They will travel back to Cleveland again on Saturday vying to be the first team to go unbeaten all the way to an National Basketball Association finals title.
In the middle of his answer, Kyrie Irving sighed, still shivering from a post-game trip to the cold tub.
The biggest acquisition of the offseason had 14 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter, taking over in the final minutes.
But Wednesday night's Game 3 victory - that was, according to Curry, the best of the bunch. Curry, who has benefited more than any other player by Durant's arrival and is healthy in these Finals, added 13 rebounds and six assists.
If you include the driving layup he made at the buzzer to end the first half, he made 8 of 11 shots to get back into the game.
Obviously some of that is the Warriors defence, but they continue to miss open looks that through the first three rounds were gimmes. "So even when you're playing well, you got to play like A plus plus, because they're going to make runs and they're going to make shots and they got guys that's going to make plays". "But that's pretty taxing to go one-on-one the whole game". Aside from James and Irving, the rest of the team was 9 of 34 (26.5 percent) from the field.
"We talked about it since the Finals last year that the last season was a very unique year, for a lot of different reasons, and we learned a lot", Curry said.
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Thompson found his shot really for the first time this playoffs in Game 2 when he put up 22 on a 4-for-7 performance from behind the arc.
Cleveland had collapsed in the third quarter of the first two games, letting the Warriors run away and hide.
Trailing for much of the second half, the Warriors clawed back in the fourth quarter and beat the Cavaliers 118-113, bumping them up 3-0 in these NBA Finals, pushing them to 15-0 in these playoffs and planting them on the doorstep of unprecedented playoff perfection.
Does J.R. Smith know something we don't? "I think we have grown and matured just mentally of how to just pace yourself through this long year and take every day as a new experience and something that you can kind of take control of".
The Cavs threw up 44 threes and only got 12 to fall.
Nine 3-pointers in a quarter for #DubNation!
We've heard bellyaching from coast-to-coast about competitive balance and things that are "good for the game". In fact, their 77 combined points were the most ever in an NBA Finals loss.
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