Lakers vs. Warriors score: Stephen Curry takes control, Anthony Davis disappears as Golden State evens series

Meanwhile, Klay Thompson finished with 30 points and eight 3-pointers

The Golden State Warriors evened the series with the Los Angeles Lakers with a 127-100 home blowout win in Game 2.

The Warriors' "big three" was instrumental in the win, with Klay Thompson (30 points) and Stephen Curry (20 points) doing the bulk of the scoring and Draymond Green making an impact at both ends of the floor while neutralizing Anthony Davis, who finished with 11 points and seven rebounds after his 30-point, 23-rebound masterpiece in Game 1.

LeBron James led the Lakers in scoring with 23 points, and Rui Hachimura added 21 off the bench.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr made the surprising move to insert JaMychal Green into the starting lineup in place of Kevon Looney. Green played well in his first start of the postseason, finishing with 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting.

Here are three big takeaways from Golden State's win:

On-ball Steph 

After playing almost entirely off ball in Game 1, Stephen Curry was given control of the Warriors' offense early and often in Game 2, and it paid off massively. Curry drew double teams all night, generating easy  offense and uncontested shots all over the court. 

"It was a point of emphasis to try to get the ball in my hands a little bit more, just to start, but the rest was just kind of read and react, taking what's there," Curry said. 

Curry finished with 20 points on just 12 shots as he willingly turned himself into a facilitator against the doubles teams. He tallied 12 assists, but even that number does do his playmaking justice. We'll see in secondary assist tallies on Friday some of that impact, but a lot of it won't show up anywhere in a box score. He just drew attention all night long, making plays with his handle to manipulate and shift the defense, and everyone in a Golden State uniform benefitted greatly. 

Klay catches fire

Thompson has hit 14 3-pointers through the first two games of this series, going 8-for-11 on Thursday after a six-triple effort in Game 1. He was much more efficient in Game 2, and there's no doubt he was one of the beneficiaries of Curry's creation. 

This marks Thompson sixth-career playoff game with at least eight made 3s. That is an NBA record, two more than the four such games logged by Ray Allen, Stephen Curry and Damian Lillard. 

The Warriors have now hit 21 3-pointers as team in both games of this series. The Lakers overcame that by dominating the paint and the free-throw line in Game 1, but as we'll get to in a second with Anthony Davis, that wasn't the case in Game 2. The Lakers simply do not have the shooting to keep up with the Warriors when they're going like this without owning the other aspects of the game. 

A.D.'s disappearing act

Anthony Davis dismembered the Warriors in Game 1, going for 30 points and 23 rebounds as the Lakers won the paint battle 54-28. That script flipped in Game 2, in which Davis mustered just 11 points on 11 shots. This is a crazy statistic, but Davis has not scored 20 points in back-to-back games all season. Golden State is a far superior team to the Lakers if Davis isn't dominating. He can't be inconsistent. 

It's not like Davis just decided not to play as well in Game 2, however. Draymond Green had plenty to do with it. Steve Kerr, in the interest of offensive spacing, went small with his starting lineup, swapping out Kevon Looney for JaMychal Green, which left Draymond to cover Davis for 39 possessions, via Second Spectrum, courtesy of The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor -- 12 more than the 27 possessions he logged defending Davis in Game 1. 

That said, Davis is capable of more than this no matter who's guarding him. He just doesn't bring it the same every night. He was in attack mode from the jump in Game 1. A few shots didn't go in early in Game 2, and the next think you know it's the third quarter and he has two points. Davis had one offensive board on Thursday. One. This is a guy that absolutely dominates the glass when he's right, but on Thursday he finished with one less rebound that Kevon Looney, who was sick and played just 12 minutes. 

Some of this was the Warriors pulling Davis out of the paint by involving his man in pick and roll with Curry, which was a smart move by Kerr. But in the end, Davis simply has to be more impactful than this for L.A. to have a chance to win this series. My guess is he will be in Game 3.