Can you ignore a seed No. 2 in the NBA playoffs?
Surely it seems that this is what is happening with Houston’s rocks before a First Round Playoff Series With the no. 7 seeds of Golden State Warriors.
And although it is true, the rockets have offensive problems, and they are so young, the Warriors, in contrast, have four times champion Steph Curry – The best shooter of all time – and a man whose nickname is “playoff” or “cubes” in Jimmy Butler (Any of which will do this time of the year). I would advise the Warriors and their sponsors before this series of seven games to listen to the once repetitive call of Steve Kerr of the team’s peak:
Rockets can be helpless that are directed to this series, but everyone should be “appropriate” for them.
Because in the NBA playoffs, you are playing a completely different child or basketball than you play in the regular season, and that plays directly in the hands of the rockets.
If you have seen Curry in recent games, you have noticed that it is being mutilated. The clippers and the Grizzlies live up to the names of their teams in the games they must win. Was it basketball? Barely. The Warriors opponents were playing rugby with Curry, who was being grabbed and thrown from the ball and, apparently, the look of any referee. Or maybe at this time of the year, the referees do not care: what else can we infer when we saw the Guard of the Grizzlies Scotty Pips Jr. Do you put a two -handed thrust on Curry’s chest while the Warriors star shot a triple?
But pushing the lines of legality is part of the experience of the playoffs. If you know that no one will stop, it will also drive 95 miles per hour. The Warriors’ last month or so has been a preview of what will come now that the playoffs are real here.
And in the middle of those previous views, an extremely relevant data point: April 6, when the Rockets reached Chase Center and beat the Dubs 106-96.
That was the rockets in their best physical and suffocating defense, an effective length that appeared in the glass and sufficient shot to win.
They were the warriors at their worst. Curry shot 1 of 10 for a total total of 3 points. If Buddy said and Gary Payton II would not have obtained 36 combined points (good luck telling that in the playoffs), the final score could have seemed much more unpleasant for the Dubs.
Was it all the thrust, holding and grabbing the rockets for strictly legal curry?
Not equally close.
But it was the call then, and it was certainly called from game 1 on Sunday in Houston.
In the middle of that game, the Rockets coach, the former NBA executor and the constant provocative Ime Umoka and Curry were screaming while the teams went to their costumes of respect:
“When people begin to complain about missing or crying for physicalness, he has done his job,” Umoka told Athletics after that game. “That is the first step to win the battle. So I told my team, when this team begins to cry for that, to intensity, aggressiveness and make the referees fit you.”
This is the stage of this series of the best of seven games that seems to go to the distance.
UDOKA SIC SIC your rabid and anxious team at number 30 and dare someone else to overcome them.
The rock coach also deployed an intelligent trick on the last confrontation of these teams, using Center, Alperen şengün, to defend the Wing Moses Moody warriors, who often hangs in the corner of Offens. It allowed the Rockets to change the defenders in each action superior to the broken between Curry, Butler and Dreemond Green-Grening the attack of the small ball of the Warriors against them.
They were playoffs level tactics before the playoffs just started.
Kerr’s counter to that movement will contribute largely to decide the series. Does Payton try (a power striker in the body of a guard), the Brazilian spark plug Gui Gui Santos or the Jonathan Kuminga in Moody’s Banking Banking?
With two idiosyncratic teams (a good way to say Flaedwed), I can’t wait to see what both coaches come for for this series.
But no matter what movement, everything will be reduced to the superstar on the floor: Curry. And whether it is Warriors Nemesis for a long time and the first team selection Dillon Brooks or Oakland, Amen Thompson, 22, who was not a participant in Curry’s basketball camps: the rockets for Curry, Tohound, Houund every trick of the book (and some who are out of what is in the agitation) They crowded the damages and the supermarket.
And although the Warriors now have a second viable offensive option in Butler, this is still the curry show. He will take all the experience and guild of Baby Face Assassin (as well as a great help of Kerr and the teammates of the Warriors of Curry) to find ways to free themselves and tear down shots.
If you can do that, the Rockets won a lot of resource. They have no possibility against one of the greats of all time who play at that level.
But if the battered jury (pelvis, sprain the right thumb) and, let’s be honest, the aging of the curry cannot find a way to overcome the youth, speed and tenacity of the rockets, this series could be much shorter than anyone
Anyway, I expect a rock fight from a series that is both MMA and the NBA, and Rackind makes the rivalry of Rockets, once candidates, with a new lot of anger, fear and antagonism.
But during the last decade, I have learned something important: it is not against curry.
Man was never supposed to be so good. His peak was supposed to last so long.
And here is, still at the top of his game to face a new iteration of the Rockets team, which entered a long and half decade after beating them in the 2019 playoffs.
Take a moment to let that sink: he is on his leg in this so long that his best rival had to build a completely new team to overcome him, and he is still here, waiting for them.
I think the rockets are overlooked, I don’t think the end of Curry’s reign is close.
It is still inevitable. Give me the Dubs in 7.
