San Francisco-Los Warriors are aware of their tense history in the NBA game tournament. Well, it must or them.
“I don’t remember anything in a game game,” coach Steve Kerr joked on Sunday after a 124-119 defeat in extra time against the clippers sealed the destiny of the Warriors as the seventh seed of the West Conference.
Leaving Kerr’s convenient spse in memory, it is a situation in which Golden State has been found twice in the five years that the format has existed, and ended in heartbreak every time.
A “We Port” did well in these game games, “Drayond Green acknowledged.
They have produced a legendary battle of Steph-Lonbron, the ignition for a rivalry that will be triggered a year later and a blow to their regional rivals.
But there are no victories. Only three losses and two postseason eliminations.
“I remember each of them vividly,” said Stephen Curry.
If, like Kerr, he washed each of those games in his memory, here is a review of the Golden State game experiences that begin more recently, less than 100 miles from the I-80.
2024
Script: 46-36 regular season record, seed No. 10
Result: 118-94 Loss at number 9 of Sacramento Kings
The Warriors were a victory to avoid another trip to the play, but it could have been widely used if they had a half -season monumental movement to bring Jimmy Butler III.
Golden State was in a similar position a year ago, but without a real No. 2 for Curry, the Warriors limp in the last play of play and were subjected to the fans of Sacramento singing “Light the Beam” before the fourth quarter would have finished half.
Curry scored 22, but no one else contributed more than 16 points, and the Warriors lost for two digits during most of the second half. Keegan Murray scored 32 in 8 triples, and the Kings avenged their loss of game 7 in the first round a year earlier.
“We wash the Sacramento game for the drain quite fast,” Curry said Sunday night.
2021
Script: 39-33 Regular season record, seed No. 8
Result: 103-100 losses at number 7 of Los Angeles Lakers, 117-112 OT Pedra vs. No. 9 Memphis Grizzlies
Curry only needed a few words to summarize the first raid of Golden State in the game, which is still with him four years later.
“LeBron hits that shot in the right wing, yes (Morant) hits a pair of hard cubes,” Curry said, his voice left.
There are many or parallels this year. The Warriors 2021 also finished the regular season playing their best basketball of the season and only had to win a game to advance to the playoffs.
He even presented a confrontation against the Grizzlies, who visit the Chase Center on Tuesday Golden State, awaits a different end that in 2021. A year before the heads ran into a heated season of the West Conference, Morant and Los Grizzlies.
Curry finished with 39 points and helped the Warriors to erase a 10 -point deficit with three and a half minutes remaining to force time. But Morant combines it with 36, including a rotating float in the lane that froze the game with 4.5 seconds in the extra period.
The DO-OFIE stage was established two days before at the Staples Center for an even more spectacular shot of James, who drained a 34-foot foot with less than a minute for the end and the shooting clock expired. He said he was “literally watching three tires out there, so I just fired in the middle.”
The lesson? Take care of business.
The difference? Now they have Butler, who led the heat of the play to the finals two years ago. As Green said after Sunday’s defeat: “I mean, we just rely on having Jimmy … that’s all.”