We were one House missed FT away to potentially sweep OKC or at least closed them out in 5 We beat them 2 nil pretty convincingly without another superstar. This is very hard to do in the NBA playoffs. Russ wasn't himself in the first 2 games being very rusty. Lu Dort played the best physical defense one on one against Harden as far as I can remember. No one else can do that to Harden. Our defensive intensity was excellent for most of the series. Our defense ranked #1 in the first round. Ben and Rivers barely played to their capability and I expect to see more of them in this series Anything else? Let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Kept our turnover numbers low (except for Game 6). This needs to continue to give us a shot (launch more 3s).
1. Gordon is healthy and found his stroke 2. Cov found his stoke 3. Jeff Green produced and is a servicable player who can hit threes under pressure 4, Tucker played back to his playoff standards 5. Got good games out of ben mac, house, and rivers....we'll need them all this series 6. We didn't quit and came through when it mattered. Russ came back in game seven and kept us in the game with his killer mentality. He never let the previous game get him down. 7. Coaching staff altered their defense on the ball and didn't switch everything all the time. Took the ball out of pauls hands. 8. They shut gallo down and left it up to Dort. Good game plan in game 7 but somehow he kept hitting.
Good point. I will also add we did pretty ok on points off the TO we created. I believe we had a sizable advantage in that category over OKC. That was a deciding factor in G7
remember that controversial foul called on harden in the inbound play in the last minute of game 7? dort does the same thing or worse to harden almost every single inbound play leaning his wide heave body on harden every single time and the refs just allow it. no wonder harden's exhausted
Question: Take the the teams Harden has lost to in the playoffs? Look at their #2 and look at the Rockets #2.......which one were best? Warriors team had at least 4 hall of famers on it? I think iggy gets in. Even the spurs loss was a hall of fame coach and a hall of fame player. Rocket River.
Yes. Also Dort moved his feet, and fought through screens. Harden couldn't shake him off for the most part. He was like a mini-Harden stuck on Harden. If Harden gets by his defender and faces AD, watch out. He is gonna eat their defense alive.
Let's see him do it 2-3 games in a row before we declare him cured of the yips. THIS is a big, big key. As of Game 7, PJ has it dialed up to 11 and is ready to do whatever it takes. He's our glue guy, our spiritual leader.
That Warriors team was a historic team. Not even close. The Spurs team was extremely well-coached, and Harden pretty much had to deal with that team single-handedly. I love the fact the Midea thinks two recent league MVPs are somehow just push-overs to AD and LeBron. Also they are counting out EG, House, PJ, etc, etc.
If Iggy gets in before Horry, it'll be a travesty. Neither has the regular stats to get in, and if you're going on intangibles and playoff success, Big Shot Bob has the nickname to backup the nomination.
