The Warriors secured a thrilling victory over the defending champs Wednesday night, but Stephen Curry isn't ready to give Golden State too much credit this early in the season.
gave a mild declaration of intent for this season when he said that his Warriors are"in a position where we can be a relevant team early and give ourselves a chance to compete.
As a result, the Warriors had a constant rotation of fresh defenders to throw at the Celtics, which allowed them to wreak havoc on Boston's offense throughout the game.
"The last five minutes, I thought our defense really showed up," Kerr said."The activity, Gary getting on the floor, Loon getting two putbacks, those were maybe the two biggest shots of the game. And then Steph finding Buddy in the corner for that 3, I mean, it was all in sequence. It just felt like we connected the game, got stops and were able to get scores and close it out."
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