Paul receiving regular treatment to return for Rockets

They hold onto that dynastic with everything they have.

After Kerr inserted David West, Shaun Livingston and Nick Young for Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green with 2:03 left in the first quarter, the Rockets closed out the first quarter with a 9-2 run.

He did that on Saturday night helping the Warriors to a Game 6 win, getting his rhythm and becoming a scoring machine in the second half, finishing with 35 points including hitting 9-of-14 from three, and having six rebounds.

The Houston Rockets opened up a 17-point edge after one period, couldn’t miss and led the Golden State Warriors by 10 going into half of Game 6 on Saturday night, a contest Golden State had to have to keep its season alive. The defending champions trail Houston three games to two after consecutive wins by the Rockets.

Paul’s presence at Oracle Arena still meant plenty.

James Harden had a team-high 32 points for the Rockets, including 15 in the first quarter.

Heading into the win-or-go-home Game 7 in Houston on Monday, all eyes are on whether or not Chris Paul will be able to take the floor. It wasn’t a rah-rah, go get ’em type of speech.

“He just told me to slow down”, Curry said.

“I think he’ll play as soon as he can”, D’Antoni said pregame.

Of course their 10-point lead at the half wasn’t going to go unchallenged.

Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors bank on blistering second-half run to turn the game around.

The Rockets shot 11-for-22 on threes in the first half, but then just 4-for-17 the rest of the way.

Such is life at the epicenter of the NBA’s monolith: The Warriors have bigger stars, bigger personalities, bigger storylines. “We have these lapses and then we have these bursts and everything in between”. They all nodded and agreed it would be a logical scenario to launch themselves into the NBA Finals.

At halftime, the Rockets certainly could see it. That is the exact skill set that every National Basketball Association team is looking for in a wing player these days, and no one does it better than Thompson. “I don’t know. I have no idea”.

Not only did the Rockets jump out to a 39-22 lead by the end of the first quarter, but Golden State appeared to be completely unprepared early in the game.

Stephen Curry said the Warriors are encouraged despite falling behind in the series because they believe both games could have gone their way and that a few simple corrections will get them back on track. If there is good news for the Rockets, it’s that they’re playing at home where they are 2-1 against the Warriors in this series and an emotional crowd will be in red cheering for them.