Boston made eight straight made 3 after missing the initial 12. Boston trailed 51-39 at the break before charging back with a 35-point outburst in the third.Īl Horford hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 6:28 left in the period that made it 58-55 as the Celtics finally found their shooting groove from deep. The Celtics found their own third-quarter magic that has long defined Golden State’s success in the second half. Jordan Poole knocked down a 33-foot 3 from the left wing to beat the third-quarter buzzer as the Warriors took a 75-74 lead into the final 12 minutes after the Celtics roared back in the third. He overcame a slow start to score 20 points. Marcus Smart was whistled for a technical foul then an offensive foul in a one-second span early in the fourth. Jayson Tatum had 27 points and 10 rebounds for the Celtics, who lost consecutive games for the first time in the postseason. All five games so far have been decided by 10 or more points. If the Celtics can win at home, the series will return to the Bay Area for a winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday. The Warriors can win their fourth title in eight years when the series resumes in Boston on Thursday night. “Bottom line is he’s just having fun playing basketball,” Curry said. That’s exactly what we need.”Ĭapping his brilliant performance on both ends, Wiggins drove through the lane for an emphatic one-handed slam with 2:10 left. Green knows how Curry will respond: “He’s going to be livid going into Game 6. “I’m not afraid to go 0-fer or whatever because I’m going to keep shooting.” “Uh, keep shooting, very simple,” Curry said, grinning. The career 3-point leader’s NBA-record streak of 132 straight postseason games with at least one 3 ended, along with his NBA-best run of 233 consecutive games with a 3 between regular season and playoffs combined. One game after his 43-point performance, Curry contributed 16 points and eight assists but was 0 for 9 from 3-point range.
When the stage gets big, they respond and play their best basketball, and that’s what he’s been doing.” “… The bigger the challenge has been that we’ve thrown in front of him, the bigger he’s responded. “Coming into this year, he was an All-Star starter for a reason,” Draymond Green said.
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