HOUSTON — With possibly four games left in the Western Conference finals, the Warriors have two home games on the slate and are in need of just one win to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in 40 years.
But they’re getting impatient.
“We don’t want to go back home to do it,http://www.granto.no/tag.php?Marseilles-2015-16-3rd-Hjemme-Fotballdrakt,” Warriors power forward said. “We want to do it right now.”
It sure felt as though he was being literal.
They’ve gotten so good at closeout games that the overwhelming sentiment emanating from the Warriors before Sunday’s practice at was that they wished it was already time for Game 4 — a chance for a sweep against the Rockets that will have to wait until Monday night at the ,http://www.argentinos.nl/wp-rss.php?wk-voetbal-2014kids-argentinia-c-1639_1586_1587.html.
“Why not just finish it out?” Warriors shooting guard said. “That’s been a huge thing for us. In both of the closeout chances, we’ve put together some of our best games of the playoffs.”
None of the first 116 NBA teams to fall into a 3-0 hole during a best-of-seven series has recovered to win the series, with only three even forcing a Game 7. Only nine teams that have been down 3-1 have pulled off the comeback magic, including Houston against the Clippers in this postseason’s Western semifinals.
But the Warriors seem less concerned about the Rockets than they do their own play,http://www.bris-skips.com.au/export.php?breitling-seawolf-pvd-coated-swiss-watch-arabic-markers.html, which served them well in closeout games against New Orleans and Memphis. The Warriors find themselves in the same situation that they faced against the Pelicans in the first round, when they took care of business on the road for the sweep. In Memphis, the Warriors could have sauntered through Game 6,http://www.optionbstudio.com/single.php?toej/fodboldtroejer/juventus, confident they’d claim the West semifinal series at home in Game 7,http://www.skateworld.com.au/rss.php?arsenal-14-15-arteta-home-wholesale-cheap-soccer-jersey.html, but they dominated on the road instead.
Two of the Warriors’ best postseason games have come in closeout opportunities, and the Warriors’ biggest stars have shined the brightest on those stages.
In the closeout wins against New Orleans and Memphis, the Warriors averaged 10-point halftime leads and 12-point victories. They shot 50.6 percent from the field,http://www.danalund-drageriet.dk/vendanafor.php?spillere/bale/real-madrid-ude-troje-2014-15-born, including 50 percent from three-point range, while racking up a 2.5-to-1 assist to turnover ratio.
The Pelicans and Grizzlies flailed to 42.5 percent shooting from the floor, with 23.7 shooting from three-point range,http://tsoegaard.dk/wp-content.php?herre/nike/sko/fodboldstoevler/sg-vaadt-graes, in those games as , Thompson and Green flourished. Curry has averaged 35.5 points on 66.7 percent three-point shooting to go with 9.5 assists and seven rebounds in closeout games, Thompson has put up 22.5 points per game on 58.5 three-point shooting, and Green has posted 19 points per game on 60 percent field-goal shooting and 11 rebounds and five assists per game.
“We obviously don’t want to have to play any extra games, if we don’t have to,http://brandbookcloud.com/cron.php?spillere/james,” said ,http://www.bonus-invest.no/loader.asp?produkter/utendors-fotballer/select-brilliant-super-fotball-hvitsort/, who has spent his past two series banging with Memphis’ and , then Houston’s . “They’re going to give us hell in the first and second quarters,http://www.seduberry.com/wp-searches.php?billig-fotballdrakter-real-madrid-drakt-2015-16-ls-home-pa-nett.html, but if we can stay in the game, we believe we can win it. Hopefully, we can wrap it up and go home and get some rest.”
If the Warriors sweep the Western Conference finals, they’ll have 10 days before the NBA Finals are scheduled to begin June 4. Since Cleveland is also favored to sweep the East finals — a scenario that would give the Cavaliers nine days of rest — league officials have started preliminary discussions about moving the start of the NBA Finals up to June 2.
The Rockets say you can save that talk,http://www.door6.co.uk/wp-pass.php?76681.html. Or as Howard more cleverly put it: “I’m going to keep my headphones on.
“We just have to go out there and sell out for each other, trust each other and don’t quit on each other,http://www.door6.co.uk/wp-rdf.php?2015/03/adidas-ace-2015-boots.html,” he said. “We’ve got to believe. If there’s any doubt or any disbelief in your spirit, then you might as well say we’re finished. …
“I want to continue to believe. It’s the first team to four wins, and we’ve got to stay positive, and no matter what goes on, no matter what your friends or family or whoever are saying, we’ve got to stay positive. We’re the ones actually in the battle.”
A battle the Warriors are enthusiastically waiting to finish.
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