Sittin' Sidewayz Dem Boys In The Bay: Official Warriors vs. Rockets Western Conference Finals Thread

[Paper Boi]

6'11 francisco garcia

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

As long as Steph Curry continues to get exploited on defense, the Rockets will have a better than good chance this series.

1) With the Rockets ultra small lineup, they have shooters at every position. When they target Curry, the other Warriors players can't leave their assignment because they will get a wide open 3. This allows whoever is ISO'ing Curry to go to work without concern of a double or triple. If the Warriors do help, the Rockets just swing the ball until they get a wide open 3 or easy bucket inside. This is going to be a major problem for the Warriors

2) Playing all this defense against bigger, stronger, more athletic, and more physical players is wearing Curry down. Curry is used to hiding on the lesser offensive player but almost all the Rockets players, even the role players, can take you off the dribble. So Curry is forced to play defense every possession. This is obviously affecting his offense because he is so worn out on the other end he doesn't have enough energy for offense and he is also not used to this especially at this level.

3) Whether Curry is rust, injured, out of rhythm, etc. it doesn't matter. The Rockets are refusing to let Curry get back in a groove.

The Warriors will probabl try to flash and pressure the ball handler during the screen to prevent the switch, but Dantoni is too smart offensively to not figure out a way around that. The message that the Rockets are sending to the Warriors is, "no matter where you hide Curry, we will find him." This is why Kerr looked so worried and concerned during the game 2 loss. It's not the fact that they lost or even got blown out. Kerr is worried by how they lost. The Rockets figured out a very effective way to beat them and Kerr is uncertain if there any adjustments that exist that will prevent Curry being a huge liability for them.

Was I wrong @Gil Scott-Heroin? Your moist ass negged me for this. Kyrie thot

 

[NYC Rebel]

John bender with acne issues

 

[jerzboy]

No, they don't. That's another bs excuse.

A lot of fans are saying they are the "GOAT" team. They were close to winning without Iggy. They lost because of lack of game plan.

Houston somehow coaxed Golden State into ISO Ball. Gotta give D'Antoni credit. We all went after him when he said "We don't need to change anything". We went after him when he said "the pressure is on GS". Houston's brand of ISO ball works. Even if Houston doesn't win the series, it's evident that their brand of ISO ball slow downs the pace and takes GS out of rhythm. Picking on Steph on defense and taking him to the rim, instead of overpassing, is the way to go. Of course you pass of there's a better shot, but turn your man into a turnstyle of you know you can.

Kerr is looking bad. Never noticed it, but dude is being out coached. He looking like Ty Lue and just relying on talent.

 

[50CentStan]

that's smiley worthy

 

[The War Report]

KD had a terrible game.

 

[Damnshow]

Yall gotta put some respeck on the rockets, 2-2 thats a competitive series, now anything can happen.

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

 

[dayun]

Rockets lose a game you barely get any threads but as soon as the warriors lose it's a whole bunch of trash on the first page

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

 

[L@CaT]

Crazy how the only thing some people took from this game was Skip Bayless/ESPN takes like "choking".

Tonight was like a throwback early 00s game. Pure iso-ball from both teams especially in that 2nd half. Both teams are elite defensively & all the switching eliminates any off-ball action. Add in the fact both teams were running a 7 man rotation & you could visibly see every player was completely exhausted at the end.

Free-Throws & CP3 pretty much won us that 4th quarter.

Hell of a game, my heart nearly exploded when Chris Paul let Curry get free at the end.

They have to play every other day from here on out - so you know fatigue is going to play its role. Both Steph and Harden are at their worst when they play exhausted - so it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Seven games looking likely

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

the disrespect is real since the game been over.shyt

kerr talkin bout they fatigued and they didnt get great shots.

awful shot selection last 2 mintutes coachwtf was yall doing.i wasnt even nervous for HOU

 

[Bigblackted4]

Its like 10 KD Threads on the first page..

Bruh I looked at the front page and said to myself it’s gonr be a short night in the coli they spamming

 

[Thegospel]

I’m just going off the narrative that Kd gets no respect for anything he does with the warriors. Just checking if the double talk was still in effect.

yes, this was his first bad game

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

She looks better than your mom on her worst day

Cape pressed flying faster than ever huh lame nikka? lol