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Houston's stayed in its series with Jalen Green putting up games of 7, 38, 9, 8, 11, and 12. Green has had some duds against us, and some huge games against us. If we play Houston, I don't think we can count on him have so many bad games. Fred Vanleet meanwhile has put up 17, 25, 26, 29 in the last 4 games shooting out of his mind from three. I don't think that is something that is going to continue, although he did have one really good game against us in the regular season. I think we can shut down Fred on offense for the most part. Houston seems to only be playing 8 guys in their rotation.

Golden State, you have to take care of Curry obviously and Jimmy. Green will hit a few threes if you leave him wide open. Podziemski has had some good games against us, so you need to run him off the three point line. Golden State surprisingly has only play 3 players more than 30 minutes per game in the Houston series and are playing 9-10 guys a night.

Golden State has one really phyical player in Green who may try to hurt someone, where Houston has several players like Brooks that are really physical and may try to hurt you. Houston has the younger legs and can bounce back easier from a brutal 7 game series, but are also inexperienced. Curry on a heater can kill you on any give game, Houston doesn't have that for sure thing closer but Fred has been that in the last 4 games. Golden State more than likely has to double Ant on defense, maybe Gary Payton JR can defend him one on one for bits of the game. Amen Thompson can for sure defend Ant one on one without a double team.

Ant seems to want to play Golden State and continue his legacy slayings, so we may as well root for home court advantage and the Warriors. But I'm confident we can beat both teams.

The reason why Steven Adams has suddenly become so relevant in this series is because Golden State doesn't have the personnel to play him off the floor. They don't have any elite iso dribble drive guys and they always have multiple non-shooters.

Come on Curry hit a damn shot

My goodness, both these teams really struggle to score in the half court.

BloopOracle wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 8:05 pm Come on Curry hit a damn shot

Buddy and Draymond lead the scoring with 8 apiece...just as we all thought.

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 8:06 pm My goodness, both these teams really struggle to score in the half court.

I just turned it on, Q...did the Rockets go much zone in the first?

We need NAW to show up big time regardless of who we play. He's probably our best chaser when it comes to guarding Curry and he's probably got the quickest feet when it comes to staying in front of J. Green, so either way, he may be prioritized a bit over DDV off the bench. Gotta start hitting open 3s, something he's failed to do consistently for two straight playoff runs.

FNG wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 8:08 pm

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 8:06 pm My goodness, both these teams really struggle to score in the half court.

I just turned it on, Q...did the Rockets go much zone in the first?

I turned it on midway through the 1st and really didn't notice.

Buddy Hield to the rescue....He's been really bad this series, but perhaps pulls a Rudy and saves the Warriors season in this game.

Looney came into the NBA combine with measurables about the same/less than Naz Reid, yet plays about 2x bigger than him.