Kawhi Leonard scored 30 as the Clippers were able to hold off Stephen Curry's 50-point performance in the 134-126 over the Golden State Warriors.
Slipping down a San Francisco baseline past Phoenix’s Chris Paul late Monday, Stephen Curry claimed a basket and the final word.Paul later claimed he didn’t know the reference, but on his podcast, Curry’s Warriors teammate Draymond Green explained its latent meaning — that it had been that long since Paul could be considered the better player.Nine years ago, headlined by Paul at point guard, the Clippers were ascendant.
With the teams entering with identical records and the Clippers needing a win to keep alive hopes of claiming a tiebreaker, Curry, Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole arrived as the perfect stress test to gauge whether the Clippers, and the improved defense that underpinned their three-game winning streak, were for real.
In their five-game losing streak that began after last month’s All-Star break, surefire wins had disappeared in clutch moments. They’ve flipped that to start a new streak. The Clippers committed only one turnover in the second half. They grabbed 16 offensive rebounds. Russell Westbrook played perhaps his most disciplined game of his Clippers tenure, with zero turnovers.
For three quarters, a pattern developed: Golden State winning the early minutes behind back-cuts and shotmaking, forcing a quick timeout by Lue. Then the Clippers stabilizing and pulling away, usually a product of their defense, before being reeled back by Curry and the Warriors for a frantic finish.
Since allowing a season-high 51 points in a quarter to Memphis, the Clippers had held opponents to 40% shooting or worse in seven of their last nine quarters entering Wednesday. And Memphis, Toronto and New York had shot a combined 31% in the fourth quarters of those three straight Clippers wins.
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