Everyone will talk about Curry vs. Harden... Gonna need more strong performances from the role players against a good, deep Warriors bench.
Guys need to look at the Cavs - LeBron did a lot, but outside of game 3 his numbers have been really really similar to Harden's for this series. The difference? Guys like James Jones, JR Smith, Dellavadova, Mozgov, Thompson and Shumpert have all had big games and have been consistent so even though they were without Irving (most majority of the series) and Love they still were able to dominate. Remember the first quarter last game the Rockets scored 45 points - Harden had 10 of them yes, but they came late in the quarter I believe the Rockets scored the first 20 or so before he got his first two points from the free throw line. After that he was able to take over in the second half. Still getting 35 from the rest of the other guy in one quarter is a huge formula for success. Harden accounted for 22% of the scoring (though I do not know how much more from any assists he got) but for the series he is accounting for 31% of the Rockets points overall on average. This isn't taking into account the assists either. In Game 4 he had his highest scoring output but also the fewest assists. The big thing was the other guys were creating for each other. Smith had some good passes so did Terry and Ariza. Guys need to follow the Warriors model of constant movement and create shots that way. Bottom Line Rockets need Josh Smith to be JSmoove tonight. Terrence Jones to show up with the same effort he had in Game 6 vs LAC, Terry and Prigs to hit their open shots and we need BrewGod to show up tonight no more of whatever he has done so far this series.
