[Zach Lowe] Eight Things to Watch for This Weekend in the NBA Conference Finals

Zergling · May 23, 2015

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/e...or-this-weekend-in-the-nba-conference-finals/

My favorite part of the article:

You can scream about the last play — Kevin McHale not calling a timeout, Harden freezing for a tick in the face of a double-team, the hot-potato passing between Harden and Howard. It wasn’t ideal, but those are hothouse moments, and everyone ripping McHale would label him a genius had Harden nailed some nutty triple to win the game.

Houston lost Game 2 in the first 18 minutes. It tightened up on defense after that, and these guys play with such freaking force and spunk. There have been times over the last 10 days when it has been hard to understand how the Rockets are doing this — how they went from comatose to rampaging. They don’t have great shooting. Howard is banged up again. Their defense can collapse into an orgy of incompetence. Hell, even Harden sat on the bench during one of the greatest comebacks in league history.

A big part of it is just that they are relentless. They are fast, athletic, and long, and they keep coming at you. It is exhausting. They are bullies, in their own way. But Golden State got a little slow and a little wasteful in the second half. When Curry gives the ball up, it has to keep the machine moving at peak speed.
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