Warriors vs. Rockets Game Preview: Sengun's Impact Analyzed

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00:00And to open this line, Tom, four and a half. It's now down to three and a half at FanDuel

00:04and a total that opened up at 201 and a half now sits at 203, bouncing back and forth.

00:10Expectations tonight with Jimmy Butler possible playing again for the Warriors.

00:13What is it tonight between the Rockets and the Warriors for you?

00:16Yeah, Jimmy Butler playing, not playing, whatever it might be.

00:19I think we'd all agree that even if he does play, he's not going to be at 100%.

00:23And, you know, whether he's out there for a bit of a decoy role, you know,

00:26does someone else step up and do the scoring as we kind of saw the other game?

00:30Obviously, you know, Steph's going to do his thing.

00:32But I expect this to be largely what we have seen over the first three games

00:35where it's going to be a slower pace, physical, lower scoring.

00:38And ultimately, that kind of leads me to Alperin Shangoon under 18 and a half points.

00:43You know, he came out on fire on game one, but I'm going to say that was the clear outlier

00:47when he shot 61% from the field.

00:51And that has since dropped to 40 and 38% from the field,

00:54as you'd expect when he's going up against Draymond Green.

00:56And again, when we're seeing games barely getting to 200 points,

00:59I don't expect too many players to be pushing past 20, 25 points.

01:02Obviously, Curry is the exception in that.

01:04And we've seen big games from Green, Van Vliet, Thompson doing their thing.

01:08So I think it has to be a well-rounded effort from the Rockets

01:11that are going to keep this close.

01:12I just don't expect Alperin Shangoon to be pushing past 20 points tonight.