San Francisco, CA – The Golden State Warriors squeezed by the Houston Rockets on the shoulders of Stephen Curry, and it took the entire 48 minutes of regulation to put them away. The Dubs won 105-103. It took a game-winning shot from Curry, in the last 5 seconds to pull off an ugly come from behind victory.
Curry was having another disastrous shooting night, but a motto he lives by gave him the confidence to shoot the biggest shot of the game without any hesitation or any remorse.
The motto is: The next one's going in.
“I’ve had that my whole life,” Curry told Clutch Points. “It's just the confidence in the work that you put in, but Coach (Bob) McKillop at Davidson, taught me next play mentality is what I call it, still live by it. Klay (Thompson) talked about it with the way he shoots, but it’s the same with the thought process in terms of knowing how the game’s going, stay locked in and the work will show eventually.”
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Curry finished the night with 22 points on, 6-of-21 shooting from the field, and 4-of-13 from beyond the three-point line. The two-time MVP's confidence didn't diminish one bit, so when the game was on the line, he shot it as if he was having a 50-point night.
Look at the crowd's reaction to Stephen Curry's game-winning shot. pic.twitter.com/EIpQfVGcpC
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Once the ball left Curry's hands, you could tell he knew it was going to swish through the net, and when it did the crowd went insane, and No. 30 had just made his first game-winning shot of his career.
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