The Thunder won’t say they have to win Game 6 against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday to win the Western Conference finals. Curry struggled with just nine points in the first half, but he eventually followed Thompson’s lead by the time the fourth quarter hit and the pair helped the Warriors outscore the Thunder 16-4 over the final 4:40.
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Thompson scored 19 points in the fourth to carry the 73-win Warriors to a comeback from an eight-point deficit to win for the second straight game after digging themselves a 3-1 deficit.
Thompson hit 11 of 18 from 3-point range to set a new National Basketball Association playoff record.
Thompson finished the game with 41 points and 11 three-pointers, Curry tallied a tidy 31-10-9 stat line, Draymond Green added 12 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, three steals and one block, and the Warriors silenced a roaring Chesapeake Energy Arena to take back control of the series.
According to Warriors officials, the team will take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in hopes of advancing to the NBA Finals.
Instead, after Golden State’s 108-101 win, the series returns to Oakland for a decisive Game Seven on Monday (8 p.m., TNT).
Kevin Durant was firing on all cylinders. Overall, the franchise is 3-3 in Game 7s.
Durant, on the other hand, insists they need to stick to their game plan.
With the game being played on Monday, it gives both teams just 1 day between Game 6 and Game 7. “We’ve won two in a row, just like they’ve won two in a row, and now we go home”. Now the betting odds for the game have the Warriors favored to pick up the win by a handful of possessions.
Down by five at halftime, Warriors coach Steve Kerr replaced Harrison Barnes in the starting lineup with Andre Iguodala to begin the third quarter. I didn’t even know I had 11 3’s.
“I’ve said this during the course of the season – you’ve got to be intentional about what you’re doing”. “His defense was huge throughout the fourth, and he made that big tying layup, too (that tied the score at 101-101)”.
Meanwhile, the Warriors looked like their old selves again, using half-transition opportunities to get loose from the perimeter. “It will be the hardest game of our lives”. We can’t squander that one away by getting in our own heads. “We’ve got another game to play”. We just needed a stop or two.
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The high price for the tickets only reflects on the importance of the game, as well as the interest fans show for the Western Conference Finals.
