Take away the drive and he can shoot from nearly anywhere inside the halfcourt line. It has been quite some time since a supposed one-two punch failed so miserably like this Howard-Harden duo, and the lack of synergy between them – not to mention Howard’s nearly-nonexistent role in the offense – means he will look for greener pastures.
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Curry limped off the court during Sunday’s victory against the Houston Rockets, plunging Golden State’s hopes of defending their National Basketball Association crown this season into uncertainty.
“Everybody, they think Steph goes down and the entire series changes”.
The Golden State Warriors didn’t skip a beat without star point guard Stephen Curry, routing the Houston Rockets 114-81 Wednesday night to finish off a 4-1 triumph in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
If both Paul and Curry were healthy, Golden State is a 66.2% favorite to win the series. “That’s how hard they are to defend”. They have issues defensively. “I think that MRI, from what I’ve been told, had the best possible news the Warriors could have gotten”.
“I just feel bad for Steph more than anything”, Kerr said.
Shaun Livingston, Curry’s replacement at point guard, said he planned on being more aggressive.
“It was alarm”, centre Marreese Speights said of his reaction. The next two weeks will be make or break for them, according to USA Today. But in order to do so, they’d have to reverse a year’s worth of discontent and inconsistency against a team still laden with talent and hungry to prove they can stay alive long enough for Curry to return and lead them to another title – oh, and they have to do so on the road, in the loudest arena in the league. Even though the Warriors lost game three on a buzzer beater by James Harden, Ian Clark nearly uplifted the warriors to a win after coach Steve Kerr left him at the end of the fourth quarter. The UNDER is 3-1 in this series and 15-3-2 in Golden State’s last 20 postseason home games.
CP3 is probably out for the rest of the season, and Steph Curry is on the mend. That number is 9-points lower than it was in Game 1 with the games going under by an average of 31 points per game. Curry made a record 402 3-pointers, eclipsing his own previous mark by 116. “Your defense is so fragile in trying to cover all the ground you have to”.
Yes, it was nearly certainly inevitable that the Warriors would finish off the Houston Rockets on Wednesday at Oracle Arena, even with Stephen Curry out once again. That’s the first time the Warriors have put up 30 assists in back-to-back playoff games. However, he missed 10 of 13 shots and finished with just eight points.
But the Warriors already managed to win Game 4 after Curry injured his knee when he slipped on the final play of the first half. “So we believe in that, and I hope everybody else believes in it. Strength in Numbers, we don’t say that for no reason”. Doctors set a two-week timetable for his return, but Warriors general manager Bob Meyers said it could happen sooner – or later.
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“We’re blessed, we are really lucky”.
