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

[Harry Palmer]

The plot against Golden State thickens! So devious!

[Chuck Everett]

Sengun has been awful. I don't care how many points he has. He's been just making mistakes, left and right.

[BigDan245]

I think Sengun just got stuck too far under the hoop....

[ejftw]

I looked up Pat Spencer - he was the #1 overall pick in the pro Lacrosse league in 2019. This could be a Lin situation unfolding

And never even dressed for the team.

That's a Fran Vasquez situation

[zshawn10]

Masterclass by the refs

[Wolfgang630]

Why is Spencer sitting? Is Kerr dumb? The guy is playing so good and you pull him. How can he be confident that if he plays good his coach will let him keep playing?

[f4p]

Does hack a Adams even.make much sense. Rockets offense isn't exactly a thing of beauty.

[ejftw]

Refs gonna foul everyone on the rockets out, lol.

Well, they better step it up. Warriors have been called for one more foul as a squad

[f4p]

I think Sengun just got stuck too far under the hoop....

Yeah, should probably have just called a foul on amen Thompson.

[sp6r=underrated]

I wonder if Kerr is giving thoughts on when to pull the plug on this game.

[azcatz11]

I looked up Pat Spencer - he was the #1 overall pick in the pro Lacrosse league in 2019. This could be a Lin situation unfolding

And never even dressed for the team.

That's a Fran Vasquez situation

Felipe Lopez vibes on my end. Let’s see what happens

[sp6r=underrated]

Does hack a Adams even.make much sense. Rockets offense isn't exactly a thing of beauty.

I was thinking the same thing. This isn't the Cleveland Cavs.

[The High Cyde]

Series is done if Butler is out. Unfortunate, but most teams can’t survive without their second best player in the playoffs.

[ejftw]

I looked up Pat Spencer - he was the #1 overall pick in the pro Lacrosse league in 2019. This could be a Lin situation unfolding

And never even dressed for the team.

That's a Fran Vasquez situation

Felipe Lopez vibes on my end. Let’s see what happens

Ah, Long Beach Jam legend Felipe

[Edrees]

That Butler injury was just an unfortunate series of events.

A: Draymond is holding back thompson (boxing him out)
B: Adams and Podziemski battling
C: Butler jumps in the air for the rebound
D: Soon as Butler is in the air, Draymond loses control of the boxout of Thompson so Thompson is about to move forward toward the rim (in full control)
E: unfortunately, in this exact same moment, Adams also breaks free of Pod and he bumps into Thompson just enough to push him forward the moment Thompson was free of draymond's box out (Step E), so it sent him flying forward instead of being in control of his movement

Because D and E happened at the same time (thompson got bumped by Adams the exact moment he was no longer held back by draymond) his momentum carried him extremely fast forward

[f4p]

I wonder if Kerr is giving thoughts on when to pull the plug on this game.

Warriors sat Steph out for a whole season when he only had one dpoy/hof teammate back in 2020. Guess I could see them giving up on a playoff game with no Butler even though it wouldn't make much sense only down 13.

[Patches Perry]

I wonder if Kerr is giving thoughts on when to pull the plug on this game.

I know the going theory is that you concede in order to prepare for the next games, but I think it's the opposite. You don't know if Jimmy will be back game 3 and beyond, so winning this game becomes that much more important. You can't concede a playoff game in this situation especially before half.

[rockmanslim]

Series is done if Butler is out. Unfortunate, but most teams can’t survive without their second best player in the playoffs.

Boston was fine today without their 2nd best player

[ejftw]

Gary Gordon missing the jam

[azcatz11]

Series is done if Butler is out. Unfortunate, but most teams can’t survive without their second best player in the playoffs.

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