Steph Curry is absent for at least the next three games in the Warriors series with the Timberwolves after having set out his left hamstrings during match 1 in Minneapolis.
This is not the first time that the Warriors have missed it in the playoffs, and if you look at their story without him, their victory Tuesday evening after his release may not be so surprising.
Golden State has a 9-3 file in the curry-free eliminatory series, although it should be noted that his two previous injuries in the playoffs came during the Warriors dynastic race as a pre-eminent team of the NBA. They were seeded n ° 1 in the West in 2016, coming from the best regular season of all time, and the seeded n ° 2 in 2018 as reigning champions after adding Kevin during.
This time, they are a seed n ° 7 that heated the section after acquiring Jimmy Butler via the Miami trade.
Coach Steve Kerr admitted that the Warriors in these cases had a list of all time.
“When you can bring Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala to the game, you are quite good in shape,” he said.
“But there is a lesson: you must understand what it takes to win a game without your best player. … This is the intensity, the heart, the fight. If you do this, you give yourself a chance and you just find ways to score.”
Here is an overview of how the warriors have succeeded twice that Curry missed the action of the playoffs:
2016 Ankle and kneeling injuries
Curry and the reigning champions had everything that was going on in the playoffs. Curry scored 83 points in the last two games in the regular season, including 47 against Memphis while Golden State broke the 1996 Chicago Bulls NBA record with his 73rd victory on the last day of the regular season.
But Curry was injured in the ankle at the start of match 1 of the first round series against Houston’s Rockets and watched from the bench that the teams divide the following two games. Curry returned for match 4, but slipped and fell during the match and suffered a MCL 1 sprained 1 on the right knee. Brother Splash of Curry, Klay Thompson, helped the Warriors to unbalanced victories to close the series in five games.
Thompson and Draymond Green propelled the Warriors without curry to a 2-1 advance in their series of second round against Portland. Curry was on the bench for the start of match 4, but returned to court after the Blazers opened match 4 with a sequence of 16-2. The MVP scored 40 points, including 17 of the 21 points of the Warriors in overtime in a victory of 135-125. After a dead time of the Blazers after one of his six 3 points in OT, Curry used the time to transmit a message: “I’m back!”
Curry played a 37 -minute team summit and scored 29 points two days later to end the series and played each match of the Western Conference on Oklahoma City and the Revenge Finals match against Cleveland, who both played seven games. But in the end, the Warriors exploded a 3-1 advance in the Cavs.
2018 knee injury
In his first return match of an ankle launched which cost him six regular season games, he walked his left MCL in a match on March 23 against Atlanta when Javale McGee landed in his leg after challenging a shot.
He missed the last 10 regular season games and the Warriors went 4-6 during this period. But in playoffs, they lit the jets.
Andre Iguodala has gone from his role as the usual super-sous-subdnerated in the departure formation and the Warriors rolled over the seventh seeded spurs in five games while Durant and Klay Thompson assumed larger score roles. They won the first three two -digit games, then closed match 5 while Draymond Green had 17 points and 19 rebounds.
The Warriors then won match 1 of their second round series against New Orleans, going small with Nick Young starting instead of Javale McGee. Curry returned for match 2 and scored 28 points on the bench in a victory of 121-116.
He started the rest of the way while the Warriors beat Houston in an epic series of the Western Conference final which saw him winning seven 3 points in the victory of match 7 while the Rockets missed 27 3 consecutive. The Warriors then swept Cleveland for a second consecutive title.
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