{"id":7235,"date":"2018-05-21T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:58:11","slug":"stephen-curry-shows-his-class-to-help-take-series-lead-against-the-houston-rockets-in-nba-playoffs-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/stephen-curry-shows-his-class-to-help-take-series-lead-against-the-houston-rockets-in-nba-playoffs-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry Shows His Class As Warriors Take Crucial Playoff Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stephen-curry-celebrates-against-the-houston-rockets-game3-nba-playoffs-2018.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Curry celebrates against the Houston Rockets: Game 3 NBA Playoffs 2018\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7236\" \/>The <strong>Golden State Warriors<\/strong> (GSW) and <strong>Houston Rockets<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/23525183\/houston-rockets-get-everything-need-even-series-golden-state-warriors\">entered Game 3 on Sunday with the series tied at 1-1<\/a>. Both teams knew that this was going to be a crucial match and they would need to fire on all cylinders to take a series lead.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions GSW played outstanding as both their defense and offense came good in Game 3 and they <strong>overpowered the Rockets to finish 126-85<\/strong> and take a 2-1 series lead. The Rockets depend heavily on <strong>James Harden<\/strong> and he had an average game <em>scoring just 20 points<\/em>. His reduced scoring was due to a great defending and a solid game plan from GSW. Coach <strong>Steve Kerr<\/strong> has done a great job in analysing the first two games and coming up with a plan to reduce the effectiveness of Harden. The Rockets star looked frustrated as he was unable to deliver for his team.<\/p>\n<p>While Harden had a poor game, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StephenCurryOfficial\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/strong> stepped up his game for GSW and finished with <em>35 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist<\/em>. The two time MVP has been hampered with injuries of late but looked all class in Game 3. He was well supported by <strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong> who finished with <em>25 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MLG Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/645i6asTfz4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Game 4 \u2013 Could Be A Series Decider<\/h2>\n<p>The Warriors have shown in the past that they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/golden-state-warriors-draw-first-blood-against-the-houston-rockets-in-nba-playoffs-2018\/\">sometimes take their foot of the gas<\/a> and allow their opponents to make a recovery. <strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong> has gone on record to say that Game 4 could turn out to be a series decider and that GSW has to keep up the same intensity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/klaythompson\">Klay Thompson<\/a> has struggled with his offensive game and has tried to make up by playing defense. He knows that he will have to fire in Game 4 to help the Warriors go 3-1 up.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Thompson said <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do we do? Don\u2019t be complacent. It\u2019s really that simple because it\u2019s easy to be on your high horse right now, but tomorrow is a new day and they\u2019re one game away from taking home court again. There\u2019s no time to relax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Rockets will have to work on their defense and come up with a better game plan to counter Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/basketball\/nba\">Game 4 is scheduled to take place on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors (GSW) and Houston Rockets entered Game 3 on Sunday with the series tied at 1-1. Both teams knew that this was going to be a crucial match and they would need to fire on all cylinders to take a series lead. Defending champions GSW played outstanding as both their defense and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Curry Shows His Class As Warriors Take Crucial Playoff Lead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/stephen-curry-shows-his-class-to-help-take-series-lead-against-the-houston-rockets-in-nba-playoffs-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Curry Shows His Class As Warriors Take Crucial Playoff Lead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Golden State Warriors (GSW) and Houston Rockets entered Game 3 on Sunday with the series tied at 1-1. 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