Houston – If the Warriors want to win the franchise Fifth Championship of the Era of Steph CurryThey will have to do it without the advantage of the domestic court in their First round series against Houston That begins on Sunday and Probably any other confrontation along the way.
That is not the end of the world, according to Golden State Steve Kerr coachWho recently said having advantage in the domestic court does not provide the advantage as he did once.
“The 3 -point shooting is a variable, and it seems that in the old days, it was much more a game of 2 routine points,” Kerr said. “It simply did not seem that the opponent had so much opportunity to get burning and take care of the impulse of the game.”
The seventh warriors sown (48-34) entered the fourth postseason in 3-point brands (15.4) per game, and the rockets No. 2 (52-30) 21 to 12.7.
Have a list full of veterans tested in playoffs like DanYond Green and Jimmy Butler He has also promoted the team in recent weeks.
None of the experienced core of Golden State It will be eliminated by rucous road atmospheres. Special in Houston, where the great man of Curry, green and veteran Kevon Looney faced the Rockets led by James Harden four times in five seasons between 2015 and 2019 and won them all, including a seventh game in Houston.
“We understand the environment, just be in the city, how to spend the duration of a two -day stretch in the five days,” Curry said, he pointed out that the rest of the team was not present for those playoff battles.
But are the inconvenience, like the one that Golden State seeks to achieve, really more frequent in modern NBA?
And how much really affects the 3 -point shot?
The numbers paint a complicated image.
From 2005 to 2024, they have 160 first round playoff series. Of these, the lower seed has won 34 times.
But despite what Kerr said, the inconvenience has not become more frequent with the rapid increase in 3 -point shooting.
Twenty of those discomfort occurred before 2015, the season that Kerr Tok about the Warriors, Golden State won his first title in decades and the 3 -point revolution NBAS began seriously.
While the team that made more triple represented the 19 victories of the series, of the six most recent inconvenience in the last two years, only two of those teams made more than their opponent.
Golden State was one of those two in 2023, when Curry went to Sacramento and scored 50 in game 7 While seven 3 petros are in the first round.
The Warriors veteran experience, at least on paper, is not an excessive advance.
Thought thinking players could biased averages, the team with an average previous age represented only 12 of the 34 discomfort.
However, Golden State has good reasons to believe that he does not need an advantage in the domestic court to win against young rockets.
Duration The epic series of seven games of the teams in the finals of the 2018 conference, Houston was the best seed.
The Rockets were processed for infamous bricks 27 consecutive triples, while Kevin Durant scored a maximum of 34 years, to boost Golden State to a 101-92 victory in game 7 of the finals of the West Conference.
And in 2022, the possible champions warriors obtained the No. 3 seeds and eliminated Memphis in the second round.
Once they arrived at the championship round, the Curry warriors won twice in Boston, including the decisive factor of game 6, to capture the fifth franchise title.
“It always helps to have an advantage in the domestic court, and that is why we fight so hard for it,” said Loageey. “But with our experience, we know that we can win along the way, and we know that we can win at home, so we are not afraid to go to another person’s house and try to get a victory.”
The Warriors also have Butler, who twice (2020 and 2023) took Miami to the discomfort of first round and on the route to shocking races to the NBA finals.
And before Kerr arrived, the postseason presentation party of Curry in 2013 occurred when he illuminated the Nuggets to help the sixth warriors sown to win in six games, and the warriors “We Believe” in 2007 captivated the world of the NBA for the best.
So, although the inconvenience has not become as common as a long distance shooting, there are still many reasons to believe that Warriors have a great opportunity to become the third seed No. 7 to achieve a discomfort in the first round in the last 20 years.
