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 A night after scraping past Boston in double overtime, the weary
National Basketball Association champions succumbed in Milwaukee on
the final stop of a seven-game road trip.
Golden State's winning streak, the longest to start a season in NBA
history, is the third longest in a single season behind the Los
Angeles Lakers, who won 33 in a row in 1971-72, while the Miami Heat
won 27 straight in 2013.
The Bucks also stopped the Lakers' winning steak in 1972.
Stretching back to the end of last season, Golden State won 28
consecutive regular season games.
The normally sharp-shooting Warriors struggled offensively, shooting
barely 40 percent from the floor, with guards Stephen Curry
(10-for-21 for 28 points) and Klay Thompson (four-for-14 for 12
points) struggling to find their range.
"We didn't have it tonight," Walton told reporters. "That's why it's
so hard to do what these guys have done so far. Tonight it caught up
to us.
"To me, they (the Bucks) looked like they wanted it a little more
tonight. We looked like we ran out of gas.
"Even if you're 24-and-1, losing still sucks."
Walton, filling in for head coach Steve Kerr, who is recovering from
back surgery, said his players should be proud of their
accomplishment.
"There's no reason for anyone to hang their heads in that locker
room for losing that game. They've been incredible all year, and the
losses are going to come.
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"It's important for us to realize that hey, that was great .. but
we're a quarter of the way through the regular season," he added.
"What we're trying to do is be an NBA championship team, and that
requires a lot of work and getting back to the fundamentals and the
basics. That's what we'll be doing after giving them a day off
tomorrow.
Milwaukee, who also played on Friday in Toronto before flying home,
improved to 10-15 with the win.
Greg Monroe was the team's top scorer with 28 points.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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