PARIS (George Eddy's International Show) - Everything the Golden State Warriors touch right now is turning into gold. The biggest event of the NBA season so far is obviously their 18 straight wins to start the season and to break a record the Houston Rockets held for more than 20 years and the Washington Capitols more than 65!

This is rare stuff and if you add the four straight wins to finish the 2014-15 regular season, Golden State currently stand at 22 straight wins, only 11 away from the 33 consecutive victories strung together by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72, when they finally won a title in L.A. behind superstars, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and Gail Goodrich.

I watched live on TV the famous game where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Milwaukee Bucks stopped the streak at home but the Lakers went on to win 69 games, a record at the time, and dominated the Knicks in five games in the NBA Finals, the crowning achievement for title-thirsty superstars like West and Wilt.

Stephen Curry already has as many titles as West and the way he and his teammates are playing, they are already heavy favorites to repeat, the Warriors as champs and Curry as MVP. Now who are all those general managers that only classed Curry fourth in their pre-season predictions for MVP? We don't hear them much right now!

The underpaid, baby-faced arch-angel of doom from downtown, Curry, is playing at a level only Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kevin Durant have attained during their MVP seasons in the last 20 years. He's on track to shatter his own record for three-pointers in a season for the third time which permits his team to make more than double the number of shots from beyond the arc that their opponents make.

Golden State, with Steph as a magnet to fixate opposing defences, has by far the best offence, the highest number of assists, the best scoring differential, the most three-pointers made, BUT ALSO, the third most efficient defence only giving up 96 points per 100 possessions. They also have twice as many blocked shots as their adversaries! The Warriors are the team that dribbles the least and holds the ball in their hands the least, 2.5 seconds per touch, in the whole NBA. They are revolutionizing the game with a crowd-pleasing style, what more can we ask for!

When the Warriors go to their small ball five, that group is the most effective five in the whole league shooting near 65 percent from three-point range and totally dominating play at every level. Interim head coach Luke Walton doesn't use that secret weapon much so that opponents can't adapt to it but the small lineup was the key to the Warriors winning the title.

Poor Steve Kerr, the head coach, has to watch all this from the sidelines as he recovers from two back operations, but even his prolonged absence hasn't impeded the triumphal march of Golden State. It's collegiate coaching and collegiate playing at its best and we haven't seen the NBA dominated like this since Miami won 27 games in a row in 2012-13 around a mighty LeBron before winning the title. 

That Miami streak is the Warriors' next objective but with key cog, Harrison Barnes, out with a bad ankle and seven away games in a row, it certainly won't be easy since everyone now wants to be the first team to beat the golden boys from Golden State.

I personnaly don't feel they will be able to beat the Lakers' record of 33 but their chances of besting the Chicago Bulls' 72 wins from the 1995-96 seems more likely to me.

The Warriors have a chip on their shoulder like those Bulls did. They are young and resistant to injury and when they blow teams out, the starters can rest more. They can play big or small and have a surprising capacity to adapt to the situation. Curry rightly states that the key will be playing games one by one and keeping maximum concentration and motivation despite the grinding schedule. They can't look ahead, they will just have to beat the records one at a time. 

George Eddy

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