Fans who tuned in to watch the fate of the all-time regular season best Golden State Warriors, as they took on the series leading Oklahoma City Thunder in a do-or-die Game 6 playoff match Saturday night (May 28), learned that it takes more than a one man show to be the defending champs. In a stunner, the Warriors, who hadn't had the lead since turning it over seven minutes into the affair, retook control with only two minutes remaining in the final quarter to complete a 108-101 comeback win that sends them to a determining 7th game at home on Monday. It was the kind of finish that earned kudos from their peers across the league, as some of the leagues best players took to social media to wow about the Klay Thompson driven defeat.
"HOLY KLAY," Sixers center Jahlil Okafor wrote in response to the 41 point effort by the Splash Brother. Thompson can be credited with putting Golden State on his back as he would set off on a rampage of buckets that helped erase the 8-point deficit his team faced heading into the 4th Quarter. When all was said and done he had made history, sinking an NBA playoff game record 11 threes. Steph Curry did a little to chip in as well, contributing a near triple double with 29-points, 10 rebounds, and 9 assists. It was only the 10th time a team had ever come back from a 3-1 playoff deficit.
"What in the world did we just witness?" wrote former player turned Fox Sports 1 analyst Corey Maggette. Damian Lillard, Dirk Nowitzki, Julius Randle, Jamal Crawford, Evan Fournier, Brandon Jennings, and Myles Turner were some of the sports' other names to tweet a reaction to the game.
Source: si.com
