The Warriors are a finesse team. They will lose.

YOLO · Feb 27, 2019

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8 is all you really need in a tight playoff series. Top to bottom that's more talent than the Rockets have. Other than SG (where warriors have an all star 2 way player) which position do the Rockets have a clear advantage at?

You can mock their bench, but assuming we put Gordon in top 5, can you really say Faried, Rivers, Shumpert is clearly much better than what the warriors got? Iggy may be old but he's been on a minutes restriction and can still play great ball in spurts. The other 2 can fill a role and soak up minutes next to MVP/All star caliber players. Hell they beat us with Looney/Bell as their centers last year. Cousins doesn't have to be good, just has to be better than those 2 for it to be an improvement over last year.
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minutes restriction for Iggy

BigBum · Feb 27, 2019

All top 5 teams can defeat GS if players shoot like Kenneth Faried from the three (45.5%).

sirbaihu · Feb 27, 2019

jowman said: ↑

8 is all you really need in a tight playoff series. Top to bottom that's more talent than the Rockets have. Other than SG (where warriors have an all star 2 way player) which position do the Rockets have a clear advantage at?

You can mock their bench, but assuming we put Gordon in top 5, can you really say Faried, Rivers, Shumpert is clearly much better than what the warriors got? Iggy may be old but he's been on a minutes restriction and can still play great ball in spurts. The other 2 can fill a role and soak up minutes next to MVP/All star caliber players. Hell they beat us with Looney/Bell as their centers last year. Cousins doesn't have to be good, just has to be better than those 2 for it to be an improvement over last year.
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Welcome to CF, jowman.
Yes, I am comfortable with the Rockets rotation as it stacks up against the Warriors'. You are not. OK.
You say the Warriors won before. OK. I say the Rockets will win the next one. The future is different from the past.

Basketball games are not determined by stacking up guys head to head as if it is the Ryder Cup.
Yes, Iggy is getting old. Cousins is not 100%.
We lost Ariza. We gained Rivers, Faried and Shumpert, Shumpert who has experience guarding the Warriors in the finals.

GSW series minutes, 2018 playoffs v. Rockets

Green 279
Durant 274
Curry 268
Thompson 266
Looney 135
Livingston 121
Young 97
Bell 85
Igoudala 82
Cook 27
West 27
Pachulia 12
McCaw 5
McGee 3

Rockets
Tucker 272
Harden 267
Ariza 259
Gordon 243
Capela 199
Paul 184
Green 126
Mbah a Moute 54
Anderson 29
Johnson 24
Black 9
Jackson 8
Hilario 6

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