Stephen Curry makes an impressive comeback, Warriors still fall before the Los Angeles Lakers
Returning from missing the last 11 NBA Regular Season games of the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry has shown signs of losing his rhythm. It took him up to 3 rounds to warm up when he only had 3-11 FG in this time.
But once in hand, it was difficult to stop the "chef" from showing his talent in the trip to the Los Angeles Lakers' field this morning (March 6). Particularly in the final round, Curry scored. to 19 out of a total of 27 points in the whole match, including 3 3-pointers.
Stephen's excellence in scoring and assisting helped Golden State equalize despite being 20 points ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers at one point. Unfortunately, his effort came quite late, but at the same time, no one on the Warriors side could stop Anthony Davis.
Taking on the responsibility of carrying the Los Angeles Lakers during LeBron James's 3-week convalescence, Davis played explosively and passionately today. He scored 39 points, including 12 in the final half.
While being squeezed by the Warriors in terms of scores, AD himself had a personal streak of 8-0 in the last 4 minutes and 5 seconds to keep the victory at Crypto.com. In addition to 39 points, the bigman Lakers added 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks, closing their all-round game.
"He's in the best shape, mentally, AD is very eager to show his fighting ability," the Lakers head coach said of Anthony Davis.
"Personally, I'm trying to play more passionately, while still making the right decisions to open up opportunities to finish for my teammates," Davis said in an interview after the game.
This result helps the Los Angeles Lakers continue to raise their hopes of winning Playoffs tickets or having a play-in spot. Davis and his teammates' record is currently 31-34, equal to the 10th Utah Jazz team and only 2.0 games away from 7th place of the Dallas Mavericks.
"Every win at the moment is important, so we need to stay focused, limit our errors and try to fight to the best of our ability," the LA Lakers star added.
In the next three matches, coach Darvin Ham's teachers and students will face three difficult opponents, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Toronto Raptors and the New York Knicks. All three have better records and will both have a home advantage against the Lakers.
As for the Golden State Warriors, they have only 2 defeats in the last 7 matches and coincidentally, both received from the Lakers. The positive thing is that Stephen Curry is back and shining despite being absent for the past 1 month due to injury.
“It sounds a bit counterintuitive, but I'm glad I got to test it out in the first game back, playing a lot of collisions and having tough shots. Although the team lost today and I was quite sad, the bright spot was that my feeling on the ball improved towards the end of the game,” Stephen Curry shared.
The opponent must also be surprised by the impressive performance on the day of Curry's return. Austin Reaves shared after being assigned to the Warriors superstar for the whole match:
“Honestly I didn't think he would be in such good shape and feeling after such a long break. He ran everywhere and showed no sign of fatigue. At the end of the game Steph was hot, that's his level."
About 2 weeks ago after losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Golden State Warriors revived and had 5 consecutive victories. They hope this time the same results will be repeated, or even better, with the participation of Stephen Curry.
The next match of coach Steve Kerr 's team will be a visit to the Oklahoma City Thunder's field, followed by a welcome to the Memphis Grizzlies at the Chase Center home.
