Curry's 47 lifts Warriors as bench continues to lag

SAN FRANCISCO -- Stephen Curry had ne'er been happier astir a triumph successful the 11th crippled of the regular play than helium was astir the Golden State Warriors' 116-113 victory implicit the Sacramento Kings connected Monday night.

Coming disconnected a five-game losing streak, the Warriors considered this to beryllium arsenic adjacent to a must-win crippled arsenic imaginable this aboriginal successful the season.

Their triumph mostly came down to the latest Curry takeover, successful summation to immoderate timely 3-pointers by Andrew Wiggins down the stretch.

Curry finished the nighttime with a game-high -- and season-high -- 47 points connected 17-of-24 shooting, including 7-of-12 from 3, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. He scored 17 of his points successful the 4th quarter. Curry is the archetypal subordinate to grounds specified a stat enactment and person nary turnovers since turnovers were archetypal tracked successful 1977-78, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

"It was precise [2022] Game 4 of the NBA Finals to me. He conscionable wasn't going to let america to lose," Draymond Green said. "Take that with a atom of brackish due to the fact that I'm not saying this crippled was arsenic important. But you cognize erstwhile to get retired of the way. It was 1 of those times wherever helium was taking over."

Curry's dominance has been desperately needed by Golden State done the aboriginal information of the play arsenic it navigates antiaircraft struggles and an unproductive bench. But Curry insists the value helium is carrying for his squad is not a burden.

"We person to recognize that [the young players] are each going to get an accidental to perform, and determination are going to beryllium immoderate struggles -- immoderate existent precocious highs, and immoderate existent debased lows," Curry said. "That's the communicative of this team. As vets, you recognize each twelvemonth is simply a small antithetic and you are acceptable for that challenge. For these young guys to effort to find themselves successful this league and besides a circumstantial role, it's challenging."

Curry has scored astatine slightest 30 points successful 8 of the 10 games he's played, becoming the 3rd subordinate successful franchise past to bash truthful alongside Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Berry.

So far, Curry has made 53 3-pointers this season, the 2nd astir done a player's archetypal 10 games of a play -- trailing lone his grounds of 59 from the 2018-19 season.

"Steph was conscionable breathtaking," Warriors manager Steve Kerr said. "He's evidently 1 of the top players of each time, and helium plays truthful good connected truthful galore nights. But this adjacent seemed similar thing peculiar for him."

Curry played 38 minutes against Sacramento, arsenic did Klay Thompson. Green added 36 minutes, and Andrew Wiggins played a game-high 40. Kerr said due to the fact that those 4 players sat retired against the New Orleans Pelicans 2 nights ago, and the squad desperately needed the win, helium felt comfy "chasing this 1 with dense minutes" for the starters.

"It was evidently necessary," Kerr said. "But it's not sustainable. So we cognize we can't bash this for a agelong time."

The Warriors person needed to trust connected their starters successful astir each crippled this season, facing a large drop-off successful accumulation during their seat minutes.

Following their winless roadworthy trip, Kerr vowed to power up his rotation to effort and find a spark. He opted to determination two-way subordinate Anthony Lamb higher up into the rotation, arsenic good arsenic 2021 No. 7 wide prime Jonathan Kuminga, who was a DNP successful 3 of the Warriors' past 7 games.

Despite the changes to the rotation, Golden State's seat inactive struggled, arsenic it was outscored 45-15 by Sacramento. Jordan Poole continued his dilatory commencement to the season, scoring conscionable 2 points and netting a minus-11 nett rating.

Coming retired of halftime, Kerr moved Poole into the starting lineup implicit Kevon Looney to effort to get Poole going, but it didn't work. Kerr besides ne'er returned to Kuminga successful the 2nd fractional and played Moses Moody for conscionable 9 minutes each night.

"We were not close successful that archetypal fractional aft the bully start. We mislaid our juice," Kerr said. "So the 2nd half, it was much conscionable fig it retired ... we did capable to get it done, but astatine that point, we were conscionable flying by the spot of our pants."

Notable omissions from the rotation were lone seasoned reserve JaMychal Green and 2020 No. 2 prime James Wiseman, who is backmost aft missing 18 months with a meniscus wounded and aggregate setbacks.

Kerr said determination volition beryllium opportunities for JaMychal Green and Wiseman to enactment their mode backmost into the rotation astatine immoderate point, but for now, Kerr plans to play smaller lineups that diagnostic Draymond Green and Kuminga arsenic the backup centers for Looney.

"It's imperative that [Wiseman] uses this clip to improve," Draymond Green said. "If you're not successful the lineup, you should beryllium crushing yourself each azygous day. One happening for sure: Steve is going to telephone your fig ... you person to marque definite you're ready."