Even the team with all the momentum, and all the favor of home court advantage, and all the confidence from winning not just an NBA-record 73 regular-season games but a character-defining Game 6 in the Oklahoma City fiery furnace, sees Game 7 as a major mountain to climb.
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Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry contributed 29 points in the game 6, which includes 9 assists, 10 rebounds and a series of 3-pointers during the last few minutes, cutting down the 8-point lead of Thunders in the fourth quarter, according to Bleacher Report. “They’re pressure-packed. But I don’t think there could be any more pressure on us in Game 7 than there was tonight” in Game 6. They won their first six home games in the playoffs before Oklahoma City knocked them off in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.
Two immensely talented teams, one in search of its city’s first NBA title and the other looking to repeat and validate a record-setting season, will clash at Oracle Arena with a trip to the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on the line. “We gotta get ready for Game 7”.
“This game was probably the hardest of our lives”, Curry said. You can get caught up in thinking about the future and what the results mean at the end of the game.
“I actually kind of like it, because you understand the moment of the playoffs and just kind of gets you going”, he said. That backs up Kerr’s own personal experience in which home teams won all three of the Game 7s in which he participated in as a player.
“We just stuck with it”, center Andrew Bogut said.
Golden State rallied from a 3-1 series deficit and an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit on Saturday to force Game 7 in the Western Conference finals.
“It was about time we had a stretch in the building in which we impose our will”, Thompson said.
“This is what you dream about, getting this opportunity”. Golden State outscored Oklahoma City 19-5 over the final five minutes to keep its season alive.
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“There have been some games in this series where we’ve done a really good job, and there are some games we need to do a better job”, Donovan said. We felt like we could turn the game around, and we did.
