Following the Houston Rockets' embarrassing season-ending 114-75 defeat to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals on Thursday night, people have been looking for answers as to why the Rockets looked disinterested in their biggest game of the year.
The Spurs were up by 19 by halftime in a game that was over quickly, and didn't let up to reach the Western Conference finals for the first time since winning the title in 2014.
James Harden during the Game 6 NBA Conference Semi-Final loss to the San Antonio Spurs.
Harden finished with 10 points on 2-of-11 shooting with seven assists and six turnovers. I take responsibility for it, both ends of the floor.
It's not as if fans began questioning Popovich, but the 2017 postseason has reinforced just how great a coach he is.
"You've got to take it for what it is", Harden said.
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Morey said it was not fair to judge Harden based on a bad night in Game 6.
"Just some nights, life hits you in the face", D'Antoni said. "We've gotten so much better and gotten more comfortable with each other since then, but we know offensive rebounding always translates no matter what". "Hopefully this will spur us on". He didn't even take a shot in the first quarter.
As The Dream Shake noted, the Rockets have more tentative salary cap space ($1,695,601) entering 2017-18 than most playoff teams, per Spotrac.com.
During the season, Harden became the first player in National Basketball Association history to both score and assist on 2,000 of his team's points. The Spurs made the benefits of this added wrinkle clear: not only will better players feel fresher during the playoffs but little known players can get the added reps they desperately need, giving the coaching staff a wildcard they could pull out in case everything doesn't work. "I don't think I'm the only team that's lost to them". In a move from shooting to point guard, Harden lit up opponents with sparkling efficiency and led the league in assists in a turbocharged Mike D'Antoni offense. San Antonio's disturbing trend of missing "wide open" three-pointers continued, as they went just 1 for 10 on such shots. The other one is LeBron, who has now officially crossed over into "doesn't get the MVP award because voters are bored with voting for him" territory, and is averaging almost a triple double this postseason in leading his team to two sweeps. Not even the first-ballot Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwan was able to put up these kinds of ridiculous statistics for the Rockets back in the 1980s and '90s. Trevor Ariza paced Houston with 20 points, and Clint Capela had 15 points and 12 boards. We just played our game. "I don't know what it was".
The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Friday morning that the Spurs are optimistic of Leonard's ability to be ready for Sunday's game.
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