2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West First Round: #2 Houston Rockets vs #7 Golden State Warriors (Series tied 1-1)

[RollingWave]

Jalen Green gets a bad rep for his defense by people who don't watch Rockets games, I hope tonight dispelled that narrative. Happy for this new era of Rockets to get their first playoff win.

It was legit bad until Ime came to town. and even now his effort is inconsistent, but that's also pretty normal for guys with high usage.

Warriors won game 1, but it really should be noted that they scored under 100 in both games, if this continues they're not winning the series in most likihood, the Rocket's offense can be horrific at times, but they're still at least a meaningful level or two above Orlando

[Frankie]

Warriors fans having a normal one

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The collective head loss of the Warriors fans has been a sight to behold.

[reamily]

People say that its an achievement that rockets will win the series.. are the warriors not exposed yet as a two man team

[Kiss of Death]

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[LeBronSpaghetti]

Draymond’s dirty play ends up injuring his own teams second best player… Yikes

[sp6r=underrated]

I forgot Jeff Green was still on the Rockets. He's in the running for worst ever non-big with a long career.

[MoreyWins]

I'm surprised this series has so many posts. Before it started, it seemed like there was more hype for the Nuggets-Clippers or Lakers-Wolves series.

[Crunch 99]

Holy cow! After just two games, the Rockets have a 30 tot rebound advantage and 20 oreb advantage.

[TFJava]

Jalen Green was in the zone.

[TFJava]

On Saturday the Dubs need to be more aggressive. Pick up the physicality. Houston is not going to bend. Having Butler back will help the Warriors. Last night's game had too many uncontested shots allowed by the Warriors. On a side note, this offseason the Warriors need more size and height on the front court. There will be a number of free agents at the PF and C positions.

[TFJava]

I would not be surprised to see this series go 7 games.

[TFJava]

Hat's off to the Rockets; they made excellent adjustments for game two to shake up the Dubs. Time for Steve Kerr to counter and the Warriors ready to play in front of a sold-out crowd at home.

[Impuniti]

On Saturday the Dubs need to be more aggressive. Pick up the physicality. Houston is not going to bend. Having Butler back will help the Warriors. Last night's game had too many uncontested shots allowed by the Warriors. On a side note, this offseason the Warriors need more size and height on the front court. There will be a number of free agents at the PF and C positions.

It's not confirmed that Jimmy will be back by then. I would just rest him unless he's really ok for that game. Podz should be ready and hopefully eats normal food before the game.

Some of the guys are just playing a bit too soft. I saw Moody grab a rebound and play with it, then someone took. Grab it like a man and hold on it, he was holding on to the ball like it's a preseason game. Rockets are going to have more rebounds and Oreb, but the difference can't be an average of 50%. Otherwise, this is going to be extremely difficult.

[TrueFan420]

Define last couple? Curry has a championship as recently as 2022. Hes placed higher in MVP voting and has lead the Warriors in gauntlet that is the West vs the East. They were struggling the second half the year. Guess what, so were the Heat being led by Jimmy. Obviously we got better with Jimmy joining and he’s a beast. He’s exactly what the team needed. That doesn’t make him better than Curry.

You’re creating a narrative for Jimmy when he’s never been shy about stating what he thinks/feels. Maybe you should simply listen to Jimmy.

jimmy's answer is the equivalent of "no, that dress doesn't make you look fat." i don't know why y'all are hammering this. there is literally no other answer he would give and you know it.

steph won in 2022, but butler was clearly better in the playoffs, unless we're still just going with the "ringz" argument here in 2025. he made the ECF with a 29.9 PER, 0.291 WS48, 11.8 BPM, all of which led the playoffs for anyone who went beyond 1 round and are elite all-time type numbers for a playoff run. i can't think of any year someone led the playoffs in all of those and wasn't the best player in the playoffs. it shouldn't be difficult to say butler was better.

he then had an elite 2023 regular season and got an 8th seed to the finals, and his first round against milwaukee was probably a top 5 series of the last 25 years, while steph wasn't as good in the regular season, had a solid first round and a pretty underwhelming 2nd round. again, the argument should be pretty clearly for butler here.

and 2024, i would say they were fairly close, with neither exactly lighting it up in the regular season and neither playing in the playoffs, but butler slightly wins box score numbers while steph had the first negative on/off of his career so it certainly wouldn't get any better than a tie for steph.

and this year, butler again has better numbers and completely turned around a warriors team that was 10-20 in the last 30 games WITH steph before butler showed up. let's just say if the warriors were 10-20 when steph returned from an injury and then went 20-2, i don't think anyone would be arguing it was actually draymond that was batman.

What an comically dumb statement. Butler played amazing against non-contenders doesn't make his playoff run better. Steph completely dominated Boston and couldn't let them play their defensive gameplan, which is why they switched up their defensive strategy in game 5 and got torn apart by the entire team.

It's honestly impressive how terrible the takes are when it comes to Steph. But someone who writes this nonsense is probably another that has 5-6 different best players in the world in the last 4 years without putting the 4x champion that has 2x MVPs.

The more I read of their comments the more I realize it’s not worth responding.

[TrueFan420]

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The collective head loss of the Warriors fans has been a sight to behold.

There’s trash fans/people that support every team. I wouldn’t make it out to an entire fan base.

[TrueFan420]

Jimmy injury is rough but I understand Kerr sitting him. They did what they needed to do. Split the series on the road. Get home and handle your business and the series is yours. Expecting a hard fought 2 games but I think we can and should take both. Hopefully Jimmy will be back and the support players will do better on their home court vs road.

[web123888]

Warriors cooked without Butler. They definitely win the series with him healthy, zero chance without.

[ILOVEIT]

How in any NBA universe does Jalen Green NOT GET SUSPENED for walking up Draymond and ELBOWING HIM IN THE FACE?

[Black Jack]

I like the Rockets but with healthy Jimmy Warriors probably win this one. It's close.

That said Rockets are a 2 seed and deserve respect for that. No matter what happens in this years playoffs, clearly it's a great young team that is going to be in contention for years.

Also, Jalen Green was getting a lot of hate but he showed he has some elite skills last night!

[KGDirkTD_Fan]

People say that its an achievement that rockets will win the series.. are the warriors not exposed yet as a two man team

I struggle with folks putting the Warriors in as some dark horse contender pre-Butler injury. Curry is 37 years old and Jimmy is 35 with a mediocre supporting cast. Curry is great, he's not 30 years old, he has to play every game like a game 7 to get this team going. what does an actual game 7 look like for this team is what I'm wondering.