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

[Handlez]

Love Steven Adams.

Cleans the floor then cleans the board.

[KGDirkTD_Fan]

Anyone take the Warriors over Wolves/Clippers/Nuggets? I'm pretty torn where these guys rank with each other, folks are talking about GSW being a dark horse team here but idk if they are better than those 3 teams in a series.

I am not sure if I take them over the rockets.

Seeing what just happened lol I spoke too soon, been a common occurrence for me tonight

[HardenGoat]

Game is not over. Don’t trade the youngsters yet

[TheBullsDynasty]

Alpy has 22 points and the rest of the Rockets starters have 24 points combined through the first 3 quarters. Only 9 point game. If the rest of the team wakes up in the 4th, they can still win this.

[durden_tyler]

Okay great effort on the boards for the Rockets, maybe they have a shot at coming back for this game.


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[ShotCreator]

Between Post, Podziemski, and Moody, the Warriors have never had support players this low IQ in the Kerr era, IMO. Terrible shot selections and sense of where to go on offense from all of them,

[RB34]

Cutting it to 9 is as about as good as you could have asked for.

[Castle Black]

Hield, Post, and Looney don't belong anywhere near a basketball court for the Warriors during the Playoffs. These guys stink something fierce.

[scrabbarista]

The Rockets are playing tow power forwards and two centers. I've never seen something like this.

It's so fun. I've been eating up the double big lineup all season. It's nostalgic and futuristic at the same time.

[facothomas22]

Jalen Green is having a really bad start to his playoff career. Not a factor on ether side of the ball. This is also exposing some of the problems I was mentioning with Rockets and why I favor the Warriors.

[Chuck Everett]

How Jimmy Butler rises to top 10 level during every playoff is truly bizzare

Jimmy intentionally gives 70-80% effort during the regular season to save energy and has been doing that for years at this point

Other stars need to learn from that

But that was one of the reasons Miami was always in the play-in.

[KGDirkTD_Fan]

How Jimmy Butler rises to top 10 level during every playoff is truly bizzare

Jimmy intentionally gives 70-80% effort during the regular season to save energy and has been doing that for years at this point

Other stars need to learn from that

Sometimes its just 70-80% effort all year for others

[FarBeyondDriven]

How Jimmy Butler rises to top 10 level during every playoff is truly bizzare

Jimmy intentionally gives 70-80% effort during the regular season to save energy and has been doing that for years at this point

he also completely disappears for quarters and halves even during his "Playoff P" games like this 3rd quarter. He's the weirdest guy in NBA history. It's like a flip gets switched and he just goes through the motions out there on a whim. Never know which version you're going to get

[Harry Palmer]

If the games are all called this one-sided Houston has no chance. It’s like 2 different standards. Points in the paint is traditionally the greatest predictor of FTA advantage. Except when it’s called like this. I can ride with letting them be super physical like they are when the Rockets have the ball. I can ride with calling it really tight like they are doing when the Dubs have the ball. But the standards shouldn’t change at the halfcourt.

Are you by any chance watching the Rockets feed?

Just asking, because I've had it on TNT, but flipped over to the Rockets feed for a second. It was the ticky-tack foul on Brooks in the post against Green. The replay showed Green charge into a stationary Brooks' chest and then elbow him in the head before the ticky tack foul. I assume TNT left all of that out, if they showed any replay at all, which I doubt. It's funny what the camera can do sometimes.

No, TNT. They showed it but didn’t comment on it beyond inexplicably calling it ‘playoff basketball’…as Green walked to the ft line.

[durden_tyler]

Time for a fast 4Q start for the Warriors and get this over with.


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[Tracymcgoaty]

Jimmy intentionally gives 70-80% effort during the regular season to save energy and has been doing that for years at this point

Other stars need to learn from that

But that was one of the reasons Miami was always in the play-in.

True. But he can probably half ass it on this warriors team.

more stars should learn from that. Like if Lebron is still playing next season i'd want him to half ass it until the playoffs. Especially at that age.

[whatisacenter]

Warriors giving the young Rockets a lifeline..

[CelticSooner]

Kuminga still on the bench huh

[facothomas22]

Also the Warriors bigs outside of Draymond Green have been quite unimpressive. Quinten Post and Kevon Looney simply don't look they belong in a playoff game. Is this just a blip or this part of a bigger concern? I guess we will find as we get deeper into this series

[mkot]

The Rockets are playing tow power forwards and two centers. I've never seen something like this.

They realy don't have that star scorer who can get a bucket when needed so might as well go big and try to win the possession game