Butler is hurt! Warriors, the sky is falling! After 1,692 days, the Rockets won the playoffs again!

Playoffs Fire Warrior G2.

Variables came early.

In the first quarter of the game, Amen Thompson lost his balance and fell forward when he grabbed a rebound, hitting Jimmy Butler who was in the air, who fell to the ground and returned to the locker room with an unbalanced weight.

The Warriors then announced that Jimmy would not be returning for the game due to a pelvic contusion.

JB's importance to the Warriors and Curry does not need to be repeated, and he has praised it N times before.

I just hope that he won't affect the rest of the game.

If the team doesn't have this core, then...

I am expected to have an MRI tomorrow and wait for the results.

Back to the game itself.

The Rockets defended their home court in G2 and chased the series to 1-1.

After 1,692 days, the Rockets won the playoffs again.

Where do you win? Quite simply, throw more balls in.

In the last game, the team only scored 34 points in the half, and the whole 85 points are difficult to win in the NBA world in 2025.

I said at the time, don't take it lightly, you can't expect the Rockets to have a worse offense (especially projection) than G1, who averaged 114.3 points per game in the regular season and ranked 14th in the league.

G2 immediately picked up, scoring 60 points at halftime and returning to normal levels.

Among them, Jalen Green had 15 points and 4 assists in the half, Shin Jing had 13 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals, and Eason had 12 points and 6 rebounds, driven by a troika.

The rebounding advantage in the frontcourt was still obvious, with the first two quarters being 8-3.

That's Rocket basketball.

Their strengths are good fitness, athletic energy, and a strong defense. The shortcomings are also obvious: insufficient development capabilities for positional warfare.

Who can solve the problem?

The crown prince Green, gave a response.

If he was shy for the first time two days ago, he is more comfortable in the playoffs on both ends of the floor today.

On the offensive end, breakouts, hit shots, and read the ball more patiently after defense...

On the defensive end, fighting with Curry's fall to the ground was impressive.

When Green, the outside core, can play, the young Rockets can return to normal.

In the last game, it was clearly not his level.

In the third quarter, the intensity of the two teams came down.

This is not good news for the rocket.

The strength of this young team lies in physical ability, in "wrestling", in defense, and in secondary offense.

Then, Post and Green hit the perimeter in quick succession.

For the home team, it is very important that the defensive intensity decreases and the offensive end can get back. If you let the Warriors play counter-attacks and play easy passes, the game will be delicate.

At this time, it was Jalen Green who stepped up to solve the problem.

scored 15 points in a single quarter, saving the life of the rocket.

When the young athletes of the young team break out, the emotions come together, and the teenager has his own juvenile madness.

This guy did 38 points today, 8 threes per person. (In the last game, there were only 6 players in the team.) ）

If you say that in the last game, he was the upper limit Qiao Shan and the lower limit Ke Fan, today is the real "upper Qiao and lower Ke", hahaha.

For the losing Warriors.

It's acceptable to lose by 20 points, but Butler's injury can't be accepted.

In terms of game strategy, the Rockets must have encircled Curry. It's normal to pull and give the body, and the two teams will definitely spray each other on the field.

There are a lot of balls, the referee will not blow them, and in the face of the opponent's actions, if you don't return them, it is cowardice.

No matter how the fans complain, we're not encouraging bad moves, but this is the playoffs, and this is a life-and-death war.

Butler can't fight, Udoka will "play to the death", and this strategy will continue more thoroughly.

Although Spencer, who came on the court after Jimmy's injury, can provide bright scoring in certain stages, Kuminga, who was activated, also showed his vitality.

But without JB, the Warriors don't have a dominant point outside of Curry, and a hard point in the halfcourt.

Sister Bo was sick and diarrhea, and she also "diarrhea" after she played, which was about equal to the five major starters, and the Warriors lost two.

This battle cannot be fought.

Why did Jalen Green break out? To a certain extent, it's also because there is no JB defense.

Don't look at the Warriors can still play passing, but without Butler, they are at the level of a team outside the playoffs in the West, which has been confirmed.

Finally, to the fans.

After the Warriors won G1, there was an emotion that I didn't understand.

In the message area of Brother Di, many Warriors fans have already carnivaled, looking forward to the next round, and even shouted those five words.

To be honest, I really don't know where the confidence comes from.

Friends, the second record in the west is really not given away by charging phone bills.

Friends, the physical capabilities of the rocket are displayed extremely intuitively.

Although the Warriors have an experience advantage and better stars, the Rockets' messy punches can really kill the old master.

The Lakers are the same, they lost the first game, how many people think it's over, they won one game yesterday and got up again...

Perhaps, it is because the fan base has become younger and easy to be impetuous.

Perhaps, it is difficult for fans to admit the excellence of the other party.

Perhaps, this is the essence of the traffic team.

Perhaps, in this era of short videos with fragmented information, in the era of pursuing speed in everything, it is difficult for everyone to think about the problem from the perspective of the series.

Impetuousness is not only a sports issue, but also reflected in all aspects of life.

Admittedly, a lot of the time, I'm the same.