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Welcome to a Tuesday edition of locked on

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I'm Wes Goldberg and I'm here with David Rimmill.

On today's episode, The Lakers have a new coach. A rival declares Kevin

Durant, the best player in the NBA and we look ahead to tonight's playoff match-ups. But we begin

today in Houston, where the Rockets have tied their series with the Warriors 2-2, after giving up a 17-point

lead, Golden State battled back to get the game within a possession with just seconds left in the game,

but the Rockets held on, James Harden finished with 38 points 10 rebounds and four assists

and they will head to Oakland now for game five

David I want to talk about Steph Curry who continues to struggle a little bit in this series.

But do you feel like the rockets now are in control?

No, I don't think so, to be honest with you.

The rockets got some momentum. to quote Eric Spolster was

quoting Pat Riley. You don't really make it a series until you win one on the

opposing team's floor and so far neither team has been able to do that. It's a

two-two edge right now I mean both teams are tied and they go back to

Oakland where Golden State has been a pretty good team for the past five years and to be honest with you I think

Golden State has been struggling. They've gone through some injury issues both Clay Thompson and Steph Curry look like they're not at 100 percent

and even in tonight's game where both players were shooting very badly and

Golan State as a team was shooting pretty badly. They still managed to keep it extremely close

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