The Warriors of Butler and Curry are ahead in the ‘playoffs’ by winning the Rockets at home | Basketball | Sports

The Golden State Warriors, who assaulted Houston by Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler. The outer game of the Warriors was imposed on the centimeters of the Rockets in the only home victory in Sunday’s matches. The best tripler in the history of the NBA, Stephen Curry, has a luxury companion in which he always grows in the postseason.

The Warriors, seventh classified in the West Conference, came to have a 23-point advantage in the third quarter, but the rockets, seconds of the west in the regular season, cut distances until 69-60 at the beginning of the last quarter. A channe of Ames Thompson about five and a half minutes from the end put the rockets four points. Curry scored his fifth triple of the night a few seconds later to put the 82-75. The Rockets cut the advantage of four points with about two and a half minutes to play thanks to a triple by Fred Vanvleet, but had the immediate replica of Moses Moody with another triple. A 0-7 partial set the score 81-90 and the Rockets said goodbye to the game.

Stephen Curry scored 31 points with a series of 12 of 19 baskets, including 5 of the 9 triples he launched, while Jimmy Butler added 25 points, seven rebounds, six assists and five robberies in his debut in the debut in the playoffs With the Warriors. The Turco Alperen şengün, with 26 points, was the best of the premises. It was the 100th victory in the playoffs For Steve Kerr, coach of Golden State, who tied with Larry Brown in the sixth position of the historical classification of victories in Postemporada. The second game of the series to the best of seven will be played on Wednesday night in Houston.

Grizzlies thunder beating

The Oklahoma City Thunder gave a blow of authority with an overwhelming victory (131-80). The difference of 51 points is the fifth largest in the history of the NBA playoffs and not only reflects the level difference between the two teams, but also that the locals were fresher and more rested, while the Grizzlies came from playing two games this week, the last one on Friday, to qualify in the playback for the qualifiers.

The victory of the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander team (SGA) is the greatest ever achieved in a first playoff game and stays seven points from the absolute record in postseason matches. There have been two differences of 58 points in the playoffs: the Denver Nuggets beat the New Orleans Palicans by 121-63 in 2009 and the Lakers, in their Minneapolis stage, beat the Hawks, then from St. Louis, by 133-75 in 1956.

The game was a walk for the best west conference game in the regular season. 32-20 was advanced in the first quarter, they had a 20-0 partial in a section of the second and at the break the match was already sentenced (68-36). The premises also imposed themselves in the remaining two rooms. It didn’t even need to present its best version. With 15 points, he was the best scorer of his team, something unusual in him. Aaron Wiggins added 21 points, Jalen Williams scored 20 and Chet Holmgren added 19 points and 10 rebounds. Ja Morant scored 17 points for Memphis.

The second meeting will be Tuesday, also in Oklahoma City. This time, the two teams will arrive with the same rest time, but the clear favorites remain the Thunder.

You Jerome Lider and Los Cavaliers Frente and Miami

The Cleveland complied with the forecasts and defeated without too many problems to the surprise of the game was Ty Jerome, which in his sixth season in the NBA played his first postseason game. With his 28 points, Jerome became the third player with the most points in a debut in the qualifiers of the Cavaliers, behind LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. The 1.95 meter escort also rose as the fourth player in the history of the franchise to score at least 28 points out from the bench.

Jerome scored 10 of 15 field shots, including 5 of 8 triples, and got five rebounds and three assists in 28 minutes. He added 16 of his 28 points in a spectacular last quarter, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were imposed by 121-100 to the Miami Heat in the first match of the First Round series of the East Conference.

The Cavaliers were ahead of the whole game, but they did not distance themselves until the last quarter, which they had reached with an advantage of 87-79. The two stars of the Cavaliers, Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland, fulfilled their role and scored 30 and 27 points, respectively. On the part of Miami, Bam Adebayo added 24 points and 9 rebounds and Tyler Herro scored 21 points.

Victory of the Celtics in the second half

The Boston Celtics did it with a victory against a few Orlando Magic that planted them face in the first half, but they could not endure the rhythm after the break, which was reached with 48-29 in their favor. The Celtics stepped on the accelerator with a partial of 30-18 in the third quarter and finished the game with a comfortable advantage (103-86) on the scoreboard.

Derrick White was the top scorer of the premises, with 30 points, followed by the substitute Payton Pritchard, with 19, both ahead of the two main stars of the team: Jayson Tatum, who added 17, and Jaylen Brown, who contributed 16. That gives an idea of ​​the versatility of the attack of the Celtics, who have broken in the regular season the record of the triple of the NBA history. Paolo Bancher led the resistance of the Magic, with 36 points and 11 rebounds. Franz added 23 points for Orlando, which has not gone from the first round of the playoffs Since the 2009-10 season. The second match of the qualifier for the best of seven will be played on Wednesday, also in Boston.