[Video] Game 5-4Q Condensed: 720p All Rockets Possessions last 7mins

3:10 he doesn't even appear on the screen but the Paul 4 on 4 works. Capela dunk

 

The Rockets gave up 32 points in the 4th quarter.

That's the most they gave up since Q3 of game 3.

In short, the idea that down KD is a big problem for GSW offensively is ludicrous, imo. Their problem is depth and even more injury risk, and potentially defense. But hte Rockets 27 points in the 4th last night was their second best quarter.

The issue, more than anything, is (1) MDA coaching deep in playoffs when forced to make changes, and (2) actually getting 4 or 5 guys to play well at the same time.

#1 is the biggest issue, imo. That the GSw "exploded" offensively in the 4th quarter last night came as ZERO SHOCK to me. The second KD went out, I was thinking many we're going to see more movement and classic GSW offense. I knew it. Do I have the rotation answers, or strategy answers to note in a timeout or quarter change?? No... but I'm not getting paid millions of dollars to coach this team. And maybe they just aren't capable of things like "traps" effectively?? But it's confusing why not. and it's more confusing why Rivers was in, then out, then in, then out, then in (I'm serious, this is what he did), with Shumpert being in, then out, then in, then finally out because on the last sub where he replaced Rivers is when GSW went on a quick 6-0 run. Capela was out, then in, then out, then in. CP3, who was sucking, played the whole quarter. Kerr kept it simple and obvious.

 

3:18 Harden has Curry on him but Chris Paul takes it onto himself to try and finish over Looney and gets blocked.

 

By my calculations. We had 14 possessions (including fouls where we got the ball again)... Harden was the focal point on 7 of those possessions and we got a good look on all 7 of them (I consider the PJ OOB a good look)

In the other 7 possessions we got 2 good looks and we got bailed out twice.

After rewatching it, Harden definitely did not check out. He tried to play within the flow of the offense. It didnt work.

 

I’m not going off on officiating this game as is warranted in many others, but one thing I thought was strange were the number of offensive fouls on the rockets where the defender was not set but backpedaling. Seemed like the consistent thing they were looking for was that the offensive player got into the chest of the defender but shouldn’t they have to establish some position?? Anyone else find those calls strange?

 

Possible yeah,could have swung it to harden there. But he had the open lane on the pass out though. Cp3 just having issues finishing

 

It's also worth noting that the scoring in that span was 18 to 20.

In games 3 and 4 we made stops when we needed to. Last night we didnt.

 

It’s not the offense really, it’s the fact we didn’t get stops and rebound

 

I totally agree. I think this alone caused several TOs for Rockets, and it all goes under the radar.

 

Thanks for taking the time to do this, HP. Much appreciated.

 

You can see PJ hesitate for a second, thinking, "No way he's going to shoot it." Without that hesitation, he closes out better and I'm not sure Donkey hits the shot.

That said, I still say in that situation you let Draymond have that shot 10 out of 10 times, because odds are he won't make it.

Also, props to Shumpert for battling for position under the hoop against a much bigger Looney.

 

The last few minutes, yes. But GSW closing us out in the final minutes wasn't the biggest problem. It's the fact that we went on a 20-pt deficit in the first half. The rally we had at the end of 2nd quarter, and all through 3rd quarter should've been us building up a safe lead, not us trying to get back into it.

 

Harden could have been slightly more aggressive but wtf is he supposed to do after carrying them all game?

At some point Clint has to grow a pair and not be a complete b****

And Paul has to make an open 3

D’Antoni could have solved one of these by playing nene the warriors exploited Clint to perfection and exposed this dumbass

 

True.

Rockets defense held the warriors to only 104 points, even with Klay coming out on fire in the first half. The Rockets offense only scored 99 points.

This is on the Rockets O, not D.

TBH the game biggest moments of the game weren’t even these last 7 minutes but the beginning of the 4th quarter. Rockets didn’t capitalize enough off the shock of the warriors and the home crowd after Durant got injured.

 

Well that's what everyone is saying, he's tired. But then why call the swing? After the switch and rivers clears ( backdoor isn't open), pj Tucker is looking to pass to harden but then harden calls for the swing, so it's not clear they were planning on a swing the whole time.

It ended up a good shot anyway but goes to the question of how much harden was being passive

 

We shouldn’t get down 20, but definitely expected us to be down. They were pumped up in front of their home crowd. We got that back pretty quick though. We had a full 12 minutes with a tie game to make something happen and gave up 32 points. That is unacceptable.