You are Locked on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast. I am Daniel Rue, your host,

and so happy to bring you your team every day. I wanted to do a quicker podcast on the Warriors

107-98 win over the Houston Rockets at Oracle, a really interesting game that went in a lot of

kind of different stages.

And I think the best way to describe it is to just kind of run through them a little bit.

So at the beginning, the Warriors weren't playing particularly well.

They were flat on offense.

And this happened sometimes with them. But I thought that in many ways, their offense was betraying their defense, where they did an all right job defending. It wasn't their

standout part of this game, much less overall, but they just couldn't get enough consistent

offense. They were settling for some bad shots. They were also missing some shots they normally

make, and so that was allowing the Rockets to get some more chances in transition, get some better

looks in the half court,

and not have to worry about really fighting to build a lead or anything in that sort.

So the Warriors were really stagnating,

and what they ended up doing to really turn the tide was Coach Kerr went to Javlle McGee. And so McGee played the last 537 of the second

quarter. And to that point, so in the first 18 plus minutes, the Warriors had scored 31 points.

And in that last 537, they scored 25 and cut the lead from 13 to 5.

And McGee had 13 of those points.

Not all of them were beautiful, but it was a lot of impressive energy from him and the

Warriors knowing how to get him the ball.

And I am not one to make big pronouncements.

I'm not going to say because of that

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