Road Trip Starts With a Win

The Warriors played their first game of their 5 game road trip tonight and beat the Toronto Raptors (again) 108-98. This finished the Warrior’s season series versus the Raptors with the Warriors winning both games. This was a game of 3 point shooting as both teams shot better then 50% from behind the line (Warriors 58% and Raptors 53%). Both teams had 5 players scoring in double figures, the difference was the Warriors had 4 players score 20 or more (Baron Davis-20, Jason Richardson-23, Troy Murphy-20, and Derek Fisher-21) and Toronto only had 1 player (Chris Bosh-27). It was very much a back and forth game, which is exciting for the average fan (I prefer a little more defense, but that is just me). Things are not great for the Raptors right now, but they have a young core and we all know sometimes it is just one trade that can change everything around (See Warriors last year with Baron Davis). Hopefully this game washes the bad taste out of the Warriors’ mouths from the Houston debacle in overtime and helps them to at least win 4 out of the 5 games on this road trip. That shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for them since the remaining teams on the road trip are New Jersey (10-12), Boston (9-13), Philadelphia (12-12) and Detroit (17-3). Out of those teams only Detroit is the elite team, everyone else is .500 or worse. So going 4-1 on the road trip is very doable. So keep an eye on the Warriors after this road trip they could be back in first place again in the west since after today’s win they moved to within ½ game of the first place L.A. Clippers. It begins Sunday afternoon versus the New Jersey Nets (who have already lost to the Warriors this year).