Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET the Golden State Warriors, the No. 1 seed in the West, will go for a sweep of the No. 2 Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center on ESPN in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals, which can be live streamed free by clicking this link. Warriors fans can listen to the radio broadcast on KNBR 680, while Rockets fans may do likewise on Sports Talk 790.
The Rockets came back from a 3-1 deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers in Round 2, but returning from being down 3-0 is more daunting. Not only that, the Rockets have been utterly incapable of even containing Warriors point guard Stephen Curry, who torched them for 40 points on 7-of-9 shooting from 3-point range in Game 3.
Curry is averaging 35.7 points and six assists in the Western Conference Finals, while shooting a red-hot 58.1 percent from beyond the arc. He's outplayed Rockets guard James Harden, his main competition for the 2014-15 MVP award; even though Harden's averaging 27 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, he hasn't been able to match Curry's output or help slow him down.
Rockets center Dwight Howard said the Rockets need to remain positive to have a prayer of coming back, something they didn't do in Game 3 during Curry's explosion.
"We've got to stay positive," Howard said. "It's that negative energy that can go from one person to the next, and we just seemed to fold. We don't want to be the team that folded under pressure."
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