Here are five insane stats from the Warriors' historic start
The Golden State Warriors' historic 16-0 start to the season is fraught with mind-boggling statistics.
Over at New York magazine, they compiled five crazy stats from the Warriors' run, which helps put into perspective just how historically dominant they have been.
First, the Warriors aren't just winning games. They're destroying everyone in their path:
Second, the amount of 3-pointers they're hitting is unprecedented:
And lastly, they know how to share the rock. Their selfless ethos translates to more the post-game cliches and in-game celebrations:
Read the rest of the stats here.
1. They’re not just winning; they’re crushing opponents.
Their average margin of victory is 15.6 points. That’s skewed somewhat by a 50-point rout of Memphis on November 2, but still, they won all but five games by double digits. They’ve outscored opponents by 250 points overall — the best point differential through 16 games since the 1996-97 Bulls, who went 15-1 over that span (with a +257 differential) a year after setting the record with 72 regular-season wins.
3. They’re hitting a ton of threes.
The Warriors have made 199 threes, the most in league history through 16 games. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, Golden State is the second team in NBA history to make more threes than their opponent in each of their first 16 games of the season. (The other: the 2008-09 Knicks.)
5. They’re off to the best passing start in a long time.
The Warriors have recorded more assists (473) through 16 games than any team in the last 25 years. One game in particular stood out: On November 6, they recorded 28 assists on 30 baskets in the first half alone. To put that in context, entering last night's games, there were still nine teams that hadn’t recorded that many assists in an entire game this season.
