Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson has been a relative shadow of himself throughout the 2017 postseason. With his scoring average dipping progressively through every series, the long-range sniper is drawing inspiration from his past performances in order to regain his high-scoring form for the NBA Finals.

Thompson was a one-man army in last year's Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, single-handedly lighting up the opposition for a game-high 41 points and tallying the most threes made in a playoff game, going 11-of-18 from beyond the arc.

“I watch the highlights sometimes when I'm in a shooting slump or something,” Thompson told Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News. “I'll watch the highlights to see what I'm capable of… Say these past couple of weeks, I've had a few bad shooting nights, I'll watch those highlights. Not just that one, but any good shooting night I had against a team coming up.”

“But obviously I see those highlights a lot because I was in a zone that I try to tap into. It's hard to get to that zone, even when it's not 11 threes  — even if it's just four or five  — but the way I was moving, I was shooting it with no hesitation. I just try to look at what I did right in that game and I learn from it still from this day.”

The 6-foot-7 guard has been mired in quite a slump, shooting a mere 38.3 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from deep this postseason.

Luckily for the Warriors, they've had Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant firing in all cylinders, still managing to breeze past their opponents on their way to the finals, doing it to a tune of an NBA-record 12-0 to start the playoffs.

Golden State will need Thompson to come alive at the utmost important stage of the postseason, having scored in single digits twice and only scored over 20 points in two occasions during this playoff run.

Durant's arrival has brought plenty of support and it's surely proven to be a difference-maker now that he's lining up alongside him, rather than across him on the hardwood.

“I don't really think about all the things that fell in line afterward, which is crazy to think about,” he said. “Because now when I do watch it, there's even more weight on all these shots I'm putting up.

“It's unbelievable how it all aligned afterward. I do believe it was meant to be. Feels like destiny. So it worked out great for us.”