the Golden State Warriors and Boston
Celtics entered Saturday's Prime Time
matchup with the League's highest win
totals over the last month the warriors
were 12 to3 since February 1st Boston
was 10 to1 there was particularly given
the context of Golden State's 2022 title
clinching win on Boston's home floor and
all the statement talk that comes with
that history some temptation to build
this as a heavyweight bout between two
Top Flight
contenders rather it took on the look of
a tuneup fight and a historically
lopsided one at that a 140 to 88 beating
by a Boston team that has its sights on
a much higher prize than an early March
victory over a playin tournament team
like Stephen Curry said afterward of the
whole Boston still has something to
prove to Golden State sentiment that
narratives gotten old indeed 2022 was a
long time ago go there are levels in
2024 and the Warriors recent surge not
withstanding Boston is on a
significantly Higher One Brown and Jason
Tatum by themselves nearly doubled the
scoring output of Golden State's entire
starting lineup 56 to
33 the 52p point shellacking as the
third largest margin of victory in
franchise history Boston's 44o halftime
lead goes down as its largest ever
with a 51-point win over Indiana in
November and a 50-point win over
Brooklyn a couple weeks ago Boston as
the first team in history to record 3
50-point wins in a single season the
Celtics are now 29 to3 at home have now
won 11 straight overall over that win
streak they have beaten teams by more
than 22 points per game over the last
six their average margin of Victory is
over 30 points simply put they are
sledgehammering teams and have been all
season they're 11 Sixpoint differential
currently qualifies as the fourth best
Mark ever a tenth of a point shy of the
201617 Warriors arguably the greatest
team of all time they're the best team
in the league right now and they played
like it Curry who missed all nine of his
three-point attempts and finished two of
13 overall set of the ICS they played
their ass off and that was hard to watch
from the other side again there are
levels to all this and the Warriors have
certainly raised theirs over the last
month since the return of Draymond Green
they've played like one of the better
teams in the league but that doesn't
mean they are one of the better teams in
the league anyone who believes they are
is looking through the prism of pedigree
not present reality over this 12 to4
stretch since February 1st the Warriors
have two true quality wins they beat the
Suns on a curry game winner and the
Knicks on the road they beat the Sixers
without Joel embiid and the Lakers
without LeBron James they beat the Nets
Pacers Jazz Hornets Wizards and Raptors
they had a hard schedule to start the
season and are now making hay against a
softer slate