Steph, ever closer to Ray Allen’s three-point record, helps the Warriors overcome the Portland stamina. Stunning Miami win against the reigning champions: Coach Spoelstra was missing his two best players
The pursuit of history continues. Steph Curry is 10 triples off Ray Allen’s record after 6 with which he helped Golden State break the stamina of the fighting Portland. In Miami, a masterpiece of the Heat in the challenge against the reigning champions: the defense of coach Spoelstra managed to cancel Giannis Antetokounmpo. Golden State Warriors-Portland Trail Blazers 104-94 Record postponed. Steph Curry had promised that he would try to make history, to put all 16 triples he needed in one evening to overtake Ray Allen in first place in the all-time rankings. He stopped at 6, postponing the assault on the record at 2.30 on the Italian night between Saturday and Sunday in Philadelphia, in the always special challenge with his brother Seth: he needs 10 to take the throne of Allen has an altitude of 2973. The appointment with the history has sent Curry, the Warriors top scorer a bit, with 22 points but with 17 of his 19 shots from behind the arc. Golden State (21-4) also for this reason managed to shake off Portland’s pride only in the second half (11-15), knocked out for the fourth time in a row and the seventh in the last 8 games. Also the fault of Kerr’s team, a little too affected and stumbled upon the worst shooting night of the year (39.8% shooting), made more complicated by the 14/46 from the bow. “I haven’t talked to Steph about the record,” Coach Kerr said. Having 16 in a match would have been unprecedented, we tried to keep a routine. he has put 6, which for him are nothing ”. Portland without Damian Lillard (“I didn’t ask for a trade, they want to stay and fix things,” he reiterated before the game) and CJ McCollum (indefinite knockout with a collapsed lung) couldn’t do more. At least Billups’ side, one of the disappointments of the season, put pride in it, deciding they didn’t want to be the sacrificial victim of Curry’s record and trying throughout the game to limit him and one of the NBA’s best bouts, despite Portland is the worst defense. “I am proud of the commitment we have put into it – said Billups -: we must find a way to have it in every game, because if we play like this with a healthy roster we will have no problems”. Nassir Little (18 points and 6 rebounds) was the best in the first half, then succumbed to calf cramps. Dennis Smith Jr tried the impossible double task of replacing Lillard and limiting Curry, deserving at least the pass. The Warriors have always been ahead, but Portland has never given up.
The match
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Curry misses the first 4 triples and Golden State struggles throughout the first half to shake off Portland, who returns to the locker room under 47-45. The good escape to the hosts succeeds in the third period, in which Billups also loses Little: Poole puts 8 points, Steph adds two triples to his chase to the record of Ray Allen and Otto Porter Jr on the siren signs the 76-66 Warriors. At the start of the fourth period the decisive blow, with Bjelica who at 9’23 ”from the end signs the 86-70 Golden State with a three-point game that effectively closes the match, despite Portland trying to reopen it until the end.
Golden State: Curry 22 (2/2 of two, 6/17 of three), Poole 20, Porter 15. Rebounds: Green 10. Assists: Green 8.
Portland:Powell 26 (7/16, 1/7, 9/11 free throws), Little 18, Nurkic 12, Smith 12, McLemore 12. Rebounds: Nurkic 13. Assists: Nurkic 6.
Miami Heat-Milwaukee Bucks 113-104
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Masterpiece. Without Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo, his two best players, Miami (15-11) plays a practically perfect match and stops Milwaukee (16-10), who arrived at the FTX Arena with 10 wins in the previous 11 games. In the success of Spoelstra’s team there is all the meaning of the expression Heat Culture, the mantra of the franchise in recent years: commitment and dedication by everyone, regardless of who is on the pitch. Thus it happens that around the extraordinary Kyle Lowry (22 points and 13 assists) and PJ Tucker (15 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and an elite defense on Giannis Antetokounmpo, canceled), players like Caleb Martin, two-way player, are decisive from 28 points, Max Strus, undrafted by 16 points in the 4th period, and KZ Okpala, with his 201 centimeters thick and willingly the tallest in Miami on the court, who fights against Giannis like a lion. “We are these now and we need the entire roster – explains Eric Spoelstra -. Different players at different times of the game will make the difference, like different aspects of the game at different times. But we need everyone ”. Miami had lost 4 of the previous 5 games, but confirms, waiting to find Butler and Adebayo, that when it really matters it has everything it takes to be a protagonist. Like Milwaukee, the fittest team in the East before this game. The Bucks lost for the first time this season with Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday (the best with 27 points) and Khris Middleton (nonexistent until 13 points in the fourth period) on the field together. Giannis was canceled by the Miami defense, only Holiday was able to be constant in a team that even reached 11 points ahead but ended up with 42.4% shooting, stunned by Miami’s determination. A lesson the Bucks will memorize for how serious it gets.
The match
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Milwaukee tries to break the balance of a sparkling first half with 12-0 which is worth the 49-38 at 90 ”from the break, but where Miami arrives under 51-44. In the third quarter Holiday tries to drag the Bucks with 13 points, but Lowry explodes with 16 and drags the Heat on 83-77 of the siren. Spoelstra, in addition to Tucker, who also levels up in attack, in the first 6 ‘of the fourth period catches the wildcard Strus, who with 14 points built from the bow keeps Miami ahead. Milwaukee fails to unblock Antetokounmpo, Portis tries to lend a hand to Holiday and Middleton but Miami always remains ahead and 44 ”from the end virtually closes the accounts with Martin.
You love me:Martin 28 (3/4, 6/8, 4/4 tl), Lowry 22, Strus 16. Rebounds: Dedmon 9, Okpala 9. Assist: Lowry 13.
Milwaukee:Holiday 27 (9/10, 3/7), Middleton 20, Portis 18. Rebounds: Portis 7. Assists: Holiday 4, Middleton 4, G. Antetokounmpo 4.
December 9 – 7:36 am
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