Thompson, Curry and Durant scored 84 points off of 50 FGA and they lost. Insane.
Outrebounded the Pistons 40-37, too!
Throwing the ball all over the court (25 turnovers!) will do that to you. Another quasi-replay of the Rockets game, where they led by double-digits throughout, built a 14-point lead, threatened to blow it open, then started disrespecting possessions and springing leaks on D, squandered the lead in the 4th and couldn't pull back together in time. As Kerr said, "the right team won."
Very impressive showing by SVG and the Pistons, who had knocked off the Clippers in LA the night before. Unlike the Ws, they valued their offensive possessions (Ish Smith in particular was a slippery beast) and really got after it defensively (Avery Bradley did his thing on Curry in the 4th, just as he used to for you guys!)
Tonight's Warriors-Clippers showdown (the third game in the round-robin) should be pretty fascinating.
More broadly: with the Warriors, Cavs, Rockets, Spurs and Thunder all stumbling out of the gate to various degrees, a bunch of the nominal doormats (Magic, Nets, Pacers, even Knicks now!) showing some surprising fight, and a boatload of exciting young players, pretty much EVERY NBA GAME these days has a chance to be pretty fascinating. I mean yeah, I'm a hoops nerd, but (since I've retired from the time drain that is Fantasy Hoops) there are usually only 2-3 games a night where I'm really interested in the result. Tonight literally every game on the docket tonight interests me, with the possible exception of Dallas/Utah — and even there, I'm interested to see Dennis Smith, Jr. v. Donovan Mitchell...