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The shorthanded Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-114 on Friday night time at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for simply their sixth highway victory of the season.
Golden State opted to rest Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Inexperienced and Andrew Wiggins on the second night time of a back-to-back, however bench gamers Jordan Poole, Ty Jerome, Donte DiVincenzo, JaMychal Inexperienced and Jonathan Kuminga mixed to guide the crew to victory.
Poole was significantly spectacular, ending with 32 factors, three rebounds and two assists in 41 minutes. He made 10-of-23 photographs from the ground and 5-of-12 photographs from past the arc.
Poole is the long run at level guard within the post-Curry period, and NBA Twitter praised the 23-year-old for his efficiency in Curry’s absence on Friday:
Jason Timpf @_JasonLT
I have been impressed by Jordan Poole’s protection on this again to again. Sliding his toes and holding his floor with physicality.
ESPN Stats & Data @ESPNStatsInfo
Jordan Poole is the Third-fastest participant to 500 profession 3-pointers in Warriors historical past. Solely Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson reached the mark in fewer video games performed. pic.twitter.com/FYRr2bOXik
Bleacher Report @BleacherReport
Jordan Poole simply turned the FASTEST Warrior to hit 500 threes 🎯 pic.twitter.com/1x6LO136jT
Gautam Ratnam @GautamRatnamNBA
Jordan Poole rising up in entrance of our eyes. The protection has gotten a lot better these previous couple of video games
Poole is within the midst of his greatest season within the NBA. He entered Friday’s recreation averaging 21.1 factors, 2.7 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 45 video games whereas capturing 43.5 p.c from the ground and 31.5 p.c from deep.
That mentioned, it is clear he nonetheless has quite a lot of work to do in his improvement earlier than the franchise can depend on him absolutely within the absence of Curry, particularly contemplating he made some easy errors in Friday’s win.
The Warriors improved to 23-23 on the season with Friday’s win. They nonetheless sit ninth within the Western Convention.
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