Beating the Raptors in Toronto, always challenging, is even harder when the backs of the starters are burdened with the weight of the bench. That was the case with the Warriors Saturday night.
So bench boys, the “Dubstitutes,” came into Brooklyn on Sunday owing a debt of gratitude to starters.
Consider it paid.
Yes, there was fabulous work by the trio of Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson. But it was the Warriors reserves that buried the Nets, 114-98, before a bipartisan crowd of 17,732 at Barclays Center.
“They struggled in Toronto as a group,” interim coach Luke Walton, speaking to reporters in Toronto, said of the bench mob, “but then they come out tonight and take the momentum we built in the third quarter and just run with it in the fourth.