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We haven’t done anything yet – Steph Curry after promising start to the season

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry wants to stay grounded after a 7-1 and 5-0 away start to the ongoing NBA season. The Warriors defeated the reigning champions Boston Celtics by 118-112 at TD Garden on Wednesday.

This was the Dubs’ fifth straight win and they would like to continue the good show. However, Curry admitted they still have a long way to go and they must keep up their good form.

“We haven’t done anything yet,” Curry, who finished with 27 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 steals in 34 minutes, said with a wry smile while sitting in the visitors locker room. “A good team, or a relevant team, wins the games they are supposed to win, you steal a couple on the road against good teams, you protect your home court. We’ve done those things so far, but we got two more games on this road trip, two tough tests.

“So I like where we’re at, obviously. But [there’s a] long way to go.”

On the other hand, Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla admitted they took time to get adjusted to the Warriors’ playing style and could not bring their best in the first half. Curry’s team took the second quarter by 32-16 to put themselves in front.

“They’re physical, so they force you to fight for your space,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. “They have active hands, so I think in the first half, they got a ton of deflections. They were able to get some stuff there, but I thought we did a better job of handling the physicality in the second half and just have to put — again, we talk physicality, it’s just as much about defense as offense. So it took us a little while to get adjusted to that. Once we did, we executed really well. And then it just came down to a couple possessions at the end.”

Meanwhile, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was delighted with the team’s defense at the fag end of the game.

“The last five minutes, I thought our defense really showed up,” Kerr said. “The activity, Gary getting on the floor, Loon getting two putbacks, those were maybe the two biggest shots of the game. And then Steph finding Buddy [Hield] in the corner for that 3, I mean, it was all in sequence. It just felt like we connected the game, got stops and were able to get scores and close it out.”

The Warriors will next take on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

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