The 135 combined 3-pointers – 71 by Portland, 64 for Golden State – were most ever in a five-game series. Three of the first games of the series went to overtime, but the Raptors actually closed out the Heat in regulation. “So I don’t have to wait long to understand how special this season was”.
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Of course, anything is possible, but the Blazers would have to pull off something of an historic upset to win this series at this point. They created space and found the open man on countless occasions.
The Portland Trailblazers looked dead about three different times in the fourth quarter of their Game 5 loss to the Golden State Warriors. Thompson played 35 minutes and was plus-1.
“A gutty effort by a lot of guys”, Kerr said”.
With Lillard struggling late, McCollum and Crabbe carried the scoring load. He didn’t attempt a shot in the fourth quarter. The third-year guard left it all on the floor, earning high praise from league MVP Stephen Curry.
Curry said his legs were sore after the game. “He’s a talented player and that’s what you expect”. It was how much of a difference the Blazers point guard would make to the Warriors’ chances of success. The 24-year-old wing hit 5-of-7 from behind the arc in 33 minutes of action in the loss.
It’s been a fun series; the young and inexperienced Blazers haven’t taken a backward step in this fight against the goliaths of the National Basketball Association.
Lillard had a better season than he did in 2014-15.
“Coming into this season we weren’t even expected to be a playoff team”. “That’s always been our mentality, ‘Come out and do what we do.’ If we do what we do, everything else will take care of itself”.
Lillard was the lone starter to return from the 2014-15 Blazers, after LaMarcus Aldridge, Nicolas Batum, Robin Lopez and Wesley Matthews departed in the offseason.
All I know is that Steph Curry played out of his mind this year and the Warriors keep rolling through the playoffs.
It was DeRozan’s franchise-best 13th 20-point game in the playoffs and his sixth this postseason. Trail Blazers SF Al-Farouq Aminu made 55.2 percent of his 3-pointers (16-for-29) in the Golden State series after hitting just 29.3 percent (12-for-41) in the first round against the Los Angeles Clippers.
So, are these Warriors, who set an National Basketball Association record with a 24-0 start and another top mark with that 73-win finish, better than they were a year ago during the postseason run? TNT will be televising the game beginning at 10:30 p.m. EST/9:30 p.m. CST.
“I give credit to Golden State”, Portland coach Terry Stotts said.
“It makes me appreciate the game, because when I fell it could have been significantly worse”.
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Golden State superstar Stephen Curry was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the second straight year on Tuesday, becoming the first unanimous victor in the award’s 61-year history after a record-breaking contribution to the Warriors’ historic season.
