Intro:

Stephen Curry played through a sprained left ankle to score 29 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Denver Nuggets 110-108 Friday night (26 April) to take a 2-1 series lead.

Script:

(English) Stephen Curry, Warriors guard:

"After 3 games you have a good feeling of what adjustments, or what they might throw at you. We've seen a lot of different looks from trapping as soon as we come over halfcourt to switching pick and rolls to pretty much every look on defence you can think of so we just gotta make the right plays and not turn the ball over that's the best thing for us to do as we try to continue this lead in the series, because they're such a great fast break team if you give them easy baskets they show how lethal they can be."

(English) Mark Jackson, Warriors head coach:

(talks about the improved play of a healthy Andrew Bogut)

"I've seen him play like that you know who he is, when you see Andrew Bogut healthy in Milwaukee he was nasty he was mean he was a paint protector a rim protector he was a low post threat he was a guy that set great screens and set the tone and an incredible passer for a big man, I think what we're witnessing is him finally getting his legs back him getting his health back and he's playing with an edge a much needed physical edge that quite honestly we didn't have in the past, we didn't have that."

SOUNDBITE: (English) George Karl, Nuggets head coach:

"There's a lot of good tonight I told the team after the game the process of the NBA playoffs is to get better. we got better tonight, we didn't win tonight but there's a process going on and it's just two wins, barely halfway there so I think it's gonna be fun Sunday I think tonight's game was a great game to be a part of and we got work to do tomorrow (Saturday) rest our bodies up the process gets really fatiguing now every other day now for the rest of the way."