BOSTON -- Golden State didnt need another winning, last-second basket this time.
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Pacers on a field goal with 0.6 seconds left. Klay Thompson hit that 12-foot
turnaround to beat one of the NBAs best teams, 98-96. Against one of the worst,
Thompson and David Lee scored 18 points each as the Warriors ended their road
trip with a 4-2 record. "This win validates last night," Thompson said. The
Warriors were determined not to ease up against much weaker competition than
they faced at Indiana, which has the leagues best home record. "It was big for
us," Lee said. "The starters really wanted to come out and set the tone tonight
and not give the Celtics team any life." That plan worked. The Warriors scored
the first six points and led 12-2 with just over five minutes gone as they moved
a season-high 14 games over .500 with a 38-24 record. "I read where if we lost
this game then that takes away (Tuesdays win). You cannot forget how tough it is
to win games in this league," Golden State coach Mark Jackson said.
"Fortunately, we did not fall in love with what we did in Indy." The Celtics
(20-41) provided little resistance and lost for the seventh time in eight games.
"It was a struggle for us," Boston coach Brad Stevens said. "Id like to find
something that I could say we were better in, but there wasnt anything." Former
Celtic Jordan Crawford had 15 points and Stephen Curry added 14 for the
Warriors, who won for the seventh time in nine games. Kelly Olynyk scored 19
points for Boston. "We dont want to keep embarrassing ourselves and that is the
mentality we are going to have," Jeff Green said. Lee started the scoring with
an 18-footer and Andre Iguodala followed with a layup and a dunk for a 6-0 lead.
Jerryd Bayless then hit a fadeaway jumper for Boston, but Golden State got the
next six points on dunks by Curry and Thompson and a layup by Lee. The game was
still competitive when Bayless two free throws cut Golden States lead to 42-33
with 5:55 left in the first half. Then Thompsons 3-pointer began a 19-7 run that
gave the Warriors a 61-40 lead at halftime. Baskets by Lee and Andrew Bogut made
it 49-33 before Rajon Rondo sank a free throw and Jared Sullinger made two for
Boston. But then Golden State scored the next six points on a short jumper by
Lee, a dunk by Iguodala and a 16-footer by Curry. A 3-pointer by Green cut the
margin to 55-38, but Curry followed with a 3-point play. Rondo answered with a
layup before Iguodala finished the first-half scoring with a 3-pointer with 10
seconds remaining. The sloppy Celtics committed 12 turnovers in the first half,
leading to 15 points, while the Warriors turned the ball over just twice,
leading to two points. "What hurt us more than maybe anything were the turnovers
in the first half that led to the dunks that got those guys going," Stevens
said. "I didnt think our effort was great." The Warriors took their biggest
lead, 31 points, when two straight baskets by Thompson made it 80-49 with just
over five minutes left in the third quarter. "Theyre hitting their stride a
little bit," Stevens said. Now the Warriors head home for 13 of their remaining
20 games. "We took care of business on the road," Lee said. "Our thought is we
shouldnt lose any more games at home." NOTES: Golden State has 20 road wins,
tied with Oklahoma City for second most in the NBA. ... Jackson rested his
starters in the fourth quarter. ... Rondo had 14 points and seven assists, but
also had seven turnovers. ... Lee had a game-high 10 rebounds, while Bogut
blocked three shots.
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won its Maui Invitational opener with a 72-53 decision over Missouri.
Hollis-Jefferson went 5-for-6 from the field and added six rebounds, while
Stanley Jefferson contributed 14 points for the Wildcats, who used their
trademark tough defense to dominate the games final 24 minutes and advance to
Tuesdays winners bracket matchup with Kansas State. That first game (of a
tournament) is always the most difficult, Wildcats head coach Sean Miller. I
think we feel good about the fact that weve won. There are a number of things
that I know and I think we know we can do better. Arizona (4-0) scored 24 points
off 17 Missouri turnovers and held the Tigers to 36.4 percent shooting to
overcome a slow offensive start. Their defense was good. It put pressure on us.
It forced us to be uncomfortable, said Tigers head coach Kim Anderson. You look
at the stats, they had 24 points off turnovers, and basically that was the
difference in the game. Montaque Gill-Caesar paced Missouri (2-2) with 13 points
and Johnathan Williams III and Keith Shamburger each finished with 11 in the
loss. The Tigers will next take on Purdue, which fell to Kansas State in Mondays
first game, in the consolation round. The Wildcats struggled to hit shots for
most of the first half and found themselves in a 21-21 deadlock with four
minutes to go in the period, with Missouri drawing even on an 8-2 run led by six
points from Gill-Caesar. Arizona took control from then on, however. Johnson
bburied a corner trey -- ending an 0-for-8 start for the Wildcats from beyond
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the break owning a 32-25 lead. Hollis-Jefferson then deposited five straight
points to open the second half, and Missouri never got closer than eight points
down the rest of the way. Coming into the game with the energy I always have is
a great feeling for our team, said Hollis-Jefferson, who started the second half
after serving as the Wildcats sixth man throughout the season. We need that
spark sometimes off the bench or sometimes we may need it to start with, and
Coach (Miller) knows that. Arizona put the game out of reach with a 14-4 flurry
that began midway through the final frame. The Wildcats held Missouri without a
basket for the first three-plus minutes of the stretch, which was capped by
Kaleb Tarczewskis hook shot that increased the lead to 63-44 with 4:47
remaining. The Wildcats were up by as many as 21 points in the final minute.
Game Notes The win extended Arizonas non-conference win streak to 31 games, the
longest active run in the nation ... Wes Clark, the Tigers second-leading scorer
on the season, injured his right knee in the first half. He returned to the game
but managed just three points ... The schools were meeting for the first time
since the 1994 West Regional Final, a 92-72 Arizona victory ... Missouri had a
34-32 edge on the glass, the first time the Wildcats were outrebounded this
season.
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