But after the opening minutes, the game was never close. Though he’s still listed as questionable for the next game, Curry sounded pretty confident that he wouldn’t be on the bench again.
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If you watched Houston’s 97-96 win over the defending champs in Game 3, you saw two storylines emerge.
Stephen Curry finished the game with 24 points and seven rebounds despite missing a number of minutes as he tweaked his ankle which caused him to sit on the sideline for much of the game. But just to continue to fight like that says a lot about this group. Got to get the flow and the mechanics and stuff. “You expect nothing but a high-level play out of him and he’s been doing that the entire season”. However that wasn’t the case on Thursday night as the Rockets shocked the champions, taking Game 3.
The Houston Rockets weren’t given much of a chance in their opening round series with the record-setting Golden State Warriors, and for good reason.
“I missed about 20 shots before that”, Harden said. They didn’t want to seem cocky, Typical Rockets Devotee adds. “It’s a tough feeling”.
The Golden State Warriors suffered their first loss of the postseason Thursday night, when they lost on a last-second shot by James Harden in Houston.
In the fourth quarter, Harden made another 3 over Green, of course, and gave the Rockets a four-point lead.
Trevor Ariza threw a pass over Michael Beasley’s head that led to the Warriors stealing the lead with 10.6 seconds left. With their current coach a lame duck and recent play reeking with disinterest, we’ll see if the Rockets can muster a similar performance.
Green said he wasn’t referring to the final play, but how he wasn’t able execute and play with intensity throughout the game. “But I think more so we were kind of upset we put ourselves in that situation”.
I have no idea what just happened. I care about the turnover, but I don’t care to the point where I feel like that turnover cost us.
Back-up centre Marreese Speights top-scored for the Warriors with 22 points. Rockets interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff stuck with his Game 2 starting lineup in part because F Donatas Motiejunas brings a skill level plus the decision-making that matches up well against the Warriors’ defense. Dwight Howard also contributed in a big way with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
Since losing Game 1 at home for the third straight year in the Playoffs, the Raptors have bounced back to take the lead in the series. It was the second longest active streak to Curry’s 41.
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Kerr refused to use Curry’s injury as an excuse. But Green did dribble the ball off his foot, and so the Rockets survive for another game. That lead would balloon to as many as 17 in the half, but Golden State closed the second on a 12-2 run to cut Houston’s lead to 55-48 at the break.
