Considering what was at stake, the Cleveland Cavaliers 93-89 triumph over the Golden State Warriors could arguably go down as the most dramatic game in National Basketball Association history.
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Remember when Scottie Pippen said during the NCAA Tournament that his Bulls would sweep the Warriors?
If anything is certain in this debate, it’s that the “95-96 Bulls were clearly concerned about their legacy as the best team of all time during the Warriors” incredible run this season. And with media more personal 20 years later, the Warriors were reminded of that after every playoff loss, and especially when falling behind 3-1 in the Western Conference finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The aftermath of his redemptive effort in Game 7 of the NBA Finals has been overwhelming positive for the former Timberwolves star.
“We had a great regular season, did something no team has ever done before, fell short the last game of the season”, Curry said Sunday night.
The Warriors became the 10th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit and win a postseason series. I had to quickly scroll past tweets as I looked at my timeline.
Curry is now averaging 23.5 points on 17.5 shots in the series, but has more turnovers than assists.”Other than that, it doesn’t take any spotlight off of what my job is on the floor and what these next 48 minutes are going to be like in Game 7, so that’s all I’m anxious about”. They believed in Curry, he is their leader but even leaders must know when to trust others.
“It was a rough night kind of reliving the game and how it all unfolded over and over and over and over again, thinking about things I could have done better personally”, Warriors guard Stephen Curry told reporters Monday, via the East Bay Times.
Then, there’s J.R. Smith, known for his three-point shooting. Klay Thompson scored on a driving layup with 4:39 left on the scoreboard clock to make the score 89-89.
The Golden State Warriors started the 2015-16 season like lions and ended it … well, not like lambs, but definitely not the way they wanted to. These two converted 44.1 percent of their threes during the regular season, showing just how frigid they got during crunch time of the NBA Finals. Sure, losing Andrew Bogut hurt Golden State. I like both situations for them. They have a $9.6 million trade exception to use from the Anderson Varejao three-team trade that also netted them Channing Frye. For the past two seasons, Curry has had to deal with very minimal scrutiny and/or redemptive scenarios on the way to his two MVP trophies. They led at halftime and throughout much of Game 7. They could not get the ball through the basket. Curry hit one over 7-foot Steven Adams in the third, and Thompson wound up with 30.
“We want to keep this memory so that it will fuel us as we stay together as a team”, Curry said.
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Iguodala replaced Harrison Barnes in the starting lineup for just his second start of the season and first of the playoffs, and what a move by Kerr and his staff, who did the same thing a year ago in crunch time.
