Warriors are DONE! – Big Perk on Steph Curry & Butler CHOKED 4th-Qtr in 115-107 Gm 6 lose to Rockets

Warriors are DONE! – Big Perk on Steph Curry & Butler CHOKED 4th-Qtr in 115-107 Gm 6 lose to Rockets

lead 29 tonight and a game seven has been forced. Speaking of which, our coaches certainly think that game seven are the best words in sports. And you see Steve Kerr has won three of the four game sevens in his career. Eay Yodok is 2 and 0 in those winner take all games. If the Rockets can pull it off, it’ll be they’ve won a series when they’ve been down three games to one, which is the most in that scenario for any franchise. As for the Warriors, the only series they’ve lost when they were up 3-1, you remember it, the finals of 2016. Interesting trends heading into the game. Last six teams have forced a game seven after going up 3-1. Only one has won the series. That team is the 2023 Heat, who is led by Jimmy Butler. Kendrick Perkins standing by. And Perk, you just heard the conversation with Fred Vanble Vleet. I have such an appreciation for that young man going back to the Witchah State days famously has the draft party doesn’t get picked and said we’re good I’ll be all right and man he’s been a great pro wherever he’s been he was spectacular tonight has been these last three what have you seen from him well you see you see we’re witnessing that championship leadership Scott all across the board in a in a game like uh tonight you have a young Rockets team going on the road and all of a sudden Fred head, the floor general, the leader, sets the tone all across the board. Third game straight with 25 plus or more, but he’s doing it and getting it done in all ways, right? We see the assists, we see the rebounds, but we also see him keeping his composure, which is rubbing off on the rest of the young guys to stay engaged and stay true to their identity. That’s the to the identity and that’s the defensive side of things. Scott, tonight the Warriors were horrible defensively because of the culture and the defensive intensity that the Rockets came out with, which was a huge win, man. A huge win all across the board. Great minutes from Thompson, great minutes from uh Dylan Brooks, but Steven Adams was a force all across the board. Him and Shangon was punking them in the paint. I don’t know if they have I don’t know if Golden State have an answer for it. And shout out to Ema Udoka for staying true to himself and playing that double big lineup. It was a beautiful thing to see. I have to imagine given who you were, your identity in this league, you know, bringing that lunchbox and getting in the in the paint and doing all the dirty work. I mean, Adams, you heard Fred raving about what he brought. That’s a season highend minutes. You said it, Perk. I don’t know what answer Golden State invents between now and Sunday night for the Shangun Adams double big lineup. I What do you do? Pray. And look, I’m going to take Hey, always Scott, I’m going to take a little credit here now. I actually raised Stephen Adams as a rookie in Oklahoma City. But you think Stephen Adams is worried about physicality? No. You know what Stephen You know what Stephen Adams uh you know what he does in the offseason? He go back to New Zealand and he go hunting for wild hogs with no shoes, no socks on. This is nothing to him. You think he’s scared to stepping up to the free throw line and making some shots, but man, just them being a force on the offensive glass. And Shane Goon, I can’t say enough about him. I call him baby Joic filling up the stat sheet all across the board. Draymond Green, the defensive, former defensive player of the year, a guy that was up for it this year. He needs to show up and show out and do something because right now he’s not helping Jimmy or Steph or the Golden State Warriors. And I maybe in my opinion Steve Kerr may have dropped the ball a little bit by losing Jonathan Kaminga by not playing them in the playin tournament and not playing them in this series because his athleticism and size is needed right now. That’s interesting. I wonder if you could just try to just turn that light on for game seven. It’s a little too seems like it’s too late for this particular series and and I don’t know if it’s too late for Golden State Perk and I mean I would never just dismiss who they have and what they’ve done as a group but you look at that game five perk right where Houston jumps them early up like 40 something to 24 in the first quarter and and at that point if you’re Golden State you knew you had game six in your back pocket. We can go home. We can get that. Well, now they don’t have that. Now they they’ve got to rally and I don’t know how I don’t know how they do it. This this this feels like a Houston team that’s about to punch a ticket to make it to the semis. Do you see the same thing? I I I’m feeling the same