Jimmy Butler returns from the absence of the injury to lead warriors on Rockets 109-106 for 3: 1 series lead

San Francisco-Jimmy Butler converted three free throws with a 58.7 second lead, got the game with the game with 4 seconds and then made two further free throws on the way to 27 points when he returned from a pelvic injury.

Fred Vanvleet missed a 3 pointer under pressure in the summer.

The teams return to Houston on Wednesday evening for game 5 in the best-of-Seven series when Golden State tries to end the number 2 rockets on their home floor with the seventh seed.

Brandin Podziemski scored 26 points, Stephen Curry ended with 17 in the hectic finish and Buddy Hield hit 3:32 on the left a go-aahead-3 pointer and achieved 15 after joining the starting line-up 15.

Alperen Sengun achieved 40 seconds ahead of Houston to make it a one-point game. He had 31 points and 10 rebounds, while Vanvleet scored a binding 3 pointer with 1:20 and scored 25 points.

Butler was back after suffering with a pelvic contingusion and a deep buttock blood flow with a hard fall when he was fouled at the beginning of game 2 by Amen Thompson.

On Monday in the second quarter, four technical fouls and a flagrant 1 out of two separate disputes, including sliding during a sequence with Curry, Draymond Green and Dillon Brooks.

With the game with 36, Curry dribbled down the sidelines when Green put a hard screen on Houston's Amen Thompson. Brooks fouled curry and he seemed angrily over the pressure before going to curry and green.

Curry received a technique for “mockery” from Brooks, which also received a technical technology together with Green. Warriors Rookie Quinten Post and Jabari Smith Jr. von Houston beat each other with the arms, avoided when the officials were repeated.

Then the minds flared up again with 2:44 in the quarter. Green received a flagrant 1 foul because he pressed Tari Eason's face to the ground, and Eason also received a technical one. Green dribbles when Eason had a bargain and the ball loosened and both players hit the ground and tried to corrralize it. Green's left leg was on the neck of the rocket.

Butler shot in 40 minutes in 40 minutes 7 for 12 after he had overcome Curry with 36 points, nine templates and seven rebounds in the 104-93 victory on Saturday evening in the Golden State without a slow start.

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