Rockets look to close out Warriors without Paul

Of the team’s four All-Stars, he gets the least attention, but Thompson delivered a performance reminiscent of his heroics in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals in 2016, when he scored 41 points with Golden State facing elimination against an Oklahoma City team featuring Durant. The game flipped, turning from a 10-point Rockets lead at half to a 29-point Warriors blowout by the final buzzer.

The Rockets announced the decision on Friday afternoon. Four years later, Durant had the Warriors on the ropes up 3-1, but he and the Thunder couldn’t win one out of three games, squandering the chance to defeat the 73-win Warriors – which he, in particular, was crucified for.

This was further evidence that the Rockets, in this game and actually for the series so far, refuse to concede anything and believe this West title is realistic even with Paul’s status uncertain.

“I don’t want to go home”, said Thompson, who made 9 triples.

Paul was injured in the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s victory that gave the Rockets a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference finals.

Iguodala has officially been ruled questionable by the team for game 6 due to his left lateral leg contusion.

As the Warriors came down on the other end, eventually missing an open three-pointer, Paul struggled to his feet, hobbled around, then had to be taken out of the game.

The Rockets, who got 32 points and nine assists from Harden, looked like a team that ran out of gas.

The Rockets earned the right to play Game 7 at home by rolling to the NBA’s best record.

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“We still winning this”, Green said, according to Marcus Thompson of The Athletic.

Curry and Thompson kept pouring it on in the fourth quarter until D’Antoni waved the white flag with a little under five minutes remaining, pulling his starters and starting preparation for Game 7.

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.

No one on the Rockets played more of a role in Houston’s two consecutive wins than Paul. “We want to take advantage of it”. And yet at some point you knew that the loss of Paul would bite them, and that’s what happened in the second half.