Golden State Warriors Need Over-the-Top Confidence More Than Ever

Stephen Curry returned to play Game 4 against the Houston Rockets Sunday, but the restoration of order that was supposed to accompany him never showed up.

Fortunately, the Golden State Warriors’ fiery competitive edge and swaggering bravado arrived in time to salt away a 121-94 blowout win.

After two games off to rest a sore right ankle, Curry looked like himself in the early going. He was aggressive from long range, firing up seven triples in the first half and registering his first made bucket on an inside-out fast break finish, complete with a hard landing on that troublesome right foot.

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The harder landing came at the end of that first half, when Curry slipped on a wet spot at the second-quarter buzzer and went into an awkward splits, banging the inside of his right knee on the hardwood.

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After limping to the locker room, Curry returned to the floor near the end of halftime, but didn’t start the third quarter. With Shaun Livingston in his place, Curry again retired to the bowels of the Toyota Center, accompanied by uncertainty and the renewed angst of a Warriors fanbase.

After 18 minutes, his comeback was over. A drop of sweat in the wrong spot on the floor did the MVP in, and Curry had to absorb the physical pain of his sprained knee along with the cosmic inequity of it all.

It was a troubling scene, per Marcus Thompson of the Bay Area News Group:

Kerr is patting Curry on the back. Draymond Green is talking to Curry.

— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) April 24, 2016

Curry just walked back to the locker room. I think he’s done and they were consoling him

— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) April 24, 2016

And Draymond Green relayed the emotional weight of the moment in an interview with ESPN Radio, via Royce Young of ESPN.com:

Draymond Green said on @NBAonESPNRadio that Steph Curry …

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