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In front of his home crowd, Curry walks it off with a buzzer beater.
The Warriors came away with the win after Stephen Curry hit a step-back jumper at the buzzer. (1:45)
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Steve Kerr had a play in mind for the final possession of the game, which was to get the ball to Stephen Curry and get out of the way.
They executed it to a tee, as Stephen Curry drained the winning shot from 2 feet inside the 3-point line as the buzzer went off. It was Curry's first walk-off bucket.
Golden State beat Houston 105-103. The Warriors organization called the moment a release of emotions that had built up over the past 24 hours after a disappointing loss to the Pacers.
The team wasn't ignorant to the fact that it still has a lot of work to do. He knows he has a long way to go.
Curry knows he needs to shoot the ball better. I'm going to shoot it better. I work on shooting numbers because that's what I do. It's frustrating when you don't reach those levels.
Curry hit a 3-point shot with two minutes left in the first half after starting the night 0-for-11 from the field. He finished the night with 22 points on 6-of-21 shooting and 4-of-13 from 3-point range.
His performance Friday night was an extension of his shooting slump.
Curry is on pace to be the lowest scorer of his career, shooting 42 percent from the field. He has scored 30-plus points in one of his past 11 games and is shooting 37 percent from the field since Christmas Day. He was shooting 44 percent from the field before Christmas and 40 percent on 3s.
Curry pays attention to the numbers. He knows where his numbers are going.
Curry said it was the standard he held himself to. I know I can do it. The challenge is to be aware of it and continue to be aggressive. There is a lot of season left and it's about peaking at the right time. I keep an eye on that stuff because it's your craft.
Curry doesn't know why he is shooting poorly. Curry was attempting to break Ray Allen's all-time 3-point record in December, and there is a belief that is behind his current slump. Curry says that there is more to it. What exactly it is is more elusive than anything else.
Curry said he was missing shots. You just miss shots, there's no reason.
That won't stop him from throwing them up.
"That's the deepest level of confidence that a player can have," Kerr said. He lives by the motto 'the next one is going in', and he turned 0-for-10 or whatever into a night where he hit the game-winning shot. He believes it.
Curry said that the reason he can go 0-for-11 for one game and come back the next game and have a good performance is because the work will show eventually.
I don't panic. I wouldn't be shooting as much if I did.
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