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Boston, on the other hand, looked daunted and suffered a second consecutive defeat for the first time in this postseason. He had 14 points on the night and renaissance man Gary Payton II, who fractured his elbow just a month before the NBA Finals started, was also a big contributor in Game 5 with 15 points and 5 rebounds. As for Wiggins, who has been the Dubs' second-best player in the series by a distance, he had multiple highlight plays. Tatum looked like he was on the cusp of his best performance of the finals for a spell in the third quarter but he undid that work with some poor decisions and on two separate occasions, the 24-year-old missed both free throws after being fouled. Curry, for his part, failed to make a three-pointer in an NBA game for the first time since November 8, 2018. Andrew Wiggins was the star man on this occasion, impressing with his scoring, defense and rebounding in a magnificent all-round display.

Curry, who was coming off a 43-point performance in Game 4, hadn't gone without a 3-pointer in a game since Nov. 8, 2018.

The drought ended a streak of 233 postseason and regular-season games in which Curry had made at least one 3-pointer, a run that lasted 3 1/2 years. He has done so much and elevated this franchise to a place where it was hard to even imagine that he has leeway, and he can have a bad night. “Steph is the best to ever shoot it.

The former No 1 overall pick has long been accused of failing to fulfill his potential. But he was crucial to the Warriors taking a 3-2 series lead.

In total the Celtics committed a fatal 18 turnovers to the Warriors’ six. But on Monday at Chase Center he was merciless, impassioned, effective and emphatic as the Celtics lost back-to-back games for the first time in this season’s playoffs. The defining image of this game was not Curry sinking a shot from distance but Wiggins bustling to the basket and crashing down a dunk to hand the Warriors a 15-point lead with about two minutes remaining. Not to mention family bragging rights: his father, Mitchell, was on the Houston Rockets team that lost to the Celtics in the 1986 finals. But it was the all-round excellence of Andrew Wiggins that helped disrupt the visitors while ably compensating for Curry’s below-par production. Curry followed his 43-point Game 4 genius-storm with a tepid 16-point effort, the presumptive NBA finals MVP an inconceivable zilch-for-nine from beyond the arc.

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You want to impact the game that way. Looking forward to that bounce-back," Curry said. And I'll tell you what, everyone in the building, including the fans and those watching, believe the ball is going in when it leaves his fingertips, " Warriors guard Klay Thompson said. But thankfully that's not the only thing that you do out there on the court. Curry ended up with 16 points on 7-22 shooting in Game 5. "Keep shooting, very simple,” Curry said.

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The game plan for the Celtics heading into Game 5 was to stop Curry by any means necessary and live with the result. Andrew Wiggins finished with 26 points, Klay Thompson had 21 points, Draymond Green had 8 points and coming off-the-bench, Jordan Poole and Gary Payton II combined for 29 points. Starting with Wiggins, he has been arguably the best two-way player in this series and has caused Jayson Tatum to become non-existent at times. Coming off a 43-point performance and one of the best shooting displays in NBA Finals history, Curry was held to just 16 points on 7-22 shooting, 0-9 from three-point range. This is definitely not ideal, but they still had a chance to win this game. In this series, Wiggins’ 47 total rebounds leads all players.

Beating the Boston Celtics 104-94 on Monday night in Game 5 of the 2022 NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors are now one win away from yet another ...

His eight points in Game 5 was an added bonus that really helped the Warriors pull away from the Celtics. I think our energy, and especially these last two games, has been amazing on both ends of the floor. They are in the Finals now and just one game away from a championship, the Warriors have everything they need to close out this series in Game 6 and begin yet another celebration in the “City by the Bay.” “We understand what we need to do. In Game 5, Curry had just 16 points on 7-22 shooting, 0-9 from three-point range. Everything about Game 5 worked out in favor of the Warriors and now leading 3-2 heading back to Boston, Golden State is looking very good in terms of closing out this series in six games.

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• The Warriors finished with a 17-7 edge in deflections – and ended with a 9-2 advantage in steals. • Jaylen Brown (33.3%), Marcus Smart (35.7%) and Jayson Tatum (37.5%) each held their defensive matchups below 40% shooting in Game 5. • Klay Thompson was the only Warriors starter to make a 3-pointer in Game 5 as he finished 5-of-11 from beyond the arc and scored 71.4% of his points on 3s. In their three losses, Boston posted an eFG% below 49%. In their two wins, their eFG% was 62.9% (Game 1) and 55.6% (Game 3). • Through the first four games of the Finals, Stephen Curry scored 39.8% of Golden State’s points while he was on the court. • Among the starters, Stephen Curry (29.9%) and Jaylen Brown (28.2%) led their respective teams in usage rate. Payton Pritchard led the Celtics at 31.1% but missed all three of his 3-point attempts in his five minutes on the floor. • Boston doubled up Golden State on the offensive glass (8-4) and finished with a 16-7 advantage in second-chance points. Stephen Curry, Gary Payton II and Jaylen Brown each scored 10 points in the paint in Game 5. The Celtics outscored the Warriors by 13.0 points per 100 possessions in Williams’ 30 minutes on the court. • Gary Payton II (15) and Jordan Poole (14) combined to score 29 points off the Warriors bench, while Kevon Looney added two points in 17 foul-plagued minutes. Boston’s Grant Williams (3 points, 1-2 FG, 0-1 3P), Derrick White (1 point, 0-4 FG, 0 3 3P) and Payton Pritchard (0 points, 0-3 FG, 0-3 3P) combined to shoot just 1-of-9 from the field and 0-7 from 3-point range in 42 combined minutes.

