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Golden State Shocks Houston in Playoff Upset Victory
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4/21/2025
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Will the regular season mean a lick of anything in the association moving forward?
00:05
Well, only if the team that has home floor advantage can beat up on a team that had to
00:10
emerge out of the play in tournament.
00:13
Well, it was that play in tourney team with all the playoff experience in pedigree.
00:18
That being Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and now Jimmy Butler and
00:22
the Warriors kind of beaten up on the two seed.
00:25
95-85, the victory for Golden State taking game number one on the road to start the set
00:32
last night.
00:33
Basically, 14 cents of difference in a money line price, but the Doves were an ever so slight
00:38
underdog, catching a point on the road in H-Town, minus 102 on the money line.
00:43
By the way, you see it there.
00:44
Neither team getting to the century mark.
00:47
A total of 213.5 does stay well under.
00:51
Well, that was the worst part about seeing that final score.
00:54
There's some things you can say, like, okay, the number two seed, boy, it was a great hard
00:57
fall game.
00:58
Yes, number two seeds have lost the lower seeds a couple games in a series before.
01:01
That's not the surprise here.
01:03
It's the fact that that score was 95-85.
01:05
Like, the Rockets are the two seed and mustered 85 points in a playoff game at home and lost
01:10
by double digits.
01:11
Like, coming in to me, this was the focus series.
01:13
This was okay.
01:14
Young and up-and-coming team worked hard during the regular season, earned that number two seed,
01:19
and the rest of the, let's just say, sports books and handicappers and oddsmakers are telling
01:23
us, you know, it doesn't matter at all.
01:25
You know, it's a nice little shiny season for the Houston Rockets, but wait till they
01:28
play a team with playoff pedigree, they're going to go down.
01:30
And it just so happens it's the Golden State Warriors in the seven seed here, easily dispatching
01:34
them of double digits.
01:35
And honestly, 21-18 first quarter, okay, Houston, you're in the playoffs now.
01:39
You want to get the jitters away.
01:40
That's the quarter that you expect them to lose by 10 points just to find their footing.
01:43
They didn't.
01:44
They won the first quarter.
01:45
They fell completely apart in the second quarter.
01:47
That game was a wrap after it.
01:48
So just looking at the totals, you expect Jimmy Butler to have a high usage rate, 19 shot attempts.
01:53
You expect Steph Curry to do the same thing, 19 shot attempts, 31 and 25.
01:57
But the expectations for Houston was, this is a good young team specifically on offense
02:01
and only able to muster 85 points.
02:04
They should have been rested.
02:05
They should have been ready for that game.
02:06
And they weren't.
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