San Francisco oriented to the most physical and practical defense of the League without his brave co -star, the Warriors asked Steph Curry, 37, to put the offensive on his shoulders in the third game of the Golden State Playoff series.
The other call, scoring 36 points in 12 of 23 shots in the 104-93 victory of the Warriors over Houston in the Chase Center to give Golden State an advantage of the 2-1 series.
Whether there was one, two or five red shirts that chased the curry while scratching the screens, floated in Layups and appeared for long triple, Houston had no answer for the best shooter in the history of the league.
He also had help.
Buddy Hold left the bench and scored 17, and Drayond Green was a leading defensive against the huge alignments with seven points, eight rebounds, three blockages and two robberies. Gary Payton scored nine of his 16 points in two minutes the fourth quarter to give the Warriors a spark.
After being surpassed by 52-36 in game 1, Golden State continued to show an improvement when overcome by only six on Saturday and surpassed the Rockets 44-38 in the painting.
The Warriors played without Jimmy Butler, who was marginalized by an outbreak pelvis caused by a hard drop in game 2.
After the Warriors coach Steve Kerr, he told Middle on Friday that the team was “relatively optimistic” that Butler would play the game, the star wing was discarded on Saturday after performing exercises prior to the game.
Without Butler in the image and Jonathan Kumina starting instead, Steph Curry scored 15 points in the first half when the Warriors lost 49-46 to part time.
Golden State kept Houston’s rhythm in the third, surpassing Houston 23-22 when Curry put 12 more, while Kuminga scored in a couple of hard view insulation units. The Warriors also fired 12 of 15 from the line, while Houston made only 14 of 24 from the strip.
The Neinder team could initially create the separation in the fourth quarter, even when the curry to the bank to rest with eight minutes stirring in the regulation.
Then, Gary Payton II gave the Warriors a spark of the fourth quarter with five remaining minutes when making consecutive trays when the roll man when Curry left a trap before making a triple to Helden State moves away.
The fourth year wing, Moses Moody, was one of the few bright offensive points in a first quarter that saw the Rockets lead 22-18. The Arkansas student had two last results in traffic to help keep the Warriors Afgoat.
The advantage of the Rockets shot up to 34-22 in the second quarter, since the Warriors went through a dry spell that saw the local team score only four points in eight minutes.
Steph Curry finished that hard patch with a pair of trays, a triple triple difficult and even a classic medium range extraction when he scored 13 points in the second period.
He was flanked by Buddy, who put nine points in a burst that saw the Warriors score 24 points in the last six minutes and return to a game that would be won.
Golden State will be Houston’s host in game 4 on Monday at 7 pm
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