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On a night when Steph Curry was ordinary, Andrew Wiggins was extraordinary to lead the Warriors to the brink of the NBA championship.

The support system, everyone on this team, this organization, they support you and they want to see you do good, and they put you in a position to do good. "The bigger the challenge has been that we've thrown in front of him, the bigger he's responded," Green said. At the end of the day, no matter what it takes or whatever they need from me, I'm here to help them win." You kind of need to find the right place, the right teammates, that kind of stuff. Kevin Durant left for Brooklyn in free agency, and Klay Thompson wasn’t going to play in 2019-20 after sustaining a torn ACL in Game 6 of the 2019 Finals against Toronto. "Great people here that challenge you," Wiggins said. "I was out there being aggressive," the understated Wiggins said. When the stage gets big, they respond and play their best basketball, and that's what he's been doing." By comparison, Curry is averaging 30.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.8 steals and is shooting 46.6% from the field and 41.7% on 3-pointers. “He's found such a crucial role on our team, and I think that empowers him," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. Curry struggled in Game 5, just 16 points on 9-for-22 shooting, and he missed his nine 3-point attempts, the first time he didn’t make a 3 in 133 career playoff games. On a night when Curry was ordinary, Wiggins was extraordinary.

Golden State finds a way to secure a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals even though Stephen Curry goes without a 3-pointer for the 1st time in his playoff career.

After all, Thompson described Curry as “a magician with the ball in his hands.” In Game 5, Curry observed that the Celtics “were a little bit more aggressive and a little higher-up on their pick-up points.” Following the Warriors’ season-opening win against the Los Angeles Lakers, he described his performance as “trash” after a 5-for-21 shooting performance. “Looking forward to that bounce-back.” “That’s a good thing, because Thursday, hopefully, most of the time, he regresses to the mean. “The rest of the game has to show up so that you can still make an impact and still draw enough attention offensively, even if you’re not making shots. He’s been shooting the ball so well that, at some point, he was going to have a tough night,” Kerr said. On a night that he didn’t have it going, we found offense elsewhere.” It would be a stretch to say that Curry lacked a reliable supporting cast. “Steph is the best to ever shoot it,” Thompson said. He finished with 16 points while shooting 7-of-22 from the field and 0-of-9 from 3-point range, which marked the first time in his 13-year NBA career that he failed to make at least one 3-pointer in a playoff game. But thankfully that’s not the only thing that you do out there on the court.”

This team is one of the most undisciplined teams to advance to this stage in quite some time.

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At various points over the past eight years, the Golden State Warriors have played—and text tk Unless otherwise noted, stats courtesy of.

Looney has gone from oft-injured and playing in shorter spurts to the third-best Warriors player in a damn Finals series. News flash, though: No matter how good the Warriors have been and continue to be, they are not unfair. And just to get out in front of this: The Warriors also aren't here, on the precipice of another title, thanks to some generally inaccessible, stroke-of-genius gap year. Curry is still a top-five player at the age of 34. But it is far more logical than the aspect of fandom in which we're conditioned to care about how on earth billionaires can afford certain roster moves. Oh, and how do they pay for all this?

They make money, hand over fist because they built their own arena — with private (loaned) funds — off the back of their success in Oakland.

Profits on the court. They were in a position to sign KD because the league infused all of its new TV money into the salary cap at once rather than bake it in over time. Location limitations are a separate dilemma, a problem that warps the opportunity to acquire stars outside the draft. Big. Freaking. Whoop. Golden State still needed to finagle itself within the confines of the hard cap to make that happen, which materially impacted its roster and asset chest. In practice, though, the Warriors didn't cheat the system, get granted an exception for a top-five superstar without cap space or even employ the art of witchcraft. They are set to pay around $346.2 million for their roster after baking in the repeater tax. Twitter is #PrettyPissed about this slant—not just Warriors fans, but the NBA intelligentsia in general.

This stat shows just how important it is that the Warriors win Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

Fortunately for the Warriors, they're well-versed in defying the numbers. As mentioned in the graphic, Boston is 7-0 following a loss in the playoffs this year and has won eight road playoff games this postseason, one behind the all-time record. According to NBA Communications, it is the 31st time that a Finals series has been tied at two games apiece and in the previous 30 instances, the team that wins Game 5 went on to win the series 73.3 percent of the time.

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