The Portland Trail Blazers and Golden State Warriors played four extremely high-scoring games this regular season in which the loser never scored fewer than 105 points and Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry went at each other as if they were entered into a three-point contest only they knew about. Saturday's Western Conference Finals Game 3 was perhaps the closest to those shootouts we'll see in the postseason. With Curry out for a third-straight game , though, it was abundantly clear which player stood out as the top scorer on the floor. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Fresh off 10-of-19 shooting from deep in two losses in his hometown of Oakland, Lillard excelled throughout Game 3 with a career playoff-high 40 points on 14-of-27 shooting from the field and 8-of-13 from beyond the arc to propel the Blazers to a 120-108 win at Moda Center. The home victory cuts the Warriors' advantage to 2-1 and creates new doubts in a series that looked to be heavily in the No. 1 seed's favor following a come-from-behind win in Game 2 . A potential return to action for Curry could change the story for Game 4 and beyond, but for now the headlines belong to...