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The Golden State Warriors also won the second playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA.
The basketball team around the stars Steph Curry and Klay Thompson took the lead for the first time at 126:117 on Friday evening (local time) in the last quarter with a score of 86:85 and did not let the Texans pass.
The Mavericks with national player Maxi Kleber, who are in the final of the Western Conference for the first time since the championship with Dirk Nowitzki eleven years ago, gambled away a significantly better starting position before the two home games in Dallas on Sunday and Tuesday, despite a 19-point lead.
“The experience and the chemistry – we have this attitude that we're never really out there.
We believe in ourselves," said Curry, who was the hosts' best thrower with 32 points.
The Mavericks around their star Luka Doncic had everything under control in the first half.
Even at the end of the third quarter, which the Warriors won 25:13, the guests were still ahead - but by then the game had slipped away from them.
Doncic ended the game as the best thrower with 42 points.
He matched Nowitzki's Mavericks record with a seventh playoff game with at least 40 points.
200th playoff win
It was the 200th playoff win for the Warriors.
Only the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs have reached that mark in the NBA.
The comeback from 19 points behind was also one of the three biggest playoff comebacks for the Warriors in the past 25 years.
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'We must do better.
If we try three or four threes and miss, then we have to get closer to the basket.
Maybe it's a matter of experience," said Mavericks coach Jason Kidd: "We failed in the third quarter because we tried so many threes and only hit two."
Dallas also started with two losses against the Phoenix Suns in the quarterfinals, but won the best-of-seven series 4:3.
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