But that's okay: they won their two home games just as Houston won their two home games. Golden State has the advantage because Game 5 and Game 7 are at Oracle. Golden State won their two home games "comfortably" whereas Golden State over came a deficit and forced OT in Houston (Game 3) and overcame another huge deficit and almost forced OT in Houston (Game 4). Brutal series so far, which everybody expected it to be.
What really cost Golden State in Game 1 was Steph having an unusually bad game (probably the worst of his career) and that was because of his finger dislocation, and Kerr refusing to throw Jerebko and Cook into the game to see what they could do. What really cost Game 2 was Golden State utterly failing on rebounds and once again refusing to throw bench players out there to see what they could do. Golden State's bench this season is really bad but they've been sitting long enough. Jerebko actually did good in Game 1 versus the Rockets.
Also Klay Thompson, having an off season himself, has crashed and burned offensively against Rockets this series. Through 4 games versus the Houston Rockets, Klay is shooting a combined 8-26 (30%) from 3 point range
Warriors leave Houston a little banged up. Kevin Durant had his right elbow worked on postgame, left with it in a compression sleeve. Andre Iguodala iced left knee, limped out of arena. KD said "I'm fine." Iguodala told me it was a little hyperextension.
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[Letourneau] Draymond Green: "We didn't match their physicality until about the last four minutes of the game, and it's been that way for about the last 96 minutes of this series."
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Nevertheless Golden State have a 5 year play-off win record against Rockets. They've literally wiped the floor with the Rockets these last 5 years, save for last season's Western Conference Finals which was brutal. Golden State players are graceful figure skaters. Rockets are linebackers. Golden State has literally skated over them. Beautiful long Golden State arms win the games, not Rocket brutality. Golden State knows what they have to do to win and they will win Game 5, Game 6 is unknowable, if there is a Game 7 they will win Game 7 (Oracle advantage). This has been the NBA Finals Match-Up most of the fans have been waiting for since the Western Conference Finals last season, most of us have been waiting for this series the moment the last one ended, this series right here is the NBA Finals.
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