2018-19 NBA Thread

I'm with you.

Given that it was 2-2 with Durant you would think the Rockets should be able to win this comfortably, and they very well might.

On the flip side, the history of Chris Paul, James Harden and Eric Gordon in high-pressure, must-win games is... not good. And the Warriors beat them down the stretch last night.

Warriors can certainly gag stuff away too. We'll see. I'm not sure where this goes.

 

Looks like Frank Vogel is their next big play.

Sources: Vogel to interview for Lakers job

 

Surprised it's even on the board until we know the results of Durant's MRI.

 

Kerr already announced that Durant is out for game six. I guess if the MRI results are bad and he's missing the rest of the playoffs, you could argue that the Warriors might react poorly, but they might also "rally" around the existing roster in some way, too.

 

Absolutely. Last night, Harden wanted no part of the spotlight down the stretch, Capela got badly outplayed by some guy who was in the G-League a year ago, and CP just looks old. I don’t trust this team at all, particularly against a team that has Klay and Steph, both of whom are still capable of going off for 50.

 

In my experience, a team often rallies and plays very very well for a game or two when a star goes down, then reality tends to set in. Of course, for this series a game or two is all the Warriors need.

 

And, like I mentioned uptopic, even a junior high knows in a game like last night's, you have to foul quickly down the stretch if you want any chance of staying close. They didn't do that. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.

 

If Houston doesn’t win, it will be nothing short of a tremendous failure.

You’re pushing a team to the limit and then it loses an all timer it has been relying on for just a ton. If you take the top player of any team at this juncture, it’s probably screwed. The Warriors might be an exception against a couple teams at this point, but not these Rockets.

 

No Boogie and and sub-par Curry as well.

 

In isolation, I don't think them losing this year is anything to feel shameful about. But, when it comes after them choking away the series last year with the awful shooting, and the collapse a couple years ago, plus the fact that Chris Paul is getting older and way, way more expensive... It'll look pretty bad that they had the Warriors on the ropes to varying degrees for two years, and couldn't finish either.

 

Didn’t Lyanna Mormont kill Boban 2 episodes ago?