What a weekend in the NBA Playoffs! 🏀
Golden State outlasts the Rockets in Game 7 behind clutch performances from Jimmy Butler, Green, and Hield — showing exactly why experience still matters in the playoffs. With Steph Curry tightly covered all night, the Warriors' role players stepped up in a big way. Can they handle Minnesota next?
Meanwhile, the Indiana Pacers made a statement in Game 1 vs. Cleveland. Their defense smothered the Cavs, and Tyrese Haliburton delivered a signature playoff performance. Will the Cavs punch back?
Peter Klein breaks down both games, the key players, and what’s coming next. 💥
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Golden State outlasts the Rockets in Game 7 behind clutch performances from Jimmy Butler, Green, and Hield — showing exactly why experience still matters in the playoffs. With Steph Curry tightly covered all night, the Warriors' role players stepped up in a big way. Can they handle Minnesota next?
Meanwhile, the Indiana Pacers made a statement in Game 1 vs. Cleveland. Their defense smothered the Cavs, and Tyrese Haliburton delivered a signature playoff performance. Will the Cavs punch back?
Peter Klein breaks down both games, the key players, and what’s coming next. 💥
#NBAPlayoffs #WarriorsVsRockets #PacersVsCavs #Game7 #PlayoffBasketball #GoldenStateWarriors #IndianaPacers #JimmyButler #TyreseHaliburton #StephCurry
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00:00always forget that you can hear the sounds when that is playing um the Golden State Warriors are
00:14off to the second round but by god it was not easy as they pull out a hard-fought series win
00:22over the Houston Rockets and a lot of times if you were going to be talking about a Steph Curry
00:28series win and all of that it would be well it was Curry came up big and he did at times but he is
00:34not the reason they won this seventh game and that is why this Golden State team is a little bit more
00:40dangerous now than they have been kind of post KD and I guess like post 2022 championship with Jimmy
00:48Butler there now and some of the other additions that they made this is a team that I'm not going
00:54to say Steph had an off night but if you just focus all of your powers on stake taking Steph away
00:58they can still beat you it is a lot more difficult for them to do it but they can still beat you and
01:04that is what happened here um first off it Jimmy Butler and I know maybe his stat line isn't going
01:09to be the biggest one but he came up with some absolutely massive shots and it is his ability
01:14to score when he has a hand in his face and these contested opportunities against guys bigger than him
01:20his ability to score in those situations that I think really helped them kind of ice this game away
01:26against Houston and ice this series away against Houston is what makes them so dangerous that you
01:31can you can have it's like one of those um like guys who are really good at 50-50 balls in the NFL
01:36where it's like is it 50-50 like if you have them covered you don't really have them covered that's
01:41kind of with Jimmy where you can have him checked but do you really because he can still hit a shot
01:45with you in his face and he came up with a couple of those big ones late it's just it is a weapon that
01:51they haven't had since pool and all like Wiggins could be that and was that when they won that
01:57championship which is why I think this Butler piece is important it was that you could have this other
02:02scoring option that was so dangerous and was able to kind of put them over the top um Butler can be that
02:08with these guys and I know that this part has been done to death but the basketball IQ that he has that
02:13that helps him kind of put everything together is it just it fits with this whole team so very
02:19effectively and you really do you really do see where this team could be dangerous with him but
02:26then it was some other guys who were massive especially early on I saw a clip leading into
02:30the day of Draymond Green and how he played in game seven against the the Cavaliers um before uh
02:36Cleveland kind of put that one away but when uh like in the early going of that game it was Draymond
02:42who was putting up some big shots and making some big shots early and he did that again again here
02:47not not a ton but just enough that it kind of kept their heads above water because Houston was doing
02:52an excellent job of taking Steph Curry away it was just Draymond and uh Heald who we'll get to in a
02:57second were lighting it up offensively and again just kind of keeping their heads above water letting
03:03Steph work through whatever he needed to work through force Houston to keep putting that pressure on
03:07him we're just gonna come over here stay over here and just kind of keep doing what we've been doing
03:11and Green was great at that and then Buddy Heald really set that tone early with how he was able
03:17to score the basketball and that kind of quieted down as the game went on but that was exactly what
03:22you needed and again you think of the the 22 team and I get there's no Clay Thompson on this group but
03:27it was Wiggins who was able to make some shots it was Poole who was able to to make some shots you
03:32had those guys who could contribute so it wasn't just Steph again it's a lot of Steph and I'm not saying
03:37like Curry can just sit for four and Golden State's gonna be fine they they are going to need Steph to
03:43play at an elite level in this series but against Minnesota but you at least don't have him having
03:50to carry everything now because of what these guys were doing and it is why when we did the um offseason
03:56previews a year ago looking at it from the Raptor fan standpoint here I I really thought that he was a
04:03guy that maybe you could have brought in from a Raptor standpoint build up that value and try to
04:08trade him that the problem was he already had a little bit of value and goes to a perfect situation
04:13out in Golden State but when he is on um that that is a very talented offensive guy and is really
04:18difficult to beat and it does seem like he has kind of found his area with Golden State now and the
04:25other part of it was defensively again like he's not going to get defensive player of the year votes
04:29ever but he came up with a couple of big stops and at least a couple of pesky moments to hold up guys
04:36that allowed other players to make big stops he was just he was all around it and a very big part
04:40of this game and then Curry he is finally able to break free and put this game away late and you could
