Unpopular opinion but the Warriors had more talent than the Rockets. Blaming the loss on Udoka is unfair.
I disagree. He seems like the type that wouldn’t want to gamble and would prefer the opportunity to personally develop players and his team. He and Pop like to mold players from scratch. Because if you don’t 100% buy in to whatever Ime wants, it’s not going to work.
Also disagree with this — the talent point. I don’t blame Ime necessarily, though the offensive scheming has been bad. But talent wise, we had way more overall talent. But they had Steph and Jimmy. And the other guys stepped up and did well enough. But having two legit stars that have BEEN there goes a longggg way.
and the rule of the nba is that the team with the most talented players usually wins. I get it. Seems like semantics. We had a team that had more talented players usually across the board, but their best players are still better than our best players.
I don’t think it’s semantics. It’s math. The mean talent level was higher on the Rockets. But the warriors had two outliers in Jimmy and Steph. And since only one person can shoot the ball at a time, having one player significantly better than the other team’s players, as you said, makes you more likely to win if you can keep the game close. Then you just add the experience of championship runs in 3 key players vs 1 for Rockets and the talent level doesn’t matter. sum all of that up, it was experience that doomed the rockets, imo.
