Warriors vs. Thunder: Game 6 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2016 NBA Playoffs

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were the primary catalysts behind the Golden State Warriors’ record-setting 73-win regular season, and they came up with signature performances Saturday night while facing elimination in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals.

Although the defending champions trailed by eight points entering the fourth quarter, Thompson and Curry both erupted down the stretch, as they rained down three-pointers and silenced the Chesapeake Energy Arena crowd to capture a 108-101 win and force a Game 7 on Monday. 

Curry, who started the game in sluggish fashion, thrived in the clutch and banked in an off-balance runner with 14.3 seconds remaining to put the Warriors up by five and seal the deal, as the NBA on TNT documented on Twitter: 

The MVP with a HUGE Bucket! https://t.co/wjKkEFo4CK

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 29, 2016

Curry flirted with a triple-double to the tune of 31 points (9-of-22 shooting, 6-of-13 from three), 10 rebounds and nine assists, but his late-game heroics wouldn’t have been possible if Thompson hadn’t set the stage with a flurry of triples in perhaps the finest performance of his postseason career. 

Over the course of 40 minutes, Thompson poured in a game-high 41 points (14-of-30 shooting) while drilling an NBA playoff-record 11 treys:

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As a team, the Warriors knocked down 21 triples—shots that accounted for 58.3 percent of their total made field goals in the win. On the flip side, Oklahoma City shot 3-of-23 from beyond the arc, as Kevin Durant struggled with 29 points on 10-of-31 shooting, including 1-of-8 from three. 

Russell Westbrook added 28 points, 11 assists, nine rebounds and four steals, but those numbers were overshadowed by his late-game carelessness. According to ESPN Stats & Info, Westbrook committed four turnovers during the final 1:29 of the fourth quarter after having coughed the rock up just once prior to that. 

Because Westbrook couldn’t keep a grip on the ball in the game’s waning seconds, the Thunder lost the turnover battle, 15-14. To date, the team that has committed more turnovers has lost every game in the series.

And while the Thunder were doomed by the convergence of several factors, their inability to jump all over a Warriors team that stumbled out of the gates cost them …

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