Category: Recap

Eric Paschall turns in fantastic effort, but Warriors lose to Pelicans

Without D’Angelo Russell, Eric Paschall picked up the slack for Steve Kerr’s team, but he couldn’t help the team avoid a 108-100 loss.

On Sunday night, for the Golden State Warriors, the Big Easy was anything but.

Despite a 30-point effort from standout rookie Eric Paschall, Golden State couldn’t keep pace with the tandem of Jrue Holiday (22 points, eight rebounds, nine assists) and JJ Redick (26 points, 6-for-11 from 3-point territory), as the Pelicans scored a 108-100 victory over Steve Kerr’s team.

Paschall became the first member of this year’s rookie class to record multiple 30-point games, as he scored 34 points in the club’s 127-118 win over the Portland Trail Blazers back on November 4. He has been one of the few bright spots on a Warriors team that has now lost seven consecutive games.

With the loss, the Warriors fell to 2-12 on the regular season and dropped the first game on their four-game swing, which will also include stops in Memphis, Dallas and Salt Lake City.

The contest also happened to be the first that D’Angelo Russell missed after being announced with a sprained right thumb on Saturday. Russell is expected to miss at least the next two weeks.

As for the game itself, the Warriors trailed throughout, but managed to cut a 17-point deficit to just three in the game’s third quarter. Still, the team shot just 37.3 percent from the field over the course of the game’s first three quarters and simply couldn’t slow Holiday down in the fourth quarter, where he shot 5-for-7 and scored 12 points.

Although the final margin happened to be just eight points, the Pelicans led by as many as 15 during the game’s final frame, and it’s fair to say that the outcome of this one was never really in doubt.

For the Warriors, aside from Paschall’s 30 points, the team got 19 points off the bench from Ky Bowman and a 14-point, six-rebound effort from Glen Robinson III.

Warriors falter down the stretch, lose tough game to Celtics, 105-100

D’Angelo Russell left the contest early due to injury, but the Warriors were able to score a monumental upset over the Celtics, anyway.

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So close, yet so far.

On Friday night, the Golden State Warriors gave the Boston Celtics all they could handle before faltering down the stretch and dropping a tough decision, 105-100.

If there’s one lesson to take from the game for the Warriors, it’s that late-game execution is most often the difference-maker. Despite outplaying Boston for a majority of the game, the Warriors allowed the Celtics to hang around.

Draymond Green’s two free-throws with 3:13 remaining gave his club a three-point lead before a Willie Cauley-Stein dunk on the next possession gave the Dubs a five-point cushion with about 2:30 remaining.

Led by Walker, though, the Celtics responded with an 11-0 run that helped them leave Chase Center with a well-fought victory.

During the game’s final three minutes, Steve Kerr’s team shot just 2-for-7 from the field, scoring three points. That obviously wasn’t enough to get it done, despite the fact that Golden State held Boston to just 40.7 shooting from the field for the contest.

What was most remarkable about Walker’s heroics was that he scored 14 points in the game’s final frame after struggling through the game’s first three quarter.

The loss drops the Warriors to 2-11 on the regular season while the Celtics, who have now won 10 games in a row, improve to 10-1.

To make matters even worse, the bigger loss of the night for the Dubs was that of D’Angelo Russell, who left the contest early with a sprained right thumb.

In all likelihood, the Warriors will update his status on Saturday as they prepare to begin four-game road trip on Sunday when they visit the New Orleans Pelicans.