end of a back-to-back at the end of a seven-game road trip, and after Friday’s game went into double overtime a time zone away, the Warriors’ were a step slow against a Milwaukee team that was eager to end the longest undefeated start to a season in NBA history.
“The losses are going to come. We didn’t have it tonight,” interim head coach Luke Walton said. “We didn’t have our shots falling and we were a little slow on our defensive rotations. And that happens, but it takes nothing away from what we did to start the season.”
The teams exchanged runs for pretty much the first three quarters. Milwaukee had separate runs of 10-0 and 12-2 in the first period, and each time the Warriors rallied to make the game close again.
The Bucks led by as many as 14 and never trailed in the second half.
When the Dubs looked to be on the comeback trail – a dunk from Brandon Rush that caused one of the best Warriors bench reactions brought the Warriors within five minutes left in the third quarter – Milwaukee responded with a run of their own and stepped up their defense.
The Bucks held a three-point lead at the end of the third quarter but held the Warriors’ reserve unit to just one made field goal through the first six minutes of the fourth quarter.
Stephen Curry and Draymond Green re-entered the game with seven minutes left, but they were unable to spark a comeback like they did on Friday night in Boston.
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