Steph Curry After Pacers: “Warriors Entering ‘Playoff Mentality’ Zone”

The champions are awake. After a slow start, and a period in which they just wandered around, trying to find some motivation, the Golden State Warriors started playing according to their stature.

At the moment Steve Kerr’s crew has 11 consecutive wins, and not only that they finished their five-game road trip with a perfect record. Also, eight of these 11 wins were outside Oakland.

“Just a really good way to finish it,” said Kerr about the last night’s demolition of Indiana Pacers, 132-100, ” with everybody playing, everybody contributing, leading from start to finish. I was a little worried about this game. Everybody’s anxious to get home.”

That anxiety certainly made his player more motivated to decide the game at Bankers Field House as soon as possible. They were up 21 points already after the first half, 69-48.

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Steph Curry was amazing from the field hitting 10 of his 12 shots, 6 of 8 for three, recording 26 points. Only three of them weren’t in the first half. Cousins had 22, while Durant and Thompson had 16 each.

But according to results, Warriors shouldn’t be hurrying to go back home that much. The champs have 10 straight victories on the road, and in each one of them, they poured at least 110 points. The majority of the teams who had a similar record won titles during those seasons.

Golden State will now have a bunch of contests in front of their own crowd. To be precise seven of the upcoming nine. It is a fantastic opportunity to improve their record and to increase the gap between them and the other contenders for the top place in the Western Conference.

After Pacers, Steph Curry spoke about the fact that most of the guys didn’t realize that half of the season already passed away. The two-time MVP, who last night became the first player with 200 three-pointers in less than 40 games during one campaign, said that coach Kerr opened their eyes when saying before the game that they are about to play their 50th of the season.

“Coach hit us with what game this is — I think it’s 50, And you think about how quickly that springs on you.” Curry said. “You get back from All-Star break, you still have 30 games and you’re like, ‘All right, this is playoff mentality time,’ and you start to ramp it up, so we’re starting early.”

We could tell that his performances are already at the playoff level. Curry drops 30.5 points in January with 5.6 assists and 5 rebounds per game, shooting 51.4% from the field. All that despite the fact that DeMarcus Cousins started playing.

👀 the BEST of @StephenCurry30's 203 three-pointers this season! #DubNation

Steph is the first player in @NBAHistory to make 200+ threes within the first 40 games of a season. pic.twitter.com/IbSHKf04HS

— NBA (@NBA) January 29, 2019

Most of the experts were saying that the overall productivity of the Warriors’ starters might drop significantly when Boogie comes back. For now, this claim isn’t true. The four-time All-Star adjusted quicker than anyone though, and he started contributing on his own without some big help.

It appears that the overtime loss against Houston at Oracle Arena really ignited this team. It was one very unpleasant and painful experience, which motivated the whole team to bounce back as quickly as possible and to start playing as everyone expects. Though Steve Kerr denies it, it seems that this particular moment is the initial spark for this excellent run of his boys. They will have a chance to revenge on Feb. 24th, when the Beard and his Rockets once again come to California. It will be the last game of the above-mentioned seven at Oracle Arena.

The first will be played already this Wednesday, and the opponent is a challenging one. Philadelphia is currently on tour through the West, and they have a huge desire to show their best performance against the team they want to dethrone in the near future.

And this is the perfect time for them to see where they stand when facing the “playoff” Warriors, because maybe, just maybe they might meet them again, only this time in the real postseason.