[The Athletic] The Warriors and Rockets aren't as similar as you think — it's a fascinating strategi

The Cavs do have a chance to take out the Warriors and Boston is an interesting team. The Rockets seem to have the scoring power the D is the big Q

 

What, like take them out to dinner?

 

Do you realize with all of their superior firepower and depth and what not, the Rockets are 4.5 game behind them in spite of all our injuries.

 

Green is a much bigger threat to us than Curry.

 

What are you talking about? Our non-superstars are shooting the following for this season:

• Green - 41.5%
• Moute - 38.7%
• Ariza - 38.4%
• Anderson - 36.7%
• Gordon - 34.3%
• Tucker - 33.3%

The professional shooters are the ones that are struggling this year while our "chuckers" are the ones that for the most part, are consistently hitting their open looks. Ego is finding other ways to be effective while Anderson needs an intervention to make him shoot more. Honestly, one of the biggest reasons our 3p% is so low is because early on when we were healthy and blowing out teams by the 3rd, we had Trash Mamba coming in and tanking our averages from downtown into the abyss.

 

We are actually 4.5 games behind them.

 

Good call out, forgot that they played more games this year.

 

Agree with this. Green is the oil that allows their machine to run smoothly. He's a DPOY candidate every year, and is able to give them a high IQ roll man who can find the open shooter when help defenses come. He's also just respectable enough a shooter where you can't just leave him completely open all night.

 

How's that even relevant?

SIL

 

Besides Green who is a product of sample size are you sure you put the result of the game in one of these guys' shot? Who is the Ray Allen of the team? The guy you know is going to knock down an elimination game winning 3.

You wanna be Wow'd by stats? Tell me how many 40%+ 3pt shooters the warriors have?

 

It's like we don't have one of the best ISO superstars in the league and another superstar PG who has hit a lot of clutch shots for us already this season... OH WAIT! Shots when the game are on the line are why we have superstars.

Using your argument about sample size (totally legitimate), they have three in their stars Curry, Klay, and KD. Outside of KD, they tanked for Curry and Klay. In spite of having an owner who refused to tank, we are doing pretty well for ourselves. Point is, they have the 3 great shooters we all know about, but that doesn't mean we have a few professional shooters and a bunch of chuckers like how you erroneously tried to portray. We have more good shooters, they have more great shooters.

The sooner people here understand and get over the fact that GSW has 4 all-stars and a bunch of depth and move on to how are some of the realistic ways Rockets can win, the sooner we can have actual intelligent conversation about competition between the two teams. Rockets CAN beat Warriors. In case some of you fake fans missed it, we played them the first game of the season with a hobbled CP3 when they were at full strength after their ring ceremony and energy levels were high.

The key to beating GSW IMO is CP3 leading our 2nd unit. Of course Harden's performance will be important as well as are ability to hit our threes, but the one clear cut advantage we have is that our 2nd unitwith CP3 leading them curb stomps the **** out of any team's 2nd unit. You guys want to know why we are so successful when healthy? It's because we had SSS tier PG play for every meaningful minute of the game. When you have injuries however, that cannot happen and our system breaks down.

 

The rockets are playing the rest of the field.

We’re clearly the 2nd best way in the nba so it doesn’t shock me.

But the warriors have had curry out 18 games KD 8 green 5 iggy quite a few.

You could argue They’ve had just as many as us.

I’m cool with going to war cp3 harden bs KD and Steph I think if it was just that and role players we would be pretty even but when u add klay and green it gets out of hand.

As someone else mentioned, they have 3 guys around the 50/40/90 club and there all on high volume over 20 ppg scoring.

It’s judt insane.

 

Yes take them out to dinner.

 

Not even sure they can do that at this point.