Another night of game 2's to talk about here, then we got to get to the free agent, small forward crop.

Let's start in Oakland, where Golden State had a harder than it probably should have been, frankly.

Victory against Houston, led by 10, throughout most of the game Houston got back, cut it to 3 at one point in the fourth with some of the warriors, back up units on the floor.

Then they extended it out with the death lineup and held on like, Chris Paul did have a 3 that was wide open that could have cut it to 3 after the warriors as they are want to do.

Had some terrible turnovers trying to protect the lead late as Houston went to a trapping defense. Where do you want to start on this one?

I think I want to start with the Warriors defense for especially the first quarter. I thought that they did a really good job overall.

Houston ended up with a 116 offensive rating, but a portion of that was them just hitting a ton of threes.

I mean we saw in the early going Austin Rivers hit a few he ended up 4 for 6. Chris Paul had 2 and then ended up 2 for 7.

And Eric Gordon had a few moments a lot of those different guys, but for the most part some of those were conceited, but I think a lot of them were, we're just guys making the shots that the Warriors with theoretically want to concede.

But they forced a ton of turnovers early. I thought that was a really huge swing in this. Houston and those are those were largely I felt forced turnover.

Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. So it was 9 for Houston in the first quarter and not off the top of my head. I would say something like 6 or 7 of those would be forced and they as 6 of them were steals.

So the Warriors had 14 points off those 9 turnovers, which was about half of what they scored in the first quarter.

Yeah, and it felt like it was a 9 point where you're lead after the first James Harden was in the locker room.

He got hit in both eyes and thereafter, although I thought he played really well, considering the issue was really struggling with the lights.

He was not happy to be under the lights at the press conference podium afterwards.

Steph Curry also dislocated his middle finger had to get that tape. Fortunately for him now is on his left hand as he was going for a strip.

He had to sit out and then return later in the first quarter. But I thought really when you consider how badly Golden State killed Houston on the possession game in the first half, especially where they had 16 more true shot attempts.

When you consider both shots and free throws, then the rockets did in the first half. It was only a 9 point warrior lead at half time.

Then it was only a 7 point lead at the end of the third, even though the Warriors led by 15 and had a 3 that could have made it 18, a wide open 3 from Katie.

It just seemed like the Warriors were in control with the run of play throughout and while it felt like Houston was dangerous and could come back, it seemed like the 3 point shooting that was keeping them in it.

Their shot chart again, this is to me is the stat of the series. If you look at Houston's shot chart before the last 3 minutes of this game when the Warriors started just conceding layups, they wouldn't give up 3s.

That's what Curse strategy is late. They had 14 shots at the rim through the normal portion of this game.

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