The Golden State Warriors are fighting their hardest to stay in their series against the San Antonio Spurs and while it was demonstrated this weekend that the Warriors are able to outlast the Spurs in a marathon, the same doesn’t always apply to a sprint. Fighting off a comeback and keeping the game in regulation, the San Antonio Spurs took a 3-2 series lead after their 109-91 win at home Tuesday night.
San Antonio showed us on Tuesday night what a great team looks like when it comes time to getting things done in the postseason. It’s easy to say they sprinted to the finish, but the Spurs were able to thwart any push by the Warriors to get back into the game and the result looked like basketball played by the superior team, rather than the team that happened to be better that night.
But while the Spurs were great all around, look no further than Stephen Curry’s production for Golden State when it comes to seeing what went wrong and held the Warriors back. Battling an ankle injury that almost held him out of the game, Curry was only good for 9 points in his 35 minutes on the court and his ineffectiveness was a killer to Golden State.
The only real performer for the Warriors on Tuesday was Harrison Barnes who finished the night with 25 points, but that was canceled out by bad night had by Curry, Klay Thompson and Andrew Bogut. The night was particularly disappointing for Thompson, as he had just begun to come into his own with the Warriors this postseason and has been a major plus in the lineup.
While the night wasn’t positive, the series isn’t over and even down 3-2 to the Spurs, Golden State is more than capable of coming back to tie the series in Game 6 on Thursday. It’s no surprise that the Spurs are the first team to put an opponent in this series on the brink of elimination, but the Warriors can’t be slept on until they’re actually eliminated as this series very well could still go a full seven.