SAN FRANCISCO — Their mentor sidelined once more as has occurred various instances ahead of, even throughout the playoffs, Stephen Curry took cost and led the Golden State Warriors back again.
Mike Brown grabbed the clipboard as performing head coach, just like he did for the duration of a title run five many years back with Steve Kerr out.
Curry transformed eight free throws more than the remaining 45.7 seconds on the way to 32 factors, main the Warriors to a 101-98 victory about the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night and a 3-1 guide in the Western Conference semifinals.
Curry also dished out eight helps as Golden Condition rallied to win without Kerr immediately after he examined good for COVID-19 a lot less than two hrs prior to tipoff.
“Obviously there’s butterflies, since all over again you’re heading into the video game with a specified frame of mind and it’s a huge sport. Each activity that we perform at this issue in the calendar year, it’s massive,” stated Brown, who agreed Sunday to grow to be the Sacramento Kings new mentor after this postseason operate.
“So to have that sort of thrown at you, you’ve acquired to switch gears for the reason that I know what my duties are going in as Mike Brown the assistant mentor, and it improvements.”
But Brown has finished this formerly. He led the Warriors to an 11- report for the duration of the 2017 title operate when Kerr was out dealing with debilitating signs and symptoms from complications of back again surgical procedure two years earlier.
“His head coaching history for a Warrior playoff match I consider is undefeated,” Klay Thompson mentioned. “We did miss Steve a good deal, just his voice, his existence, but we have been in this article in advance of, 2017 when Mike took more than and we rolled off a lot of wins, so I reflected on that a lot.”
Curry took demand and now his Warriors are a single win from a trip to the Western Convention finals for the initial time because 2019. He tied it at 90 on a drop-absent baseline jumper with 3:25 to go and his two free throws with 45.7 seconds to go gave the Warriors a 94-93 lead, their to start with of the night.
Golden State scored 39 details in the fourth, topping its 38 the complete first half.
“Nothing we figured out, it was just never allow the initial 3 quarters influence the truth that we even now experienced a possibility to earn the recreation,” Curry explained. “Shoot the photographs you think you can make, perform intense, just take care of the ball. We did all of individuals points.”
Tyus Jones experienced 19 factors, 6 rebounds and 5 assists as Memphis missed wounded All-Star Ja Morant. Dillon Brooks returned from a just one-video game suspension and struggled mightily, lacking a 3-level try with 53 seconds still left and ending 5 for 19 with 12 details, eight helps and 5 rebounds.
“It’s a hard one particular. It is a challenging pill to swallow. It felt like we have been foremost the complete activity,” Jones mentioned. “It felt like we have been in a great place. It felt like we set ourselves in a good position to gain a ballgame and things did not go our way down the stretch.”
Andrew Wiggins experienced 17 points and 10 rebounds and Thompson scored 14 factors irrespective of lacking all seven of his 3-level makes an attempt for the chilly-taking pictures Warriors, who didn’t have to contend with do-all the things Morant this time. The Grizzlies guard skipped the match with soreness in his proper knee right after Jordan Poole grabbed him whilst heading for a loose ball late in Recreation 3 — foremost Morant and Memphis mentor Taylor Jenkins to question Poole’s intentions.
It remained unclear whether Morant would be again for Sport 5 on Wednesday in Memphis.
Brooks sat out Video game 3 as a penalty by the league for his Flagrant 2 foul that injured Gary Payton II in Video game 2, when Brooks hit the Golden Condition guard in excess of the head on a driving layup endeavor and Payton fell tough and broke his remaining elbow. Kerr called it a “dirty” perform and mentioned Brooks had damaged an NBA code of conduct.
Brooks was booed just about every time he touched the ball, fouled or when he checked back into the game.
“He pressured a few. Striving to get his groove back,” Jenkins stated. “Obviously he’s been off for a pair of days. But when he was enjoying with power underneath manage, I cherished the playmaking that he had.”
Golden State trailed 69-62 likely into the fourth quarter soon after Desmond Bane’s 32-foot 3-pointer conquer the third-quarter buzzer. However, both teams struggled all evening to make their 3s.
Poole scored 14 off the bench for the Warriors as they survived a nail-biter subsequent a postseason-record position overall in Saturday’s 142-112 Recreation 3 blowout.
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