No Stephen Curry, no problem for the Golden State Warriors as they beat the New Orleans Pelicans 124-106. Despite Curry and Andrew Wiggins out due to injury, the Pelicans star duo Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram didn’t matter as the rest of their team couldn’t keep the ball in their hands or put it in the bucket. TNT’s Charles Barkley had nothing nice to say about the Pelicans’ “effort.”
“I’m not going to overreact, that was embarrassing by the Pelicans,” said TNT’s Charles Barkley after the Golden State Warriors 124-106 win over the Zion Williamson-led team.
Williamson and Ingram combined for 61 points, but the Pelicans’ third-leading scorer, Yves Missi, alluded to the rough outing from a team missing Dejounte Murray due to a hand fracture. Nonetheless, Golden State didn’t use Curry’s absence as an excuse, as it handled the Pelicans in the second half.
“To have a 20-point lead and lose by 20, that was embarrassing,” Barkley said .
Conversely, the Warriors didn’t need their star to win. Even more impressively, their end-of-the-bench guard Lindy Waters III led the team with 21 points; he had scored 14 total to that point of the season.