Steph Curry was called for traveling with 10 seconds left, one of a series of fourth-quarter mistakes made by the Warriors in a 116-113 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
The 20-year-old forward was filling lanes, working hard on the glass, getting buckets and, above all, playing the kind of ferocious defense that will make him exceedingly valuable against the league’s most dangerous wings.Kuminga followed up a very good game on Sunday with the most complete performance of his career with 14 points, a season-high 10 rebounds, two blocks and one assist.
He has made a big leap since posting three DNP-CDs in the first 10 games of the season – so big that he is, for the foreseeable future, a fixture in the rotation.The Warriors trailing by 12 after one quarter despite limiting the Mavericks to 40.7-percent shooting might seem like fuzzy math but it’s not.There have been numerous games in which Golden State was punished by opponents pounding the offensive glass and getting second and third and sometimes even fourth shots. This was such a game.
Golden State won the overall rebounding battle 50-39 but its failure to close out Dallas possessions with solid rebounding made the game an uphill journey.
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