![]() Q. Klay had the tough job of guarding James Harden for most of the night and hard to hit a lot of shots, but talk about the job Klay did defensively and talk about his personality of being calm, cool and collected can lead him to have a better shooting night later in the series? ![]() We've gotten a good chemistry with that lineup in different parts of the game that we're out there. STEPH CURRY: We want to be versatile. That's huge, for us to be able to have different lines to throw out there and have a guy that can come in and distribute the ball and we can play off of him. He's a very unique player with the way that he can play the point guard position and the way that he does it. It's a huge bonus for us when he comes in and becomes aggressive and pushes the tempo and the pace and shots start to appear when he's out on the floor. Q. It seems like we've seen a lot more of you playing with both Shaun Livingston and Klay Thompson in the Playoffs. What do you think that trio, the three of you playing together, brings to this team? STEPH CURRY: It's basketball. You're not always going to be on your A game to start games. You come out and be aggressive, but it always doesn't click, and you've got to be able to find different ways to win games. We've done that all season, through the regular season. We don't want to be in the hole, especially in the first half. That's not how we envision the game going. But we fight, and that's the one thing you can count on with this team, we're going to fight and get back in the games. Q. Sometimes you guys have a bit of a pattern of falling behind early and then mounting these heroic comebacks. Why is it that sometimes you fall behind early and have to come back like that? ![]() STEPH CURRY: Not first‑game jitters, just you play six games against a team that has a certain style, that first 24 minutes in this series is going to be a little bit different, and it took us a while to kind of figure out the pace. Obviously it's different personnel out there, and so you kind of just‑‑ it is a feeling‑out process for sure, and once we got our rhythm and figured out how to get some stops, we turned the game in our favor. We expected it to be a battle. It wasn't going to be a blowout at all. We came in and were really fighting. Just proud of the way we stuck with it and became the aggressor in the second quarter. Q. Your coach did say it was a feeling‑out process. Do you feel like you guys may have had first‑game jitters? STEPH CURRY: No, I just wanted to come out and be aggressive. You never know what that's going to mean, whether it's going to be a playmaker or taking and making shots. You've just got to come out and be aggressive, and there's a point during the first quarter where we obviously got down, and you kind of just want to pick the intensity up. I did my part, but the way other guys stepped up, specifically Shaun Livingston, the way he came in and impacted the game in the first half that provided a huge spark and was a huge reason we came back in that second quarter, he definitely did his thing tonight and it was a huge part of our win. That's the beauty of the Playoffs. Every night main guys are going to show up and hopefully play well, but you need pieces around you to do what they do and carry some of that load.  Did you feel like you had to do a little bit more offensively, kind of pick the team up, kind of get them through this game to victory? STEPH CURRY: It's entertaining basketball, but we're both supposed to help our team win and do what we can to impact the game. There's going to be stretches where he plays well and obviously he did that for his team in the third quarter, to really keep him close and keep him in it, and he made some crazy plays that we defended well, and we'll live with those shots. Hopefully we both have a big impact, and that's what we're supposed to do. Q. For all the talk coming in about you and Harden, it lived up to it where you were hot from the start and Harden started to get hot in the third quarter. What's that like when it's back and forth between you two? NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: ROCKETS v WARRIORS
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