Why the Warriors must avoid Game 7 vs. the Rockets
Why the Warriors must avoid Game 7 vs. the Rockets
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by the Boston Globe's Gary Washburn to discuss Golden State's poor performance in Game 5 against Houston and how the squad could be in trouble if it blows another 3-1 series lead. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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It would behoove the Golden State Warriors to get this series done with on Friday.
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You do not want to go back to Houston for a game seven where any damn thing can happen.
For a veteran team, I was extremely disappointed with how they came out.
I think we, they fell behind like 46, 24, and it was just, it was one of those like, come on guys.
Like, you generally don't benefit by giving games away.
If you're the Warriors, you do not want to go back to Toyota Center for Game 7, you do not want to have that environment, you know, you, you've got them where you want them.
Like, Houston's gonna have to go into a tough environment as a young team and try to grind out a road win under the most dire.
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circumstances like with their butts on the line.
Can they do that?
Houston, they don't have a closer.
Jalen Green was on the bench the last minute to game 4, and Fred Van Vleet was the one trying to carry him.
They are a fraudulent second seed.
The Oklahoma City is looking at them and going, that's the 2nd best team in the West?
Oh, OK.
But They can sneak out a win in, in, in, in San Francisco and bring it on home, and then that becomes anything goes.
And, and at this point for the Warriors to blow a 3-1 lead in the first round and lose that series, they're right back in the category as the Lakers of, OK, what do we do now?
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Steph, Draymond, this is the, the final days.
And if you, you know, you would, there's gonna be a lot of questions if they bought a 3-1 lead, and a lot of questions about the future if they can't overcome this and win this series.
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