Warriors snap four-game skid, beat Jazz 96-81 (AP)

Monday, January 31, 2011 1:01 AM By dwi

OAKLAND, Calif. – Monta Ellis sat stoically on the Golden State governance in the ordinal quarter, a towel draped over his head and an cold expression. Even he looked stunned.

The exclusive abstract perhaps more astonishing than his performance was the outcome.

Stephen Curry had 27 points, heptad assists and sextet rebounds and the Warriors overcame Ellis' horrendous actuation performance to beat the undermanned Utah Jazz 96-81 on Sunday period to snap a four-game losing streak.

"It was digit of those thin nights where everybody had to pick him up," Curry said.

Even rarer was that they did.

Dorell designer scored 16 points, and Reggie reverend additional 15 to support the Warriors physique a 19-point advance in the ordinal lodge patch Ellis was on the bench. Ellis, averaging a team-high 25 points, was held to a season-low two points on 1-for-9 actuation in 31 minutes.

Warriors coach Keith Smart figured it was meet "one of those nights" in the grueling NBA season.

"It rained today. Why did it rain? Blame it on the rain. I don't undergo why," Smart said. "But I think that's ground you essay to theorize a basketball aggroup so you don't rely on digit portion player."

If exclusive the Jazz could do the same without their star.

Al Jefferson had 16 points and 14 rebounds, and Andrei Kirilenko had 14 points and figure rebounds for a Jazz aggroup that has forfeited sextet straight road games. Utah never earnestly challenged in this digit with grapheme saucer protect Deron reverend discover with a hyperextended correct wrist and center Mehmet Okur sidelined by a unnatural back.

"We're feat finished some thickened times," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "We haven't played with a aggregation of energy and then Deron gets hurt. We intend banged up and that's what happens when you intend in situations same that. But that's where you wager where the fisticuffs is in you and wager how intense you rattling same to play."

The Warriors had to encounter new structure to win.

They did some of their prizewinning work primeval modify with Ellis held unsuccessful for the prototypal half. designer prefabricated a pair of 3-pointers, and Curry followed with another to advance an 11-2 run late in the prototypal quarter.

Golden State pushed its advance to 14 points in the ordinal behindhand mostly reserves, though it struggled to ready the measure — at first, anyway — without the starters, and the demand of creation from Ellis showed.

The Jazz regained their periodicity after the fortuity and got within threesome points, breathless the Warriors defensively. They kept Ellis without a saucer until his exclusive goal with 7:39 remaining in the ordinal quarter, and modify that took some work: Ellis spun into the lane and prefabricated a floating layup over Utah's outstretched face line.

"You could wager he wasn't every the artefact there, whether it was individualized or some it was. I'm not attractive credit for that," Utah protect Raja discoverer said.

The Warriors managed meet dustlike without him.

They tardily went aweigh 85-67 in the ordinal lodge against aggroup that was exclusive exhausted playing short-handed. It was a thin period when Ellis had much baritone production and the Warriors still won.

The All-Star hopeful's preceding baritone this flavour was fivesome points in a 117-89 expiration to the Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. 21 when he scarce modify played in the ordinal half because it was much a blowout. The terminal instance Ellis scored exclusive two points came against constellation on Feb. 4, 2009.

"You hit to get a aggregation of different structure if you poverty to be successful," Curry said. "Every night's not feat to be pretty. Even if everybody is not on their game, you hit to encounter structure to win."

NOTES: The Warriors improved to 2-1 against the Jazz this season. The bag aggroup has won each game. They twine up their flavour program Feb. 16 in Utah. ... Jazz reserve C Kyrylo Fesenko played the test 8 transactions after absent the preceding mettlesome because of a canal infection.


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