On a night when Damian Lillard shone and the Golden State Warriors' most luminous star, Stephen Curry, sat out, the Dubs made up the difference the only way they could.
Together.
Golden State secured a 2-0 series advantage and, potentially, a more leisurely recovery timeline for Curry with a 110-99 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday, moving one step closer to a second straight berth in the Western Conference Finals.
Portland put the Warriors in a hole early—the kind you'd normally need a hot-shooting MVP to climb out of. Aggressive, confident and enjoying some lackluster Golden State defense, the Blazers built a 17-point advantage in the first half. And Lillard hadn't even heated up yet.
He did that in the third quarter, scoring 17 of his team-high 25 points and holding the Warriors at arm's length despite plenty of surges that narrowed the margin.
Three quarters of frustrating play and rushed shots led Golden State head coach Steve Kerr to react like this, per the Warriors' Julie Phayer:
But then Golden State channeled a ...
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