The ‘Splash Bros’ — Curry and Thompson — scored 27 and 26 factors respectively with 22-year-old Poole persevering with his breakout season as he contributed 27 in Golden State’s street win in Denver.
Thompson, who additionally continues his exceptional comeback from a two-year-long damage layoff, praised Poole’s improvement.
“We want him to go the place we wish to go, and we want him to maintain doing what he is doing.”
It implies that the crew now have a 3-0 lead of their best-of-seven sequence within the first spherical of the NBA playoffs and may wrap it up when the groups subsequent play on the Ball Area in Denver on Sunday.
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has utilized the three-guard line-up of Curry, Thompson and Poole successfully within the opening two video games of the sequence in California, giving his crew the requisite bursts late in halves to beat the Nuggets.
In Recreation 3, the trio made 28-of-48 (58.3%) makes an attempt from the sector and 12-of-27 (44.4%) from three-point vary as they supplied Nuggets coach Michael Malone with no finish of match-up complications.
Curry, Thompson and Poole grew to become the third trio in Warriors historical past, and first since 1989, to every file 25 factors and 50% taking pictures in a playoff sport.
Reigning MVP Nikola Jokic had 37 factors for the house crew, but it surely wasn’t sufficient because the Nuggets misplaced their seventh consecutive playoff sport, a run extending again to final season.
A key Jokic turnover pressured by Draymond Inexperienced within the dying seconds of the sport clinched the victory.
Inexperienced’s protection on Jokic within the sequence has been pivotal, and Kerr praised the 32-year-old afterwards.
Recreation 4 is on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET in Denver.
