The presence of the veterans of the warriors too much for a team of rockets who have just started

HOUSTON – You have the feeling that the Golden State Warriors savor all chance of rubbing their opponents in their success, that it parallel to the pursuit of victory – the ability to calm an arena, to send fans wearing red shirts at home, red of anger and frustration.

Yes, again, Houston, the Warriors are forever your problem.

Perhaps the Warriors should claim the Rudy Tomjanovich sentence he invented in 1995 after the Rockets finished their unlikely championship race for consecutive titles.

“Never underestimate a champion's heart.”

After all, the Warriors have taken everything that apparently belonged to this franchise over the years. Golden State delivered another disappointment shock in match 7 of his first round series on Sunday evening with A 103-89 victory at Toyota Center.

These warriors are different from the vintage of the championship, Tand Hey did not feel like favorites on the road, especially after losing two consecutive games in a banal way. There are too many unproven players, too many Jkers, Steve Kerr, cannot count entirely at night at night. And it's even more difficult now for Stephen Curry and Draymond Green to dominate a game on call.

But if you put responsibility on one side and a concentration on the other, they can combine these two elements to grind victories and go to the second round for the second time in three years.

When everything was said and did Sunday, it was Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and the Warriors who passed once again. (AP photo / Ashley Landis)

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Green was certainly at fault for the disappointing performance of match 6 at home, while the Warriors could have closed this series and rest a few days before going to Minneapolis.

But discussions with his wife, friends and college coaches and listening to the R&B of the old 90s gathered his mind after losing his balance on Friday, when he struck Jalen Green in his head, four minutes after the start of the match.

“I spent the last two days to embarrass what I gave in the match, gave the world,” said Draymond Green. “I have been dying since the last match, necessary to go out on the ground, prove who I am. One thing about this league, you have never finished proving who you are until you are finished, completely finished.”

Green had to keep Alperen şengün and Steven Adams out of the glass, but more importantly, he had to keep his word from the previous night when he addressed his teammates during a team dinner, experiencing the blame so that even a match 7 does not start with.

“They wanted me to speak and I had a lot to say. Most importantly, my name is,” said Green. “You cannot enter a match 7 waiting for the guys to join the game that we had before and not to remedy it. You cannot be a leader and not be responsible.

“You call other guys when you stink, you better say when yours too.”

He caught six rebounds but kept the rockets away from the second chances, allowing the smallest guard on the ground to lead the team in rebound, because Curry had 10.

Curry had everything in his early bag, but the shot, so he facilitated, created space for everyone and did the little things – always able to claim the magic of this Rockets franchise, despite only 22 points, far from his average of 32.6.

“If I was trying to play Hero Ball too early and the shots did not fall, it could kill our rhythm,” said Curry.

His goal was a turnover, of which he was loyal to a minute and his team was on the right way to progress.

“I missed a couple, maybe two easy in the first half and you are starting to think about your shot,” said Curry. “But you look at the score.”

The Warriors led because the Rockets could not find any offense and because Buddy Hield took advantage of each corner of the defense of the Rockets perimeter to shoot 9 triples out of 11 – four in the second quarter, when the Warriors took control, and three in the fourth, when they moved away.

Jimmy Butler joined Green to fight against the bigs on the boards, go to bullets and to fight, and if you did not know better, one might think that he had been there for all these championships, all these races, because he settles perfectly.

Butler's Corner 3 with 1:45 to do in the third repressed a rocket race, replaced the Warriors. He finished with 20 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. These small games and the big ones are the reason why he is in a Warriors uniform.

“I was not who I was in the sense of pumping confidence in my guys,” said Butler. “It's part of my leadership that I have taken over over the years. And I didn't do the first six games.”

The veterinarians seemed to explain all the critical production, because only Kevon Looney scored out of the bench. The matches 7 are for the veterinarians, and although the Rockets have some admirable, it is different to look opposite and to see Curry, Green and Butler.

“This is the common theme, the common denominator in all these guys. It is their competitive strength and how much they like to play, compete, win, traveling it,” said Kerr. “The fact that these guys continue to get into play, year after year, it goes away.”

A large part of this playoff marathon comes down to concentration. The teams will play every two days, between the rooms of change, as well as all the emotional and physical exhaustion which is cooked in each possession in the playoffs.

It is difficult to identify, but Kerr could say that his team was really ready for this test – you cannot call it for a moment because the warriors were too much, but it was certainly a resolution test. He kept saying “discipline of the match plan”.

When you look at Curry's face, there is the suspicion of the Babyface charm that was introduced to the world so many years ago, but we all know that it wants to cut each ounce of hope in a building.

We did not know that 11 years ago, in his first game 7. It was a real babyface, barely the hair of the face and no suspicion of jewelry that covers his hands today.

And even he did not know exactly how much concentration was necessary when the unproven but talented warriors went against the rivers of Chris Paul-Blake Griffin-Doc Los Angeles Clippers in a classic first round which was a glimpse of what we would see for the next decade.

“We were standing halfway and we felt well in our skin,” said Curry of this match, when the Warriors led by eight before losing five. “And in a way we were descended by a physical basketball with a hard nose. It was the nature of this whole series. Very similar to it.

“A talent, a skill, something that comes naturally or that you go through representatives and understand it, how you can manage a game mentally, emotionally and physically.”

He underlined the four-point game that the Warriors abandoned possession of opening in the fourth quarter of match 6 as proof that they had no concentration as competence that evening.

But Curry had everything on Sunday, even if he was tracked down by Amen Thompson, even when Dillon Brooks got into four to make sure that the injured thumb of curry on his firing hand. As Curry finally found daylight, he launched a triple 30 feet, because Steven Adams forgot the rule. You cannot give Curry a ribbon of daylight, not even at this distance, even with 35 seconds to play in the first half.

Curry raised his hands to the sky as if to say: “finally”. And then it was on.

It is on Minnesota, where the hungry and not as naive Timberwolves are waiting for. Another challenge for veterinarians, another opportunity to shout in opposing corridors, another opportunity to calm noisy buildings.

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