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Steph Curry revealed how the Warriors have maintained their high-level offense.

The Golden State Warriors came away from their Saturday night bout against the Charlotte Hornets with an emphatic 136-116 victory. Even with Jimmy Butler ruled out for personal reasons just minutes before tipoff, the Warriors managed to score their second-most points of the season. 

They also splashed 23 threes in the win after they made a season-high nine in the first quarter alone. The explosive offense has been a trend in their recent handful of victories, and although health and rotational consistency have been huge help for the Warriors, it's been a refreshing sight for Warriors fans to see the Dubs able to put up massive offensive performances on any given night.

Steph Curry Addresses How The Warriors' Offense Is Working

10 different Warriors made a three-pointer against the Hornets, including 7 making multiple threes. That's the third game in a row the Warriors have achieved this, after 10 Warriors made a three-pointer against both the Trail Blazers on Tuesday and the Knicks on Thursday, marking a new NBA record for most such games in a row.

After the win, Steph Curry reacted to this stat and explained how the Warriors' offense has been working so well.

"Proper spacing, keeping our turnovers low — usually when you're doing that, even if some are tough looks, guys get a rhythm and the morale of the offense is high the whole game. Confidence builds from that, and then you just make shots. And we have capable shooters all up and down the roster. It's how you create good looks, it gets everybody involved. It's a fun way to play, not knowing who's going to get it on any possession."

In a rare occurrence, Curry was actually not the team leader in points nor threes. In fact, he wasn't even in the top three in either category, only scoring 14 points with 2 triples. Instead, it was De'Anthony Melton leading the way with 24 points while Moses Moody and Draymond Green both sank four three-pointers.

Warriors Continue To Roll

The Warriors started the season strong, but ran into some rough patches with injuries and overall inconsistency throughout November and much of December, hovering around .500 and never able to spark a winning streak greater than three games.

However, that's changed greatly, and one can point to December 20 as the turning point. At that point, the Warriors were 13-15 after a tough loss to the Suns and were averaging 113.8 points per game on 44.9% from the field.

Since that day, the Warriors have gone 11-4, averaging 120.8 points on 48.2% field goal shooting. If that points per game mark was for the entire season, it would rank the Warriors 3rd in the NBA, a far cry from their current season-long ranking of 17th.

The turnaround has propelled the Warriors to just 1.5 games behind the Lakers for the 6th-seed and 3 games behind the Timberwolves for the 4th-seed. Their point differential of +2.9 is now the 9th-best in the entire NBA and bodes well for their playoff hopes if they can continue playing like this as the season goes on.

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