“Klay Thompson was ridiculous”, Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. “I tried to take that to heart”.
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But after squandering a 3-1 series lead by botching a golden chance to advance at home, the Thunder must win on a court where the Warriors lost only twice all season.
“Everybody probably counted us out”, Thompson said.
Durant was forced into a turnover and it led to Curry’s game-tying 3-pointer making the score 99-all.
Game 7 should be just as competitive, since the Warriors managed to pull off an impressive comeback from being down 1-3 in the series.
Averaging 4.9 points more and 3.3 percent better from the field, the Warriors have so far excelled at home this postseason.
Curry with a 3-pointer brought the Warriors to within 1 at 97-96.
Klay Thompson had a lot to do with that.
With 2½ minutes to go, Golden State trailed 77-75, but Oklahoma City went on a 6-0 run to close the period.
“That really wasn’t – hasn’t been us in the last month and a half”, Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. “We’ve got to take advantage of it”, Durant said Sunday. Curry’s layup with 14.3 seconds to play put the Warriors up by five, the Thunder turned it over again, and the Warriors were in the clear.
The Thunder led 23-20 after one quarter, then seized momentum early in the second.
It wasn’t enough. There was the long Curry three over Adams to make it a one-point game with four minutes left. Even going back to the Seattle SuperSonics days, though, the franchise has never won a road Game 7. [The Warriors] aren’t going to feel sorry for us, and whoever is covering the game, fans, nobody’s feeling sorry for us.
The Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder duke it out in Game 7 tonight at the Oracle Arena. “We have another opportunity to get the job done on Monday”.
Now, they have it, all right, after Klay Thompson made a playoff-record 11 3-pointers and scored 41 points in the Warriors’ 108-101 win in Game 6 Saturday night.
The previous playoff record of nine 3-pointers made was shared by Ray Allen, Vince Carter, Rex Chapman and Jason Terry. The Thunder will need both Durant and Russell Westbrook to be aggressive in Game 7, but that aggressiveness can not teeter into recklessness or the Warriors will complete the epic comeback. After Game 5, Westbrook had laughed when Durant was asked whether Curry was an underrated defender. “You miss 10 (free throws), like there are some things that happened on the stat sheet that are really hard to overcome, and we kind of were hanging around (although ahead on the scoreboard) and giving ourselves a chance”. “I’m not going to leave anything on the table”.
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“This was a huge win for us”, Curry said.
