The Warriors continue to pile up numbers where it counts – in the win column.

For the week of Monday, Jan. 30 – Sunday, Feb. 5

Record: 3-1

Whether in runaway or nail-biting fashion, the Warriors continue to pile up numbers where it counts – that is, in the win column.

After closing out last week with three-straight victories, Golden State became the first team in NBA history to reach 40 wins before their 50th game in three successive seasons.

And of those 40 victories, three have been by 40-or-more points, including Saturday’s 46-point blowout over the Clippers. That ties the NBA single-season record for most 40-point victories, and there are still 34 games left to play!

That 144-98 win over Los Angeles represented the Warriors’ third game this season in which they’ve scored at least 140 points. For comparison, that’s as many as all 29 other teams in the league have combined for in the 2016-17 campaign.

Almost half of Golden State’s season win total has been accumulated on the road, and with their victory in Portland on Sunday night, the Dubs became the first team in NBA history to win 20 of its first 24 road games in consecutive seasons.

The success starts at the top – of Steve Kerr’s rotation, that is.

The Warriors' starting lineup of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Zaza Pachulia has been the most potent of any team in the league, outscoring their opponents by 23.0 points per 100 possessions in 508 total minutes together this season. That’s the NBA's top mark among lineups that have played at least 200 minutes together, and by a wide margin (plus-6.8 points per 100 possessions to be exact).

Only once in their last 22 games together has that starting lineup been outscored, which occurred in Golden State’s 113-103 win in Charlotte on Wednesday.

In that game, the Warriors’ frequent go-to closing lineup – in which Green and Durant slide up a position and Andre Iguodala takes Pachulia’s place in the lineup – helped bring the Warriors back from a fourth quarter deficit, and they’ve been even more effective than the Dubs’ traditional starting lineup this season (plus-25.3 points per 100 possessions in 182 total minutes together).

Golden State tallied victories in 12 of 14 January games, ensuring the best winning percentage of any team in the league this month. And lately, they’ve begun to open up a gap between themselves and the second-ranked team in the league in both the offensive and defensive rating categories, all while inching closer to Brooklyn for the fastest pace in the NBA.

To be so efficient on both ends of the floor while playing at such a torrid pace is nearly unprecedented. The only other team in the last 40 years to rank in the top-two in all three of those categories was Golden State in 2014-15 on their way to the Championship. And, this year’s team is averaging 3.8 more points per 100 possessions and 2.42 more possessions per game than that one.

With 4.5 games now separating the Warriors and Spurs, Golden State has its largest lead for the top spot in the West thus far this season. They have eight games remaining before the All-Star break, a stretch that could prove critical when the regular season is all said and done.

Standout Spotlight: Stephen Curry

The reigning two-time MVP basically clinched this designation based solely on his superb performance against the Clippers on Saturday. Even missing the final game of the week due to illness couldn’t prevent it – he was that good. Stephen Curry produced likely his best game of the season thus far in that victory after totaling 43 points, nine rebounds and six assists, and he was particularly awesome in the third quarter. He sank five threes on his way to 25 points in the period, the most he has scored in any quarter so far this season. He single-handedly outscored the Clippers by two points in the frame, which also coincided with the Warriors’ highest scoring quarter of the season.

It was Curry’s fifth career 25-point quarter, moving him past Kobe Bryant for the most such quarters in the last 15 seasons (Klay Thompson is third with three). That third quarter was the continuation of Curry’s momentous close to the first half, in which he nailed a 51-footer at the buzzer, his first conversion from 40-or-more feet away this season after accomplishing the feat four times a year ago.

He averaged a team-best 30.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 6.7 assists in three games last week, putting the cherry on top of a month in which he cranked it up a notch. Curry averaged 27.8 points per game in January while shooting 47.9 percent from the field and 43.1 percent from three-point range. The increase in production has coincided with an increase in involvement and aggressiveness, as Curry took 20.5 shots per game in January after averaging 15.5 attempts per game in December.

The Week Ahead:

With their January slate now in the rearview mirror, the Warriors turn their attention to February, and will play their first three games of the new month this week. The Dubs actually open February the same way they closed January – that is, with a home-road back-to-back. Golden State will host the Charlotte Hornets at Oracle Arena on Wednesday night before making the short jaunt down to Los Angeles for a rematch with the Clippers on Thursday. The Warriors will then round out the week with another in-state road game in Sacramento on Saturday, the first of two matchups with the Kings before the All-Star break.