Curry stays selfless, even as head cheerleader
The NBA’s ascendant MVP, this Golden State Warriors brilliant whose angel is as aboriginal as you’ll acquisition in pro sports, is a bold-faced liar. |
| Curry stays selfless, even as head cheerleader |
BOX SCORE: WARRIORS 115, ROCKETS 106
Just ask him.
"I anticipation I was acceptable (to play) tonight, so my chat is not actual acceptable on that front," Curry told USA TODAY Sports afterwards his Warriors downed the Houston Rockets 115-106 afterwards him on Monday night at Oracle Arena to yield a 2-0 advance in the Western Conference first-round series. "I’m traveling to access (Game 3 in Houston on Thursday) like I’m arena for sure."
But abundant about the abate abrasion that bound him to arch cheerleader duties on the Warriors bench. Curry, accurate to his across-the-board form, was added absorbed in talking about his teammates than he was himself.
Anyone who has been about Curry for any breadth of time knows that this is no act. His affectionate appearance has been one of the keys to the Warriors’ acceleration to the top, the affectionate of superior that allows anybody about him to abound and advance in the healthiest of ways. Some players blot the air out of the room, but players like Curry accept the attenuate adeptness to breathe activity into it. And even if he didn’t play, if his teammates were carrying a demoralizing accident to the Rockets afterwards him, it was there for all to see.
One minute he was abrogation the attic in annoyance afore the tip, aghast that the appropriate abate that he tweaked in Bold 1 on Saturday artlessly wouldn’t cooperate. With hordes or reporters and admirers watching his every move and apprehensive if he’d yield part, he cut his accepted abbreviate and even punched the brawl on his way off the attic for acceptable measure.
Yet some 90 account later, with Curry antic a clothing covering and a collared shirt on the sideline, he looked like anyone who had been alleged on The Price is Right. He danced with added than abundant spirit to accomplish Warriors drillmaster Steve Kerr and the blow of them nervous. In the additional half, he was relegated to the additional row afterwards accident his front-row bench to a second-year amateur James Michael McAdoo — a attestation if anytime there was one to the way Curry and his Warriors are wired.
There was abundant joy in this Warriors win, even if he had annihilation to do with it.
"They did their job," he said on his way out of the building. "It was acutely a big befalling to abide the drive in the alternation and play a appearance that they bare to get the job done. I’m appreciative of the way they competed. They fought harder the absolute game, and absolutely to me, it never acquainted like they had absent any aplomb and the bold was never in doubt."
This was added than a playoff win for the Warriors. This was a blooming ablaze appropriate for the ones who were asked to ample the astronomic abandoned Curry larboard behind.
From Klay Thompson to Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston to Draymond Green, there was a adapted uptick in assembly that accustomed Curry to arch home with a smile. But of all the contributions, the performances that kept the Rockets from accepting any achievement in this series, Iguodala’s bent Curry’s eye a lot of of all.
Golden State’s citizen Finals MVP played just one bold from March 1 to April 3, an abate abrasion of his own bidding an continued absence that threatened the Warriors’ accent at the affliction of times. So this — an 18-point airing in which his four aboriginal three-pointers sparked the Warriors’ fast alpha — was the affectionate of blemish that could advice them all as they get added on this appellation defense.
"Andre, for abiding — especially," Curry said. "He’s still been searching for his accent aback he’s been back, and to see him appear out with that aggressiveness to shoot the brawl to alpha the bold and accomplish them account his abhorrent presence.
"It’s just about accepting confidence. You reside with the results. Acutely if he goes 0-for-4 in those aboriginal four threes, again I still like the shots. You still like the aggressiveness. But I anticipate his aplomb leads to results, and that’s been the case anytime aback he’s been here. He acutely has taken a altered role. But every time we charge him to do something special, or win a bold for us, or win a alternation for us, he’s stepped up. It’s affectionate of a surprise, but it’s to be expected."
No one on the Warriors’ ancillary was abashed that Livingston abounding in so admirably, either. The 30-year-old will never be mistaken for Curry, but his able bold is as different and able as they appear in the assets ranks. He accomplished with 16 points, hitting seven of nine shots and tallying six assists as well.
"Obviously Shaun is our Mr. Reliable," Curry said. "It doesn’t amount what he’s alleged to do. He’s consistently ready. He played an efficient, solid bold authoritative the tempo, authoritative the game. Everybody did it by committee, and I anticipate defensively that’s area they won the bold tonight. "
Curry, at continued last, was cogent the truth.
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