Keldon Johnson got dressed as a hero in the last terms of the game in a very exciting victory of San Antonio Spurs against Golden State Warriors at Chase Center by 108-110. The 22-years old forward gave a masterclass of basketball. After the mistake of his teammate Jakob Poetl, the American player knew how to position himself to give the victory to his team against a tough rival. The forward scored with 2,4 seconds left to the completion of the game.
This was the winner shot of KJ. Someone touched first the ball and then, somehow he could scored the shot after hit on the board. With the final whistle, madness broke out of the protagonist and their teammates at the Chase Center on San Francisco. On the post game, KJ said this: “I have entered to rebound and someone has touched the ball, I have grabbed it, I turned around and I threw it up“. During the rest of the 2,4 seconds left, Klay Thompson had time to try a triple. Unfortunately, he failed at the final whistle.
Warriors fought during all the match for give to their fans a victory. Spurs were 10 points ahead in the third quarter. The best players of Warriors were Jordan Pole (28 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds) and Klay Thompson (24 points and 3 assists) led the try of comeback of the Steve Kerr´s team. Kerr also was very upset with the referee team. In addition, Draymond Green was eject after be punished with two personal faults in just eight seconds. “The fouls were strange, I am shocked” said the coach of Warriors about the decisions of the referee. “I don´t understand how can decide a match by plays that are not related to basketball. The players have to decide the games“.
Golden State, from the injury of his star Stephen Curry, lost 2 games on the pitch. And in the last days, some people has rumoured about if Curry will be on the Playoffs or not. The medical team said that the injury of the “30” is indefinite. However, he was optimistic about his return: “I have enough time for that, but I am an optimistic“.
Others that are optimists are Spurs. They are close to the tenth place of the West Conference that currently is taken by Lakers (with an awful season). The team of Gregg Popovich is just 2 games away of Lakers. This will be an interesting battle between this teams to enter in the last position of play-in.
