More road woes
OAKLAND, Calif. – Baron Davis had 22 points, 11 assists and fed Matt Barnes for a tiebreaking layup Saturday night that led the Golden State Warriors to their sixth straight home win, 108-104 over the Seattle SuperSonics.
Davis helped Golden State overcome 38 points from Ray Allen and 16 missed free throws to hand Seattle its 11th straight road loss.
Allen’s seventh 3-pointer tied the game at 103 with 2:13 to play. Both teams traded misses before Davis rebounded an errant 3-pointer from Monta Ellis, dribbled out from under the basket and fed Barnes for the go-ahead score with 1:05 to go.
Damien Wilkins made 1 of 2 free throws for Seattle with 34 seconds to play before Nick Collison was called for goaltending on Barnes’ drive to the basket to put Golden State up by three.
Allen missed an off-balance 3-pointer at the other end and Mickael Pietrus hit one free throw to ice it.
Ellis, who missed the previous five games with a bruised right shoulder, added 20 points for the Warriors. Andris Biedrins had 15 points and 16 rebounds, and Pietrus scored 16 points.
Chris Wilcox scored 22 points for the Sonics, who were playing the second half of back-to-back games after losing at home Friday night to New York.
Golden State scored seven straight points early in the fourth quarter to take an eight-point lead. Seattle fought back and tied it at 94 midway through the period when Luke Ridnour scored on an acrobatic drive and Wilkins got a steal off the inbounds pass and dunked.
The Warriors put their first sustained runs of the game together in the third quarter, when Allen was limited to 4 minutes of playing time because of foul trouble. He went to the bench with four fouls with 9:32 to go and picked up his fifth shortly after returning midway through the period.
Davis scored on a baseline drive and a dunk off a give-and-go with Ellis on a fast break to cap a 14-2 run to open the second half that gave the Warriors a 65-59 lead.
Allen returned and immediately hit a 3-pointer and converted a three-point play to tie it before he was called for an offensive foul that sent him to the bench with 4:35 to go in the quarter.
Seattle was held to one basket in a nearly 4-minute span after that before 3-pointers by Mickael Gelabale and Ridnour in the final minute cut Golden State’ lead to 78-75 heading into the fourth.
Allen, held to 29 points on 31 percent shooting the previous two games, got off to a quick start by making his first three shots and scoring 11 points in the first quarter to give Seattle a 28-25 lead.
Allen’s third 3-pointer of the half gave him 21 points and made it 50-43 with 3 minutes to go. Earl Watson, who had nine assists in the half, added a 3 in the final seconds to give the Sonics a 57-51 lead at the break.
Notes
Wilcox left the game briefly in the second quarter with a bruised right shin. … Sonics executive and broadcaster Lenny Wilkens was at the game, meaning the only two coaches with 1,200 career wins were in attendance. Warriors coach Don Nelson joined Wilkens in the 1,200-club last month.