For 12 glorious minutes Monday night, the Warriors looked like the Warriors.
The ball was skipping around, the defense was something like locked in, and above all, Klay Thompson was unfathomably hot. For 12 glorious minutes, the Suns were bugs on the Warriors' windshield, as Golden State shot 72% from the field and pasted Phoenix 43-21 in the first quarter. When Thompson checked out after eight minutes, he had 18 points; the Suns had 12.
It didn't last, and it didn't matter. After Thompson poured in 33 points in the first half, he was completely blanked in the third quarter, and tacked on just five points in the fourth. The second half saw some ugly turnovers from Jordan Poole and, to be fair, Steph Curry. But again, it didn't matter. The first-quarter explosion created a hole that the Suns couldn't dig out of for the rest of the night, and the Warriors closed out a relatively easy 123-112 win.
In other words, it was vintage Warriors, maybe their best extended stretch all year. It was such a throwback game that Andre Iguodala even rose up for aThe Warriors relished it, too. The Suns had gotten under Thompson's skin the first few times the teams had played, with Klay earning three extremely out of character technicals.
Thompson, as he does when he's on, let his play do the talking. But Curry had some chirping for Chris Paul near the end of the game. Paul tried to body Curry on defense, and Curry took him to the baseline for an and-one. Curry appeared to say,"This ain't 2014 no more," which would be a clear reference to when Paul's Clippers knocked the Warriors out of the first round.
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