Klay Thompson had a rough shooting night as he finished with 11 points on 4-for-19 (21.1%) shooting from the field and 1-for-8 (12.5%) from 3-point range.Poole finished the game as Golden State’s second-leading scorer with 17 points. With 30 seconds left in the period, Poole hit a 3-pointer to push the lead to 20 and pulled up from just inside halfcourt and bombed another triple to increase the lead to 23. Poole put the finishing touches on the Warriors’ brilliant third quarter. In his first six quarters of the 2022 NBA Finals - all of Game 1 and the first half of Game 2 - Poole scored 12 points on 3-for-12 shooting (25.0%) from the field and 2-for-7 (28.6%) shooting from 3-point range with four assists and five turnovers in 34 minutes on court. Golden State sizzles in the 3rd quarter, outscoring Boston 35-14 behind a strong showing led by Stephen Curry to tie the NBA Finals up 1-1. Payton played 25 minutes off the bench and finished with seven points on 3-for-3 shooting, three rebounds, three assists and provided another defender to throw at Tatum and Brown. Game 2 saw the return of Gary Payton II to the Warriors’ lineup after he missed the previous month due to a fractured elbow suffered against Memphis in the conference semifinals.In Game 2, the trio combined to score just 16 points on 6-for-23 (26.1%) shooting from the field and 2-of-7 (28.6%) from 3-point range. Game 1 was dominated by the Celtics’ trio of Al Horford, Derrick White and Marcus Smart as they combined for 65 points on 22-for-34 (64.7%) shooting from the field and 15-for-23 (65.2%) from 3-point range.From that point on, Brown crumbled, shooting just 1-for-11 from the field and missing all five of his 3-point attempts. Boston built its biggest lead of the game in the first quarter behind a hot start from Jaylen Brown, who scored 13 points and shot 4-for-6 from the field and 3-for-4 from 3-point range in the game’s first eight minutes.However, Tatum not only finished with the lowest plus/minus of his career at -36, but the lowest plus/minus in a Finals game in the play-by-play era (since 1996-97). After scoring just 12 points on 3-for-17 shooting in Game 1, Jayson Tatum found his offense in Game 2, finishing with a team-high 28 points on 8-for-19 shooting from the field and 6-for-9 from 3-point range, while adding six rebounds, three assists and a steal.Through two games, Curry leads the series in points (63), field goals made (21), 3-pointers made (12) and steals (6). Curry shot 9-for-21 from the field, 5-for-12 from 3-point range and 6-for-7 at the free-throw line, while adding six rebounds, four assists and three steals. Curry led all scorers with 29 points despite not playing in the fourth quarter with the Warriors already in a commanding lead. Golden State has dominated the third (+35) and Boston has won the fourth (+28, with +24 of that coming in Game 1). For the series, Golden State is plus-5 in the first quarter, while Boston is plus-five in the second quarter, giving us a first-half draw.
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