Sacramento kept the score close deep into the fourth quarter, but their final lead at 79-78 was crushed when Curry hit his first three of the night with 5:48 remaining. Sacramento had been outrebounding Golden State throughout the game, but the Warriors clamped down on the boards in the fourth quarter and outrebounded the Kings 17-9 in the final period.

While the Kings deserve top marks for their scrappy defensive play that limited the Warriors throughout the contest, Golden State's usually stellar offense was unusually impotent—the Warriors shot 8- 39 from three and missed a large number of open and near-open shots that would normally be easy-money for a team that had been shooting 42% on the season from deep.

While the Kings already lacked offensive firepower, they doomed themselves early with terrible ball control. Sacramento finished the first half with 14 turnovers as they continually dribbled off their own feet and often telegraphed passes right into waiting Golden State defenders. On a night where the Kings brought the defensive intensity and caught the Warriors on an off-offensive night, turnovers were again their biggest non-injury weakness. The team finished the game with 22 turnovers, which led to 29 points by the Warriors.

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