In Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors are in a tight series with the Oklahoma City Thunder at 1-1 record.
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“We got what we deserved,”said Warriors Coach Steve Kerr, lamenting his team’s impatience on offense.”Bad shots, quick shots -that’s death here,”he said”. As a team, OKC made 50 percent of their shot attempts. “We trust him”, Durant said of Roberson, a third-year guard who played college basketball at Colorado. The Thunder defenders were cutting off Warriors drives and passing lanes, challenging shooters, the Warriors rushed shots, then the Thunder took the misses and got out and ran.
The 133 points are a Thunder playoff record and the most points scored by any team this postseason.
The Thunder can take a 3-1 advantage in the series with back-to-back wins if Oklahoma City can win Game 4.
Game 4 will be Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
“Cleveland out-competed us the first few games of that series, and we had to turn up our effort in terms of loose balls, long rebounds, that kind of stuff,” Kerr said. “But we’ll just see what happens”. This time, the two-time MVP finished with a modest 24 points on 7-for-17 shooting.
Klay Thompson (18 points) was the only other Warriors player to register double-figure points, a stark comparison to the Thunder, who had six players with 10 points or more.
Warriors forward Draymond Green continued to plead his case Monday, repeatedly insisting his kick to the crotch of Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams was completely inadvertent.
A knee to the groin appeared inadvertent during Game 2. Adams, who said he shed tears and was hit “straight in the jewels” said he’s not going to weigh in on Green’s fate.
“I thought it would probably get rescinded”, he said.
Adams, the physical 7-footer, had said leading up to the game that a trash-talking Green had reached “peak annoyingness” with his antics.
“Not trying to kick somebody in the midsection”, he said. “I’m sure he’d want to have kids one day”. I think the referees got it right with a flagrant 1 call, and Green may be writing a check to the National Basketball Association because of it.
Now the Warriors have go back to the tape from when they beat the Thunder in the regular season and look at what they can do more efficiently, because none of what they did in game three was efficient or helpful.
After Green was whistled for a flagrant foul and hit two free throws on the shooting foul, the Thunder responded with a 24-5 run to close out the first half with a 72-47 lead. It maintains the right to do so despite Green not having exceeded three flagrant foul points in the playoffs to earn an automatic one-game suspension.
Just one thing: The Oklahoma City Thunder aren’t an unraveling would-be contender or an underdog feel-good story.
Westbrook wasnt thrilled with Greens comments, calling Greens foul on the 3-pointer a dumb play on his part.. It was the first time since 1991 that multiple players scored at least 30 points against the Warriors in a playoff game. That fivesome outscored the Warriors 45-15 when it was on the floor.
OKC also dominated the rebounding battle, 62-48, with 41 on the defensive end as to compared to only 28 defensive rebounds hauled down by the Warriors.
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Westbrook offered a different opinion.
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