Welcome to Week sports

Week sports

3: 1. The warriors are not enterprising. If they lose their minds, they will not blame others if they lose their minds!

11:13am, 10 May 2025Basketball

The Warriors stumbled and defeated the Grizzlies and the second-ranked Rockets met in the first round of the playoffs. This was a game where weak teams challenged strong teams. After Curry and Butler worked together to win the first game, Butler was injured shortly after the second game started, and the Warriors also lost the game with regret.

After returning to the Warriors' home court in the third game, Curry showed his might and his substitute was also very powerful. After winning this game, there is another good news that Butler is likely to return in the fourth game. Otherwise, Butler played very aggressively in the fourth game, and the Warriors won the match point 3:1. Unfortunately, the Warriors were relieved too early. The Rockets are second in the Western Conference in the regular season. They are strong, but their experience in the playoffs is not as good as that of the Warriors.

The Warriors should have fought against each other in the fifth game. The whole team was united and won the series in one go, but because after winning two games in a row, I felt it was difficult to win the game at other people's home courts. I never thought of trying 100% of my efforts to fight for it. First of all, I can't do it in terms of mentality. We must win this game and not be mentally prepared for the difficulty of the game. And I never thought that after all, most of the team are veterans, and the longer the series is delayed, the more unfavorable it is for the Warriors. So in the fifth game, you should win if you can win. If you can’t win, you should go back to your home court and fight for another game to win your opponent. You can earn tens of millions of dollars on tickets.

But this mentality hurts me. After losing the fifth game, even if I return to my home court, the Rockets have found a way to restrain the Warriors. He used his height advantage to get half the free throws than the Warriors. The free throw alone was 15 points more than the Warriors and won 8 points in the end. After the young Rockets found their own rhythm, even if the Warriors work hard and the dual core is powerful, it will be difficult for them to win this game. It is a fact that the Rockets are stronger than the Warriors, and Cole made adjustments to the starting lineup and put Payton II and Hilde on the top, but the result was very poor. The only function of a white center going up is to shoot three-pointers and snatch Curry's job, and he didn't do anything well when he got the rebounds and the frame protection. This is also caused by the gap in strength.

Return to the Rockets' home court in Game 7, the Warriors are likely to be in trouble, and it is difficult to replicate the good show of defeating the Rockets in the 2018 Western Conference Finals. The main lineup is older and has suffered physically. It is the home court, and there will inevitably be a home whistle. From the league's perspective, I may hope that the Rockets will advance to the next round, and it is time to train new star players. The 2018 tiebreaker was won because Paul was injured, otherwise the championship that year would have been the Rockets, and the Warriors now would not have such good luck.

Based on the above analysis, it is more difficult for the Warriors to win a tiebreaker than to reach the sky. Losing the fifth game is a turning point. I didn't treat this game as the last game. I relaxed my mentality and led to two consecutive losses. The Warriors' winning odds are already very small, and I am very likely to experience the second time when they were turned around by their opponents in a good situation of 3:1.

Hope the Warriors have good luck!

Links: