True to their nickname, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson are just as much brothers as they are splash.
Curry shared with Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday the message he had for his backcourt counterpart as the Warriors trailed the Thunder by eight points heading into the fourth quarter of an elimination Game 6 on Saturday: “This is your time.”
“I knew that those first three minutes, I wouldn’t say necessarily could win us the game, but they could obviously go out and turn that eight-point lead into 15 or 17. Then, you’re pretty much done,” Curry continued. “Knowing the sense of urgency, I didn’t want to pressure on him, but I wanted to give him that confidence. I told him to ‘do what you do,’ and he did that.”
Thompson had hit six three-pointers in the first three quarters and would go onto hit five more to finish with 19 points in the final frame and 41 points overall as Golden State forced a decisive seventh game with a 108-101 victory.
For his part, Thompson, whose performance that night dazzled many including Warriors owner Joe Lacob, appreciated the trust placed in him by his fellow Splash Brother.
“When the MVP has confidence in you, it means a lot,” said Thompson. “It gives you a sense of urgency to go out there and play your game and just have fun. It’s easy playing with Steph, because the air of confidence he has about him trickles down to everyone on this team.”
Now we’ll just have to wait and see if Game 7 on Monday night is now Curry’s time to do what he does.
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