Beaten 115-107 by the Rockets, the Warriors will have to compete in a final meeting in Texas on Sunday to continue the adventure of the play-offs.
After leading the 3-1 series, the Golden State Warriors of Stephen Curry were caught at 3-3 by the Houston Rockets, following a 115-107 defeat at home Friday during the NBA playoffs.
A catastrophe scenario is emerging for Stephen Curry 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 offering an awful match 5 Wednesday in Houston, the Warriors missed their fourth quarter Friday in front of their audience, lost 29 to 23.
The two teams had remained close until then, Houston leading 53-48 at the break then 86-84 after the third 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.
“We knew what they were capable of, so we wanted to make them all complicated, challenge everything,” said 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 on them on the length of a match, we have proven it in 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 kind of huge cave man in the players’ basketball era +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 so that it comes 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.
