Added Stephen Curry, who scored 29 points: “All Klay needs is a sliver of daylight”.
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Golden State Warriors’ 73 regular-season-win record has led to a lot of speculations about how they would have measured up against Chicago Bulls that have posted 72 wins, with 1998 as their last National Basketball Association championship. The franchise is 2-4 overall, including a win over the New York Knicks in the 1951 NBA Finals as the Rochester Royals.
“Everybody probably counted us out”, Thompson said. “That’s all we could ask for”.
They need one more victory to become the 10th team to rally from a 3-1 postseason deficit.
“I should have had at least 13, because I missed some wide-open looks early”, Thompson said, referring to his three-point shooting.
“About time we had a stretch in this building where we imposed our will”, the league MVP said. This has been made even more so with the Warriors coming back after being down 1-3. Curry then hit two 3s, the second of which tied the game 99-99 with 2:47 to play.
Alternately spotting up with defenders in his face or spinning and firing from 30 feet without looking at the rim, Thompson kept the Warriors in this one while all else seemed scattered.
“The reality is, I think the stat sheet is a really good indicator of how hard our guys played”, Donovan said. “We knew if we didn’t get it done we were going home”.
The Thunder made 22 of 32 from the foul line while the Warriors hit 21 of 44 from behind the arc. In Oklahoma City’s three wins, the Thunder have outrebounded the Warriors.
The Thunder, who entered the fourth quarter with a 83-75 lead, couldn’t amass any assists in the fourth quarter as they committed unnecessary turnovers to allow Warriors capitalize on transition. The Warriors know it’s going to take something special to produce a different result at the arena known as Loud City on Saturday. Despite holding off a desperate Golden State team, OKC was able to get some separation after Durant drilled a tough fading jumper to put OKC up 96-89 with 5:09 left in the game. The series heads to Game 7.
The Warriors were beaten 126-121 by the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of that year’s play-offs, with Curry scoring 33 points.
“This was just an epic, epic, epic set of guts”, Lacob said later. We get another opportunity. His treys helped keep the Warriors, who were once down 3-1 in the series before winning two straight, afloat in the final frame.
Home teams are 100-24 in Game 7s.
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“I could care less about other people’s opinions about me”, Curry said before Game 6.
