Stephen Curry on Warriors' Game 3 win -- 'We gave ourselves life'

SAN FRANCISCO — With Draymond Green serving a one-game suspension and the Golden State Warriors down 0-2 in their first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings, they had a clear mindset: Don't feel sorry for ourselves.

«We're winning this because of Draymond,» Donte DiVincenzo told ESPN before Thursday's Game 3, which Golden State won 114-97 to bring the series to a 2-1 split.

«Understanding how bad of a decision I think the league made on suspending him, you're frustrated with that,» Warriors guard Stephen Curry said. «We have a job to do, and there's nothing we can do about it.… We obviously understand the consequences of if we lost tonight, and nobody wanted to feel that.»

Curry added: «Pretty bluntly, if we lost this game it would be pretty much over. You've got to understand the moment, and we gave ourselves life.»

The Warriors put together one of their most complete games this season.

«Our guys were locked in yesterday when the news came in, and we turned the page pretty quickly,» Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. «There's no need to belabor the point. It's just the league made the decision. You only have one path to take, and that's getting ready for the next one, and that's what our guys did.»

Unlike their two games in Sacramento, where the Kings dictated the pace and had the Warriors playing frantically and sloppily, the Warriors controlled the speed Thursday.

They committed just 12 turnovers for seven points, compared with 22 turnovers for 25 points in Game 2. They ended with 19 personal fouls but had just eight through the first three quarters. And even without Green, who is key to facilitating their offense, the team's ball movement was vintage Warriors with 31 assists on 55 passes. Under Kerr, the