Stephen Curry had a fierce and focused look in his eyes late Tuesday night that I hadn’t seen in a while, maybe in two years, and he didn’t mind letting me know what it meant.



Maybe it was partly because he’d just finished a postgame chat with heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua — “he’s huge,” Curry muttered while walking away — but mostly Curry was directing all thoughts and commentary to the Warriors’ gut-wrenching 95-92 loss to Houston at Oracle Arena on Tuesday.



Or really, to what happens now that series is tied 2-2, with Game 5 back in Houston on Thursday and the Warriors facing the greatest playoff challenge of this super-team era.



“They won 65 games this year for a reason — they’re a good team,” Curry said of the No. 1-seeded Rockets. “We’re a great team. We understand it’s going to be a dog fight and the difference between winning and losing is a little...