ClutchFans Game Thread: Warriors @ Rockets 5/4/2025 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 7)

Keep Ted Cruz away from Toyota Center as far as possible!

Sick and tired of the dude showing up for then Houston to lose.

 

Summit uniforms.

Legends in the stands.

Who will kiss of the death the Warriors to seal the 3-1 comeback? Someone has to.

 

Will have to see how the ref'ing shakes out early on. If they start calling tick tacky fouls on our guys....

Either way they have tough it up! Enjoy the g7 experience

 

Who would trade JG for? Alpha guards like Ant, or Jalen Brunson are impossible to get. Any of the two makes this current Rockets a favorite to win it all this year.

 

LFG

 

Listening to the announcers last night, it does feel like the national sentiment has turned on Draymond Green. Like Doris Burke said, it's just getting tiring, and everyone can see the double standard that he receives spitting in the refs faces the way he does, even after they call flagrants and technicals on him. Everyone seems to get why he'll never be ejected.

But with Minnesota being given the green light to whisk away the old, small, and out of shape Lakers, I think that's also a sign that we have the green light also. The NBA eventually needs to pivot onto newer stars, and that's what this year's playoffs is showing the world. SGA, Ant, Tatum, and now maybe Sengun is rising to take the mantle as well.

 

Dude ruins everything he touches

 

Makes no sense, but oddly that makes me feel even better about the game tomorrow. Seems like we always play with high energy with those Jerseys and Jalen has good offensive games.

 

Tell our good friend Buddy welcome back to HOUSTON HELL!

 

Curry gonna be hard to stop. Unless hes straight out cooked with hand and all.

 

This will be a close one…. For the 1st 8min.!!!
Then we take over!!!!!!
BORING WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Not a Cruz fan but he was at game 6 vs Phillies when the Astros won it.

 

He better show up with a worriers jersey on

 

Got my tickets

We put an end to a decade of Warriors nonsense

 

Since so many people are saying this, I am not singling you out. But enough with the "Jalen has been really good on defense" please. He was okay at best only in the second half of game 6 (maybe his best defensive game so far outside of game 2), let alone good or really good. The first half was some ugly ish.

He must improve on guarding screens and is always half a second/a second too late on rotations, which causes him to have to commit silly fouls or do extra work to catch up with the guy he's responsible for defending. Take his block on podz in game 6 for example; had he not lose podz for half a second, would he have needed to sprint to try to block the shot? Probably not. And he was lucky that podz didn't pump-fake and relocate.

BUT.

Jalen's a good dude that apparently hasn't let his subpar play affect team morale (look at how the whorerriors folded in the 4th quarter of game 6). And he has shown improvement in spending his energy towards hustling to cover for his own mistakes and towards rebounding the ball.

Having high character and motor/hustle is half the battle, and the positive attitude that he has been showing since the regular season will always give me hope that he has a good career ahead. Hope the Rockets keep him for a very long time.

In this series though? He's just not ready yet as a 1st/2nd option on offense type of guy. Udoka needs to keep a short leash on him unless they give priority to player evaluation and player development over short-term results.

 

I'll be interested to see if gsw switches strategy. Will they continue blitzing Jalen and leaving Sengun to operate in the paint? Will they finally help Draymond, pack the paint and live with Jalen having space to operate around the perimeter, open shots from 3?

I think the word is out. The Rockets are a better team. They have to pick a poison between Jalen and Alpe, and have no answer for the myriad role players after that. We just saw Curry going off, Butler living at the line and they still got smoked *at home* in a close out game.

It's in the never say never category. The level of foot shootery the Rockets would have to commit to is basically impossible.

 

The warrior missed a lot 3s last game. I’m worried that what the games look like if more of those falls. I’m worried we’re going to see a special game out of someone other than Steph and JB. We need to get the offense going quicker in the shot clock. Each possession is extremely valuable. We need to knock down our free throws. We need Ime to be able to see the games progression and make the right adjustments. Limit turnovers and box out. I’m nervous as hell for this game

 

Need to slowly wear down the Warriors oldest best players, and smoke them in the 2nd half. Denver is doing it to the Clippers.

Game 7 homecourt advantage. Let's clobber those fools.

 

scott foster just suited up

 

With the Clippers losing, 2 of the 3 teams playoff teams I utterly despise have been eliminated from the playoffs.

Hopefully this changes to 3/3 tomorrow evening.