The winner of Game 4 was going to earn a serious edge — 3-1 lead but with the next game on the road or tied 2-2 but with home court advantage — so Golden State fell back on the things we expected. Thing.
Good muscle memory down the stretch for Golden State, coach Steve Kerr dithered but Stephen Curry wouldn’t let anyone ruin Stephen Curry’s Friday on ABC. Golden State relaxed and moved into simple cuts and screens in a here-we-both-are fourth quarter, Boston tensed and held the ball, the Warriors acted like a team that’d won a damned championship before.
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