Golden State may have been able to pass his chance. After leading the 3-1 series, Stephen Curry’s Warriors were caught at 3-3 by the Houston Rockets, after a defeat (107-115) at home Friday during the NBA play-offs. A catastrophe scenario is emerging for the leader All-Star and his teammates, with a deflected mine at the end of the game, pushed to play a decisive match 7 on Sunday in Texas.
Houston will have the opportunity to become the 14th team to win a series of NBA play-offs after being carried out 3-1, which has not been seen since 2020. After having offered an awful match 5 Wednesday in Houston, the Warriors missed their fourth quarter on Friday in front of their audience, lost 29 to 23. The two teams had remained close until then, Houston led 53-48 quarter.
But the Warriors seemed apathetic from the start of the last period, Steve Kerr asking for a time after less than a minute of play, the gap having climbed six points already. Pain lost, Golden State was too clumsy in shooting in key moments, and was tormented by the leader of Houston Fred Vanvleet, author of 29 points at 6 out of 9 from afar, 8 rebounds and 8 passes.
-Vanvleet’s tribute to Adams
“We knew what they were capable of, so we wanted to make them all complicated, contest everythingcommented Vanvleet at the microphone of the ESPN diffuser. We were able to play with two big ones to clean near the circle and capture the rebounds while remaining concentrated in attack. I think that the youth of our team, our athletic qualities, can weigh over them on the length of a match, we have proven it the last time.“
Houston also dominated in the rebound (62 to 51) with Alperen Sengun (21 points, 14 rebounds) and the amazing Steven Adams (17 points, 5 rebounds). Vanvleet paid tribute to the imposing New Zealand veteran, “A sort of huge cave man in the basketball era of play players ‘little’“. “He is one of the ancients, the beefy, those who mums everyone. It has a huge influence on us. He succeeded in his free throws tonight, we will have him play until wear. We have to rest it, hydrate it, give it a big steak and put it in bed to come back “A Encore Souri Vanvlet.
Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler weighed for the bay team with 29 and 27 points respectively (plus 9 rebounds and 8 assists for Butler), but they were not sufficiently relayed by their teammates. The experienced Draymond Green was nervous, receiving a blatant fault from the first minutes of play for a bad gesture on Jalen Green.
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