Warriors decimate Rockets behind Curry's hot shooting

Stephen Curry (left) attempts a lay-up against Nick Johnson

When asked about Stephen Curry's performance after game 3 of the Western Conference Finals, Steve Kerr said: "Steph was Steph."

He could not have said it better.

Chef Curry cooked up some hot sauce against a Houston squad fighting for their playoff lives, torching the home team with 40 points on 12-of-19 shooting, including 7-of-9 from three, to lead Golden State to a 115-80 pounding of Houston. He also had seven assists and five rebounds.

With this, the Warriors are one win away from reaching the NBA Finals. No team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit. Only three teams have come back from 3-0 to force a Game 7. The odds are stacked against the Rockets.

"We just can't quit on each other," Howard said on the post game interview. "We've come too far. We've been through too many battles to just allow it to end like tonight ... we've just got to man up."

James Harden had 17 points, but he was atrocious from the field, shooting only 18.8% from the perimeter. Josh Smith had 16, while Trevor Ariza struggled once again, having only 7 points.

Draymond Green had 17 points and 13 rebounds for his ninth double-double of the Playoffs. Klay Thompson also had 17 markers, and also facilitated well, finishing with five dimes.

The MVP did virtually everything on the court. A couple of finger-rolls over Howard, bank shots, the usual three-point shots, assists, some more threes, a little bit of trash-talk, more threes. You know, the usual MVP-like performance.

Houston had many attempts to come back, all in vain. There was this time where the lead was down to nine early in the second quarter, but it was foiled by Curry. And after the half-time, the Rockets came back strong, using a 13-6 run to cut the deficit to 18. Once again, the Warriors stopped the run.