But Curry, after making 12-of-23 shots in Game 3, for 36 points, warmed up on the Chase Center floor before Game 4 and simply could not miss. The league's X account posted, "54 SECONDS OF STEPH JUMPERS. NO CUTS. NO MISSES."

After two games and a half games of battling Houston’s lumbering, earth-bound giants in what seemed to be a constricting box, Steph Curry and the Warriors finally broke loose. Without an injured Jimmy Butler, a hot-shooting Buddy Hield gave Curry the oxygen he needed to breathe — and score 36 points — against the Rockets.