Klay Thompson poured in a season-high 54 factors and Kevon Looney capped a 20-rebound night time with a tip-in on the ultimate buzzer because the Golden State Warriors outlasted the Atlanta Hawks in a 143-141 double-overtime victory in San Francisco.
Thompson’s 54 factors have been the second most of his profession, trailing simply his 60-point night time towards the Indiana Pacers on Dec. 5, 2016. He shot 10-for-21 from 3-point vary on Monday, his seventh profession sport with 10 or extra threes.
Rushing the ball up the ground with no timeout following a Trae Young floater that tied the sport with eight seconds left within the second additional session, the Warriors went to Thompson, who misfired on a straightaway 3-point try.
Looney received a hand on the excessive carom, tapped it off the glass, then retrieved it himself to put it in for a hoop that survived a video assessment.
Looney completed with 14 factors to go together with his game-high 20 rebounds, 10 of which got here on the offensive finish. Draymond Green recorded a second Warriors double-double with 13 rebounds and 11 assists to enrich 5 factors for the hosts, whose fifth straight win improved the league’s greatest house document to 17-2.
In dropping for the fourth consecutive time, 4 Hawks recorded double-doubles, led by Young’s 30 factors and game-high 14 assists.
Seeking to stay good within the fifth outing of an eight-game homestand, the Warriors used a wild sequence to drive the primary additional time on a Donte DiVincenzo 3-pointer with seven-tenths of a second remaining.
After Young’s two free throws had given Atlanta a 121-118 lead with 9.5 seconds to play, Thompson missed a 3-point attempt to Golden State’s Jordan Poole, after grabbing an offensive rebound, had a long-distance try blocked by Dejounte Murray.
The ball went to DiVincenzo, and his 3-pointer from the right-side angle produced the tie.
Atlanta led by 5 early within the first additional time, solely to see 3-pointers by Thompson and Poole put Golden State up three earlier than Young’s fifth and sixth free throws of the ultimate 58.1 seconds cast a 132-all tie.
Both groups appeared to be in management at totally different factors of regulation, with Golden State utilizing a 70-point first half to go up by as many as 21 earlier than the Hawks rallied behind a 42-point third quarter to ultimately go up by as many as 9 with simply 5:47 to play within the fourth.
Anthony Lamb chipped in with 17 factors off the bench for the Warriors, who as soon as once more have been with out Stephen Curry (shoulder) and Andrew Wiggins (non-COVID sickness).
Murray (25 factors, 10 rebounds), John Collins (25 factors, 13 rebounds) and Onyeka Okongwu (16 factors, 12 rebounds) joined Young with double-doubles for the Hawks. Bogdan Bogdanovic chipped in with 21 factors off the bench, and De’Andre Hunter scored 17 factors.