energy as you, Scott. And you’re right. That game five, what it did was it gave the Rockets confidence, especially the young fellas. You got to think, you know, Tar East, he wasn’t shooting the ball well. Uh Thompson twin wasn’t shooting the ball well. All of a sudden in game five, they start knocking down shots. they start getting their swag and all of a sudden they’re comfortable coming into your house which we saw this uh tonight like they’re like hold on so we could attack y’all and y’all not going to impose y will and not bring the physicality I just I just don’t know what else Golden State could do maybe Steve Kerr make an adjustment and try to bring in a old vet a champion and Cavon Looney and I don’t even know if that’s going to cut the mustard at this point. You got to give Houston the credit that they earned. It’s a dead It’s a two-point game in the fourth quarter in a building that can be great. And man, it was dead quiet those last five or six minutes cuz Van Vleet, Adam, Shangon, that whole group led by Udoka setting the tone. I’m with you, Perk. This is a is it not stunning is not the right word cuz this is a two seed for a reason. Uh but I don’t think a lot of people saw this one coming. I appreciate you, Perk. We’ll uh we’ll carry on next week with whoever comes out of this one. Okay. All right. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate you. I I appreciate you as well. Advantage here. Steven Adams, Alporn, and Shenon combined for 14 paint points per just for some context. The Warriors as a team have 12. I mean, big bodies skill, especially Shenon. Steven Adams, look, he’s been here before for his playoff experience. Remember what he was doing when he was with OKC? Like you and Garnett, right? Like you and Garnett four minutes left in this half. It was the Rockets up by 11. But thanks to this insane shot from Steph Curry and a little bit more, we got ourselves a five-point game here. Stephen A. 16 points at the half, five of 10 from the field, three of seven from three-point range. Even though the Warriors are shooting less than 32% from three-point range, Steph Curry is still making things happen. And there’s a half to go. It still feels like Sorry, I didn’t mean to cut you off. I didn’t say you almost I I’ll let you finish. Go ahead. I I think Well, we’ve seen fatigue play a factor and I look at the minutes for Jimmy Butler at 22. Steph at 20 uh 23 20 was 23 seconds. I wonder um because it looks like on pace for 40 plus. Is that factor into the end of this game? I don’t know that. But this series became every other day and does that factor in to the end of this game? I know what do factor in to this game is that the fact that the Rockets are going to defend at a high level. They have one player, one player, Fred Van Vleet, that’s in double figures with 10 points and they’re up right now at the half. That just goes to show you what they what they how they get it done. Active hands defending at a high level, keeping the ball in front of we talked earlier about that trap with Steph. They do a great job. Big Steven Adams getting out in transition. If I’m the Rockers, I feel good. You feel very good. And listen, not especially about your future because you can fantasize about what life is going to be like once you get a number one scorer that you can definitively rely on. But for the purposes of this team in this moment, yes, they’re going to hang their hat on their defense. I’m looking at them right now and the minutes that you just brought up about Jimmy Butler, about Steph Curry who are playing more minutes than anybody else. You Golden State, you better prioritize the second half even more than ever before because if you lose this game, then you got to go against them young lines on the road in the game seven knowing that you taxed your body the way that you did in this game six. Yeah. And I wonder, Stephen, you talked about Jaylen Green and the importance of him showing up. He had that left wing three near the end of the half and I wonder I want sometimes it just takes seeing one go in. who’s 04. Got to get going and he made that one and if that could get him going. And shout out to uh to the Rockets too. They weathered the storm, right? Golden go to state made a run at the end of the half. They they weather the storm. I just don’t think you want to be in a close game with this Warriors team down the line. You particularly when you have playoff Jimmy that you’re facing down. But it is the Houston Rockets here with a five-point lead at the break. Forced 10 turnovers. Somebody tell Draymond the game started. Come on, Perk. Who say? Okay. Is it? I’m not good at You know, Get that good. I may be a good Thank you. [Music] Not even. Oh, What’s up? Okay. Ginger. [Music]

Warriors are DONE! – Kendrick Perkins on Steph Curry & Butler CHOKED 4th-Qtr in 115-107 Game 6 lose to Rockets