We lost the turnover battle tonight. That won’t work. We need to take care of the ball and win the turnover battle in order to win because they are historically great. We won the offensive board game, but lost the turnover battle. They are a high turnover team and we are a low turnover team. We. Have. To. Win. That. Battle. I still got rockets in 5! Catch these hands idgaf
We did well limiting the turnovers in the first half, but in the second half there was some very sloppy play. Credit the Warriors. Their defense is outstanding. Draymond Green made some incredible defensive plays, and they were quicker to a number of loose balls too.
I actually liked the Rockets defensive game plan. Warriors were pretty much relegated to a jump shooting team tonight. Durant shot over the top of everyone. Open 3’s from Durant and Klay need to be cleaned up. Main cutter that hurt the Rockets tonight was Klay. Harden losing track of him. Ariza treated Iggy like he was Durant. Save your fouls for Durant. Play the drive......make Iggy shoot over you. Fast break points were a big discrepancy.....Warriors had something like 17 points to Rockets 3 (more or less). Missed layups turned into fast breaks. Too much complaining to refs instead of getting back on defense.
They were beyond annoying. You can tell TNT came in with an agenda/talking point of “No Ball Movement” Reggie Miller put down Houston half court offense on one play for no movement which turned into a fast break 3 on 2....and Miller says look, they pass to one another. It was a Fast Break!! Not a half court set. Rockets pass many a times on 3 on 2 fast breaks. 3 on 1 fast breaks as well.
