The formula was as we've seen it so many times before with the Golden State Warriors in their big road wins.

Look rough in the first half seems like they could be completely on the ropes.

The home team outplays them but misses some chances to really get a substantial lead and then the Warriors get back into it in the third quarter after.

Heroics from Clay Thompson in the first half helped to keep it close and somehow they find a way to do it here with just a ton of injuries now on their ledger.

Yeah and I mean this game in particular the Raptors looked like a continuation of what we saw in game 1.

In the first half the Raptors' defense was better. I thought that the Warriors were fortunate to only be behind by five points.

And instead of, you know, as I think Dremont said this after the game when they're only down five they can come back quickly and they absolutely did with that 18-0 run at the start of the second half.

The Raptors didn't score a single point until Fred Van Vleet made an open three with 6-20 remaining in the third quarter.

And 18-0 you know it was a success from a lot of places and I think one of the important things to talk about here in the early going is the Warriors Ball movement in this game despite having limited personnel but I think that helped create looks for the more limited parts of their personnel.

Yeah and really so much of it came down to the gravity of Steph Curry and Clay Thompson before he suffered that potentially self-inflicted hamstring injury.

And that lead guys get so many roles to the rim, dunks, the Warriors are a great passing team pretty much everyone other than Clay and even Clay had five assists in himself in this game.

Our excellent passers to Marcus Cousins added to that in particular with six assists of his own in 28 minutes and two key stats 22 of the Warriors 22 second half buckets were assisted and 16 of their 17 layups were assisted and they did that with only 13 fast break points.

This is a lot of half court stuff utilizing the gravity of Curry and I thought it was big that whether it was the Warriors finishing better getting used to Toronto's length a little bit more Toronto being a little bit more spread out than they were the Warriors passing being a little bit better making the extra pass.

Just hitting a couple of shots from some of these role players Quinn Cook who played more to help space the floor out a lot he was three or five Iqadala had two key jump shots to start the third as part of that run all those little things added up to Toronto not bothering Golden State nearly as much around the rim as they did it in game one and while Golden State as predicted actually had a worse offensive rating in this game.

Overall the offense looked better especially in the first 18 minutes or so of the second half when they really were paying it around.

Right and the Warriors only had six turnovers in the second half compared to nine in the first half but also I just thought that they were doing less self inflicted wounds as well.

The Warriors deserved a lot of credit that they were forcing turnovers as well but as you said more space to work with and a stat that I thought was pretty remarkable about this game.

The Warriors leading scorer in the second half of this game was Quinn Cook. Quinn Cook had nine points made all three of his made three pointers in the game.

He was three of four from three in the second half and Iqadala had eight, Dremont had eight, Curry and Thompson each had seven and it really was a egalitarian point distribution and a lot of that was because they were cutting and rolling.

The opportunities were really spread out and I think we should talk a little bit in this early going because it's going to get lost in the shuffle by based on everything that happened later on about Clay Thompson's first half.

Yeah, do you have the stats on that?

I do. So Thompson, he played 19 and a half minutes of the first half of the 24 and he had 18 points, seven to 10 from the field, three to three from three, got four rebounds and only one of his five assists came in that first half.

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