Warriors pick up first road win since All-Star break against Rockets
For the first time in seven weeks, the Golden State Warriors won a game on the road.
Against a young Rockets team that beat both the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers at home last week, the Warriors broke a road losing streak for the second time this season.
The Warriors lost their first seven road games of the season before winning in Houston, then lost 11 games away from San Francisco from Feb. 1 to Monday night in Houston. A few of the games were close, but for the most part, the Warriors were simply inept, losing by an average of 11 points per game during the streak.
Home at the Chase Center, it's been the opposite. From Feb. 1 on, they're 10-1 at home, which is how a team with the most road losses in the NBA remains in sixth place.
They may get some schedule luck the rest of the way. They play three of their last four games on the road, but Denver and Sacramento may have locked in their playoff seeding by now, and Portland could be tanking. Still, they've already exceeded the most road losses by an NBA champ, which was 27 by the 1976-77 Portland Trail Blazers.
Still, the Warriors really need to make up the two games they're behind the Phoenix Suns for fourth in the Western Conference. Because if ever a playoff team has needed home-court advantage, it's this year's Warriors.
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