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Stephen Curry scored 14 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, Buddy Hield made nine points of 3 points and scored 33 points, and the Golden State Warriors qualified for the semi-finals of the West Conference with a 103-89 victory on the Houston Rockets in match 7 Sunday evening.
The Warriors will face the Timberwolves Tuesday evening at Minnesota.
Hield had a hot first half with six 3 points and 22 points to bring the Warriors to a 12-point lead, Curry marking only three points before the break. Then Curry took over in the last minutes and interpreted his gesture as a signature “night” while the Warriors put the rockets.
The Warriors have become the seventh seeded n ° 7 in the history of the NBA to qualify for the semi-finals and eliminated Houston in the playoffs for the fifth time. They sent the Rockets teams led by James Harden four times between 2015 and 2019.
Hield was 9 out of 11 on a 3 -point beach, establishing an NBA record for a match 7 and making more than 3s than the Rockets, which were 6 out of 18 in long range. Curry added 10 rebounds and seven assists.
Amen Thompson scored 24 points to lead Houston, which forced match 7 with two consecutive victories but could not put the experienced warriors.
Golden State led by eight entering the fourth and opened a quarter with a sequence of 5-0, capped by a Curry 3, to do it 75-62.
Houston scored the next six points, but the Warriors used a 7-2 thrust with four curry points to make 82-70 with approximately seven minutes.
Curry made a disputed 3, rebounded a rider missed by Thompson and found Hield for an open corner 3 which made 94-74 with 2:31.
This has sent many fans of rockets dressed in red in streaming for outings.
Jimmy Butler added 20 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Warriors, who have improved at 28-11 since its beginnings on February 8 after an exchange of Miami.
Fred Vanvleet scored 55 points combined in the last two games to help Houston extend the series. But it was limited to 17 points on 6 on 13 Sunday shots to send the Rockets to the second seeded at the start of their first trip to the playoffs since 2020.
He was far from being the only rocket that had trouble. The great man Alperen Sengun collected 21 points and 14 rebounds. But he missed several easy shots during a 9 night out of 23.
Jalen Green, who had 38 points to lead Houston to a victory in match 2, finished with eight points.
Houston followed 15 years before using a big race to get three points in the third, but Golden State finished the quarter with a 7-2 race to take a 70-62 lead in the fourth.
The Warriors played without the key reserve Gary Payton II, who sat with an illness which, according to coach Steve Kerr, had “sick as a dog”.
Draymond Green added 16 points for the Warriors, who obtained a score of four duplicate runners.
Report by the Associated Press.
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