The Golden State Warriors seem to have subscribed to the madness. After taking a agony victory once morest the Hawks A few days ago, today they had to suffer the other side of the coin when they fell at the last second once morest the Pistons, who won the Chase Center 119-122. Saddiq Bey was, with a triple on the horn, the one in charge of silencing the pavilion, which had exploded just a few seconds before seeing his team tie the duel and staying at the gates of an extra time in which to seek victory.
And it is that, with 116-119 on the scoreboard, Kerr’s men executed a throw-in to perfection that, following a cross pass from Ty Jerome to Anthony Lamb and an indirect block from Looney to Klay Thompson, allowed the shooting guard to receive with space to shoot the tying triple. And although, with a 2/9, it was not being a particularly successful night from the perimeter for him, he did not fail and put the equality on the scoreboard with a heroic action. But there was a problem: there were still 1.1 seconds left to play.
Detroit’s action following the timeout wasn’t as well drawn or executed, but it didn’t matter. After several blocks in which he did not seem to be gaining much advantage, Bey managed to come out with some space to receive Killian Hayes’s pass, and with no time to do more than turn and shoot, he armed his arm as fast as he might looking to hit his team. the victory. That’s how it went. The ball entered the ring like a dagger in the heart of the Warriors, causing the visitor’s bench to explode and making the Californians see how their streak of five consecutive victories ended once morest the most unexpected opponent.
“I don’t even remember very well what happened,” acknowledged the Pistons. “There was only a second left, so I had no time to think. I had to shoot as soon as I received and I am grateful that I was able to enter ».
Bey went like this up to 17 points, finishing as the third scorer of his team following the 29 by Bojan Bogdanovic, who once once more served as a reference, and the 18 by Jalen Duren, who signed a great game by scoring all his field goals ( 8/8) and add 11 rebounds to sign a double-double. The center formed a great duo with Killian Hayes, who was wrong in the shot but was in charge of feeding his teammates with 13 assists, including the one for the final basket.
The Warriors, for their part, once once more entrusted themselves to Klay and Jordan Poole, who with 30 and 24 points respectively brought the team back to strength once morest the losses of Curry and Wiggins. This time, both Jerome and Lamb were also important, adding 18 and 17 points off the bench, allowing Kerr’s men to hold on to the match until the end and even being part of the action that almost led to overtime. With everything, Golden State is surviving these weeks of absences, but the forms made this stumble especially painful in a game that, had it fallen in their favor, would have placed them tied with the Clippers in sixth place in the Western Conference.
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