04:45see the difference when Curry is being shut down and okay well we're up by up by seven up by nine
04:51whatever and then Curry gets going and we're up by 19 that's that that is the the Steph Curry effect
04:55we'll preview this in a little bit but it's an interesting matchup now with Minnesota in the
05:00next round and a lot of fascinating kind of point counterpoint when you break that series down
05:05on the Houston side of this discussion I I I you have to be impressed with this team right like the
05:14the youth that they have the intensity that they played with and to push Golden State to the seventh
05:20game is very very impressive from them and again we will do offseason previews fully um next week
05:27but for now looking at this I think they have a like championship level foundation with what they
05:35have and they are going to be a very very popular Kevin Durant Giannis Antetokounmpo organization when
05:42people are throwing trade machine trades together because they have a lot of stuff they have a lot of
05:47very very attractive pieces if you want to move on from one of those stars and they have a bunch of
05:53draft picks and everything like that too right so they have that they have a situation that they can
05:57kind of build this thing out if you want to go out and make that big splash for a super duper star
06:01you can go out and do that I would be I would be concerned about that a little bit because I do think
06:08like I said they have something growing out in Houston they have built up that foundation that you need
06:13and they have a lot of very talented kids on this group and yes like they they probably needed a guy
06:20to close these games out and a Kevin Durant I think works really well there and Giannis probably fits
06:26what they're trying to do from a defensive standpoint a little bit better but then you look at just how
06:30effectively all of these pieces kind of mesh together with Van Vliet and Brooks being the the elder
06:35statesman helping Thompson who had an unbelievable series defensively and is I think just scratching the
06:41surface of what he can do on offense and Shen Goon and Adams and how they were beasts on the
06:47offensive rebounding side it is tempting to say okay well let's just package four things together
06:52get a superstar and that'll put us over the top but we have seen well again understanding the picture
06:57over my shoulder with Kawhi that sometimes it works but more often than not it hasn't why is Kevin
07:03Durant available because uh the last two spots that he has been that hired gun it hasn't worked
07:07so where and the spot that it did work was already an established foundation and just not to go too
07:13deep into it but you look at the Raptors in 19 they obviously make the big trade but is that they had
07:18that established foundation already going in Houston does have that you just don't want to rock it too
07:23much uh pardon the pun when you are bringing in one of these guys so it is going to be very tempting
07:28to try to go out and make the big splash after big splash to get this team over the top this team
07:32finished second in the west and no one batted an eye at that I think they are very close to the top
07:38already um there was uh the other game seven happened over on on Saturday not going to go too
07:43in depth on it um but we'll we'll preview the Denver series in a little bit but the Denver Nuggets
07:47are able to battle their way through and make their way to the conference semi-finals which started
07:54yesterday as the Indiana Pacers and the uh why am I blank Cleveland Cavaliers there we go
08:01uh those teams faced off in the start of the second round and just a perfect start for the
08:07Pacers to get a win on the road is gigantic for this team and they're they're a significant underdog
08:15in this and I do think that it was them being I think overlooked a little bit in this series and
08:22the thing that was kind of why and we've talked about it here before and it showed up in game one
08:27the defense on this team is different than it was a year ago again this isn't um Reggie Miller
08:34getting blocked at 69-67 of the fourth quarter that it's not like that lockdown type of a defense
08:39but the defensive intensity has grown with this group from a season ago and they have been able
08:44to battle through and get a number of different opportunities and create turnovers and create
08:49more offense off of that and they still have a high level offense and they they did a great job
08:55pushing off of makes for Cleveland and now it'll be interesting to see how Cleveland kind of
09:00responds to that in this game but it is the defense that sets this team up and sets them apart from
09:05the one that we saw in this playoff time a year ago and another big part of it too um Tyrese Halliburton
09:11just stepped up in a monumental way when this team needed it and there are still some times
09:15where he things are starting to get a little bit sideways and he's looking for that big dagger three
09:20to either get his team back into it or to take the other crowd out of it and that's not where he is
09:25the most effective he is the most effective getting into the lane and creating opportunities
09:30off of that and then again big guy stepping up in big time Siakam made a couple of big shots early on
09:36to get this team settled into the game Nembhard coming up again with a couple of very good offensive
09:40plays to get this team rolling and the full effort on defense means that this is a series this isn't
09:45going to be Cleveland just rolling through these guys this is a series and I I do think now it's
09:51going to be very interesting to see the counterpunch from the Cleveland Cavaliers and kind of how they
09:56handle what the Pacers were trying to do to them and how do you slow down that shooting stroke that
10:01Indiana Indiana had going so very well so like I don't even think Cleveland played that bad of a game
10:07to be honest I was just so impressed with what Indiana did I didn't think this was a lot of what
10:12Cleveland did wrong I thought Mitchell again was attacking really effectively getting into the
10:16paint creating opportunities um you got a couple of depth guys missing some shots that you would
10:20have liked to see them hit but Allen was just a monster on the defensive end and his movement has
10:25gotten so much better and Mobley you can see the well-rounded nature of his game and how that has
10:30kind of developed so like they played really well the Pacers just played better in game one
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