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Home Goliath Spurs beat road Goliath Warriors
The Warriors, even this historic iteration of the team, can’t seem to find a way to win in San Antonio, where the Spurs extended their regular-season home winning streak in the series to 33 games with an 87-79 victory Saturday night.
The Spurs (59-10), who haven’t lost a regular-season home game to the Warriors since Feb. 14, 1997, moved three games back of the Warriors (62-7) atop the Western Conference standings.
“It would be nice to end it, so we can stop hearing about it,” said Warriors point guard Stephen Curry, who was limited to 14 points on 1-of-12 three-point shooting.
Klay Thompson’s reverse layup trimmed the Warriors’ deficit to 82-79 with 2:23 left, but LaMarcus Aldridge answered with an all-but-clinching turnaround jumper 37 seconds later.
“We were down three guys who play huge minutes for us, coming here off a back-to-back and not making shots and not having the legs we want,” said Thompson, who had 15 points on 1-of-7 three-point shooting.
Iguodala (ankle) and Ezeli (knee) stayed in Oakland to rehab, and Bogut didn’t play because of an injury he tweaked during Friday’s win in Dallas.
The learning commenced from the start, when the Warriors tied a season low with 18 first-quarter points and plodded along to a season-low 37 first-half points.
During the first quarter, he blew a gasket after he believed the Spurs were getting away with holding Warriors running off of screens.
After missing his first seven three-point attempts, Curry got one to fall with 5:23 remaining in the third quarter.
The Warriors became just the fifth visiting team all season to hold a fourth-quarter lead in San Antonio (all of 96 combined seconds), but the Spurs were back on top 75-71 when Curry re-entered the game with 5:58 to play.
The Warriors need to go no worse than 11-2 in their final 13 games to break the Bulls’ single-season record 72 wins.