Although there were plenty of key moments in this bruising 109-106 win over the Houston Rockets to take a commanding 3-1 series lead, there were a series of events that led to the climax of the game, one that required the Golden State Warriors to stop the Rockets from scoring in order to hold on to a precarious one-point lead. Those preceding events informed what the Warriors needed to do in order to seal the game.
Such events consisted of a common theme, one that resulted in Fred VanVleet having a breakout scoring and shooting game that nearly did the Warriors in.